Tributes & Truth

This page has links to stories I've heard first-hand from those involved, or situations that actually happened to me. There is no rumor or agenda here, like you will find all over the internet. These stories are verified true.

Internet Hunting

PetAbuse.com Cruelty Database

PetAbuse.com Offender Database

Petsmart Tortures Animals

PETsMART uses glue traps to control their rodent problem. Glue traps are among the cruelest traps, causing a slow and painful death. PETsMART also sells the same kinds of rodents (mice and rats) that they're trapping - you'd think they might have a bit more compassion. You'd be wrong.

My Comments On Petsmart

Well, I don't have any nice stories to tell about PETsMART. I wrote to them concerning their use of glue traps in their stores to kill mice and rats (and they also sell domestic mice and rats). I got a rather prepackaged letter in response...

Iams Cruelty

An undercover PETA investigation of Iams found dogs who had gone crazy from intense confinement in barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs who had been left on a filthy paint-chipped floor after chunks of muscle had been hacked from their thighs, dogs who had been surgically debarked, and horribly sick dogs and cats who were languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer without veterinary care.

Beware Pet Stores

It's unfortunate that pet stores actually sell pets, and not just pet supplies. They're well aware that the supplies are their bread and butter, and they think that they need to sell the pets in order to create the demand for the supplies.

Got Fur?

Rabbit fur is marketed as "the byproduct of the rabbit meat" industry. The truth is, meat rabbits are slaughtered at a much younger age than those bred for fur, since it takes longer for the coat to grow out into the luxurious coats rabbits have. Also, fur trim is not the leftovers from making full-length coats - more animals are killed to make fur trim than for full-length coats. If you have real fur, there is something beneficial you can do with it.

Do you wear fur?

Like other animals farmed for their fur, rabbits - who are fastidiously clean by nature - are kept in tiny, filthy cages, surrounded by their own waste. They spend their entire miserable lives standing on thin wires, never having a chance to dig, jump, or play. The methods of slaughter are barbaric - their necks are broken or their skulls are smashed before they are strung up by their hind legs and their heads are cut off.

Do you wear leather?

Every time you choose to buy a leather jacket or leather shoes, you sentence animals to a lifetime of suffering. Buying leather directly contributes to factory farms and slaughterhouses, since the skins of animals are the most economically important coproduct of the multibillion-dollar meat industry. The vast majority of animals slaughtered for their skin suffer all the horrors of factory farming-intense confinement, painful mutilations, deprivation, harmful hormone and antibiotic injections, and cruel treatment during transport and slaughter.

Stop the Canadian Baby Seal Slaughter

Nearly 1 million baby seals will be clubbed or shot to death in Canada in just three years. Shockingly, the hunt is subsidized by the Canadian government! Every winter, Northwest Atlantic harp seals migrate to Eastern Canada to give birth and mate. Following their birth in late winter, mothers leave in search of mates, while the pups remain helpless and vulnerable on the ice until they can swim and catch their own food. It’s during this time when they are most vulnerable that they are mercilessly slaughtered for their pelts!

Stop Aerial Gunning Wolves in Alaska

Governor Murkowski reinstated the savage practice of aerial hunting last year over widespread public opposition. Trophy hunters with permits can gun down wolves from planes, or chase wolves to exhaustion in the deep snow, then land and shoot these helpless animals! 147 wolves were killed by aerial hunters last year. Aerial gunners can kill males, females and even wolf pups as part of this program.

Stop Canned Hunts

What's a canned hunt? That's when people hunt animals in a closed-in area so they can have a guaranteed kill. It also allows them to choose a kill method more preferable to an undamaged pelt than a humane death. Cowardice refined.

Petco Horror Stories

PETCO has been the subject of an intensive PETA campaign, and horror stories abound of the conditions and treament of the live animals they sell.

My Comments on Petco

Believe it or not, PETCO does warrant some defensive words - it is possible to find stories about PETCO that are positive, encouraging, and downright happy.

Marshall Farms

Marshall Farms is the main breeder supplying PETCO with animals. PETCO and Marshall Farms both insist that their animals are treated with the utmost care and love, in preparation for happy healthy lives as loving pets. Marshall Farms is also the main breeder supplying animal testing laboratories with their animals. It would seem that there would be a conflict of interest here. Or perhaps it's corporate pragmatism of a most inhumane nature.

Plush Cats/Real Rabbit Fur

Kill live animals and use their fur to make fake animals. Kill live animals and use their fur to make fake animals. Kill live animals and use their fur to make fake animals. No matter how many times you say it, it's as disgusting as the first time. People who do this should be destroyed.

Intrepid Ship's Cats

This is the company making plush toys using real rabbit fur. Note to self...

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