The PETA Standard: Former Spokeswoman Dumps Inconvenient Puppies
by Pam Meister
Being a celebrity means never having to account for your actions. At least, that’s the impression I get from this story:
Hollywood actress and PETA spokeswoman Dominique Swain has reportedly been caught dumping unvaccinated puppies at an animal shelter.
Swain, 29, arrived at a Malibu refuge with her father and a box of eight-week-old cocker spaniel cross dogs over the weekend, reports claim.
Swain’s claim to fame, for those of you who don’t know (and I didn’t), was her role as Dolores “Lolita” Haze in the 1997 remake of “Lolita,” as well as a bunch of other films I’ve never heard of. She also bared it all for one of those slutty “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” ads for PETA.
When she dumped the puppies off, she was asked for a donation to cover their vaccinations but she claimed she didn’t have any money, despite the fact that she arrived in a snazzy BMW.
“She was really rude. Eventually she said she would make a small donation, but just left the pups there and drove off.”
The article doesn’t say where Swain got the puppies; I am going to assume her own dog was the mother. What, she could’t afford to get her dog spayed when she could afford an expensive imported car? She didn’t have any friends or family members who wanted a cute, cuddly puppy?
Now obviously, dumping puppies at a shelter is not the same as wearing a fur coat. I guess we can be thankful she didn’t take the Cruella deVil route. But since Swain seems to worry about needless killing of animals, does she not wonder what will happen to those puppies if no one adopts them? Or is it a matter of the puppies being unable to advance her career the same way posing nude for PETA did?
According to a statement from PETA, Swain has not worked with the group for years. Which is probably why she just dumped them on the shelter, rather than euthanize them and toss them in a dumpster behind a Piggly Wiggly grocery store. She must not be on the internal distribution list.
PETA’s record on placing shelter animals is pretty pathetic: Despite taking in nearly $30 million each year, it put to death 90 percent of the dogs and cats it took in over a five-year period. I guess activists are too busy dressing up like chickens in front of McDonald’s and handing out “unhappy meals” to scare children and comparing eating meat to the Holocaust to try to find homes for these animals.
Swain isn’t the first celebrity airhead to shill for PETA and then do something completely opposite. Shanna Moakler (again, who???) appeared in a video extolling the virtues of vegetarianism, and then was photographed picking out a juicy steak at a swank NYC restaurant. And Polish model Joanna Kruper hates fur but loves leather.
But if PETA recruited brainiacs to represent them, they probably wouldn’t get too many takers.
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she was my favorite nude peta girl (look if they want to get naked to promote a cause, the least i can do is look, but i never understood what the purpose was. If I took thier advise and went around nude, i'd be jailed. Style over substance it seems)
what else has she done since?
maybe dumping puppies is her new gig
The puppies are covered under a born alive infant protection act. Humans are covered but just barely.
I'm surprised that she dumped the puppies herself instead of having an assistant do it for her. But then again, what has she done lately? She may not have the funds for an assistant, therefore nobody to take care of the puppies so off they go.
Too bad there isn't a shelter that takes PETA members. We're euthanizing the wrong animals.
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And then there is Pam Anderson and her Uggs that seem to be permanently sewn to her feet.
These people fom PETA, and their celebrity faces, are only concerned with their own publicity. Nothing they do is for the humane treatment of animals or people.
Yea.. PETA can call me when they get SE Cupp or Reshma Shetty to pose naked or preferably mudwrestle naked.
Of course neither of them are attention starved narcissist looking to extend their fifteen minutes so I may be SOL on this one.
wow- a feckless, and completely clueless quasi-celebrity…
Ignorant, rude, cheap, selfish and spoiled as well. Prima donna comes to mind, however doesn't someone once have to have been a 'prima' in order to be a 'donna'?
Never heard of her. She isn't even that hot, either…
Hmmmm…She won't wear fur, but it is perfectly O.K. to skin a cow (several actually) to upholster her "snazzy BMW". To steal a movie quote "My hypocrisy know no bounds" (Tombstone – 1993)
well another case of loonie leftwing nuts. they preach to us not to do something (fly, use energy, buy fur, or whatever), but never hold themself upto the same scruitiny.
Good piece, but did we really need the picture? How can one in good conscience call her ad "slutty" while running the ad in one's own piece? (Yes, I understand it may not have been the author's decision to run it, but still.)
uggs are the most abombinable piece of foot ware ever crafted
This is outrageous! We only kill 12 million animals every 4 hours? Man, we need to get that up to 15, stat! Imma go buy some meat right now. Come on, everyone, help out!
