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malaise

(269,328 posts) Tue Feb 14, 2012, 09:35 PM Feb 2012

Mitt is mean - protest outside the Westminster dog show

A protest outside the Westminster dog show aimed at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney drew about a dozen demonstrators Tuesday, plus a few pooches.

The half-hour lunchtime demonstration in front of Madison Square Garden took issue with Romney's oft-told story of traveling with his Irish setter, Seamus, on a family vacation in 1983. Romney has said he put the dog inside a crate and strapped it to the roof rack for a 12-hour drive from Boston to Canada.

Protest spokeswoman Kitty Hendrix said the Dogs Against Romney website that organized the demonstration has about 25,000 members. The protesters held signs that said "Mitt is Mean'' and "Dogs Aren't Luggage'' and "I Ride Inside.''

The Romney campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/more/wires/02/14/2080.ap.dog.show.romney.protest.3rd.ld.writethru.0511/index.html#ixzz1mPTiGWLB

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Mitt is mean - protest outside the Westminster dog show (Original Post) malaise Feb 2012 OP

From what I've heard about so many of the Westminster breeders Lionessa Feb 2012 #1

Dog handlers customerserviceguy Feb 2012 #3

The dog story is truly horrifying. How cruel. It's the details that bring it home. Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #2

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

1. From what I've heard about so many of the Westminster breeders

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 09:44 PM

Feb 2012

and the AKA in general, they should be protesting both, Romney and the Westminster show, imo.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

3. Dog handlers

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 11:57 PM

Feb 2012

are no better than Romney, that's for sure. The dogs are treated like cattle, rather than beings that evolved to crave human companionship and a warm place to sleep at night.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

2. The dog story is truly horrifying. How cruel. It's the details that bring it home.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 09:51 PM

Feb 2012

I thought it was bad enough when I first heard the story. THEN I heard that the ride was 12 hours long! 12 Hours???? And then, that the dog got sick with diarrhea! How horrible! If there was a sign that the dog was having a problem with the ride, that was it.

To top off the story, Mitt stops the car, cooly hoses the dog off but leave him in the kennel on top of the car, and continues.

Heartless. I could never vote for someone who would do such a thing.

It's now against the law in Massachusetts, called "cruel and abusive treatment."

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