Pedigree Adoption Drive
Note: This is an issue that's very important to me. Please take a moment to think about how you can make a difference.
Okay, has anyone else seen the new Pedigree commercial (YouTube link)? The ones where they promote that they give a portion of their proceeds this month to help shelter dogs get adopted? Yeah, well it makes me cry every time I see it. Let's just say that it's probably the most effective commercial I've ever seen because it makes me want to adopt another shelter dog - every shelter dog. Which I obviously can't do.
Homeless animals breaks my heart. It's the issue that gets me most emotionally charged - even though there's no real debate about it. It honestly pisses me off when topics like Abortion become the big political talk (please no anti/pro abortion comments, that's not the point of this post), and all these abused, neglected, unwanted, and eventually euthanised innocent animals get no sociopolitical recognition at all. Perhaps the political issue should be whether or not all town/state licensed pets should be required to be spayed/neutered - with exceptions available (at a substantial fee) to individuals who explicitly intend on breeding their animal. A rabies vaccine is required, how hard would it be to require that pets be spayed/neutered for population control purposes. Maybe once things get under control, such laws would not be necessary any more. The shelters would not be overcrowded, and people just might become more responsible pet owners on their own, having established good habits based on their previous law-abiding behaviors. (Do you still buckle your seatbelt in a state where there is no "click it or ticket" law?) THIS is America's big epidemic in my mind. Thousands of dogs E(Edit: and cats) euthanized every year because no one gave them a loving home. If every other person (in other words 50%) who purchased a purebred dog from a pet store or breeder, instead took home a shelter dog, this problem would be virtually non-existent. I have nothing against purebred dogs - I understand the attraction to them, and I have my own "favorite" breeds - but how can you look in the eyes of a homeless mutt and say they aren't just as lovable? It makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
But ... if you donate to the American Humane Association during the month of February 2007 through Pedigree's website then Pedigree will match your donation. $5 or $500, it doesn't matter. So please, if you're the type to donate to these sorts of causes, why not make your money go twice as far by donating this month and using the above link? I'll get off my soap-box now, but wont you please consider donating - if not to the American Humane Association, to the ASPCA or perhaps to your local animal rescue shelter? Please ... for the love of dog.
Adopt a Homeless Pet
Okay, has anyone else seen the new Pedigree commercial (YouTube link)? The ones where they promote that they give a portion of their proceeds this month to help shelter dogs get adopted? Yeah, well it makes me cry every time I see it. Let's just say that it's probably the most effective commercial I've ever seen because it makes me want to adopt another shelter dog - every shelter dog. Which I obviously can't do.
Homeless animals breaks my heart. It's the issue that gets me most emotionally charged - even though there's no real debate about it. It honestly pisses me off when topics like Abortion become the big political talk (please no anti/pro abortion comments, that's not the point of this post), and all these abused, neglected, unwanted, and eventually euthanised innocent animals get no sociopolitical recognition at all. Perhaps the political issue should be whether or not all town/state licensed pets should be required to be spayed/neutered - with exceptions available (at a substantial fee) to individuals who explicitly intend on breeding their animal. A rabies vaccine is required, how hard would it be to require that pets be spayed/neutered for population control purposes. Maybe once things get under control, such laws would not be necessary any more. The shelters would not be overcrowded, and people just might become more responsible pet owners on their own, having established good habits based on their previous law-abiding behaviors. (Do you still buckle your seatbelt in a state where there is no "click it or ticket" law?) THIS is America's big epidemic in my mind. Thousands of dogs E(Edit: and cats) euthanized every year because no one gave them a loving home. If every other person (in other words 50%) who purchased a purebred dog from a pet store or breeder, instead took home a shelter dog, this problem would be virtually non-existent. I have nothing against purebred dogs - I understand the attraction to them, and I have my own "favorite" breeds - but how can you look in the eyes of a homeless mutt and say they aren't just as lovable? It makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
But ... if you donate to the American Humane Association during the month of February 2007 through Pedigree's website then Pedigree will match your donation. $5 or $500, it doesn't matter. So please, if you're the type to donate to these sorts of causes, why not make your money go twice as far by donating this month and using the above link? I'll get off my soap-box now, but wont you please consider donating - if not to the American Humane Association, to the ASPCA or perhaps to your local animal rescue shelter? Please ... for the love of dog.
Adopt a Homeless Pet