Why, this can't be!
I thought Bama won da peace prize, now we gots vilence gintz aminalz?
http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff
If eating meat means a holocaust on my plate, then stick a uniform on my and call me Himmler, 'cause I'm digging in!
I always enjoy looking at those pictures of her, Eva Mendes, et.al. in their nude PETA ads while I'm cleaning my deer hunting rifles.
As I sit here eating my chicken/sausage gumbo I think of these people. Maddox had a really funy blog entry years ago, in how more animals are killed in the production of vegetables and fruits than in the production of meat.
"I'll eat two for everyone you don't eat."
I'm confused. If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
Isn't Uggs short for ugly?
I don't wear them, but the weather up her in upstate NY, my daughter says they are nice and warm.
Of course, they are modern liberals. All that matters to them is what makes them feel emotional satisfied and superior.
If you're looking for logic or reason with these kind of people, you'll be looking longer than O.J. is for the real killers.
Cows farts are the largest producer of methane, which is a global warming gas.
By killing and eating cows, I'm just doing my part to save the planet.
And they never will. Stop wasting time expecting them too, and instead find the ones on the left that are reachable, and convert them.
On the bright side, she didn't FED-EX the puppies to Michael Vick.
I dedicate today's ham sandwich for lunch to your cause!
Typical liberal double standard. There are so many "do as I say, not as I do" liberals running around, and a complicit media, that it becomes nothing special when some outrageous act is publicized. PETA is simply one more liberal organization with an anal personality that wants to tell the rest of the world how to live.
They will pry my ham and cheese on rye from my cold dead hands.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/spca-ceo-leaves-dog-hot-c...
Nice body. Empty head.
Steak for dinner tonight!
http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/18/...
The Anti Liberal Zone
I find it Morally Reprehensible for these MORON CLOWNS to try to equate what happened to our Jewish brothers & Sisters to eating meat. Not only did Jews die but many other types of people in German and Occupied territories. Dont get me wrong, I think anyone that is cruel or abused animals that are to be slaughtered should be strung up. I am a VERY active hunter and fisherman. I can TOTALLY appreciate the phenomenal beauty of a huge buck and yet still shoot him or a doe for food. My first thought (not in season) is how magnificent they are. I like many of my friends who hunt have a deep and solid appreciation and respect for the animals we hunt and often kill. The slaughterhouses are nasty – there does need to be regulation and inspections. As long as they are slaughtered humanely – PETA can go suck an egg..
Now that is a great example of the proper use of logic.
These were "a box of eight-week-old cocker spaniel cross dogs". Was she dumping them because the pups weren't pure bred Cocker Spaniels? How Bourgeoisie!
Ack! Don't do that!
When I saw that headline with that picture, I first thought she was getting surgery, and would wind up another Ellen DeGeneres!
Oh, the horror…
Hey! Lay off of Piggly Wiggly stores!
Just another example of the usual liberal hypocracy. I bet she eats meat too.
Good one.
There must be a way we can humour them into a collective spaying program. For the PETA members I mean, forget the dogs. Although like most self-absorbed moonbats with a cause instead of a life they don't reproduce as much as the rest of us. Darwinism at work.
In Australia, where they make Uggs, they are trailer trash wear.
Does anyone actually believe Ms. Swain wears "pleather"?
Ha ha…I shopped at the Piggly Wiggly when I lived in Wisconsin, and even worked there for six months. But for those who are not familiar with the chain, they seem to get a kick out of seeing the name in print.
they are here too. popular but trashy
Maddox does not post often enough for me.
I have no idea how or if he votes, but his take on things is excellent
Hey, the libs never said the rules were for THEM. The rules are for all the poor slobs who need to be told what to do and how to live.
Second that.
Oh, but we can't forget Crocs. When did garden clogs become high fashion?
you read my mind.
I work with people who bought the clothes to match the crocs!
That company is going out of business from what i haerd. I ususlly don't root for this sort of thing, but it can't happen soon enough for me.
Cows, chickens and pigs are solid meat! Meat, meat meat. And they are pretty dumb too (well, maybe not the pigs). What other purpose could they possibly serve than consumption? These PETA folks are so dillusional.
Didn't Obama vote against that act in Illinois?
LOL! Glad I wasn't drinking or eating when I read that! Heil Meat!
