I'm a HUGE animal lover, and it may come as a shock to you, but I was a member of PETA for quite a few years, a couple of things caused me not to renew my membership, 1 was the story that came out that PETA killed dogs so they wouldn't go to shelters, and the other thing that ticked me off was an incident of abuse I reported to PETA, and their attitude was basically "it's not a big enough issue" well I'm sorry, if a pet store is feeding the big iguanas sweet little geckos isn't a problem to you than you need to close shop. Also so called animal rights activists who wanted the poor little polar bear "Knut" from Germany to be euthanised was enough for me to see these people for who they really are.