Thanks for the info. I knew PETA was wacky, I had no idea of the cruelty they were doing to animals and to human beings.
HSUS is a borderline-wacky agency too. Their position is midway between ASPCA and PETA — they would “prefer” that animals not be pets, but are resigned to the best compromise they can find while animals are pets.
Since the idea of pets dates back at least to biblical days — the domestic dog appears in the gospels — HSUS is smoking some wacky weed, though not as much as PETA.
Oh, and I adopted my latest cat, Timmy, from a county shelter that kills unadopted pets after about a month. But, they actually do surgeries where needed (he had an undescended testicle they had to get before he would truly be neutered) and they had this post-surgical cat in a tall roll-around tower of cages which jiggled while WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! was heard all around day and night from the big canines that shared the facility. I took pity on this tomcat and adopted him. He rewarded me by getting into fights with my other furry guy, Jimmy, marking when he lost the fights, and going after my spayed females like he never knew he’d been neutered. I still have the rascal.