LOL! You guys have to stop, I'm trying to eat my lunch!
at least vick paid a price
when are the liberal hypocrites of peta going to pay a price for the lies, fraud and hypocrisy?
she was another of the flavors of the day that hollywood tasted and thru away
swain – go away LIBERAL HYPOCRITE – unless you wont to go nekkid again
amazing that peta rail against killing puppies, but no problem with killing babies
i reported this to peta…
The perfect day: Crazy sex with Dominique Swain, a T-bone steak accompanied by a vintage California cab and, to top it off, a Cuban cigar.
Anyone have her number?
Cheers.
"while I'm cleaning my deer hunting rifles. "
That's not a euphemism, is it?
True. I use the tagline in my Tagged page that says "every time a cow farts, a polar bear drowns". I feel that is me doing my part for not only animals but for global warming. Therefor it should count as a reduction of my carbon footprint. lol.
Just ask any guy she ever dated if she eats meat. I bet they would say yes. She looks like she eats meat. I bet she tastes like chicken. Or maybe fish.
Dear Jack …I don't eat meat but I've swallowed plenty
love youuuu,
Dominique
I thought the Piggly Wiggly was exclusive to the South ! Dang, there's one in Malibu? Everybody from Malibu shops at Ralph's, but if there's a Piggly Wiggly in Southern California I'm sure Billy Bob Thornton and Gary Busey make there way there at 4 am on a Sunday morning.
Just another Liberal doing what Liberals do; telling other people how to live 'their' lives, how to spend 'their' money and how to raise 'their' children and then turn right around and do exactly the opposite themselves.
When will Rosie O'Donnell or Rosanne Barr pose for one of those pictures?
*BLEEEEECH*
The 90% euthanasia rate at PETA is a little misleading. The fine print is that, as far as receiving healthy, adoptable animals go, their placement rate is actually better than the local humane society shelter. PETA'S CAP (community animal project) is a 24/7/365 service that takes in all animals, most of whom are too sick, abused, or unsocialized to ever be adopted out. For this reason, safe, professional euthanasia is often, unfortunately, the most compassionate solution for these animals. We live in a country where 8 million animals are abandoned at shelters, 4 million of which are euthanized. The solution? Spay and neuter your pets. Don't buy from breeders. If you want a pet, go to a local shelter and get one that needs a home. Ms. Swain should be ashamed of herself.
With that mentality, I assume you are a cannibal? Humans are made of meat, too.
You don't have any idea what you're talking about. No other major non-proft 501c3 in the country has a higher percentage rate of direct dollar programming (meaning that the percentage of it's budget used for actual programs is higher than at any other non-profit). Their employees make a pittance and regularly work 80 hour weeks. They USE the public media to get their point across, but with a yearly budget that is dwarfed by Mcdonald's WEEKLY advertisement budget, they always face an uphill battle. They, as an organization, have done more than all other animal welfare groups combined to improve the lives of animals worldwide. What have YOU done?
Would you be kind enough to post the source for your post? Anyone can pretty much say anything they wish here when quoting statistics and numbers here.
I'm a PETA member. Would you like to have a reasoned discussion about the issues you have with the organization, or would you rather stick to vapid insults?
Only conservatives or Christians can be hypocrites.
Here's an interesting link to read about this: http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-pet...
Now, mostly what you will find if you google is that PETA kills 95%, 97%, etc. etc…. but again, a huge majority of these animals are non-adoptable, and remember that most of these websites are specifically anti-PETA, so their whole purpose is to throw whatever data they can to make them look bad. Always make sure to look whose behind these sites. Usually it's something to do with the CCF.
Another point to remember is that PETA is not a shelter service, nor is it a humane society. It is an animal rights organization. It developed CAP because of a local need that was not being met by local shelters. To hold them responsible for this problem, or to criticize them for making the most compassionate choice in an admittedly horrible situation is missing the point. What they PROMOTE is the real solution to this problem, which is to control and eventually lower the pet population so that this overflow of animals ceases to exist. Their work in local education and local no/low cost spaying an neutering is a testament to their commitment to local animal welfare.
I was going to leave a comment about how pathetic these folks are. But, why bother, it would just go past them. It’s always do as I say, not as I do. Just like many of our politicians (Al Gore coming to mind).
Upding! LOL!
I'm sure it never occurred to any of these PeTA-tards that every single caucasian person currently alive – and many northern asians as well – owes their very life to countless generations of ancestors who killed animals and wore their fur just to survive.
I'll take a normal, average girl-next-door type who gets excited at the prospect of spending a weekend at the hunting lodge over a hot-bod with no brain any day.
