India, Dec. 29 -- Kim Kardashian recently came under fire for giving dogs as Christmas presents to her children. The 45-year-old gifted her four kids, North West, 12, Saint, 10, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6, a pomeranian each. On Sunday, PETA criticised her in a statement to the Daily Mail, saying "puppies are not plushies."

"It's a damn shame that Kim missed the chance to be a spokesperson for shelter pups and instead is being rightly slammed on social media for that," PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told the outlet, suggesting the reality star to fund "a local shelter adopt-a-thon or at least one spay day to help stop the growing homeless puppy crisis."

"Ignoring the homeless animals crisis is inexcusably callous," Newkirk went on, urging the...