I know I'm most likely pushing buttons here, but have you even seen the ad? I did and really didn't think it was that bad for all this. My family and I laughed at it, as my sister-in-law tells us that my husband did that with their cat when he was a kid. After that our next responce was to look at the neice and say "Don't you even think about doing any of that" and we know she wont, because she has been taught right from wrong.

You got a add showing and mom stoping her children from doing "WRONG" things. It's very clear in the ad that these things are wrong to do, even a child can get that message. I guess I could see a problem if the child made it to the dryer with the cat. The ad is as clear as day, you don't have food fights, you don't color on the walls, you don't jump on the couch and you don't put cats in the dryer. So you could always trun it around and see it as a lesson to children as what not to do. It's all in how you see things, half full or half empty. Why is it so much easier to see the worce in things instead of the good side.

I'm not saying that children might not see these things and copy them, but at what point do we draw a line. You see a small child in a ad trying to give a dog a bath, do we raise a stink because a child might try that at home and drown or drown the puppy? You have just say no ads on tv, showing children smoking pot. Sure it has the right message, but do we try to stop them because a child "might" see the kid smoking and decide to try it, because it looked "cool" not understanding the message behind it. Heck, I've know a children that tried to fly off the TV stand because of a children cartoon they saw. They thought they could fly too. When I owned my day care, I had a child that was afraid to go to the bathroom, because of the ad where a nasty cartoon looking germ came out from under the lid. We had to take him outside to pee on a tree, because he held it so long he started to hurt. There are 100's of ads that could be truned around if you try hard enough to find the bad, just stop trying, re-look at things and see if you can find some good in it first.

There are so many real big problems in the world when it comes to aniamls and children, to make a mountain out of a ant hill, is the point where you say, enough is enough, we can't police the worlds children, somethings are going to have to be left up to the parent to do. As my husband says, get a real proplem and devote your time to that, not a "MAYBE" problem.

OK now everyone can raise heck with me, but I'm just stating my views on things and how I see the world. Honestly it's just an ad of a Mom "STOPING" her children from doing something bad. Even the H.S. didn't see anything wrong with it.

BTW: I know the company that made the ad and the reason it was made in New Zealand is because it's cheaper there then in the states. most ad's are. Oh, and one of the persons on that account has 2 cats.