Kill and grill, baby, kill and grill.
I think we'll stick to vapid insults, Andrea. Like PETA sticks to vapid morals and principles, you know? Like running extermination vans and killing 90% of the animals it takes in. all the while splashing women who wear fur with blood or terrorize their children with graphic brochures. Consistency of purpose seems to be an issue with PETA, all things considered.
And what can one say about Ingird Newkirk, who said the earth would be better off without humans to screw it up? How about practicing what she preaches there? By the way, I'm with PETA too. People Eating Tasty Animals. Hey, you asked the question, and you didn't say it was rhetorical. Be careful what you wish for
It sucks that sometimes you have to give up something to get something in return.
Luckily for her, she only had to give up her brain for the T&A.
It must have been one hell of a brain too…
I normally try not to engage in intellectual combat with
PETA groupiesunarmed opponents. However: If you really espouse the PETA line that animals have more rights than humans, or even equal rights to humans, then you are no different from, and you logically deserve the same treatment as the animals your organization euthanizes.Great post, John T.!
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Yes.
Americans eat over 10,000,000,000 chickens per year, but if my pet rooster gets in a fight I get treated like a criminal.
I never stated that they have more rights, or deserve to have more rights. What I DO believe is that it is our responsibility to act as guardians for animals (as it is our responsibility to act as guardians of the planet….) to treat them with respect, and to prevent cruelty and abuse against them wherever possible. I don't see how that is a totally outlandish viewpoint.
Jeesh – who IS this Dominique Swain? Except for 'Lolita' (which bombed at the box office), I couldn't recognize a single one of her stupid films. Sheesh. You think maybe Swain's taking out her career frustration on the puppies? 'I don't have a life, so you can't either!'
I'm afraid that you've bought the anti-PETA propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Let me clarify a few facts for you. 1) the PETA kills animals thing. I've written on this topic below, but basically, their community animal project evolved out of a local need due to the shortcomings of the local humane society. Their primary work involves low/no-cost spaying and neutering, public education and advocacy, delivery of free dog houses in the VA/NC area, and yes… providing euthanasia services. They are not an animal shelter, nor do they have shelter facilities. They operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and primarily deal with sick, injured, or unadoptable animals. In most cases, the most humane thing for these animals is a quick, painless, death. To compare their rates versus an actual shelter that operates m-f 9-5 and only takes adoptable animals is totally useless. 2)No PETA employee has ever thrown blood on anybody at any officially sanctioned PETA event. Perhaps PETA members have, but that's like blaming the right to life movement for the individuals who bomb clinics. They are a law-abiding 501c3 organization whose actions are regularly scrutinized by the U.S. gov't. as they are routinely audited in order for their non-profit license to be renewed. Regarding the graphic brochures that are designed for children…. have you seen what's on TV lately? It's a sad commentary on the world, but children are much more desensitized now than they used to be… They focus group these things on age-grouped children before they release them, and if the children don't overwhelmingly understand the hyperbole, they don't go ahead with them. As far as Ingrid goes, you can't fault her commitment to her cause. She certainly hasn't gotten rich doing this, and her work ethic is beyond compare. You may disagree with her, but it's hard to argue that all of the current global problems we face aren't man-made. They are, and for that reason, I think that from a purely technical standpoint, she is basically correct. That said, humans are also capable of doing great, kind, compassionate things too, so let's work for more of that. Finally…. "people eating tasty animals?" dude….. that was only mildly amusing back in 1987. You HAVE to come up with a better acronym that that….. it's totally played.
Fur for survival and fur for fashion are two totally different things. Animals used for fur today are raised inhumanely on factory farms.. in fact, about 65 percent of our fur comes from China where they have absolutely NO regulations on animal welfare, and they routinely use fur from a breed of dog (raccoon dogs) to lower their overhead. That's a far cry from the way our ancestors did it. Plus, today there are tons of cheaper, more effective materials to use for staying warm. Fur is simply outdated in Western societies. One side note, PETA actually accepts fur coat donations and they then go to inner cities and give them to homeless people who need warm coats for the winter.
You are being disingenuous…we are talking about PETA's viewpoint, not what *you* believe. You can Google to find the nonsense your organization expounds as well as I can.
Well PETA has persuaded some hot looking women to pose nude, so I guess does have ONE positive thing going for it . . .
Shanna Moakler is a twat, nothing more. As for this nobody she is probably just like Shanna.
