For Immediate Release:
August 25, 2021
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Moira Colley 202-483-7382
Los Angeles â In time for National Dog Day (Thursday, August 26), Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause and her beloved senior dog, Gracie, have an urgent message to share with fans in a new PETA campaign: Give a dog in a shelter a dream home!
In an accompanying video spot, the famed real estate agent shares Gracieâs adoption story and explains to fans how her own experiences have deepened her empathy for dogs in shelters. And in a bonus video, she takes Gracie on her very own house tour.
âComing from a background of dealing with homelessness, my heart understands,â Stause says. â[T]o be able to completely change a dogâs life and give them a forever home has always sat with me and just been something that Iâm really passionate about.â
Stause urges fans to do right by dogs by adopting them from animal shelters and never buying them from breeders or pet shops, which exacerbates the homeless-animal overpopulation crisis. Around 70 million dogs and cats are homeless in the U.S. at any given time. An estimated 10% of them end up in animal shelters, where many must eventually be euthanized for reasons including injury, illness, old age, lack of good homes, and emotional and psychological damage.
âThere are already too many dogs that donât have homes,â Stause says. âAnd some of these dogs just need Hollywood makeovers. Donât we all?â
Stause joins a long list of celebritiesâincluding Krysten Ritter, Tom Hardy, Gregg Sulkin, John Stamos, Sia, Cristin Milioti, and Emma Kenneyâwho have teamed up with PETA or its affiliates to promote animal adoption.
PETAâwhose motto reads, in part, that âanimals are not ours to abuse in any wayââopposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Source: Peta.org