Subject: Animal Rights

• Capitol Hill Billys

  January 9, 2007

• I PETA the Fool

  August 24, 2006

• The Sorrow and the PETA

  July 23, 2008

• A Monkey Wrench

  Animal-rights activists say CU researchers are worming out of a debate.

  February 18, 1999

• Halloween can be scary for black cats

  October 30, 2008

• Today's Night & Day Featured Event: Marley & Me Dog Food and Blanket Drive

  Most pet lovers have heard of the bestselling novel by journalist John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog. Hollywood couldn't wait to get its hands on the story: A mere three years after the book was published, 20th Century Fox is releasing the film version of Marley & Me, starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, on Christmas Day. The American Humane Association is collaborating with the film to host The 12 Days of Marley Dog Food and Blanket Driv

  December 10, 2008

• Shmuck: Roll over and play dead

  Again with the animals? Poor Rover. Poor Fluffy. Why is it that we humans take out our aggressions on our pets. Why do we put them in the middle of battles over money and politics? Why? Okay, well, for one, they are annoying and they smell bad. Oh, and they are expensive and obnoxious and chew up everything in the house or piss on it. But still, it seems these creatures are abused and killed in far higher numbers than they deserve -- especially since they can't talk, they're cute and they don't

  December 12, 2008

• Best chance to offend PETA

  June 29, 2000

• Off Limits

  May 2, 2002

• PETA proclaims Coors Field the third most vegetarian-friendly ballpark

  As if Clint Hurdle's recent dismissal by the Colorado Rockies wasn't enough to piss off rabid baseball fans, now comes word that PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has bestowed a decidedly unsettling honor on Coors Field -- you know, home of the foot-long Rockie hot dog -- naming it the third most vegetarian-friendly ballpark in the country. It's right behind Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia Phillies) and AT&T Park (San Francisco Giants), which ranked first and second, res

  June 3, 2009

• Quiznos gets to the meat of the matter

  It turns out that Quiznos - the carnivorous, Denver-based chain that gave us subs like the 5 Meat Stack and Prime Rib Cheesesteak, with a double-meat option - has been engaged in behind-the-scenes talks for a year with the most notorious veggie lovers of them all: PETA. (I use the term "veggie lovers" deliberately:check out the banned Super Bowl commercial.) No, Quiznos won't be going all green, but it will be phasing in the purchase of meat and eggs obtained using "less cruel methods" as part

  February 13, 2009

• Bite Me

  September 11, 2003

• Bite Me

  October 16, 2003

• Best Cattery

  March 24, 2005

• Marley Gives

  December 4, 2008

• Inside one of the nation's top carnivore sanctuaries

  October 23, 2008

• Bike Naked

  July 17, 2008

• Snack Down

  May 8, 2008

• Pluck You

  Hmm. Would you rather live in Commerce City or KentuckyFriedCruelty.com?

  March 22, 2007

• Them's Fighting Words

  Activists arm for battle with cockers.

  September 14, 2006

• Murder Most Fowl

  Cockfighting is banned in Colorado. But the feathers still fly.

  September 14, 2006

• Horse Play

  An animal-abuse trial ends in a surprising verdict.

  June 29, 2006

• Fish Story

  Raising a stink over aquarium eateries.

  December 22, 2005

• Follow That Story

  Horse Play

  December 1, 2005

• Primate Directive

  Rita Anderson has a message for the University of Colorado: Let my monkeys go.

  May 5, 2005

• Remembering Never

  Thursday, December 16, Rock Island, 303-572-7625.

  December 16, 2004

• Pet Peeve

  If one schnauzer is nice, what's wrong with 150?

  September 30, 2004

• No Kill Bill

  Denver animal shelters want to let sleeping dogs lie.

  November 13, 2003

• Consumed

  A Good Egg

  July 4, 2002

• Off Limits

  Animal instincts

  June 7, 2001

• Dog Eat Dog

  From shooters to lawmakers to developers to environmentalists, prairie dogs are wagging everyone.

  March 25, 1999

• The Horse Soldier

  After years of making the fur fly, a veteran animal-rights activist puts herself out to pasture.

