Group Offers to Create 'Fix Your Bitches! The Tucker Max No-Cost to Low-Cost Spay and Neuter Clinic'
For Immediate Release:
April 5, 2012
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Austin, Texas -- While Planned Parenthood may have turned down Austin-based personality Tucker Max's offer of a $500,000 donation in exchange for naming rights to a Texas women's health clinic, PETA is more than willing to accept Max's aid. In a letter sent today to the I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell author, PETA suggests that Max, who is a dog guardian, donate some or all of that sum to PETA to buy and equip a brand-new mobile veterinary clinic. The group would wrap Max's image—perhaps with Max's dog—on the traveling "Fix Your Bitches! The Tucker Max No-Cost to Low-Cost Spay and Neuter Clinic." (A mock-up image is available here.)
"Dogs and cats can't use condoms," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk, "so PETA would be happy to have Tucker Max's help in staving the flow of dogs and cats who flood U.S. animal shelters by the millions every year for want of a home."
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PETA's letter to Tucker Max follows.
April 5, 2012
Tucker Max
Dear Mr. Max,
I am writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our more than 3 million members and supporters with a proposition we hope you’ll like. Having heard about Planned Parenthood’s rejection of your offer, we’d like to propose an alternative way that you can help prevent unwanted pregnancies, receive a tax break, and put your name proudly on a clinic—perhaps along with a picture of you and your dog! We would like to purchase a brand-new mobile spay-and-neuter truck and name it “Fix Your Bitches! The Tucker Max No-Cost to Low-Cost Spay and Neuter Clinic.” The truck would cost just shy of $400,000 (delivered fully equipped) and give us $100,000 in leftover funds to spend on veterinary fees—if you are willing to spend the same amount you were offering Planned Parenthood.
Since 2001, our mobile clinics have helped prevent the births of hundreds of thousands of unwanted cats and dogs. In fact, PETA spays and neuters more than 800 dogs and cats every month in some of the most impoverished areas of North Carolina and lower Virginia. We assist owners who have a hard time paying their utility bills, are without transportation of any kind, and often live in trailer parks. One of our mobile clinics is on its last legs (it’s in the repair shop more than it’s on the road), so this would be a huge help.
Two of our clinics currently display images of Simon Cowell and Ron Artest. Please see this mock-up of what the Tucker Max clinic could look like, complete with the “Fix Your Bitches!” slogan and an image of you hugging a dog.
Millions of dogs and cats must be euthanized every year because people continue to let them breed when there are not enough homes to go around. Most end up in shelters—others are left to fend for themselves on the streets, where they are often subjected to cruelty, suffer from starvation or diseases, or are hit by cars.
Dogs and cats may “sleep” with more mates “than is safe or reasonable”—but unlike us, they can’t unwrap a condom. Will you help us provide this essential form of birth control? Thank you for considering this.
Very truly yours,
Ingrid
E. Newkirk
President