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PETA Plans Purebred Protest At Westminster

westminsterpeta0210.jpg The Westminster Dog Show is just days away, and before those cute pups get to strut their stuff... PETA has planned a protest. They tell us they'll greet the dogs and their owners outside of MSG on Monday with tombstones and a message that purebred enthusiasts are basically the grim reaper for shelter dogs. Their banner will read: "Every Dog Bred Means Another Dog Dead," and they'll be standing amongst a graveyard with 40 tombstones (um, send us your photos?). Each tombstone will represent every 100,000 animals killed in animal shelters each year because of a lack of good homes. Last year the organization likened the American Kennel Club to the KKK.

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  • NannyState

    Nothing beats a wonderful purebred puppy from a qualified breeder. Have you paid for a breeder dog today? You'll sure wish you had!

  • fuboy

    Ah PETA, shouting from their soap-boxes about the problem but not addressing the cause.

    The problem is WHY there are hundreds of thousands of dogs in shelters - and the answer is human stupidity. It's not because of purebred breeders or their owners - it's because people can't properly care for their pets. Either they're incapable of caring for a pet and toss them to the curb or don't get them spayed/neutered and then where there was one now there are ten.

    Of course, PETA would rather just scream "You're bad because you're not like us". Complaining loudly and making outlandish displays is much easier than fixing a problem.

  • handsomedevil

    "It's not because of purebred breeders or their owners - it's because people can't properly care for their pets."

    Nah, that can't be it. Unwanted dogs are obviously *everybody's* fault.

    Which reminds me of a villain even worse than dog hobbyists. One which, to this day, has slithered past even PETA undetected.

    I'm talking about the dogless.

    What the fuck is their problem? Every day, I meet people who claim to like dogs, and yet don't care for one. They make all these vague excuses - "Oh, I travel too much." "I work too late." "My building wouldn't allow it." "My children are too young to interact with a dog."

    HellOO! How fucking selfish can you be? There's a dog in a shelter right now that needs you to save it. YOU ARE KILLING IT. All to support your non-dog-owning lifestyle

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    And she isn't cute but beautiful but I didn't want to sound like a perv since she isn't even 21 yet. So come by and support us.

  • eat vegans

    What happened to your committed relationship with the vegan veternarian???

  • nycraf

    I thought the cutoff for perviness was 18. After that, it's just lechery.

  • SP

    LMFAO!!!!!

  • Willie Nillie

    It used to piss me off when the dog show was on instead of Monday Night Raw when I was kid.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    Handsomedevil, who is so insecure that he refers himself as handsomeyet uses JDS's photo. Freaky. I hope JDS lives in a doorman building. Dead himmler, the one who defrauds the MTA with his fake workers comp leave. You are both so self involved that you can't see beyond your asses.

  • youngpro

    what about me?!?!?!

  • handsomedevil

    I'd love to play with you all day, felix, but I've got to go abuse my dog now. She loves to be out in the snow! And while we're out there, I'll make a point of commemorating the other doggie life I snuffed out just so I could have her.

    His name was "Rex." I went to the shelter and gassed him myself. This one's for you, Rex!

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    As if you racist speciest care about how black folks would feel. I will be there with a black friend of mine. Come by and say hi. She is cute girl. And I can help note how all the pro animal abuse commenters were the first to post. How miserable and inferior you all must really feel about yourselves.

  • eat vegans

    Thanks for letting us all know where you will be, and who you will be with. I'm sure we'd all like to know what you look like just in case we run into you in a dark alley

  • Guest

    You should really consider taking a long walk off a short pier. If you truly are as compassionate and loving as you claim to be, then you would realize just how much richer the world would be without you.

  • turkishjade

    It's "speciesist" and if your black friend stands by that sign, she is a moron.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that... i'm not an "ableist."

  • handsomedevil

    "She is cute girl."

    I see. So her physical characteristics make her a more desirable person to know and emulate? People are not accessories, Felix.

  • Mr Mel

    What he really said is "she's really cute even though she's black."

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    racist.

  • Mr Mel

    No you're the racist. I'm just an observer.

  • handsomedevil

    But maybe I didn't understand what you meant. Do you mean cute like a Yorkie or cute like a Rottweiler?

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