Practical Issues > Pets Index > Shelters "Controversy" between
PeTA and Winograd  ed. note: from our perspective, both Winograd
and PeTA make good points and yet in presenting their cases they
resort to hyperbole and create misleading perceptions*. While it
appears that they both are wasting energy, perhaps the
"controversy" keeps the issues in front of the minds' of
activists. The jury is still out on the value of this debate.  *
PeTA creates the impression that no-kill shelters are no better
than kill shelters because no-kill shelters simply turn away
animals that are not adoptable. In fact, most no-kill shelters
DO spend more time and energy looking to find homes for animals
than do most kill-shelters (especially city-run kill-shelters).
* Winograd creates the impression that there are currently
enough homes for all the unwanted pets and that to kill any
animal is unnecessary. He infers that activists in shelters are
not doing enough and he implies blame. In my opinion he is
referring to what SHOULD BE (w