PETA launches TV ad??

[mountaindogs]

I have heard through another list a post about PETA launching an TV ad campaign with VERY negative comments about purebred dogs and AKC. I often feel the HSUS is a bigger threat than PETA, but that most reasonable people see the extremist side of PETA easily. BUT if there really is a TV ad campaign that does worry me. TV is a powerful medium especially for children and young adults who don't always have the knowledge to filter through all the propaganda. Has anyone seen these ads, that supposedly have aired preceding or coinciding AKC dog shows in a few large cities. I was just wondering if anyone has seen or heard any of this? Any validation for it?

[mountaindogs]

Here's the link to the youtube video pf the supposed ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTb5nY-3Dfo

[kninebirddog]

It seems there is No end to to udder and complete Ignorance
posted on National Animal Interest Alliance ,,,,,,,,NAIA and NAIA Trust Members

Sat Jun 7, 2008 3:59 am (PDT)

Peta's Press Release Today -

http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=11510
PETA Protest Likens American Kennel Club to KKK

Breeding 'Pure' Bloodlines and Master Pedigrees While Pound Pups Die
Makes the AKC a Ku Klux Klan for Dogs

For Immediate Release:
June 6, 2008

Contact:
Melissa Karpel 757-622-7382

Quincy, Mass. - Holding signs that read, "The AKC is the KKK for
Animals," PETA members will protest in Quincy on Sunday outside a
meeting of delegates and directors of the American Kennel Club (AKC).
PETA's point? It's cruel and irresponsible to promote bloodline dog
breeding and spur interest in "purebreds" while animal shelters overflow
with unwanted mutts who are dying for lack of good homes. Protestors
will show video from a PETA TV spot that shows a KKK member making
himself right at home at an AKC meeting. (Click here to view.) The ad
has aired in various cities, coinciding with AKC-sponsored dog shows:

Date: Sunday, June 8
Time: 12 noon-1 p.m.
Place: Boston Marriott Quincy, 1200 Marriott Dr., Quincy

For every dog or cat purchased from a breeder or a pet store, an animal
awaiting adoption in an animal shelter loses his or her chance of
finding a loving home. And because breeders and pet stores almost never
require that the animals that they sell be sterilized, many of those
animals will have litters of their own--creating even more unwanted
animals. Nearly 8 million animals--many of them purebreds--are abandoned
at animal shelters every year in the U.S., and about 4 million of them
must be euthanized for lack of good homes. The AKC not only promotes
breeding but also vigorously opposes lifesaving spay-and-neuter
legislation designed to combat the animal overpopulation crisis and
reduce euthanasia rates.

"When it comes to contempt for 'mixed breeds' and an obsession with
'pure bloodlines,' the KKK and the AKC have a lot in common," says PETA
Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. "All dogs should be created equal,
yet millions of wonderful dogs in animal shelters across the country are
paying with their lives because of purebred supremacy."

For more information, please visit PETA.org.