getactive.peta.org - 11/22/2008
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During a recent Denver Nuggets basketball game, Rocky, the team's costumed mascot, paraded around the game floor with two live tiger cubs, whom he held up in the air as the fans roared and screamed. Fans were also able to have their photos taken with the cubs. Rocky next came onto the court with ...
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deadspin.com - 11/22/2008
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Those feisty folks at PETA are at it
again. This week's target of their ire? The Denver...
Nuggets. Apparently the Nuggets involved a few live animals during a game and the animal rights organization is none too pleased, calling for action on their ...
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What's Cuter Than A Mascot Holding A Box Of Kittens? ...
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What's Cuter Than A Mascot Holding A Box Of Kittens? [Denver Nuggets]
Deadspin —
... Those feisty folks at PETA are at it again. This week's target of their ire? The Denver Nuggets. Apparently the Nuggets involved a few live animals during a game and the animal rights organization is none too pleased, calling for action on their website. ...
It’s Perfectly Ok For The Nuggets To Give Away Marcus Camby, But Kittens Are Another Story
Tirico Suave —
Nuggets Give Away Kittens From PETA’s website : Rocky [the mascot] next came onto the court with a cardboard box full of kittens, announced that they were free to anyone who wanted one, and proceeded to pass them out to the crowd. Handing kittens out like candy to any spectator who wants one is a virtual death sentence for the animals. All too often, people who acquire cats on a whim discover that caring for them is more work than they expected, and the animals end up dumped on the streets, abandoned in extremely crowded animal shelters, or obtained by unscrupulous individuals ...
Nuggets Hand Out Live Kittens to Fans, PETA Is Not Amused
FanHouse —
... sense, but who knows, maybe that mile high air in Denver is getting to the people on the Nuggets' PR staff. Because at a recent home game, someone thought it would be a great idea for the team's mascot to come onto the floor with a box of live kittens, and proceed to pass them out to anyone in the stands who claimed to want one. PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals), who has been involved in some sillier causes relating to the NBA in the past, predictably weighed in on this one: Handing kittens out like candy to any ...
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