By taking off the tracking collar? Right, and I have a bridge to sell you. Overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Posted on 10/27/2006 2:04:19 PM PDT by cf_river_rat
NORFOLK - Two employees from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with abducting a hunting dog in Southampton County.
About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a witness reported seeing two women in a vehicle with PETA markings take the dog from the side of Meherrin Road, said Detective Cpl. Richard Morris of the Southampton County Sheriff's Office.
A witness alerted the county animal control officer - who happened to own the dog. The officer stopped the vehicle soon after and, finding his dog inside, turned the case over to a colleague, Morris said.
The dog's radio tracking collar had been removed and was found near where the women reportedly picked up the animal, Morris added.
The two women were released and not charged at the time, Morris said. Arrest warrants were issued later.
Morris identified the two as Carrie Beth Edwards, 26, of Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, and Andrea Florence Benoit, 25, of Henwick Court, Chesapeake.
Each has been charged with grand larceny and petit larceny for taking the dog and radio collar, respectively.
The two women are expected to surrender at the sheriff's office today, Morris said.
PETA issued a statement Thursday saying the two had done nothing wrong.
"They found a dog alongside a busy highway and picked her up for her own safety," the statement read. "That's what we tell everyone to do when they encounter strays - stop and assist."
The statement said the women were calling in the dog's tag numbers to the PETA office to help find the owner when they were approached by the officer who owned the dog, which they immediately turned over.
There is no leash law in Southampton County, Morris said, so dogs are allowed to run free. PETA said its workers did not know this, adding that this law "needs to be changed for the animals' own safety."
• Reach Matthew Jones at (757)446-2949 or matthew.jones@pilotonline.com.
These PETA people and even some local humane society branches where I live tride to sway the outcome of a trial that I was involved in. A kid was charged with cruelty to animals. The Humane Society and PETA wrote letters directly to the judge on the case telling him to send the kid to the juvenile hall until he was 18. Direct contact with the judge is called ex parte communication and is against the rules.
I won the case, the kid got probation. If we had lost I believe we would have had a great civil rights case against these groups for conspiring and attempting to deny my client a fair trial.
They are useful idiots. I do love pets and yes I eat meat.
Yes, they were just trying to rescue the dog. That's why they removed her radio tracking collar and left it on the road.
No hunter would let a valuable hunting dog waunder free.
They picked up the wrong guy's dog too.
"They found a dog alongside a busy highway and picked her up for her own safety," the statement read. "That's what we tell everyone to do when they encounter strays - stop and assist."
I suppose they tell everyone to always remove the radio tracking collar first?
The dog's radio tracking collar had been removed and was found near where the women reportedly picked up the animal, Morris added.
Not that it impacts the story at all, but I bet you those two liberal PETA hippies were stinkier than the dog. Just my observation of hardcore leftists.
~ Blue Jays ~
By taking off the tracking collar? Right, and I have a bridge to sell you. Overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
They do a lot worse than that...
http://petakillsanimals.com/
Penn & Teller do a great expose of Peta in their DVD. Turns out the V.P. of Peta is a diabetic. How did a treatment for diabetes come about? You guessed it! Animal testing! LOL!
I take you've never deer or fox hunted with hounds.
My brother and I picked up hippie once in a blizzard. We had him get in the back of the pick-up and kept my black lab on the seat between us.
Hunters do indeed turn out their dogs to run, with radio tracking collars.
Those are extremely valuable dogs. Anyone who knows anything about hunting would never pick one up. Anyone who knows anything at all would never pick up a dog with a radio collar.
A little too close to San Fran. though, perhaps we can negotiate relocation and transport in the price?
Hey, that's a good looking bridge. How much you asking for it?
We do not need PETA. We have had the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) around for a long time. The SPCA has a commendable record of achievement. PETA is a leftist communist organization trying to force their version of the world on the rest of us.
OK, you didn't steal it. Folks in these parts are just too darn fast.
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