Posted by Catherine | Posted in General Animal Rights Stuff, Help Animals | Posted on 19-05-2010
Tags: animals in pet shops, dog walking, million paws walk, pet shops, puppy farming, RSPCA
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Me, David and the rest of our local animal rights group (plus some doggy helpers) took part in the local RSPCA million paws walk. It was a great day with a huge turn out and there were a lot of beautiful dogs to pat.
We were there to raise awareness about puppy farms and to give out some leaflets about saying no to animals in pet shops and banning puppy farms. As you can see we all wore our ban puppy farms t shirts, which we made in one particularly fun meeting. Even Samson the dog had a ban puppy farms t shirt of his own.
The dog walkers were very receptive to the idea of banning animals in pet shops and many people took leaflets and said they would do more research later on and even join our group.
Of course the RSPCA raised a lot of money, but as usual there was some hypocrisy in their efforts as they were encouraging people to adopt rescued animals, yet they were sponsored by a local pet shop that sells animals to anyone who wants them. Many of these are impulse buys and the animals will end up at the RSPCA later on. It seemed like a strange decision to choose them as sponsors.
They also had a sausage sizzle, so whilst their motto is for all creatures great and small, it seems that does not extend to pigs and other farmed animals. Next year our group is hoping to run a vegan hot dog and burger stand at the million paws walk to give people a choice to be kind to animals.
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