For immediate release:
August 11, 2021
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Mesa, Arizona. – Armed with newly acquired damn graphic pictures showing piles of animal waste and garbage bags full of dead animals on Tiggy Town, a self-proclaimed “rescue” of animals looted by Mesa police, PETA strongly warns against trusting, let alone any animal, a growing number of unregulated “rescue operations.”
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In Tiggy Town, animal skeletons littered the floor, almost every inch of which was covered in feces. Emaciated animals that managed to survive resorted to cannibalization of the bodies of others – and all this for “salvation”, which required caring for the animals and restoring their health. The fact is that Tiggy Town is not an isolated case: almost every week PETA receives reports of law enforcement actions against animals that have been mistreated, left unattended, accumulated and left to die from untreated diseases or injuries in “rescue institutions” countrywide. Countless numbers of people miss the news, and no doubt many others hide the brutality that goes unnoticed. This is why PETA offers the following guidelines:
- Never donate or leave animals with “rescue equipment” that you have not researched or visited personally.
- Never promote random “rescues” that you haven’t attended by “like” or sharing their posts on social media.
- Always consider supporting open city or county animal shelters that are open to the public, accept every animal in need and never fold them so that they slowly and painfully die out of sight.
“Week after week, PETA is receiving alarming reports of yet another ‘animal rescue’ that has turned into a crime scene,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphne Nachminovic. “PETA is warning anyone who cares for animals to never support the invisible ‘rescue’ spectacle – animal lives depend on it.”
PETA notes that violent rescuers are using animal shelters, which face tremendous pressure to focus on the pace of “freeing the living,” with dire consequences. In an open letter to animal shelters, PETA urges them not to put statistics above the welfare of individual animals, never give away vulnerable animals just to avoid difficult decisions (including euthanasia), and implement strict safety measures and screening methods to make sure that animals do not end up in unregulated, self-proclaimed “rescue facilities” where they will be at risk of storage, neglect and deprivation for years.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way,” is opposed to arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…