AARP against rescues and shelters

[ramanth]

*EDIT ~ UPDATE!*

AARP has seen the light!

The on-line article has been edited: The entire section about buying and breeding a dog has been deleted, and AARP has added a sidebar about the value of adopting a rescue dog, with a link to petfinder!

Many, many thanks to all of you who spoke up and made this happen! You might have saved a couple of lives today, just by writing a letter.

GREAT JOB!

Pamela

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TALK BACK! PLEASE CROSS-POST!

A rescue organization, Almost Home Dachshund Rescue, will be posting a notice on our web site home page today, encouraging readers to respond to the AARP and its recent magazine money column, which encourages AARP members NOT to obtain dogs from shelters AND to buy purebred puppies and breed them!

PLEASE ASK YOUR RESCUE GROUP TO POST A SIMILAR NOTICE ON ITS WEB SITE! We in rescue are too often silent and polite in the face of ignorant and thoughtless statements and images in magazines and newspapers and on TV, both in programs and commercials, that undermine everything we stand for and try to accomplish. It's time to speak up!

You can read the AARP article at this link: http://www.aarpmagazine.org/money/Ar...ag-refund.html

You can write a letter of protest to the editors of the magazine at [email protected].