PETA AU Global Issue 3 2020

Reasons to Stop Crating Your Dog Right Now! 5 By Daphna Nachminovitch, Senior Vice President of PETA’s Cruelty Investigations Department

‘WETMARKETS’

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Busted! PETA Asia Video Goes Global, Showing Live-Animal Markets Still Thriving

“One image is constant across these Asian wet markets ... the floors are covered with blood, guts and water.” – TMZ

2. It’s Cruel Dogs fear that they have displeased you when they’re locked away, because being denied freedom of movement is a punishment and they know it. They need mental stimulation and to run, walk, and move around – all of which are impossible while trapped in a cage.

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Disengage From the Cage Help your canine companion have a happy, healthy life by providing humane positive-reinforcement training, plenty of exercise, interactive toys, companionship, and a safe, dog-proofed home. If you can’t let your dog out during the day, enlist a trusted friend or neighbor or try a reputable, cage-free doggie daycare. To learn more, visit PETA.org/Crate .

affecting humans originated in other species. The spread of the novel coronavirus and many other dangerous pathogens can be traced to live-animal markets, filthy factory farms, or slaughterhouses This is a global problem. While COVID-19 originated in a live-animal market in China, more than 80 of these disease-ridden facilities can be found in New York City alone, and they operate in many other cities around the world.

Caged dog: © iStock.com/youngvet

© Pangolin and her pup | Shukran888 | CC BY-SA 4.0 • Blood: © iStock.com/Barcin • Photo frame: © iStock.com/blackred

When PETA fieldworkers first met Fritz,

he was filthy, matted, soaked in his own urine, and locked in a crate without food or water. Freed from his bleak prison, he frolicked around PETA’s headquarters. He now lives with another dog rescued by PETA – and will never again see the inside of a cage.

3. It’s Unnatural A crate is not a “den” any more than a monkey is a “research tool.” It’s a cage . Crated dogs can’t do anything but wait and wonder when they’ll finally be set free.

“[C]rating dogs while their owners are at work is … disgusting,” says Dr. Michael Fox, veterinarian and syndicated animal-advice columnist. “Having to hold urine and feces for the long hours of

T he World Health Organization (WHO) said regulations were on the way. But PETA Asia showed that none of it was true: Filthy live-animal markets were doing business as usual in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and China – in fact, all over Asia, animals and public health be damned. Each market was as wretched, cruel, and dangerous as the one in Wuhan, China, suspected of being at the root of the COVID-19 pandemic. Newsweek , Sky TV, the Independent , the New Zealand Herald , the Daily Mail , and other outlets all over the world helped PETA blow the whistle by sharing video of bats (linked to COVID-19), civet cats (linked to SARS), ducks and chickens (linked to avian flu), and rabbits and cats – all crammed into stacked-up cages and covered with layers of rotten food and feces. One rabbit convulsed and died right in front of the investigator. In the Philippines, workers wearing rubber sandals walked across blood soaked floors and cut up fish and bird carcasses with their bare hands. In Vietnam, the corpses of butchered dogs were piled up on a counter near living animals.

Sickness spreads easily through these hellholes, as it does on filthy factory farms – essentially wet markets on a massive scale – where chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals are cooped up together by the thousands. Dead and rotting animals are left among the living, sometimes infecting workers. If WHOWon’t Do Something, What About YOU? WHO hasn’t taken action, so PETA and its affiliates are using PETA Asia’s damning footage to push for a ban on wet markets: a campaign supported by more than a quarter of a million people so far. Nurse Jackie and Tommy star Edie Falco, a PETA honorary director, is leading the effort to shut down New York City’s live-animal markets. Taking personal responsibility and raising awareness are also essential right now, so please chip in. Take Action Now Eating chicken wings isn’t any different from eating bat wings. Go vegan today. And please share PETA Asia’s video at PETA.org.au/WetMarkets with everyone you know.

4. It’s Confusing Spending hours in a cage is confusing to dogs.

confinement … is animal cruelty and neglect.”

I f your dog spends hours a day in a crate, I’ll bet you were told it was for his or her own good. But like other archaic “training” methods, we now know better. A study in the journal Physiology & Behavior found that 93% of kenneled police dogs exhibited signs of mental illness, including pacing, spinning, and circling. Your dog is an active, intelligent, highly social individual, not to mention a member of the family and probably your best friend, so it’s time to kick that crate to the curb. Here are five reasons why. 1. Crating Is Damaging to a Dog’s Psyche Putting a dog in a box is a human convenience that does not address the causes of behavioral issues and can actually make them worse – or even cause new ones – according to noted animal behaviorists, including Nicholas Dodman, Ian Dunbar, Warren Eckstein, and Victoria Stilwell. Crated dogs often develop separation anxiety, aggression, depression, hyperactivity, and other disorders.

Being forced to soil the crate can make puppies believe that they’re supposed to relieve themselves indoors, instead of outside. 5. They May Die in There – Yes, Really! Frightened dogs can seriously injure themselves trying to escape a crate. If someone breaks into your home – or in the event of a fire, earthquake, or accident – crated dogs are trapped. Stories abound of dogs who were unable to escape coming to a horrible end. Recently, a dog confined to a crate in a basement drowned during a flash flood in Virginia. Squad Goals – No More Crates! When US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of her crated puppy crying in distress, PETA wrote to her right away to let her know that family members don’t belong in boxes. Locking up a puppy is as cruel and wrong as caging a human child.

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