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PETA is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandal who used a razor blade to slash up and destroy the group’s display at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass). Photos of the vandalism are here.

PETA brought the exhibit—“Without Consent,” which examines the history of experiments on animals from the 1920s through today—to UMass as part of its campaign against Agnès Lacreuse’s menopause experiments on marmosets.

The vandal attacked the display around 3:30 p.m. ET today. As PETA reported to police, a young man in his late teens or early twenties was spotted fleeing the scene; PETA’s witness describes him as white, approximately 6 feet tall, with shaggy brown hair, and wearing a plaid flannel jacket. Police are looking for the perpetrator and checking nearby CCTV cameras for footage of the crime.

“A violent man may have vandalized PETA’s display, but we’ll still be at UMass next week to speak up in behalf of the tiny marmosets who are mutilated and killed in Agnès Lacreuse’s laboratory,” says PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “PETA urges everyone to be on the alert for a young man on campus with a sharp object, as other students may be at risk. We suggest that police start with workers in Lacreuse’s laboratory.”

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Transformers and Hellboy star Ron Perlman shows off his cuddly side in a new PETA campaign dedicated to his late elderly German shepherd Sassypants for Adopt a Dog Month (October): “If you can rescue a senior animal, do it, because what you’re going to give them is the best years of their lives.”

In an accompanying video, shot just before her passing, Perlman snuggles up to the dog, wife Allison Dunbar, and Harrington, their “deliciously weird and delectably fun” adopted Labrador retriever, as he urges others to visit their local animal shelter and adopt a companion. “I grew up in New York City and … the minute I got out of the house, I got my first dog. I’ve never been without one since,” he says. “Serotonin just courses through me when I’m cuddling with my dogs because it’s pure love. The level of gratitude and heartwarmingness that has been infused into my life is irreplaceable. And so, don’t buy dogs. There’s no reason to. Adopt. Don’t shop.”

But not every dog finds a loving home. Around 70 million dogs and cats are homeless in the U.S. at any given time. Many animal shelters—under pressure to avoid euthanasia at all costs—are turning dogs away when they inevitably reach capacity and refusing to accept cats altogether, leaving the most vulnerable animals with nowhere to go. Many end up abandoned on the streets, where they may be hit by cars, infected with diseases, or hurt by cruel people—and leaving them to reproduce makes the homeless-animal crisis worse. That’s why PETA urges shelters to accept all animals in need, advises guardians to have their animal companions spayed or neutered, and asks everyone to adopt instead of buying from breeders or pet stores.

Perlman is part of a growing list of celebrities—including Tom Hardy, John Stamos, Ryan Eggold, Theo Rossi, and Cristin Milioti—who have teamed up with PETA to promote adoption.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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After hearing from PETA and more than 60,000 concerned dog defenders, trade association American Pistachio Growers pulled its sponsorship of Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey, who has raced dogs who have tested positive for opioids, operates a kennel that was accused of killing dogs who didn’t make the grade, and owns property where a whistleblower reported finding dying puppies.

Seavey and his father, Mitch, whose own kennel was implicated in an undercover PETA investigation, have gone on the record calling dogs “fur-covered garbage disposal[s]” and describing many abuses, including withholding food, hitting and kicking the dogs, and cutting off their dewclaws without any painkillers.

Dogs are chained outside at Mitch Seavey’s kennel. Photo: PETA

“American Pistachio Growers did the right thing in ditching Dallas Seavey, a callous abuser who has forced dogs to run until their paws bled and chains them outside alone on snow and ice,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on organizations still supporting the Iditarod, including Liberty Media subsidiary GCI, to take note and follow suit.”

Dogs in the Iditarod are forced to run about four marathons a day for up to two weeks through snow, ice, and wind. More than 150 dogs have died in the Iditarod since it began, with aspiration pneumonia (caused by inhaling their own vomit) the number one cause of death. This official death toll doesn’t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren’t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold. During this year’s race, approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail because of exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, forcing the remaining ones to work even harder to pull the mushers.

American Pistachio Growers joins ExxonMobil, Nutanix, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Cue Health, Jack Daniel’s, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Alaska Airlines, and dozens of others that have cut ties with the Iditarod or Iditarod-affiliated mushers.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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Good news! Following a push from PETA and more than 60,000 of our supporters, American Pistachio Growers has ended its sponsorship of notorious Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey.

In 2017, Seavey was implicated in a dog-doping scandal and a subsequent whistleblower report alleging dying puppies and injured, sick dogs at a kennel he reportedly owned in Willow, Alaska. The kennel was also accused of killing dogs who were deemed too slow or unfit for races.

American Pistachio Growers’ decision to cut ties with the infamously cruel musher represents the massive decline in support—from both sponsors and the public—for the deadly Iditarod.

THIS Is What the Iditarod’s Sponsors Are Funding

The Iditarod forces dogs to run nearly 1,000 miles in less than two weeks, during which they often sustain bloody feet, torn muscles, stress fractures, and bleeding ulcers. Aspiration pneumonia—a lung infection brought about by inhaling one’s vomit—is the leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod.

Dozens of companies, including Millennium Hotels & Resorts—which had sponsored the Iditarod for nearly 30 years—Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Jack Daniel’s, and Wells Fargo, have ended their sponsorships of the Iditarod. With each of PETA’s victories, we turn our focus to the shrinking number of sponsors, like Liberty Media/GCI, that are still willing to bankroll a race that runs dogs to their deaths.

Urge the Remaining Companies to Stop Sponsoring the Iditarod

PETA’s race to end the Iditarod is far from over. We need your help to keep the pressure on its remaining sponsors to stop funding this extreme cruelty to dogs. Urge Liberty Media/GCI to drop the Iditarod:

Send a Message to Liberty Media/CGI

Then join Alaskan residents in urging Voyij and 57 Peaks to stop promoting the deadly race:

Urge Alaskan Clothing Companies to Stop Sponsoring Dog Abuse

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