PETA is suing Friends of Animals, an animal rights organization which actually operates animal sanctuaries. One such is Friends of Primarily Primates (PPI) http://www.primarilyprimates.org/. PPI provides a lifelong home for elderly monkeys, birds with neurotic habits such as feather-plucking, and animals who exhibit sicknesses because labs bred them that way. They’re accepted at one of the few places in the world willing to care for them.
PETA brought its first lawsuit against PPI in 2006 and has since lost two lawsuits against them. PETA’s latest suit alleges that PPI is in violation of the “dangerous wild animals” statute. The suit asks the Court to force PPI to get rid of all of its “dangerous wild animals,” including its chimpanzees, African lion, and baboons. But, the “dangerous wild animals” statute does not apply to animal shelters.
PETA insists that PPI is not an animal shelter, and PETA's attorneys go on to argue that even if PPI IS an animal shelter, it is violating the rules and regulations governing animal shelters. In this vein, Plaintiff has asked the Court to (1) force PPI to pave over its outdoor enclosures with natural grass flooring, (2) separate non-breeding males and females living in family groups; and (3) separate cockateils from parrots and brown-tailed lemurs and ring-tailed lemurs.
In other words, PETA, who's idea of "saving" thousands of dogs and cats is to euthanize over 97% of them, is trying to tell PPI how an animal sanctuary should be run! It is not clear whether PETA’s suits are the beginning of a movement to shut down all animal sanctuaries or just another PETA publicity idea. However, as a $30 million per year organization, PETA can afford to file all the frivolous lawsuits it wants and bleed PPI out of existance financially.
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