Leaked: Photos of Pit Bulls Killed Due to Denver Ban
By Jared Jacang MaherOct. 7, 2009
As part of the feature story on the effectiveness of the Denver's twenty-year-old law outlawing pit bull breeds, Westword posted a photo blog of dogs impounded in a section of the municipal animal shelter known as Pit Bull Row. Now, photographs have surfaced apparently showing some of the estimated 3,487 pit bull carcasses that have been carted away from from the shelter since the ban was enacted.
Click the picture below to see more disturbing photo evidence.
The photo-taker, who asked to remain anonymous, tells Westword the pictures were taken in 2006 on the grounds of the city animal shelter. According to officials, animals euthanized by the shelter are removed by a contractor for disposal.
After a one-year moratorium, Denver began to again enforce the pit bull ban in 2005, causing a 77% increase in the number of dogs impounded in Pit Bull Row. City records show that between 2005 and 2006, 1,454 pit bulls were put down, leading to the large pile-ups of dead dogs depicted here.
Three more photos of the same scene scanned from the original copies at Westword offices.
Source: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/10/leaked_photos_of_dead_pit_bull.php© 2012 Denver Westword, LLC
Also, see:
- Dog Breed Legislation is Inherently Dangerous
- Pit Bull Facts
- A Little History on Bull Terriers
- Fight for a No Kill Nation
People who support PETA, even after they learn about their mass killing and embrace of abusive shelters, don't love animals and they know it. They may claim they do. They may have Facebook pages filled with animal images and stickers with animal related messages on their car. But they don't. For such people, a misplaced trust and need to identify with PETA is more important than the professed values that presumably led them to support PETA in the first place. In fact, it is more important than the animals themselves because they are willing to embrace the suffering and death of animals so long as that suffering and death is caused by PETA or the "shelters" PETA defends.
After about 10 minutes, desperation fueled by cognitive dissonance kicks in. Because so much of who you are, your identity as "superior" to everyone else is wrapped up in PETA and you've just discovered that PETA kills animals, you start to feel defensive and are desperate for a means to prove that what I am saying isn't true. So after the personal attack, you'll come back with another comment, this time demanding proof. Of course, PETA death statistics are from PETA itself. And PETA has admitted to killing animals who are, in their own words, "healthy, "adoptable," "perfect," and "adorable." And here is a postcard your idol Ingrid Newkirk herself wrote to me admitting that PETA does not support "right to life for animals."
right that matters, but what is right. And PETA's killing and defense of killing is wrong no matter what other forms of animal abuse exist. You are defending PETA's killing and embrace of even abusive shelters because cows and chickens are being killed by someone else. How does that make any sense? Incidentally, I am, in fact, vegan and have been for over 20 years: www.allamericanvegan.com.
When the No Kill shelter in Shelby County, Kentucky, recently announced that they had run out of space – and were hence going to have to start killing healthy dogs and cats – officials received a nice basket of gourmet cookies, with a note signed by PETA: "Thank you for doing the right thing for animals."
While we're talking numbers, I should mention Shelby's 2011 live release rate for creatures other than dogs and cats (rabbits, etc.): a sterling 99.5%. This is a relatively small category – just a handful of animals – but I'm one of those people who believes that even a single rabbit matters. And in this category, PETA managed a live release rate of 7%. (For the mathematically challenged, that means that in 2011, 93% of these animals did not survive their visit to PETA's headquarters in Norfolk.)
I looked into Allison's Gourmet, by the way, to determine just how much a basket of their vegan delicacies would set you back. This is not to suggest that the company is complicit in this revolting display: They seem like sincere people who genuinely care about animals; I like to think they had no idea that their product was being used as a prize for killing pets.
Oh, and Shelby officials have decided to discontinue the shock tactic of threatening that animals will be killed if homes aren't found. This is a welcome decision. Of course the most important thing is to stop killing, but it's also crucial to point out that PETA's vicious practice is not even an option. It is not something you contemplate, much less threaten. The decent citizens of Shelby do not kill dogs and cats for this simple reason: They are not the kind of people who butcher pets.
Victoria Stilwell is a British Dog Trainer who has a show on Animal Planet.
Many world-famous Doctors of Veterinary Medicine and published Dog Care Experts universally agree. Any dog that eats commercial dog food is at a much higher risk of dying prematurely. And by the time symptoms are noticeable, it's often too late to prevent an agonizing death except by lethal injection.
