OlderWed, 22 April 2009 at 1:33 am
Audrina Patridge Grows PETA Wings
The Hills star Audrina Patridge and rescued pooch Speedy Gonzalez is featured in the latest “Angel for Animals” ad campaign for PETA.
During the photo shoot, the 23-year-old reality TV star shared, “I wanted to get involved with PETA because I’ve always been passionate about animals, and I think this is a great way to make people and all my fans aware of all the animals that need a home. And a lot of people go to pet stores and breeders to buy their animals, but you should adopt, so go to an animal shelter and rescue a dog.”
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@Chloe:
The point is, Chloe, that animals shouldn’t be bred when there are animals already in need of homes, who have to be killed if they aren’t adopted, just because people want a peticular breed. Only after all the homeless animals in the whole world have found homes, should it be deemed acceptible to bread animals. When a pet is choosen from a breeder just because of it’s breed, as apposed to being saved from euthanasea in a pound, it’s called Breedism, like ‘racism’, because, just like human beings, animals should not be judged on their racial background.
@shoes4life:
I’m sure PETA and everyone supports adopting children too, but, children are more responcibility than pets so some people have pets instead of children or another child, and to experience a different type of love from the love children give.
Also, I want to make this very clear:
You can get a puppy or kitten from a pound!!! Just because your getting an animal from the pound doesn’t mean it has to be grown-up. You can experience all the things you said about a puppy like watching it grow and learn, and something even more special, you will have a connection with them you cannot get from a pet-shop or breeder puppy, you have saved it’s life. That puppy would owe you everything.
My final point, allow me to quote from your comment:
To me all pets deserve a home and it does not matter where they come from, it just matter that someone has opened their home to a loving pet that need a home.
“To me all pets deserve a home, and it does not matter where they come from, it just matter that someone opened their home to a loving pet that need a home” You obviously do care where the animal comes from, because you are so narrow-minded you only want a particular breed of animal, even if it will cost the life of an innocent animal from a pound who will die because you decided to adopt an animal from a breeder instead of save a life:
“Some folks like myself want a puppy and will be getting him/her from a private breeder for a specific breed.”
That states, if I’ve interpreted that correctly, that you only want a specific breed, and none else will do, meaning you DO care where the animal comes from, you care alot! In fact the breed is all that matters to you. I find this disturbing, and it makes me wonder:
Do you pick your friends by their race? I certainly hope not. You say people should focus more of their energy on the issues facing humanity, which I agree with, but in a way, people’s attitude towards different issues regarding animals rights and welfare seem to give an insight to what their attitude may be towards those issues faced by humans.
Breedism, noun.
When a pet is chosen from a breeder or a pet shop because of it’s breed, instead of from a pound or homeless shelter. Each time an act of breedism occurs, it, in turn, causes animal to die because an animal was adopted from a breeder instead, and there isn’t enough room in the shelters for every animal that isn’t adopted. Breedism is like, what racism is from one human to another, but from humans to animals. Like humans, animals should not be judged on their race/breed. Buying animals is killing animals.
@Beth Jackson:
Awesome reply!
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