Do you ever see a story on the news and wonder how something ended up turning out? I do. I often wonder how the people or animals featured in whatever the story may have been are doing after whatever ordeal they endured.
Well, I had a similar thing happen, except with two stories I wrote about earlier this year: PETitionz.org: Your Link to Voicing Pet Food Recall Concerns and Pet Projects: Make a Video, Write a Story, Nominate a Hero.
I got to wondering how things were progressing or had turned out, so I decided to check it out and write an update.
PETitionz.org
Remember the massive Menu Foods Pet Food Recall that wreaked so much havoc with pets and their owners earlier this year? PETitionz.org was created in response to that crisis. Their mission was to give people a voice in influencing legislation in both the U.S. and Canada regarding the manufacturing of pet food.
Have they succeeded?
It may be too soon to tell yet. However, it seems they have been successful in generating visitors to their site, participation in their polls, and getting signatures on their petitions.
They’ve also continued to ask questions that have as yet remained unanswered, such as “What really did kill the pets?” and “How many pets actually died?”. (Information that’s spookily enough still not pinned down.)
Looks like there will be more follow up yet to come on this one…
The HSUS’s Dogfighting Awareness Video Contest
In the wake of the Michael Vick dogfighting debacle, the HSUS had an interesting way to generate even more awareness: via a video contest. Participants were asked to keep to a certain criteria and post videos on YouTube.
The winning videos have now been posted on HSUS’s site. There were two, one a People’s Choice Winner and the other the HSUS’s pick.
Both will tug at your heart, but my favorite is the HSUS winner, which is titled “Ms. Paisley Sky.” I thought it was a clever way to demonstrate just how loving and normal a supposedly “aggressive” dog (which therefore means it must be bad, right? -NOT!) can be.
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