Maybe that's a bad thing though. Now Crocs are collectable.
Vapid??? There was nothing vapid in my hoping you PETA people collectively get spayed My dog is offended by you morons. She insisted I write what I did. Go reason with her.
It's our responsibility to protect ourselves FROM the planet.
"while I'm cleaning my deer hunting rifles."
is that a euphemism?
stupid thing made me post twice
I know your talking, but all I hear is bla, bla, bla. PETA's shrill voice ads speak louder than its long sleepy PR apologetics. You really have no idea what laughingstocks PETA are outside of a very small group of like-minded individuals. The naked ads aren't helping either. All it is doing is associating PETA with sluts. Surprised (although I'm not as they are equally hypocritical) that feminists aren't complaining of the objectifying of women.
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
That's just so wrong! Have your dogs spayed, please!
What, she could’t afford to get her dog spayed when she could afford an expensive imported car? I fail to understand why it's any of Pam Meister's business… or anyone else's. Mind your own business instead of worrying what everyone else does. It's none of your damn business.She has a right to spend her money in any way she wants, and it's not your place to inject your opinion.
great
thanks for that uplifting thought
If you force a puppy dog to have a debate with a PETA freak, isn't that "cruelty and abuse" against the puppy dog?
Or is it cruel to the PETA freak when they're outwitted by the puppy?
Maybe she does wear fur…from that snapshot, you can't really tell. She needs to ease clockwise a few degrees…
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Andrea, one of your moonbat PETA spokeswomen was on a radio talk show a few years back and uttered that she felt more compassion for animals than people. I heard her and thought what a pathetic socially and morally malformed person.
I'll repeat again, she was a spokeperson for PETA. I don't need to buy into anti-PETA propaganda when PETA does it so well on their own. And, please, spare me the "children are much more desensitized now than they used to be", you have no valid clinical evidence of that, spin that OPINION only of yours somewhere else.
Save a deer, kill a wolf. Save a whale, kill a shark.
All I know is that in 1990, when I went vegetarian, I had to go to a run-down, stinky, hippie-filled co-op to buy tofu and god-awful veggie burger mix. Now I can go to Wal-Mart and find soy cream cheese, soy chorizo, boca burgers, soy ice cream, etc. Even Burger King now serves a veggie burger. You may hate PETA and all they stand for, but to contend that they haven't been effective is just wrong.
Find me one reliable source that says that PETA wants animals to have more rights than humans.
I bet she wears a fur coat too : )
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
"With that mentality, I assume you are a cannibal? Humans are made of meat, too. "
Yeah, but there are practical concerns. Humans can fight back.
"Except for 'Lolita' (which bombed at the box office)"
I think it was a TV movie.
Not hardly. No other organization has been more vocal or more present in the mainstream movement towards vegetarianism or animal rights. To say that they have nothing to do with this culture-shift is just wishful thinking on the part of the anti-PETA crowd. Unus praecessi in ceterus. Since we're getting all Latin here…..
So can animals. Watch one of those "When Animals Attack" shows on Fox, or whatever.
You can be a vegetarian and eat tofu and soy products without being a supporter of PETA causes. I am not a vegetarian or a proponent of the benefits of soy but I know people that are for health reasons or because they don't like meat or they don't feel comfortable eating animals but have no problem with other people doing so.
We also have more people in this country that have a religious reason not to eat meat these days so don't give a lot of the credit to PETA for the current prevalence of veggie alternative foods in mainstream places.
That is not an outlandish viewpoint. Many ordinary people support it. I don't buy it as being PETA's viewpoint though.
I have though the organization (not all the people in it but some of the leaders) were crazy since I read that they insisted that in the movie Dances with Wolves the production had to use dead maggots instead of live ones because to kill live maggots would be cruel. And I didn't read that on some conservative website but in a regular news source.
Regardless of what they use their budget for, Adnrea, that doesn't make them any more sympathetic to animals or (more importantly) less interested in destabilizing capitalism and private property.
I *hope* they have an uphill battle… and I work toward that effort.
They do *not* help the welfare of animals… they hurt them. They also make the typical person who doesn't like mistreatment of animals look like an extremist by the association.
Your capitalized question of what I have done is irrelevant. I haven't send dogs to be killed just because I didn't want them. I also EAT them, Andrea… I eat animals. All the tasty ones, and even a few that are merely okay.
"Being a celebrity means never having to account for your actions."
Being a blogger mean never having to hold yourself responsible for inaccuracies in your reporting.
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