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Dear Editor,
Various bird and puppy “fairs” are scheduled to be held at a few hotels in Ohio, during which hundreds of animals will be sold. There are a couple ethical reasons why this is a bad idea. First, for every animal bred to be sold, an animal at an animal shelter dies. An estimated 5 million animals, many of whom are wholly adoptable, are euthanized annually in the United States for lack of good homes (so therefore, there can be no excuse for the breeding and selling of animals or the promoting of the same!). Second, animals suffer greatly in the greedy pet trade business. Furthermore, many of the animals bred for sale are very unhealthy. For more information on the pet trade, go to the website of The Humane Society of the United States at www.hsus.org.
Even after these issues have been brought to light to Holiday Inn Columbus, they still will not cancel these awful pet “fairs.” Other hotels in Ohio that are holding this fair are the Ramada Plaza in Cincinnati, Holiday Inn Cleveland-West, Holiday Inn Metroplex in Girard, and the Toledo Plaza Hotel.
Sincerely,
William McMullin
Mt. Morris, MI
Various bird and puppy “fairs” are scheduled to be held at a few hotels in Ohio, during which hundreds of animals will be sold. There are a couple ethical reasons why this is a bad idea. First, for every animal bred to be sold, an animal at an animal shelter dies. An estimated 5 million animals, many of whom are wholly adoptable, are euthanized annually in the United States for lack of good homes (so therefore, there can be no excuse for the breeding and selling of animals or the promoting of the same!). Second, animals suffer greatly in the greedy pet trade business. Furthermore, many of the animals bred for sale are very unhealthy. For more information on the pet trade, go to the website of The Humane Society of the United States at www.hsus.org.
Even after these issues have been brought to light to Holiday Inn Columbus, they still will not cancel these awful pet “fairs.” Other hotels in Ohio that are holding this fair are the Ramada Plaza in Cincinnati, Holiday Inn Cleveland-West, Holiday Inn Metroplex in Girard, and the Toledo Plaza Hotel.
Sincerely,
William McMullin
Mt. Morris, MI