The 750,000 Animal Casualties Of World War 2
AnimalCare 
Oct 20, 2013 
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This is sad:http://www.care2.com/causes/remembering-the-750000-animal-casualties-of-world-war-ii.html
Humans, for goodness’ sake, please stop fighting and stop killing! Don’t you have better things to do with your limited time on earth?
This is what happened when WW2 broke out in Britain:
An excerpt:
In the summer of 1939, just before the outbreak of war, theNational Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee(NARPAC) was formed. It drafted a notice, Advice to Animal Owners, which read in part, If at all possible, send or take your household animals into the country in advance of an emergency. It concluded, If you cannot place them in the care of neighbours, it really is kindest to have them destroyed.
Whatever happened to the notion of the British as animal lovers?
As a new book entitledBonzos War: Animals Under Fire 1939 -1945, written by Clare Campbell with Christy Campbell, recounts, a year later, in September 1940, the first bombing of London prompted even more pet owners to rush to have theirpetsdestroyed.
Basically, the government had persuaded the British that putting down the family pet was a patriotic and humane thing to do. The reasoning was that people needed all the food they could get, and there were no extra rations for pets.
The government sent out MI5 agents to watch animal rights activists, considered the mass euthanasia of all non-essential animals, sponsored a clandestine anti-dog hate campaign and sanctioned the criminal prosecutions of cat owners for giving their pets saucers of milk.
Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/10/20/the-750000-animal-casualties-of-world-war-2/
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