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PETA steals and euthanizes dog

The Menagerie
#1

http://wavy.com/2014/11/12/man-claims-peta-stole-killed-family-pet/

PETA, particularly in Virginia, literally gets away with murder and I cannot understand it. PETA was caught on video literally entering the property and stealing the dog and they got away with it. All charges dropped. Explain this to me, please.

[i]ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) – Maya the chihuahua was a comfort to a little girl who moved to the Eastern Shore from Mexico. The girl’s family said the dog had a good life in their Parksley home and was well cared for. They told WAVY.com they can’t wrap their heads around why an organization that looks out for animals, took the dog from her home.

The young girl is now devastated.

“She didn’t want to go to school, she didn’t want to do jobs, she’s crying,” said the girl’s father, Wilbur Cerate. He noticed Maya missing when he got home one Saturday in October. “My chihuahua, when she sees my car, she come to me,” Cerate said. “That Saturday she did not come.”

Cerate checked his security camera and the video shows a van with “PETA” on the side back into his driveway. Two women got out of the van and one walked up his porch, took Maya, and put her in the back of the van.

“I was angry. I understand they pick up my dog, if it was in a tree or another place, but this is in my house,” Cerate said.

The two women from PETA came back to his house three days later, he said. They brought a fruit basket and terrible news — Maya had been euthanized. They didn’t provide Wilbur any proof, so he called police and thought the women would be held accountable.

Accomack County Sheriff Todd Godwin told WAVY.com he charged the PETA workers with larceny. He said pets are considered personal property. But the local commonwealth’s attorney told WAVY.com he dropped the charges because there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute. He said the video does not show criminal intent, so he declined to take the case to court. Now, the Cerate family may never get closure.

“We don’t have an answer about why,” Cerate said.

WAVY.com made several attempts to contact PETA to get proof about what happened to Maya and to figure out why she was taken. None of our calls were returned. So we went to the company Headquarters and we were referred back to their Washington DC office.

Several viewers also said on our Facebook page that you called the C-A’s office to voice your displeasure with his decision after our initial story aired. We’ve been working on hearing more from his office too, but our calls weren’t returned. We’ll stay on this story as long as it takes.[/i]

#2

Because PETA doesn’t look out for animals.

#3

Even for the PETA haters, this story is ludicrous. Really? They backed up their clearly marked van, stole the dog and PTS it?

Another fable brought to you by Richard Berman’s front group, the Center for Consumer Freedom.

#4

I wouldn’t put it past PETA. How they stay in business is a mystery. God knows how many Congressmen they own.

#5

Even for the PETA haters, this story is ludicrous. Really? They backed up their clearly marked van, stole the dog and PTS it?

sounds just like them. Haven’t they been caught red-handed dumping vanloads of dead dogs and cats they PTS into dumpsters? The obvious next step from collecting animals from shelters and killing them is to go collect them in the community and kill them.
PETA wants all domestic animals and pets dead. That is their agenda.

#6

[QUOTE=wendy;7856240]
sounds just like them. Haven’t they been caught red-handed dumping vanloads of dead dogs and cats they PTS into dumpsters? The obvious next step from collecting animals from shelters and killing them is to go collect them in the community and kill them.
PETA wants all domestic animals and pets dead. That is their agenda.[/QUOTE]

Euthanizing shelter animals is a far cry from stealing private property.

I’d like to hear from a more reputable news source.

#7

[QUOTE=LauraKY;7856154]
Even for the PETA haters, this story is ludicrous. Really? They backed up their clearly marked van, stole the dog and PTS it?

Another fable brought to you by Richard Berman’s front group, the Center for Consumer Freedom.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=arapaloosa_lady;7856246]Euthanizing shelter animals is a far cry from stealing private property.

I’d like to hear from a more reputable news source.[/QUOTE]

Shouldn’t there also be video evidence of the women returning? And why did he wait until the women returned to call the police?

I’m no fan of PETA, but why would they single out ONE particular dog in one community when clearly this is not a pattern of theirs?

Something isn’t adding up.

#8

I’m fairly certain they were caught several years ago stealing a hunting dog with ID and a telemetry collar and discarding the collar on the side of the road where the dog was found.

Now I say none of that sounds suspicious until you get to the part where when initially asked if they had the dog they first stated NO and well the little part about removing the telemetry collar…

Its a hunting dog they occasionally get lost/run off. It certainly didn’t present as a dumped dog with and ID collar a Telem collar and the owners initials spray painted on its side.

http://hamptonroads.com/node/288261

#9

[QUOTE=ElisLove;7856150]
Because PETA doesn’t look out for animals.[/QUOTE]

I know why PETA does it; PETA’s stated goal is the elimination of all domestic animals. What I want explained is why they get away with it. Why citizens and public officials, esp. public officials, never hold them accountable. If an average citizen did what PETA does, they’d be in jail, but PETA does it in Virginia and nothing ever happens to them. There are never any consequences.

