[ SHOWGSD-L ] PETA --

  • From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:09:25 -0400

>From The Center for Consumer Freedom 

June 26, 2007 

PETA EMPLOYEES FACE DOG-NAPPING CHARGES IN COURT 

Snatched Hunting Dog May Have Been Slated For Death At Group's Norfolk
Headquarters 

Courtland, VA -- On Tuesday afternoon in a rural Virginia courthouse, People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will endure the latest in a
string of black eyes as two of its employees face felony charges of stealing
a hunting dog belonging to a local animal control officer. The nonprofit
Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) will be in attendance at today's hearing
and throughout the trial, documenting the proceedings for its popular
PetaKillsAnimals.com website. The PETA employees, Andrea Florence Benoit and
Carrie Beth Edwards, were arrested in October shortly after allegedly
abducting a free-roaming Walker hound in Southampton County, Virginia.
Police stopped the PETA-owned van the two were driving as they attempted to
transport the dog to PETA's Norfolk office. PETA later claimed the employees
were trying to determine who owned the dog, but police charged them with
felony larceny. 

Benoit and Edwards are also charged with the theft of a radio-transmitting
collar that the dog's owner had put on the animal in order to track its
location. The collar was later found on the side of the road near where a
witness saw the defendants putting the dog into their van.   (comment here from 
Peggy...it is against
the law in Virginia to remove these transmitting collars)

The location of this alleged dog-napping is less than 40 miles from Ahoskie,
North Carolina, where two other PETA employees admitted killing dozens of
dogs and cats and tossing their bodies into a trash dumpster. That case was
the subject of a high-profile animal cruelty trial earlier this year. 

Records from Virginia's State Veterinarian show that PETA put to death over
80 percent of the pets in its care between 1998 and 2005 -- just over 14,400
dogs and cats in all. The group failed to meet the March 31 deadline for
filing its 2006 numbers. 

"It's no secret that PETA doesn't like hunters, but the group has no
business stealing their dogs," CCF Director of Research David Martosko said
today. "Judging from PETA's 80 percent kill rate, it's likely this animal
was headed for the death-chamber at PETA's Norfolk headquarters when police
intervened. It's horrible to think that a group known for killing
defenseless pets spends its time -- and its donors' money -- hunting for
furry victims along country roads." 

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition supported by
restaurants, food companies, and consumers, working together to promote
personal responsibility and protect consumer choices. 

For media comment, contact our media department at 202-463-7112 ext. 115.


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