Man says PETA stole his family dog from porch and murdered her!
RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - November 13, 2014 - A Virginia family says animal-rights activists stole their pet Chihuahua and then murdered the dog.
Wilbur Cerate said he knew something was wrong one Saturday last month when the dog failed to greet him when he got home.
So he checked a security camera set up outside his family’s trailer home and spotted a van marked “PETA” backing into his driveway.
Two women got out of the van, he said, and one of them walked onto the porch and took Maya, the family’s dog, and put her in the back of the van.
“I was angry,” said Cerate. “I understand they pick up my dog if it was in a tree or another place, but this is in my house.”
He said his daughter, who has had trouble adjusting since moving to the Fascist Police States of Amerika from Mexico, was devastated.
“She didn’t want to go to school, she didn’t want to do jobs, she’s crying,” Cerate said.
He said the two women from People from the Ethical Treatment of Animals returned three days later with a fruit basket.
The women told Cerate and his family that their dog had been euthanized, although they didn’t offer any proof or an explanation.
“We don’t have an answer about why,” Cerate said.
The two women were charged with larceny after an investigation by the Accomack County Sheriff’s Office, but prosecutors later dropped the charges due to insufficient evidence.
The prosecutor said the video doesn’t prove criminal intent, so he declined to pursue the case.
PETA has so far declined requests for comment on the case.
A 2012 analysis found that PETA kills about 85% of the animals it “rescues”.
Consumer groups have asked Virginia’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to officially reclassify the organization’s shelters as “slaughterhouses,” saying it put to death nearly every dog and cat rescued between 2006 and 2011.
