For immediate release:
June 11, 2021
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Tarrytown, New York – Ahead of the Westminster Kennel Club’s dog show – an annual event that rates individual dogs as ‘breeding animals’ and promotes the purchase of ‘purebred’ animals instead of picking up homeless animals from shelters – PETA supporters are leaving colorful messages in downtown Tarrytown, where this year’s show, noting that “Breeders are killing the chances of shelter dogs.” On Saturday, they will take to the streets with signs showing how dog breeding in appearance causes birth defects, including diabetes, which is common in 2020 Best in Show winning standard poodles.
When: Saturday 12 June 12 noon
Where: At the intersection of Broadway and Main Street, Tarrytown.
“With its reckless propaganda of specially bred dogs, Westminster is rewarding greedy breeders who are exacerbating the national crisis of animal homelessness and jeopardizing the health of dogs,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphne Nachminovich. “To celebrate the dogs, PETA recommends skipping the competition and choosing one of the millions of beautiful and worthy dogs that are waiting for their homes in the shelters.”
PETA notes that puppy factories, brokers and auctioneers, as well as pet store owners, are capitalizing on the demand for purebred puppies that are bred and mass-produced after winning the Best in Show. Meanwhile, about 70 million dogs and cats in the United States are homeless at any given time.and only about 10% of them end up in animal shelters, where many end up being euthanized for reasons including injury, illness, old age, emotional and psychological damage, and lack of good homes.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not in our hands to be abused in any way,” is opposed to arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…