{"id":954835,"date":"2020-03-16T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/?p=954835"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:11:30","slug":"chrysler-dealership-ends-iditarod-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/news\/chrysler-dealership-ends-iditarod-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler Dealership Is 3rd Major Sponsor to Cut Ties With Iditarod This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We e-mailed, we picketed, we smashed cars, we refused to back down, and WE \ud83d\udc4f DID \ud83d\udc4f IT \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine days into the 2020 Iditarod<\/a>, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) confirmed that its Anchorage dealership will finally cut ties with the Alaska dogsled<\/a> death race.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to a massive PETA campaign, Anchorage Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Center\u2014an independently owned FCA dealership that has sponsored the Iditarod since 2007\u2014has decided to drop its support of the race after this year’s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This victory wouldn’t have been achieved without kind folks like you. You sent more than 250,000 e-mails to Chrysler urging it to cut ties with the race. Our members<\/a> and supporters also helped us hold more than a dozen protests across the country featuring costumed “dogs” smashing cars<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 activists chained to Chryslers<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 protesters dragging a sled full of “dead dogs”<\/a> around downtown Detroit \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and more. Our ad blitz<\/a> opened eyes, too\u2014the ads played on television stations near the company’s Detroit headquarters and showed viewers the widespread neglect and suffering endured by dogs used in the Iditarod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These dogs are forced to run about 1,000 miles through biting winds, blinding snowstorms, and subzero temperatures. More than half of those who start the race don’t finish because they’re too ill, injured, or exhausted to go on. So far this year, more than 140 dogs have been dropped\u2014and musher Nicolas Petit is continuing to force the dogs on his team to run despite reports that all of them have vomited, three have had frostbite, and one nearly needed stitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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