U. of Michigan Draws PETA’s Ire Over Baby Wallaby
PETA is up in arms after two students from the University of Michigan allegedly tried to sell a baby wallaby online.
The Detroit News reports:
Baby wallaby has animal rights group fuming at UM
An animal rights activist group is unhappy with the University of Michigan’s handling of an exotic animal — a wallaby — that it says two UM students tried to sell online.
One of the students, a UM hockey player, refused to hand over the baby marsupial to the Detroit Zoo earlier this week, according to a lawyer for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA.)
The wallaby, instead, has been returned to the Hudsonville breeder who sold it to student athlete Cutler Martin, PETA says. The group says that’s an irresponsible move and the animal belongs at a zoo where it cannot be sold.
After noticing an online ad offering to sell the baby male wallaby, the attorney for PETA said she contacted Martin, a UM sophomore and a defenseman on the university’s hockey team. Wallabies resemble small kangaroos and are native to Australia and New Guinea.
Comments
PETA, which kills every animal that comes into its care, is a bunch of hypocrites. If the baller had decided to kill the animal instead of sell it, PETA (the foremost killer of animals) would have been happy.