AHOSKIE, North Carolina (AP) -- Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said.

Investigators staked out the bin after discovering that dead animals had been dumped there every Wednesday for the past four weeks, Ahoskie police said in a prepared statement Thursday.

PETA has scheduled a news conference for Friday in Norfolk, Virginia, where the group is based.

Police found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from animal shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties, police said.

The two were picking up animals to be brought back to PETA headquarters for euthanization, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Thursday. Neither police nor PETA offered any theory on why the animals might have been dumped.


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Uncle Matt (in IL)

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I didn't know that PETA was in the same business as the Humane Society, that is killing untold thousands of dogs and cats a week. Lots of thick headed people think that if you carry your unwanted dog or cat to these facilities they will be cared for forever. Truth is that it is a small percentage of the dogs and cats carried in actually are adopted out. Most of them are just dead, hole fillers, buzzard bait or doggy and kitty gone to heaven.

Just goes to show those people's mindset. They can rationalize anything. Even something that is blatantly against the very core beliefs that they are supposed to follow.