For Immediate Release:
May 5, 2023
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Flushing, N.Y. – Everyone who attends this year’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show will be welcomed by a pack of “dogs” who aren’t part of the competitors: Due to the outcry over illness triggered by breeding flat-faced dogs, PETA advocates in pug masks and bring oxygen tanks will exist, holding indications stating, “Breathing-Impaired Breeds Suffer for Life.” The action will accentuate the wide variety of illness that pugs, fighters, and English and French bulldogs, to name a few, withstand due to their intentionally distorted and limited air passages, which reduce their lives and trigger them to pant, snort, wheeze, and battle simply to breathe—all in order to attain a specific appearance. Breeding them likewise worsens the homeless buddy animal crisis, which sees around 70 million animals homeless in the U.S. at any provided time.
When: Tuesday, May 9, 12 twelve noon
Where: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, at the crossway of Meridian and Shea roadways, Flushing
“The AKC encourages people to breed and buy dogs who can barely breathe, knowing full well that most of them endure a lifetime of discomfort, many of them die prematurely, and millions of dogs—including “purebreds”—are homeless,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA urges everyone who truly cares about animals to reject this ugly ‘beauty pageant’ for dogs and support their local animal shelter.”
A variety of nations—consisting of Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway—have actually prohibited or limited the breeding of some or all breathing-impaired types.
PETA—whose slogan checks out, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For more details, please see PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
