For immediate release:
January 25, 2022
Contact:
Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Roanoke Rapids, NC – Overnight temperatures in northeastern North Carolina are dropping below freezing, so PETA has issued a blue-code emergency alert to 52 convenience stores throughout the area to prevent dogs from being injured and killed. . The Messages that can’t be missed on the cash register urging people to walk their dogs indoors and to call PETA if they need help. Ads posted in Halifax County also inform guardians that it is illegal to leave dogs on a leash unattended.
“Dogs are flesh and blood, not old bicycles, so if left out in freezing temperatures, they will also freeze – sometimes to death,” said PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is reminding everyone that animals depend on us for everything from food and water to warmth and love, so we must treat them like family and keep them in home.”
PETA urges anyone who sees the neglect to report it to local authorities. Witnesses should take pictures from public property and document the time an animal was left without enough food, water or shelter.
PETA ads appear in Ahoskie, Bethel, Elm City, Farmville, Greenville, Halifax, Littleton, Nashville, Pinetops, Princeville, Roanoke Rapids, Rocky Mount, Scotland Neck, Spring Hope, Tarboro, Weldon, Whitakers, Winterville and Lewiston Woodville , North Carolina. There’s also an ad in Onley, Virginia. Addresses are available upon request.
PETA — in part, their motto states that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” — advocates speciesism, a human supremacist worldview . For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebookor Instagram.
