Hilary Swank Ambassodor For Pet Adoption Campaign

Publicity for Pet Adoption – Raising Awareness for Dogs in Shelters

The beautiful and talented actress, winner of two academy awards, is the new face of Iams Home 4 The Holidays pet adoption campaign, an initiative established in 1999 that has helped more than 3,278,143 families experience the joy of pet adoption, including 1.2 million pet adoptions this past year alone.

It's great to see someone like Hilary Swank, a celebrity, step up to the plate and use her popularity to promote a worthy cause such as finding shelter pets homes and kudos to Iams as well for supporting the cause of animal adoption.

My dog Duke is a shelter dog, adopted from an animal shelter in the town where I live. He was neglected and almost died, as you can see by this picture (taken on just the 2nd day I had him) the vet, Dr. Tom Flack was checking for a pulse. MY heart almost stopped when I saw the final bill! But it was worth every penny.

Duke eventually pulled through and is now a happy and contented (spoiled) choc lab and the greatest dog that ever let me call him friend.

I support the efforts of the Humane Society and animal shelters everywhere so when I see things like this I get upset: I found this nonsense in the Letters To The Editor section of our local newspaper. It seems there is a group of people protesting our town's Humane Society because of their endorsement of a training clinic where dogs would be trained to recognize and avoid rattlesnakes. They claim that the training is inhumane to the snake and therefore should be stopped.

I am all for protesting against inhumane treatment to animals of all stripes, including snakes but this isn't really a protest about inhumane treatment of rattlesnakes, it's a special interest group involved in the politics of building a new animal shelter here trying to raise awareness by the most outrageous methods it can drum up. Nobody in this Arizona town would be against training their dogs to avoid rattlesnakes EVEN if it cost the snake it's life, however, that's not the case at all. The snakes used for this training program are treated well and live to strike another day.

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