Guitar virtuoso John 5 is an expert when it comes to good licks – and he explains in a new campaign for PETAthat the best come from adopted dogs. Before his upcoming solo tour, the former ROB ZOMBIE and current MÖTLEY CRÜE Guitarist appears next to his loving rescued dog Churrosand calls on everyone to adopt dogs and cats from shelters and never to buy animals from pet stores or breeders who bring litter after litter of puppies and kittens into a world already bursting at the seams with homeless animals.
In an accompanying video spot John 5 tells how his family adopted Churros – a hairless Chinese Crested Dog mix – after being abandoned as a puppy and left in a crate in the desert.
“It’s heartbreaking just thinking about it. We had to Churros – there were no ifs and buts”, John 5 says in the video below. “We were lucky enough to adopt him and he’s just the best. … We literally can’t go anywhere without him – he’s always with us. He’s just part of the family.”
ChurrosThe story highlights the fact that virtually any breed of dog can be found in a shelter or through a breed-specific rescue group. Because there are roughly 70 million homeless dogs and cats in the U.S. at any given time, shelters across the country have been overcrowded for years. Some shelters with misguided policies warehouse dogs for months or even years and turn animals away, leaving the most vulnerable animals with nowhere to go—and those that reproduce worsen the pet overpopulation crisis. That’s why PETA calls on animal shelters to take in all animals in need, advises owners to have their animal companions spayed or neutered, and asks everyone to adopt animals instead of buying them from breeders or pet stores.
John 5 is part of a long list of celebrities – including Kathy Griffin, Lisa Ann Walter, Ron Perlman, Tom Hardy, John Stamos, Ryan Eggold, Theo Rossi And Cristin Milioti — who have joined forces with PETA to promote adoption.
PETA — whose motto, in part, is “Animals are not there to be mistreated in any way” — points out that every animal is someone and offers free empathy kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.
For more information, visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, on facebook. or Instagram.