#10

[QUOTE=Guin;7856222]
How they stay in business is a mystery.[/QUOTE]

It’s not a mystery at all. We have people on this very board who support them, who say that although they sometimes do things over the top, they also do good work by “exposing” animal cruelty and therefore they are not the bad guys they’re made out to be.

#11

[QUOTE=arapaloosa_lady;7856246]
Euthanizing shelter animals is a far cry from stealing private property.

I’d like to hear from a more reputable news source.[/QUOTE]

But in the pior cases cited, they weren’t “euthanizing shelter animals”.
They were collecting puppies and kittens with the promise that they would find homes for them, and, rather than trying, they were killed in transit. They never even reached a shelter.

#12

Stole the dog, euthanized it then brought the family a fruit basket? Really? There are enough real reasons to condemn PETA but this sounds like BS.

#13

JBD the video is available in the news link below. Now it certainly doesn’t prove the dog was Euth’d or that they came back baring fruit but it does show the dog being taken right off the front porch.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/peta-steals-va-family-dog-kills-dad-article-1.2010408

#14

[QUOTE=Lynnwood;7856586]
JBD the video is available in the news link below. Now it certainly doesn’t prove the dog was Euth’d or that they came back baring fruit but it does show the dog being taken right off the front porch.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/peta-steals-va-family-dog-kills-dad-article-1.2010408[/QUOTE]
OMG. How can they not be prosecuted?

#15

The PETA employee, and volunteer who were taking a van, going to NC, and going to pounds and vet clinics taking stray animals, and promising them a home had zero sentence either. They promised to find the animals a good home, and euth’ed them in the back of the van, and dumped the carcasses behind the same store in the dumpster. That’s how they were caught, and though prosecuted nothing much happened to them.

#16

WHOEVER took this dog is to blame, but the owner is ALSO to blame. Who leaves a tiny dog outside all day to fend for itself? Anything could have happened, including being attacked by a larger animal, or getting hit by a car. I do not trust people with my dogs, so i lock them in the house when i am not home. How does a dog owner justify leaving a tiny dog outside?

#17

I’m not surprised the PETA euth’d the dog they took because it’s what they do. PETA owns no shelters and over 80% of all animals they have “saved” have been euth’d.

I was surprised that they took the dog at first, but if it was cool out and the dog left outside, I could see them taking it. Granted, I didn’t read the link. I am also surprised that the police said that they couldn’t press charges because there was no criminal intent. There is both proof of trespassing and of theft of personal property, so why can’t those charges be brought against the PETA members.

#18

[QUOTE=Nezzy;7856837]
WHOEVER took this dog is to blame, but the owner is ALSO to blame. Who leaves a tiny dog outside all day to fend for itself? Anything could have happened, including being attacked by a larger animal, or getting hit by a car. I do not trust people with my dogs, so i lock them in the house when i am not home. How does a dog owner justify leaving a tiny dog outside?[/QUOTE]

The dog is on a covered porch. There are plenty of times in the fall where outside is a nice temperature. Since we can’t see the part of the porch where the dog is she may have been confined on the porch by a crate or XPen. You can’t tell from the video if the dog had a jacket on.
The dog may not have been able to roam. I don’t think we can see enough to make assumptions on how safe or comfortable the dog was on the porch.

I leave one of my two dogs with access to a fenced yard all the time. He has access to a large 18 X 15 room with a throw rug, 2 dog beds and water. They are safe from other animals/cars, can get out of the elements. My property is very secluded so nobody randomly walking by that might steal him. We tend to leave the Eskie in the office/yard set up since he is not reliably housebroken when confined. If he can go out he won’t pee in the office. He also does not come up to strangers so it would be hard for somebody to catch him to steal him.

#19

Why doesn’t this animal murder organization get shut down already? How can they even masquerade as some sort of animal rights group? How is it even possible? They’re worse than any fox hunter or bear hunter by far.

#20

They won’t get shut down because they have millions and attorneys up the wazoo. They target those with less income and attorney access who cannot afford to come after them. And they’re funded by the ignorant, which is a never ending supply stream in this country.

Richard Berman doesn’t own WAVY news.
Unless news stations are now on the Conspiracy Wagon, I’m guessing the video isn’t a fake.

Ludicrous? Like when they were caught and arraigned for stealing hunting dogs?
Or caught and arraigned for promising good homes for lots of vet-checked-healthy cats and dogs and had a needle in their veins before the van left the zip code?
How about when they were caught and in trouble over funding violence and laundering money for ALF?
And the absolutely ludicrous fable of Dr Haferbeck, ordered by higher ups at PETA to pay people to stage live animal skinning videos to use as “undercover investigations tapes” that they released. And then the lovely Dr, PETA and the thugs they hired to catch and skin animals alive for a video all got caught for producing false tapes. And admitted they had made many more, all used by PETA and stated as happening in multiple different countries when they were all staged in Germany?
Does Richard Berman own the German high court system too?

I’d go on, but frankly it’s all been said repeatedly on here.
Spend some time reading the boring-as-heck legal records on PETA. Proof of what they’ve been caught doing.

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