The militant animal rights group PETA has known as for the retirement of College of Georgia’s bulldog mascot, posting a video supposedly displaying him wanting depressing. The message backfired among the many offended Dawgs followers.
“He seems to be depressing,” tweeted Individuals for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA) on Monday, posting a video of Uga X at a rainy-day soccer sport. Uga was sitting dry in a canine home whereas individuals round him endured the moist and chilly climate.
HE LOOKS MISERABLE!
No canine deserves to be packed up, carted from state to state, and paraded in entrance of a stadium filled with screaming followers.
Animals are NOT mascots ? @UGAAthletics should retire Uga instantly! He needs to be at dwelling with a loving household.pic.twitter.com/XBdIjRMLGW
— PETA (@peta) November 25, 2019
“Animals are NOT mascots,” PETA mentioned, calling for Uga to be given to a “loving household” and launched “instantly.” Evidently, Bulldogs followers weren’t amused.
“Does… Does PETA suppose UGA lives at Sanford stadium?” one Twitter person commented, whereas one other identified the bulldog was in a “heated and dry canine home with a sweater on whereas each human round him is soaking moist and freezing.”
“Additionally Peta: We euthanize nearly all of the canine put in our care,” one other person person wrote in response to the Uga protest.
Additionally Peta: We euthanize nearly all of the canine put in our care. https://t.co/40Cjk0GXXj
— Wealthy Put up (@rriproarin) November 26, 2019
PETA has certainly had a protracted and controversial historical past of help for euthanizing animals. Individuals rapidly introduced up a 2014 story about two PETA activists who have been accused of stealing and placing down somebody’s pet chihuahua in Virginia.
Others have been fast to level out that Uga X – the most recent within the line of the college’s bulldog mascots, going again to 1956 – is handled higher than most people.
A 2017 video from WMGT-DT in Macon, Georgia exhibits Uga being transported in a van with particular air con and showered with the kind of consideration that may make different canine drool with envy.
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