‘Battlestar’ Reunion: Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff Reteam for Pro-Adoption National Cat Day Video
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Los Angeles – Starbuck and Six are again collectively! In time for Nationwide Cat Day (October 29), Battlestar Galactica costars Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff have teamed up in a new PETA video to say that it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re a “cat particular person” like Helfer or a “canine particular person” like Sackhoff—it’s being an adoption particular person that counts.
Why? “As a result of adoption saves lives,” says Helfer. And as The Mandalorian’s Sackhoff is fast to level out, “Even if you’re in search of a selected breed, you’ll be able to nonetheless undertake. There’s a universe filled with breed-specific rescues on the market.”
“And Petfinder.com,” provides Helfer. “I imply it’s like on-line relationship however for adoptable animals.”
There are actually hundreds of thousands of causes to undertake: Round 70 million canines and cats are homeless within the U.S. at any given time. An estimated 10% of them find yourself in animal shelters, the place many should finally be euthanized for causes together with harm, sickness, outdated age, lack of fine properties, and emotional and psychological harm. Whereas adopting saves a life, breeders and pet retailers make the homeless-animal overpopulation disaster even worse.
The Lucifer alum and Sackoff are a part of a protracted record of celebrities—together with Edward James Olmos, Krysten Ritter, John Stamos, Cristin Milioti, and Emma Kenney—who’ve teamed up with PETA to advertise animal adoption.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to abuse in any manner”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
