Wilbur Cherate’s daughter will now spend her days without her dog companion. She and her chihuahua enjoyed a good life when they moved to Virginia from Mexico. But the little girl now spends her days crying over the disappearance and death of the dog she cherished and loved. Her anguish is the result of two female PETA workers taking the dog from the Cherate’s Parksley, Virginia home one Saturday during October.

Wilbur Cherate is quoted by television station WAVY as saying:

“She didn’t want to go to school, she didn’t want to do jobs, she’s crying,” said the girl’s father, Wilbur Cerate. He noticed Maya missing when he got home one Saturday in October. “My chihuahua, when she sees my car, she come to me,” Cerate said. “That Saturday she did not come.”

Accomack County authorities charged and then later declined to prosecute the two PETA employees despite Wilbur Cherate’s security cameras filming them in the act of taking his chihuahua off his property and driving off in a vehicle with PETA emblazoned on the side. The county sheriff’s office states the video does not indicate criminal intent. According to the dog owner, the ladies returned three days later with a basket of fruit, expressing their regret that their dog had been euthanized but made an offer of compensation.

PETA remains silent about the entire affair despite efforts on the part of a WAVY reporter to get answers. This story sounds bizarre but a look at the Best Friends website reveals a good explanation of PETA’s views on animal ownership. It states as follows:

PETA, too, is obsessively risk-averse when it comes to pets. Like hoarders, they believe that most people can’t be trusted with the care of a pet, but rather than keep them under lock and key, PETA simply kills them or advocates for killing them. They, too, are blind to the effects of depriving an animal of its most fundamental right — the right to life.

Taking this logic into account, the PETA employees’ actions make sense. Since the organization feels most people can’t be trusted with the care of pets which can be trained for things other than what PETA determines is an animal’s true nature (including the desire to be free), the group sends them to that big animal shelter in the sky. PETA hates humans to the point where they will kill off our pets after stealing them from you. Not a very ethical way to treat animals either, but it’s obvious the group doesn’t care.