Stereotype at your risk!
~ Still from Verizon’s tasteless television spot ~
Dear Lara,
You signed the petition, Make Verizon Accountable. Can They Hear Us Now?, on Jul 16, 2008. The petition received 5083 signatures. The petition author, R. Brace and the ASPCA online community, has now closed the petition and posted the results:
Message from the petition author, [...]
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Did anyone see the Verizon wireless commercial featuring their new LG DARE phone?
Well if you haven’t it features a boy passing a junkyard. He suddenly spots a phone being guarded by these two chained sleeping pit bulls. He jumps the fence wanting to touch it. The dogs wake, growl and charge towards him. Just as [...]
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Cross Post from Bad Rap
There’s just no way to present this with any semblance of professional courtesy: PETA’s euthanasia rates are out of control. Follow this link to a telling graphic that illustrates just how many pets Ingrid’s shelter destroyed last year, compared to their save rate. Slaughter.
These numbers are nuts. How can America be [...]
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Well we did it! And boy it wasn’t easy. Many thanks to all the people who worked so hard at the capital to see this bill through to fruition - Nancy Minion (assisted with bill’s authorship), Bill Forbes (MACA), Rep. Michael Paymar and Sen. Ellen Anderson.
Big thanks also go out to the members of ARLP’s [...]
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It could have been better but what do they know - really? Personally I just love how the new’s guy’z tone is so hyperbolized - jeesh. If he simply isn’t a dog person than I can understand his discomfort around dogs but if that isn’t the case it appears to me he is waiting for [...]
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Henna is available & as charming as all get out!
Check out Henna’s pics (that I haven’t screwed with) & video (click on video link located on Henna’s page)
Rachel Ray recently did a piece with Bad Rap’s Donna Reynolds. Check it out!
http://www.badrap.org/rescue/video/vick/badrap_rr_022808.html
Rachel Ray & Isaboo
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Marri & Daphne
** The opinions expressed in this post are mine and not necessarily those of ARLP as an organization **
So it came to my attention that a radio personality from station KTLK in Southern Minnesota went on an anti pit bull rant this morning. The rant was the result of the recent acquittal of [...]
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Gentle Thor is looking for his forever home. He promises many kisses.
So Director Beth enlightened me to the following story:
April 3, 2208
LINO LAKES, Minn. (WCCO) - A man in Lino Lakes, Minn. admitted shooting and killing his neighbors’ dog with a bow and arrow, police said, leaving a Minnesota family dealing with the particularly [...]
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Nothing breaks my heart more than the topic of dog fighting. It is a malicious, cruel and selfish activity. I refuse to call it a sport for the term sport implies “sportsmanship”. There is no sport or sportsmanship in dog fighting. Period.
The surprising thing that I don’t think people necessarily realize is that [...]
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(Chi’s take on pit bull media hype)
The Associated Press released a story today in which a Minneapolis woman bit a pit bull who was attacking her dog.
A full report of the story can be viewed here: http://www.startribune.com/local/17247504.html
The short version is this:
A woman was walking her dog when a loose dog attacked it. While attempting [...]
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