Please help us urge convention organizers to exclude any exhibitor who uses live animals, such as wolf dogs, as “props” for photos at their events. Animals can experience stress when they are forced to interact with strangers in an unfamiliar, noisy environment that can overstimulate them. Animals have individual needs and desires, and when they are exploited for money in these photo ops, their needs are not being met.
Exploiting them for photo ops is a form of speciesism—a human-supremacist worldview—and has no place at a convention or anywhere else.
In previous years, certain fan events have partnered with photo booth exhibitors that use wolf dogs, crows, owls, and more as “props” for photos. We have reached out to the event organizers, but have not received official confirmation from them that they will not have any animals for photo ops at their future events.
Mischeif Management, Fan Expo, Ironton Wizardfest, and LiteraryInk have allowed exhibitors to bring live animals to their events in the past, such as baby alligators, snakes, and kangaroos who are too young to be away from their mothers.
We need to make a stand NOW.
Put your Care of Magical Creatures knowledge to good use and speak out by urging convention organizers to exclude any exhibitor who uses live animals as props for photos from all future events.
Exploiting them for photo ops is a form of speciesism—a human-supremacist worldview—and has no place at a convention or anywhere else.
In previous years, certain fan events have partnered with photo booth exhibitors that use wolf dogs, crows, owls, and more as “props” for photos. We have reached out to the event organizers, but have not received official confirmation from them that they will not have any animals for photo ops at their future events.
Mischeif Management, Fan Expo, Ironton Wizardfest, and LiteraryInk have allowed exhibitors to bring live animals to their events in the past, such as baby alligators, snakes, and kangaroos who are too young to be away from their mothers.
We need to make a stand NOW.
Put your Care of Magical Creatures knowledge to good use and speak out by urging convention organizers to exclude any exhibitor who uses live animals as props for photos from all future events.
Show your support by wearing a shirt!
Let convention organizers know that we won't stand for animal abuse at their events by wearing your very own "Defend the Dire Wolves" shirt!
You'll surely start a few conversations about your fan activism while wearing one of these shirts (and you'll look pretty stylish, too)! Defend the Dire Wolves and make conventions safe spaces for all creatures, regardless of their size, species, or magical ability! |
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