Pedigree Adoption Drive. Episode 1 of 4. Abandoned.

Last year over 107,000 dogs were abandoned in the UK. This film follows Charlie as he is abandoned to face a frightening future. With the help of some enthusiastic people viewing and sharing Charlies story, our target of 100,000 views has been met and Pedigree have donated £100,000 - this years campaign is still going though. There are still ways you can get involved.

Every Like on Facebook gets 50p donated to the campaign, you can still donate through our JustGiving page, and you can still raise awareness of this terrible problem by sharing the link to this page with as many people as you can.

http://www.facebook.com/wearefordogs
http://www.justgiving.com/everydogmatters

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Pedigree
• dog
• adoption
• pets
• campaign
• drive

[rautatieomena]

This is the only advertisement that has ever made me cry. And that happens time after time even though I´ve watched it 10-20 times.

rautatieomena

[wearefordogs]

@rautatieomena Thanks for watching the film. It's so sad that dogs like Charlie are abandoned every day in the UK. Luckily, Charlie has a happy ending in part four - but not all dogs are as lucky as he was. Thanks for your support for the campaign - (I'm sorry it made you cry - it gets me every time as well).

[2010Vonda]

I cannot understand this mindset. This breaks my heart. So someone cannot make the effort to re-home their unbeloved pet or relinquish to an animal shelter where they at least have a chance to be adopted or at the very least be euthanized humanely, no abandon your pet to a slow, agonizing death. What is going on in your mind?

Thank you Pedigree.

[wearefordogs]

@2010Vonda Thanks for your support, Vonda. It's always sad when a dog is abandoned, and it's even sadder that it happens to so many dogs each year. The adoption drive is about helping to find happy homes for as many dogs as possible, and we've got some more video clips coming soon to show the very real difference that donations to rescue centres can make.

[repconklc]

This made me cry so much. How anyone could do that is beyond me.

[wearefordogs]

@repconklc It's very upsetting. Especially because it happens - all over the UK, every day. Thank you for watching, and for helping us to help dogs.

[wearefordogs]

It's so good to see all of your supportive comments. Please keep sharing this video to spread the word about the plight of abandoned dogs. We've nearly reached our 25,000 views target that will reveal the next episode of Charlie's story! With your help we can make a real difference in the lives of so many dogs. Thank you!

[SeeWhyisCool]

This made me cry every time I watched this. China and other countries ate them for lunch and/or dinner. They were killed in a cruel ways than cooked and consumed by the human's stomach. Unlike these dogs, which were the lucky one, they have hopes and kindness from the viewers like us. If I would choose, killing and eating a dog is more cruelty then abandoning them. But we can't stop them because there're no laws or animal rights in other countries D:

[loliluvu200]

awe :'(

[shawadawada]

@cdkreturns but with me he has a great life and an active life. And if you knew more about me than these comments allow you'd know I donate a lot of money to CAESSR and time to the ykc but you judged from an initial comment I left in support and got on my back straight away. Maybe you should have thought about the impact your comments would have had had I been a child! You don't know a lot about me or my home situation or the reasons I had a dog so be a bit more considerate not hateful.

[shawadawada]

@cdkreturns again read afore mentioned post I know there are cockers in shelters. The caessr for one! There's not enough space on here to type all about why I had my dog from where I had him from. A lot of it was to rescue him from a situation in which he was being kicked and abused! I now have a dog who I've spent a lot of money on due to aggression issues and he's bitten and I mean done damage because of his insecurities and had he gone anywhere else hed have had to be put to sleep.

[cdkreturns]

@shawadawada Again, there are "cockers" in shelters that can be adopted but you decide to patron losers who want to make money off their female dog. Go to hell and think of every animal that will be heartsticked tonight because you bought from a breeder.

[carmenza13]

GOD is watching us every second, what we do good or bad, whatever we do for good or bad will turn three times multiply by seven, it's true. There is a history of a man who got tired of his loyal dog. When he bacame old he throwed away on streets to died of hungry. Everynight the dog came near his owner to make sure he was ok. One day his boss was badly hurt by bandits, he felt the dangerour run inside found it on the floor, barking alert the neighbors, he save him.

[shawadawada]

@shawadawada It's not people like me at all that kill these dogs so get of your high horse. I support my local shelter and have rescued dogs myself and kept them until I have found their rightful owner. I love my dogs to bits. I know you can get pure bred dogs you can also go to special rehoming services for specific breed types like the cocker spaniel rehoming club. So i know far more about it than in my original post so p*** off elsewhere to judge people!

[shawadawada]

@cdkreturns who the hell are you to judge me? I had to have one from a breeder for allergy reasons as I know im not allergic to black cocker spaniels and with cockers you have to be careful because of cocker rage and aggression issues which Im not going to go into but I have had them all my life so know enough about them myself. ( a kc registered all above board one that is NOT a puppy farm and doesn't take part ion backyard breeding) get your interpretation right before you have a go!