| What's Wrong With 'Lap Dances for Lap Dogs?'
When it comes to promotional ideas, there's quite a range, from brilliant, to bad, to colossally stupid. There's an old adage about baseball - it doesn't matter how many games you've seen, you'll see something new every time. The animal welfare field can't claim major disasters on this scale, but has had some questionable promotions. Loads of animals found new homes in record time. But, we turned down a similar idea proposed by one local resident who pulled for the cross-Bay rival. Vick paid a price. Still, many people felt very strongly he was the last person an animal welfare group should hold hands with for photos opps. Promotional balls rained on the field after every bad call. But, in the coming weeks, we'll be trying something a bit controversial: paying people to adopt Chihuahuas! The pint-sized pups are the most common breed in all Bay Area shelters. We think there is an easier way to rehome them. Don't worry, we won't simply open our doors and hand out Chihuahuas and ten-spots. The nation's largest and richest national animal welfare organization, the Humane Society of the United States - which contributes exactly $0 to PHS/SPCA and animals here in San Mateo County - put their top thinkers together and decided to stand next to Michael Vick after he was released from prison for torturing dogs and running an illegal and horrific dog fighting program and compound. Just one small snag with that: not many green or gold pets available for adoption. Baseball fans can be salty and love hurling insults at opposing players and umpires. Given the fact that some of these dogs await their new, forever homes in shelters for months simply because there are so many, $10 is next to nothing when it is compared to the costs to care for a dog for an extended amount of time in a shelter. |
Monday, 4 June 2012
What's Wrong With 'Lap Dances for Lap Dogs?'
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