Animal Rights Activist My Foot!

I recently read an article entitled "Director of Taiwanese animal shelter commits suicide after 'feeling distraught about having to euthanise too many dogs'". You can read the original article here. 

The article is about a vet who is also the director at  Xinwu Animal Protection and Education Centre, a centre where they take in stray animals, nurse them back to health and care for them, but carries mercy killings when the centre runs out of place, committed suicide after becoming distraught when "animal rights activists" started sending her threatening messages and called her a "female butcher". She left a note explaining she had become too distressed about the number of dogs she had to put down. 

I wrote this on my Facebook profile, and I'm going to write it again in here because a lot of people need to open their eyes wide.

This is just so wrong on so many levels. First of all;

1) She's not a butcher. She helped these animals by giving them a home, nursing them back to life, and caring for them. She's done more than any of us has ever done for a dying animal on the streets.

2) Stop buying pets and start adopting. There are too many strays out there that badly need a home and that's why they are forced to be put to sleep because people would rather have cute little expensive kittens/puppies than the old domestic cats/dogs.

3) Neuter/spay your pets and yes, some people find it to be evil and mean but unless you'll be the ones responsible for the many litters that will be born, then it's just something you have to do or this vicious cycle will just go on repeating itself.

And lastly;

4) Don't you dare have the audacity to call yourself an ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST when all you do is complain and bash about the one person who has helped these animals in the most humane way possible. If you really ARE an activist then PLEASE DO SOMETHING USEFUL. Donate time, energy, or money to these shelters, volunteer, adopt, or even better yet, open up a new shelter to accomodate more animals. Activists aren't people who yell and shout and say hateful words to other people. They actually DO something to make things better.