The Iditarod is underway, and dogs' lives are at risk—but your donation to help them is PENDING. Will you act now? Yes, I'll pitch in—I believe no dog should be forced to run this grueling and deadly race!

Dear Friend,

The Iditarod death race is underway. Dogs are being forced to drag heavy sleds through biting wind, snow and ice, and other hazards until they reach the finish line hundreds of miles away—or they grow too exhausted, ill, or injured to keep running.

The conditions are so strenuous that some dogs may die of an infection resulting from inhaling their own vomit.

We can't let this kind of cruelty stand. This year's Iditarod must be the last one that ever abuses dogs for entertainment—and this is your last chance to help.

Will you make a generous gift today to support our grassroots campaign to help dogs and end the deadly Iditarod? Even $3 can have an impact!

After running up to 1,000 miles in two weeks, many dogs will endure painful cuts and bruising on their paws or be left with stomach ulcers and persistent lung damage. Some—even those who haul mushers to victory in the Iditarod—will have no choice but to spend their days chained outside with little or no shelter from the Arctic cold, never knowing the comforts of a life indoors. Others, deemed "surplus" by the callous dogsledding industry, may be shot, drowned, or simply abandoned to starve.

PETA needs your help to make the 2020 Iditarod the last. We're preparing for our strongest push yet—will you help us keep rallying more dog advocates in the critical days ahead?

Friend, we haven't seen you donate to this campaign yet. Is that right? Please donate $3 now to power our hard-hitting advocacy work against the Iditarod!

Thanks to years of PETA protests, eye-catching advertisements, pressure on corporate sponsors, and bold online campaigning, we're closer than ever to sparing dogs the immense suffering they endure every year in the Iditarod:

• We're demanding that Chrysler stop funding the death race and join the growing list of companies—including Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, and Jack Daniel's—that have agreed to cut ties with the race after hearing from thousands of PETA supporters.
• Just as in years past, PETA supporters gathered in full force at the Iditarod's starting line this year and will be waiting at the finish line—reminding mushers and naïve spectators that this cruel event brings nothing but suffering for the dogs forced to compete in it.
• The impact of our groundbreaking undercover investigation of Iditarod champion mushers' kennels is still reverberating around the world, generating outrage at the hideous conditions that dogs endure as they're denied nutritious food and veterinary care, abused for dangerous training, and made to pull sleds for tourists.

Stopping the Iditarod will require us to keep organizing demonstrations and raising awareness year-round—and this important work doesn't come cheap. It wouldn't be possible without the generosity of compassionate PETA supporters like you.

It's critical to our advocacy campaigns that we raise as much as possible to help dogs and other animals right now. Will you donate today? Just $3 can help.

I shudder to think of the agonizing pain dogs are facing right now in the Iditarod—but I'm heartened to know that supporters like you are taking action for them.

Thank you for your compassion.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President