May 19, 2010 5:32 PM

Octomom Supports Birth Control … for Pets

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(AP)  Updated at 3:14 p.m. ET

It's official. Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman doesn't want your dog or cat following in her footsteps.

As a front yard full of paparazzi cheered her on, Suleman unveiled a 3-foot-by-4-foot plastic sign Wednesday that reads: "Don't Let Your Dog or Cat Become an Octomom. Always Spay or Neuter."

People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals is paying Suleman $5,000 to keep the sign on her front door until June. 9. The organization is also throwing in a month's supply of veggie hot dogs and burgers for Suleman and her 14 children.

Suleman's octuplets, conceived by in vitro fertilization, were born in January 2009.

She has since struggled to pay her bills and was in danger of losing her home earlier this year.

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by newsterI May 19, 2010 8:59 PM EDT
SHE is the one who needs the spaying not dogs!!
Spay-neuter is the WORST thing you can do, spaying causes spay induced urinary incontinence that plenty of peer-reviewed studies have proven the causal links to spaying as the cause of this malady.
Males dont need neutering they don't have the puppies. Studies have shown males neutered are a a greater risk of prostate cancer,lack of chest development needed for heart and lung capacity, and other negative side effects.
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by run2jazz2 May 19, 2010 8:30 PM EDT
This is simply sad! How long does she think $5,000 dollars can last her in relationship to her children. Ethically this is the problem with this entire fiasco as she probably banked on corporate America as it has did in the past provide all the services for this young woman and she will get some sort of television show.
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by Living_the_High_Life May 19, 2010 6:08 PM EDT
She just wants to hold on to her 15 mins of fame
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by andie52 May 19, 2010 2:22 PM EDT
Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman is scheduled to attend a June 15 hearing for a worker's compensation case that started more than ten years ago, according to the State Worker's Compensation EAMS database, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

Suleman worked as a psychiatric technician at a mental hospital in Norwalk, California from 1997 until November 2008.

The first claim she filed, in 1999, came after she was injured in what was described as a ?riot? at the mental health facility, according to California Department of Industrial Relations records.

Records show Suleman received $167,000 in disability payments over several years for that injury. She received disability payments until at least August 2008. Her employer stopped her payments in July 2001, but she appealed to a workers' compensation appeals board, which ruled in 2002 that she was, in fact, temporarily disabled, and the payments resumed.

But, Suleman is also seeking compensation for a 2001 auto accident, in which she said was traveling from a worker's compensation-related doctor's appointment.

Suleman said at a previous appeal hearing that her 2001 injuries aggravated her 1999 injuries to the point where she could barely move. In an interesting twist, court docs against Suleman's fertility doctor, Dr. Michael Kamrava, show that Suleman did show up to an appointment at the doctor's Beverly Hills office just five days after she said she was incapacitated.
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by gowerd May 19, 2010 2:16 PM EDT
I think PETA picked the wrong spokesperson regarding birth control..yeah right.
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by thesevenveils May 19, 2010 3:58 PM EDT
She the perfect IRONY!
by jgg000101 May 19, 2010 2:05 PM EDT
somebody should spay or neuter octomom.
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by GottaLuvItt May 19, 2010 3:14 PM EDT
Hahahaha...love it!!
by tsigili May 19, 2010 1:51 PM EDT
This totally irresponsible person, needs to have someone enlighten her.....the biggest cause for the destruction of the planet.....is there are too many humans!!!!!

Some people are just too stupid, to get it.
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by hambonehd May 19, 2010 3:16 PM EDT
Man, what a truth. People just do not want to face up to it. It is the root of all the issues.
by Chris_VA May 19, 2010 1:45 PM EDT
No, they don't...can't understand why CBS thinks the Jerry Springer crowd reads.
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by JustYourAverageReader May 19, 2010 1:35 PM EDT
Does anyone really care what she says?
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