[53] This
radical understanding
of suffering caused one fur - trapper to remark that
animal protectionists would not be happy even if we trapped and
killed the
animals with «sweet dreams and tender kisses.»
In defense
of shelters, PETA has told legislators not to listen to «fanatical» and «
radical» reformers who have asked for less
killing and more lifesaving in communities where those very shelters have abused
animals: allowed them to go days without food, allowed them to slowly die due to lack
of care, drowned puppies in trench drains, physically abused them and cruelly
killed them.