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Please Contact Westminster Dog Show for Snubbing Dogs in Shelters (contact info towards bottom of email)
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Pardon the interruption - but this is forwarded from Jenny Stephens, "Tribe of Heart" filmmaker:
PLEASE CROSSPOST ASAP; THE Westminster Dog show is going on today & tomorrow; please take a moment to write to the show administrators (contact info below) and let them know how disgusting this decision is. Thanks!! In case you missed this article in today's paper, I wrote this to send for your information. I think you may find this as heartless on the part of Westminster officials as I did. I was shocked to read the Associated press article, NY, stating that Westminster will totally drop any ads on adoption, rescue, or anything about dogs in shelters whatsoever. They will show dressed up dogs and their owners instead. They say, "Pet lovers won't have to look away anymore when those heart-wrenching TV ads appear during the dog show -- the ones with the pitiful little faces peering out from behind those rusted bars of a cage and wondering how did I end up here". Westminster says they, "made the decision to shift the focus away from sad-eyed animals in need of adoption". They say, "gone will be the woeful pictures of dogs with pleading eyes wasting away at the pound hoping to be adopted". The Westminster spokesman and longtime TV host David Frei said the primary audience said those commercials made them want to turn the channel. He said seeing puppies behind bars took away from the show because it was "not their message". This article is in the Sunday paper, today, and the Westminster Dog Show starts tomorrow. Pedigree was booted as the sponsor, and Nestle Purina is now the sponsor. I remember Nestle, they were, and may still be, importing ingredients for dog food and still sourcing from China. We remember that animals died when trusting owners fed their beloved pets that food. The Pedigree sponsor said Westminster thought Pedigree was too focused on adoption, although 4 million dogs get put in shelters each year and few make it out. I would never feed my rescued dogs Nestle Purina because of the ingredients, and same with Pedigree. My rescued dogs get the best, and they always will. They are from death row and from abusive and tortured circumstances. My dogs are as deserving as any dog on the planet, and if abandoned dogs facing death in shelters are not worthy of being on commercials to remind people that they are there, I don't know what dogs would be more worthy! So Westminster doesn't think people should have to view helpless, desperate and needy dogs who can be adopted and saved! That is too hard for people watching a dog show to be subjected to, they might be reminded that there ARE deserving dogs who are on hard times and may die? Some dogs, so unfortunate to be in shelters facing death, are just as pedigreed as the dogs in the dog show, and many are mixed, but nobody watching that show should be reminded of them? WE ARE REMINDED DAY AND NIGHT, and our hearts break, and there is never enough help. We NEED help. People NEED to be reminded! Many dogs died daily, thousands, and we beg for help for them. Westminster has no concern for these dogs and eliminates them from the show commercials because viewers might have compassion for little desperate shelter dogs, or feel sorry for them? The dogs we work for, that we save or can't save, those worthy dogs, who are wonderful, hopeful and trusting, they can't be viewed because that might detract from the Westminster glitter? The Westminster Dog Show will take place February 13 and 14, 2012. To voice indignation that there will be no further comments on Westminster Dog Show regarding needs of shelter dogs, which will be eliminated, here are the only addresses I found. Others can probably do more, and there are those who are in publications, with contacts, who write articles and who are great in organizing efforts. I call to all who can speak out for our helpless angel dogs who are loving, deserving, hopeful and trusting, to help them receive all help in every aspect to save them. That presenting them on Westminster Dog Show is now dropped, and that they are shot down as unworthy to be acknowledged, makes my blood boil, and I am totally outraged and beyond disgust for Westminster persons responsible for this. Here is information for contact and for comments: -Public relations & publicity, Media Information Forms, media contact, credentials: David Frei Director of Communications (212) 213-3212[/url] david@westminsterkenn  elclub.org-Tickets, vendors, hotels, catalog advertising, merchandise: Florence Foti Director of Operations (212) 213-3165[/url] florence@westminsterk ennelclub.orgPremium Lists, Invitations, Entries, Show Regulations MB-F www.infodog.com (336) 379-9352[/url] mbf2@infodog.com Questions or corrections regarding entries must be submitted in writing to this email address. |
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