  December 25, 1997

• Mouthing Off

  December 5, 1996

• Mouthing Off

  November 28, 1996

• Letters

  October 17, 1996

• Going Ape

  Animal-rights activists want a CU scientist to stop the monkey business.

  September 26, 1996

• NO DOG HAS HIS DAY

  "SUE THE CREEP" IN THE DOG-POISONING CASE? IN COLORADO, YOU'RE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.

  November 15, 1995

• An American Idol audition that killed a dog

  A Flickr photo"No golden ticket for you." The American Idol auditions that turned Invesco Field at Mile High into an ear-damage danger zone for three days earlier this week racked up at least one casualty. Quincy Vanderbilt, a 24-year-old North Dakotan was charged with animal cruelty and given an August 20 court date for allowing his terrier to die in his car (which had all of its windows rolled up) while his girlfriend tried out for the talent show. No word about whether she made the cut, but

  July 16, 2009

• To the shock of no one, PETA barbecues a naked woman

  The National Cattlemen's Summer Convention is in town right now, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals responded in a way that only PETA could: by spray-painting a naked employee red and black and having her lie on a grill outside the downtown Sheraton, where the conference is being held. PETA's been "barbequing" humans for a while now, but a lack of originality wasn't the only problem with today's stunt. The Sheraton is undergoing construction, and much of the Cattlemen's Conferenc

  July 16, 2009

• PETA's ten worst -- actually, make that best -- publicity stunts

  Kiernan MaletskyPETA -- the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- is a lot of things.  It is a political organization dedicated to saving all the cute critters on the planet.  It is a finely-tuned donation-gathering machine that preys on weepy liberals who'd rather empty their wallets than think too much about where their food comes from.  It is a clubhouse for every freaked-up whack-job on earth who believes in veganism as insurrection and thinks that otte

  July 17, 2009

• Another spot of genius from PETA

  Q: What's the highest rated television show in the history of everything? A: American Idol. Q: And who is the most high-profile judge on American Idol? A: Simon Cowell. That's right.  And if there's one organization in the world that knows how to exploit celebrity (even if it happens to be "celebrity" of the singing game show variety), it would be PETA--more specifically, it would be the marketing geniuses who slave away in PETA's evil Fortress of Solitude coming up with campaig

  July 22, 2009

• PETA protesters give Canadian-syrup boycott their seal of approval

  Be careful: Bloody syrup will stain white fur.​I'm guessing the Canadian consulate in Denver, at 1625 Broadway, isn't a frequent location for major protests -- but that changed yesterday, when PETA representatives chose it as the place to complain about Canadian seal harvests. Their approach? Dress up someone in a seal costume, bust a bottle of "bloody syrup" -- maple syrup is one of Canada's most lucrative exports -- and then have participants chant, "Buy American! Boycott Canadian Maple

  August 20, 2009

• Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: Day 10

  Another gift from PETA​ Yesterday I wrote about my favorite gift from PETA. This one's my second favorite. And yes, it is what it looks like: one of those little wind-up Easter chicks, only with its beak cut off, its eyes poked out and splashed in blood. Not real subtle, those PETA folks. But to a black-hearted weirdo like me, they do have the greatest toys...

  August 25, 2009

• Ferris the dachshund is back -- and he can be yours!

  Ferris' day off is over.​Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department's valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view below, a woman identified by the Humane Society as a good Samaritan returned the puppy, which she'd been watching for a friend since earlier this week. In that first blog, we made the bold assumption

  August 28, 2009

• Lesson to puppy thieves: Never steal anything adorable

  The saga of Ferris the stolen dachshund has a happy ending -- for everyone except the trio who swiped him. Thanks to the Boulder Police Department's energetic efforts to locate the parties who spirited the pooch away from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, a good Samaritan who'd been asked to watch him heard about the crime and returned the walking sausage to the Humane Society in time to star in the Boulder Daily Camera video above. On Friday, Ferris was adopted into a good home, and later

  August 31, 2009

• For two decades, pit bulls have been public enemy #1 in Denver. But maybe it's time for a recount.

  September 24, 2009