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Jan
Alexandra Burke in Puppy Plea from PETA
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If I’m absolutely honest with you all, I blubbed like a baby when Alexandra Burke won The X Factor last month. And when ‘Hallelujah’ was announced as the Christmas Number One I had to suppress a little smile of triumph in front of my family, who were rooting for Peter Kay’s alter ego, Geraldine. But like the guardian angels for animals that we are, PETA did pick up on Alexandra’s little comment about wanting to buy a designer puppy for herself.
It seems the star is thinking about buying a ‘designer dog’ like a Bijon Frise or a Chihuahua, and whether she means to or not, this gives the cold shoulder to millions of unwanted dogs that end up in extremely crowded animal shelters around the world. Sadly, many of them are put to death simply because there aren’t enough good homes for them. Now we don’t believe for a second that Alexandra would want to contribute to that kind of wide scale suffering, so we sent a letter asking her to consider adopting a rescue dog from one of the many shelters in the UK.
We also reminded her that many pedigree puppies up for sale come from puppy mills, as Charlize Theron points out in the shocking video below. Conditions similar to those shown have been found at puppy mills in both the UK and the Irish Republic.
So now we wait with bated breath to see if the X Factor winner’s heart is as big as her fan base. Go on Alex, make the compassionate choice!
Ooohhhh, I like Alex. I really hope she makes the right choice. Don’t go down the Paris Hilton route with designer dogs, it looks rubbish.