Dear Members and Friends,
Best Friends Animal SocietyYou’re the best! Thanks so much to everyone who’s signed our petition to invite Barack Obama and his family to adopt a dog.
When the Obamas said they’d promised their kids they’d get a family dog after the election, the American Kennel Club started a campaign to encourage the family to get a “pure” breed from a pet store or commercial breeder.
How much better it would be if they were to adopt one from a shelter or rescue group.
In just over a day, 27,000 of you signed our petition at
www.obamafamilydog.com, asking them to do just that.
It’s a great start, but we still need lots more signatures. So please forward this e-mail to friends and family and ask them to sign it, too. (And if you haven’t signed it yourself, please go ahead and do it now.)
This is not about politics, by the way, it’s about saving homeless pets. So let’s get all of America talking about why adopting a pet is a winning choice.
One other thing: You can also send a Letter to the Editor to your hometown newspaper. I’ve put an example of one at the end of this e-mail. Use it, or adapt it, or write your own.
Best Friends members have made a big difference already. Wouldn’t it be great to see homeless pets find their way onto the agenda of this year’s election news!
Thanks again, and good wishes from all of us,
Michael Mountain
Best Friends
P.S. Here’s the draft of a letter you could send to your local newspaper or post on a blog:
Dear Editor,
Senator Obama and his family have said that, win or lose, they’re going to add a dog to their family after the election this November.
That’s a great idea. But I hope they decide to adopt one from their local shelter. Why? Because as long as people still buy their pets from pet stores and commercial breeders, millions of abandoned pets are killed in shelters across the country every year.
So here’s one issue that’s truly bi-partisan – one that we can all agree on. Let’s ask our national leaders always to adopt their pets from shelters, rather than buying them from pet stores.
Members of Best Friends Animal Society have started a petition to invite the Obama family to do just that. Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, left-wing, right-wing or any other wing, you can make a bipartisan difference by signing our petition at ObamaFamilyDog.com, and encouraging all your friends and family to sign it, too.
Thanks for thinking about the nation’s homeless pets!
Sincerely,
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