This isn’t really an animal testing issue, but I was thrilled to find this PETA anti-fur poster with Jared Padalecki, one of the stars of Supernatural , on it. (Thanks Natasha for telling me about this! I love it!). I think PETA should run full-page ads of this in major newspapers. Aren’t Jared Padalecki’s dogs adorable? I love that one on the left — is it some kind of hound?

If you click on this link it will take you to a page where you can vote whether you would wear your dog or not, and sign a petition against (horrible) fur farms.

So — this isn’t really an animal testing issue, like my previous Supernatural animal testing reference, which I still like a lot — I was watching an episode of Supernatural, and the two main characters find a rabbit dead and strung up in someone’s living room. Instead of making a joke about it or ignoring it, one of them is appalled and says:

“Why does the rabbit always get screwed in the deal? Poor little guy.”

Isn’t that nice? Despite the fact that I was wincing at the sight of a dead rabbit and trying not to look too closely at it while hitting the fast forward button on the television remote, I was happy to see recognition of the sacrifices animals make for people acknowledged in film. I mean sure, it’s a teeny-bopper CW horror television series, but I’ll take what I can get. It’s a far cry from Veronica Mars where they seemed to always be discussing how gang members kept nailing live rats to the doors of houses owned by people they didn’t like. Actually I think that happened a total of two times but it made me uncomfortable.

I’m actually really surprised by the Supernatural pro-animal thing — I imagine when writing a horror television series the temptation to have animals be murdered/possessed/tortured must be difficult to ignore. I mean, the people are always being murdered/possessed/tortured in horror series, aren’t they? It’s probably just a matter of time . . .