Did I not read that PETA tried to stop circuses from having live animals to the point of picketing and shoving people who were in line to buy tickets? It happaned in San Luis Obispo when a traveling circus came to town. Did I not read that PETA actually bombed a medical facility where animals were being tested?

I ran an animal placement center in California and had members of Peta picket me for finding homes for puppies that had been left on our beach. I placed two puppies with a family from San Francisco who had lost their dog to old age and they took two of our puppies. Their kids were in tears they were so happy. Peta's Problem? The family was Vietnamese and Peta felt they would eat the dogs. I heard many times that these lost and homeless animals should be put to death.

There was a baby panda who was adopted by a private wild animal park and Peta demanded that they keep hands off the baby and let him die a natural death. After a while I get fed up with these protestors who have actually thrown paint on someone wearing an ermine or mink coat. I've spent most of my life protecting animals, having them healed by Vets, neutered and spayed by many of my friends who paid for this procedure. I turned my book store over to an Animal Rescue team to show the animals on my front porch of the store and keep track of who took what. All innoculations were paid by my friends and we had a number over 200 dogs placed in homes in our first year.

We took in oil covered ocean birds and if a car accident in our village left a dog without owners for a few weeks, they came home with me. Every park ranger in San Luis Obispo knew I would take in a sick or injured animal. I didn't see PETA show up for any reason than to shut me down for my work.

I had a pissed off Pelican dropped off at the store by a Park Ranger that had been shot in his wing. I had large cage and finally got him down to a wild life vet where he was cared for. It was the only time I got hurt was pushing a sardine down his throat and got my hand caught on that claw on the tip of his beak. 7 Stitches later I was just fine. Don't talk to be about PETA or any of those save the animal groups. I took many wildlife rehab training classes and never saw a PETA member in those classes. We took many trips to the Mammal Rescue group in Monterey and never ran into a PETA member at the meetings.