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Cumberland, Md. – With the notorious Tri-State Zoological Park slated to provide a groundhog for the Groundhog Day event downtown, PETA sent a letter today to Melinda Kelleher, the executive director of the Cumberland Downtown Development Commission, urging her to skip the live groundhog altogether. PETA notes that groundhogs are prey animals who actively avoid human contact and transporting them to unfamiliar locations while they should be hibernating and subjecting them to being around unfamiliar humans is extremely stressful for them. The novel coronavirus is also transmissible between humans and other species, so the event would put Murray the groundhog at risk of COVID-19 infection.
David Perle 202-483-7382
Washington – PETA is not letting recent events prevent it from welcoming the new administration with a dog-friendly and socially distant drive-in inaugural eve party at Washington, D.C.’s The Drive-In at Union Market that will celebrate animals and their champions in Congress as well as welcome Major, the first “
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do g” (FIDO) to be adopted from an animal shelter. “COVID-19 didn’t stop us from working to protect animals, and we are not going to roll over because bullies have attacked our hometown of D.C.,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA intends to raise spirits, commemorate those who have been on the front lines during the pandemic, and welcome in a new administration with a wish for compassion, unity, and understanding across all party lines.”
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