[Dailydrool] More on Westminster and Rescue Dogs

[Marie28443 at aol.com]

This is from an email I received last  night:  It's long but it's worth 
reading.

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
david at westminsterkennelclub.org

-Tickets, vendors, hotels,  catalog advertising, merchandise:
Florence Foti
Director of  Operations
(212)  213-3165
florence at westminsterkennelclub.org

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