Kevin McHale knows how it feels to be the underdog when he's playing Artie Abrams on Fox's hit series Glee. So it isn't hard to understand why he's rooting for all underdogs in his new ad with PETA, which features his adopted pooch, Sophie, and was shot by celebrity photographer Jack Guy.
Six to 8 million cats and dogs enter U.S. animal shelters every year, half of whom must be euthanized simply because of a lack of good homes. Countless others who never make it to a safe haven succumb to starvation, disease, weather extremes, traffic, and even cruel people on the streets.
With advice from his friends and fellow cast members of Glee, adopting Sophie from a shelter was a no-brainer because every animal purchased from a pet store or a breeder means a death sentence for an animal sitting in a shelter, desperately hoping for a good home. Join Kevin and Sophie in being part of the campaign to end animal homelessness by making sure that your animal companions are spayed or neutered and adopting—never buying—animals.

Help Stop Canada's Military From Poisoning Pigs!

Each year, members of the Canadian military travel to Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in Suffield, Alberta, to participate in a cruel "live agent training" drill in which live pigs are exposed to toxic chemical weapons such as sarin and mustard agents. Pigs subjected to this crude exercise suffer from seizures, irregular heartbeats, difficulty breathing, and bleeding and can even die.
Instead of tormenting animals, other military and civilian training programs around the world now use modern non-animal methods such as lifelike human patient simulators, which—unlike crude procedures on pigs—can be programmed to mimic the human response to a chemical-weapon attack.
In 2011, following a PETA campaign, the U.S. Army replaced the use of animals in its chemical warfare training program, stating that its switch to superior human simulators "was made possible by improved technology, the development of alternative training methods, shifting chemical threat environments, and changes in the medical competencies required of first responders during a chemical incident." Similarly, doctors working with the Israel Defense Forces have developed an effective chemical attack preparedness course that uses only sophisticated human simulators, noting that, "An animal laboratory session is viewed as unacceptable."
Because valid simulators exist and are being used worldwide, DRDC's poisoning of pigs—in addition to being extremely cruel and ineffective—clearly violates Canadian animal welfare guidelines that require that alternatives to the use of animals be used when available.
Please help spare pigs from this archaic and cruel chemical-casualty training right now by sending polite e-mails to Canadian military officials urging them to take immediate action to replace the use of animals with superior non-animal training methods.

Drought has hit the Southwest hard, and horses are starving. We need your help to save their lives.
This year hay prices are five times higher than 10 years ago, with most of the increase occurring in the past 12 months. This winter will be worse. And as fewer people can afford their horses, rescues are filling up past capacity.
Make no mistake: This is an emergency, but we have a plan to help horses in peril. The ASPCA Hay Bale-Out program is designed to assist horse welfare organizations with purchasing hay, and we’re mobilizing it now. Together we’ll save horses’ lives, but we have to move quickly.
Please help us rescue horses and other equines from starvation. Every penny you give to this initiative will go straight to feeding hungry horses.		TO HELP GO TO ASPCA SITE.