Persuasive Essay On Animal Shelter

A mother and her two children are brought to a shelter with no place to go. Thinking they would be safe they are then brought in with a promise they will be fine and they will have no problem finding a new home. The man who drops them off at this shelter leaves feeling like he did something really nice for a mother in need and her very young children, only to be identifying their bodies a few days later. Who is to blame in this situation? The man who dropped them off? The shelter? Now imagine that within minutes of being dropped off at this sanctuary they were murdered in a backroom and dumped in a dumpster. This is a true story of a veterinarian dropping off a young healthy cat and her new kittens to a P.E.T.A shelter. Should it matter that they were not humans? Isn’t that what P.E.T.A would say?
Even though P.E.T.A. is an advocate for animal

They have done things from throwing buckets of blood on women wearing fur to begging Ben and Jerry’s ice cream to use human milk instead of cow’s milk. Strangely, P.E.T.A does not commit to a no-kill policy. There are reasons why this could be a good thing like when animals who are sick or dying need to be put out of their misery. P.E.T.A.’s response is “as long as animals are still purposely bred and people aren’t spaying and neutering their companions, open-admission animal shelters and organizations like PETA must do society’s dirty work. Euthanasia is not a solution to overpopulation but rather a tragic necessity given the present crisis” (Newkirk). This is a valid point, but P.E.T.A. is such a huge advocate for animals rights, but its shelters have some of the worst