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In the wake of War Eagle’s scary crash into a luxury box during its routine pregame flight last Saturday, PETA has asked for Auburn to retire the use of live eagles.

“Animals aren’t performers or party decorations, and they don’t deserve to be frightened, hurt or even killed just so we can have a momentary thrill,” PETA’s Lindsay Pollard-Post wrote in a letter posted on the Montgomery Advertiser’s website on Thursday.

“In light of Spirit’s (name of eagle) disturbing accident, let’s hope the Tigers will be good sports and retire their animal mascots to sanctuaries, where they can live out their days in peace and safety.”

While the ethics of live mascots have been debated over the years, considering that War Eagle is considered one of the best live mascots in college sports and that the school has continuously used a live eagle since 1960, we’re not holding our breath for PETA’s request to be met.

[Montgomery Advertiser]

4:08 PM on 9/15/2011
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  • Christine

    Idiots. Peta is in the same category as the ACLU> Both once very good organizations now over zealous and run amuck! Seriously, exert your energies and resources in trying to better mankind not bog them down with nonsense agendas!! These Eagles are very well taken care of. Accidents happen everywhere. You fall down stairs, you trip, birds fly into windows. There is nothing we can do to eliminate accidents.

  • BamagirlforEagle flying EATA Peta PETA!

    Eata Peeetaaa! stupid peta people.

  • Mark OToole

    PETA–get a life. There are far greater problems in this world and especially the US. Everyone is sorry there was an accident, but an accident it was. If you want to fight for something, fight the U s Government wasting our tax dollars.

  • borderwar

    both au and uofa suck but peta can go suck a wild man a**

  • PR1

    I’m not an AU fan, but I think it is very neat for them to fly this bird at their games. Keep doing it AU. PETA is a joke, always has been and always will be. PETA get a life, at least they are not eating the eagle.

  • Really?

    Just because you don’t like PETA, you’re too narrow-minded to see there might be an issue here. Come on, forget about the PETA request and realize eagles, a national symbol of freedom, shouldn’t be denied everything natural to them and shuffled around like sports equipment. It’s not a PETA issue, it’s an issue of doing the right thing. And the right thing is to create a new tradition that honors eagles and stop the pre-game flights. Or, use that engineering project the Auburn kids have been working on since 2009 with the mechanical flying eagle.

    • Jimtheg8r

      really? You obviously know nothing about the rescue program at AU, the background of these magnificent creatures and their inability to take advantage of “everything natural to them”.

      Birds have been flying into windows since windows were first created. Take all the windows out of whatever you live in…until then…just shut up and quit embarrassing yourself.

    • Claire

      I’m sure if that eagle could talk, he wouldn’t say, “Please release me into the wild! I hate having my own air conditioned room. I’d prefer to eat dead rodents than have fresh meat cut up and had fed to me everyday.”

    • Claire

      Oh yea, and about that engineering project, not gunna happen. The students and fans would be in an uproar if the machine replaced the eagle.

  • Jimtheg8r

    Peta should worry about their anorexic spokesmodels who set a devastatingly terrible example for young girls than these magnificent eagles that are wonderfully rescued and cared for.

    Oh wait. Animals, plants rocks and mother earth are more important than humans.

  • Rocky Lore

    PETA can go to h***. They’re known hypocrites. They kill animals.

  • frank a bouchet

    Auburn should halt the flights when Peta starts taking care of pets,and stop the nonsense.Peta does nothing for pets;this is a ruse to raise money for their left-wing agenda!!!

  • Bryon

    PETA in fact kills more animals yearly then any other “rescue” group on the planet. Leave AU alone these animals are not taken from the wild they are rescued and or born and bred captive and the AU vet schools and woldlife schools are aong the best in the world,,,,,especi
    ally the raptor center

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