Our recent post re Iditarod:

USA: Iditarod Is Due To Start Very Soon – 39 Days To Be Exact – Take Action For Dogs NOW.

NOW 33 DAYS UNTIL THE START

Dear Mark,

Let’s send Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach a demand: STOP exploiting dogs in the deadly Iditarod race!

Please urge Urbach to end the Iditarod’s dog abuse by replacing dogs with willing human athletes, such as cross-county skiers, or even snowmobilers:

Thank you for speaking up for dogs suffering in the Iditarod. Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to everyone you know.

Take Action Now !

Tell Iditarod CEO to Leave Dogs out of Grueling Death Race

E mail Rob Urbach Now with this message below:

To – rob.urbach@iditarod.com

Being new to the Iditarod, you had a great opportunity to build something modern, exciting, and humane. Instead you’ve maintained the status quo for the dogs who suffer chained up in the freezing cold and then are forced to run to exhaustion, injury, or even death in this cruel race.

As long as the race continues in its present format, dogs will continue to suffer from stress fractures, bleeding ulcers, and illnesses like intestinal viruses. They’ll continue to die after being buried in snow and of heart attacks, excessive fluid in the lungs, and acute aspiration pneumonia—a lung infection caused by inhaling their own vomit—which, as you know, is the leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod.

These dogs are just like those we share our homes with. They don’t want to have a “career”—they’re just unlucky enough to have been bred by mushers who push them past their limits and then leave them out in the cold. Please replace dogs with willing human endurance athletes, cross-country skiers, or even snowmobilers. The Iditarod would attract a new and growing audience—and spare dogs a life of pain and misery.

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Regards Mark / PETA