Kevorkian makes a lot of people nervous, too, like anyone who can't get up and run away from him.

  I believe I heard not too long ago that he was recently released from jail.

Has anyone heard of this group?

http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pa_shelter_services_bp
"Every year, at least 5.7 million dogs and cats are euthanized in shelters in the United States. Indeed, it has been noted that in many areas of the country, a majority of animals entering the shelter system “are euthanized rather than adopted or reclaimed by their owners.” This problem is not limited to a single area of the country or a single segment of our population -- animal care and control facilities from coast to coast are flooded with healthy animals looking for a good home. It has been this way for decades although over the past 20 years, we have seen a sharp reduction in the numbers of animals euthanized."

If they are effective maybe you can support them.  There are healthy animals puts to death every day in shelters all over the country, many in barbaric ways like decompression chambers, being shot, etc. 

Maybe that American Humane effort is part of the solution?

Pedigree was involved in this recall:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2004_March_15/ai_114410165
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1496805,00.html

I think that may have been mentioned here before.  It's getting stranger and stranger if an animal rights group is taking money from a big PFI company.  And then all politcal wrangling over donations....it gets to be a very tangled web!

Hope somebody comes up clean here.