There's a lot of really stupid stuff about animals going on. Ban wool. Don't eat meat. Now the Western Australian government has come up with guidelines for the health and welfare of dogs.

Training should be stopped or modified when it causes the dog to be anxious or distressed.

Minimum size dimensions for doghouses and kennels.

Avoid speed bumps when driving with a dog and carry a canine first-aid kit when going for a run.

Drive with care and try to minimise bumps, jolts and swerving with a dog passenger.

Dogs not be tethered for a period exceeding two hours in 24 hours.

Stupidity is well established in the pseudo-intellectual/intellectual circles.

PETA a militant lie factory paying people to film things they may very well only do, because they need to do it for that film
Not unlikely to lie
Not worth the air they breath
And of no real help to animals in distress

There is no need for animal cruelty under any circumstance, whether it be on a commercial scale such as a farm, or towards the family pet. Many excuse cruelty to animals as being a necessary part of human existence, its not. I accept the exploitation of animals as being reasonable, but I don't believe it has to be done in such a way as it often is, with efficiency and profit put before animal welfare.

There are many recent examples of extreme abuse of animals for commercial gain, live sheep exports, the extreme cruelty undertaken towards Australian cattle in foreign slaughterhouses. Closer to home and continuing right now is battery chicken farming and sow stall pork production, among many other forms of cruelty towards animals. When a drought hits a farmer and a thousand head of sheep have to be put down because of their terrible state of existence, that to is a form of unintentional cruelty.

I don't expect the bear baiters and cock fighters on the forum, our good old band of Usual Suspects are going to accept criticism when it comes to animal welfare, its something they see as their right, and its stuff the animals as far as they are concerned.

Then you get those wharped mentality ones who pose with a beautiful animal they just killed !
I never did & never will understand that ! Same with the fishing lot.
If you're going to eat it fine but why the need for posing ?? All they really are displaying is their under developed mentality. TV is even aiding that idiocy with such shows !
What I'd like to know with these PETA people is if they ban wool & petroleum/coal products then what will they wear when it gets cold ? No synthetic or woollen clothing !

A poacher in Africa was recently knocked flat by an elephant before being eaten by a lion. Some would see justice in that.