Western Mutts

[jazzadogs]

So PETA have asked us to rename to the Western Mutts. Forgetting about this absolute joke of a demand, what is the worst possible branding you think our club could go with?

Western Mutts would have to go close.

[jazzadogs]

Re: Western Mutts

Context, via Code Sports:
The Western Bulldogs AFL club have been urged to retire their mascots and undertake a name change after receiving a complaint from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) over their ‘deformed’ Bulldogs Caesar and Sunny.
This is not a joke.
PETA campaign advisor in Australia, Mimi Bekhechi, issued a letter to the club president Kylie Watson-Wheeler calling upon the club to recognise the health issues with the bulldog breed and suggested the club would do more to promote animal wellbeing by being renamed the Western Mutts.
The activist group believe the use of the live mascots Caesar and Sunny normalises and promotes the breeding of breathing-impaired breeds (BIB) who suffer with deformities and severe health problems – including brachycephalic syndrome, a leading cause of death for bulldogs.
“Extremely short snouts spell suffering,” said Bekhechi.

“By showcasing Caesar and Sunny at games and events and promoting their breeder, the team is – however unwittingly – supporting the intentional breeding of dogs with painful and debilitating deformities.”
In the letter to Watson-Wheeler, PETA suggested the club could promote homeless animals with a name change and even offered to help “contribute to rebranding costs.”
“We have a suggestion that’ll modernise Western Bulldogs’ image: retire Caesar and
Sunny and rename the club the “Western Mutts”,” PETA wrote in a letter to the club boss.
“By not promoting breathing impaired dog breeds (BIB) ... you’d avoid normalising their suffering and instead help champion loveable and unique mixed-breed dogs, who typically live longer and are healthier than their flat-faced cousins.

“By relinquishing Caesar and Sunny’s mascot duties to your willing human costumed mascots and renaming the team the “Western Mutts”, you’d be taking a stand against the “pedigree” dog–breeding industry while championing the adoption of wonderful mixed breeds and other homeless animals.”
The Western Bulldogs club said they were not aware of a letter from PETA and did not wish to make a comment on the matter at this time.
While animal nicknames are not uncommon in Australian sport, the Western Bulldogs and West Coast Eagles and the NRL’s Canterbury Bulldogs and Brisbane Broncos, are the only clubs known in those codes to have used real animals as their mascots on game day.
Then again, could you imagine the PETA outroar if there was a real Lion, Kangaroo, Tiger, Panther, Shark or Eel on the sidelines at the footy.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Western Mutts

Yeah but...

The Bombers.

[Grantysghost]

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So PETA have asked us to rename to the Western Mutts. Forgetting about this absolute joke of a demand, what is the worst possible branding you think our club could go with?

Western Mutts would have to go close.

Western Middle Eastern Crime Gangs

[Rocco Jones]

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'Western' still the worst bit.

[azabob]

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Western Middle Eastern Crime Gangs

#WestSideRepresent

[bulldogtragic]

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Undo any of your good work why don’t you.

Why not target actual animal death like meat pies or hot dogs? Sure we don’t know for sure there’s animals in them, but that’s the advertisement.

This stuff is where goodwill dies as it will get sucked into the culture war types. Argh.

[Grantysghost]

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'Western' still the worst bit.

Ha I lolzed.

[Rocket Science]

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What is the worst possible branding you think our club could go with?

WESTERN Anything, really.

Very happy to die on this hill.

[Axe Man]

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Right so Bulldogs = bad.
Western = bad.

The unspecified lifeforms of no particular location?

[angelopetraglia]

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[Rocket Science]

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Undo any of your good work why don’t you.

Why not target actual animal death like meat pies or hot dogs? Sure we don’t know for sure there’s animals in them, but that’s the advertisement.

This stuff is where goodwill dies as it will get sucked into the culture war types. Argh.

Yeah. I mean, they are. But calculated stunts like these mean corners of the internet like this are now talking about it, so ... hat tip I suppose.

[Rocket Science]

Re: Western Mutts

Love me some FOOBALL.

[Grantysghost]

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Bulldogs are a shit breed
Dogs are a big part of my life and PETA are right, they really struggle with breathing and many other issues.

Maybe the mascots going I could live with (the live ones).

And I know a certain poster here sees them as his nemesis so he'd be happy.

What about.

Western It's the West gate not the East gate.

[Bornadog]

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Western Dingos