It successfully defeated
animal protection legislation that would have mandated that shelters not kill
animals when non-profit rescue groups are willing to save those
animals and which would have prohibited the common practice of killing
animals when
there are empty cages, a thoroughly reprehensible sheltering protocol which PETA endorses.
And yet those who should be celebrating them as heroes — our nation's
animal protection groups — instead denigrate and malign them, paradoxically equating them with some of the cruelest people
there are — hoarders and dog fighters — in order to fight
legislation that would empower them to overcome shelter directors in community after community who make it impossible to do what should be simple and straightforward — partnering with others to save lives.