Many of you are famil
iar with the issues
surrounding Iams dog food, which we have touched on in the past..
From what I have learned, Iams was supporting the Humane Society
of the US who was using Petfest to hand out anti-hunting literature.
I also heard that Iams was placing a member of the Humane Society
on its board of directors. This caused an uproar in the hunting
community including having some hunting magazines refusing to
accept Iams advertising and a barrage of letters from hunting
people to Iams. Well with our diligence this is the result...
Dennis,
I thought you may like to see this. It came out late 4/22/04
from the Iams official office.
Larry Houck (VDD Newsletter editor) Watertown, SD
From: Iams External Relations
Re: Petfest America Sponsorship
We at The Iams Company are officially announcing that we are
not funding the Petfest America events with HSUS again next year.
We appreciate all of the direct feedback we have received from
the sporting dog community and apologize for the frustration
that this sponsorship has caused. We have a lot of exciting innovations
planned next year, which will require our focused time and resources. |
As a leader in the pet industry, The Iams
Company is about educating all pet owners on pet health care
and nutrition from the family pet to the active competitor. We
are definitely pro-dog and clearly not anti-hunting.
We look forward to continuing our long history of support of
the sporting dog community and leadership in the industry with
innovative research to improve the health and well-being of athletic
dogs). We hope that we can put this behind us and focus on the
future -- great performing foods for great performing dogs.
Iams and Eukanuba Sponsorships and Support of the Sporting Dog
Community:
AKC Master National Hunt Test, AKC National Gun Dog Championship,
AKC Pointer National Championship, Brittany National Amateur
Championship, Canadian National Amateur Retriever Championship,
Canadian National Retriever Championship, ESPN Great Outdoor
Games, Eukanuba Beagle Championship, German Wirehaired Pointer
Nationals & Specialty, GSPCA National Specialty, National
Amateur Retriev |
er Championship, National Bird Dog Championship,
National German Pointing Dog Championship, National Retriever
Championship, NGSPA Championship, Official U.S. Gun Dog Team,
2004 National Countrysports Fair, Northern Ireland, Vizsla Nationals
& Specialty, Weimaraner Nationals & Winter Specialty
The Iams Company is the only dog food company to support Armbruster
Test, an international hunt test for Deutsch Drahthaars.
The Iams Company is the only dog food company to financially
support the quail restoration project on the Ames Plantation,
home to the National Bird Dog Championship and for many years
we have commissioned original oil paintings by Ross B. Young
of the National Champion Bird Dog. We conducted the Iams Retriever
Symposium for breeders and trainers of retrievers and also support
Team Eukanuba Seminars around the country.
We support Quail Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, The Ruffed Grouse
Society and Ducks Unlimited. We publish Care and Nutrition of
the Sporting Dog, one of the only manuals for hunters and field
trialers. For over 20 years, The Iams Company has been the acknowledged
leader in nutritional research for performance dogs. We developed
the only "in the field" research study of pointing
dogs and hunting performance.
Kelly Vanasse, Associate Director
Global External Relations
The Iams Company |
