Since another poster got all up in arms that mentioning PETA being against pet ownership, claiming that we were attacking them, here is what PETA says *themselves* on the issue:

"We at PETA very much love the animal companions who share our homes, but we believe that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as "pets"—never existed. The international pastime of domesticating animals has created an overpopulation crisis; as a result, millions of unwanted animals are destroyed every year as "surplus." This selfish desire to possess animals and receive love from them causes immeasurable suffering, which results from manipulating their breeding, selling or giving them away casually, and depriving them of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior. Their lives are restricted to human homes where they must obey commands and can only eat, drink, and even urinate when humans allow them to."
www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonpets.asp

This is one of the many reasons why I do not support PETA. I cannot "attack" PETA if what I say is true.