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Help Dogs Used for Dogsledding in Greenland Today ! TAKE ACTION !


Animals  (tags: animals, dogs, sledding, cruelty, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 51 days ago - secure.peta.org
Greenland usually brings to mind images of ice, snow, and people living natural lives with their animals. However, the grim reality for 21,000 dogs used for dogsledding in Greenland is that they spend their short lives chained outdoors in all weather
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Annie Cowling (44)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:26 am
Signed, thank-you Cher
 

Barbara K. (112)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 9:38 am
Thanks, Cher, all signed.
 

marilyn s. (116)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 11:38 am
Thanks Cher...Action taken
 

Katrin F. (240)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:01 pm
Signed, thanks Cher.

Thank You for Helping Animals!
 

Tierney G. (317)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:04 pm
Signed thanks Cher
 

Kari D. (177)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:34 pm
Thank You for Helping Animals!


 

mary f. (78)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 1:44 pm
signed
 

Rhonda Maness (466)
Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:41 pm
Thank You for Helping Animals!
Thanks Cher
 

JennyLynn W. (124)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:58 am
Signed. Good grief, why can't people act like humans. Sheesh. Thanks Cher.
 

Carl Nielsen (6)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 12:14 pm
You guys obviously don't have a clue about what those dogs on Greenland are.

They are not pets, but semi wild beasts of burden that the locals depend on for transportaion during winter - they operate as packs where the owner HAS to do what is neccesary to be the leader of the pack. Having them running arround loose would pose a severe danger to the people.
As for the cold, these dogs are bred to live in that climate and have no problem surviving outdoors all year round - they can even show signs of overheating when the temperature gets anyway near the freezing point of water from below. Demanding that they should be protected from the environment is just as idiotic as demanding that polar bears should be kept indoors.

PETA lies.
 

AwayNoPost NoForwards (241)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 6:24 pm
To Carl Nielsen: Have you bothered to read an explorer's account of sledding dogs? I have, And though these dogs do not like to over heat, the rest of the treatment meted out to them is simply horrific. In that PETA does not lie. I refer you to just one of the several books, which I own:

ARCTIC JOURNEYS , The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmer Land Expedition 1934 - 5 BY Edward Shackleton with a Preface by The Rt. Hon. the LORD TWEEDSMUIR, G.C.M.G., C.H., Hodder and Stoughton LImited St. Paul's House, London, E.C.4, First printed 1937.

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Maybe put brain into gear before opening of mouth?

Bashing PETA seems to be a national past time for many Care2 Members. No fool like a fool who opens his mouth to show the whole world he is a fool.....

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