Last year, the nonprofit group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals euthanized more than 2,000 dogs and cats at its sole U.S. shelter -- and it's not at all clear how it made the decision to do so. The group has put down so many animals at its facility in Norfolk, Virginia, that in 2014 the state passed a law, SB 1381, that pointedly defined a private animal shelter as "a facility operated for the purpose of finding permanent adoptive homes for animals." PETA lobbied against that bill, and in a July email released to the public last week, a senior executive at the animal rights group argued to a Virginia lawmaker that there was no need for the legislation to exist at all. "We...
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