PETA has grown to more than 2 million members and supporters

As the host of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker ended every episode by urging people to spay and neuter their cats and dogs. The reason he did so was simple: Sterilization is one of the easiest, most effective ways to prevent the suffering of animals.

That's the same reason why PETA has grown to more than 2 million members and supporters just like you—because it is the single most effective organization in the fight against animal suffering and abuse. Thanks to the generosity of longtime PETA member and animal advocate Bob Barker, you now have a golden opportunity to make PETA's lifesaving work for animals go twice as far.

By making a generous donation right now, your gift will be matched—dollar for dollar—as part of the Bob Barker Challenge. But we need your help if we are going to meet our goal of raising $250,000 from our members by July 4.

Bob has worked with PETA for many years on everything from striving to rescue animals imprisoned in pitiful roadside zoos to promoting a cruelty-free vegan diet. But it is PETA's critical efforts to help abused cats and dogs that go to the heart of his famous sign-off.

While many of us have made dogs and cats a part of our family, the sad truth is that there aren't nearly enough good homes for all the companion animals who need them. As many as 8 million dogs and cats enter animal shelters in the U.S. each year, and up to half of them must be euthanized because of a lack of good homes. When you factor in the countless other animals who are now homeless and alone on the street, you can see just how daunting the animal overpopulation crisis truly is.

PETA is working tirelessly to educate people about the importance of sterilizing their animal companions and about why they should never buy a cat or dog from a breeder or pet store, which keep cruel breeding mills in business and take loving homes away from animals who are dying for one at a shelter.

Through PETA's innovative mobile veterinary clinics, we've conducted tens of thousands of low-cost or free sterilizations for dogs and cats whose guardians can't afford the procedures. And because just one unsterilized female cat and her offspring can produce thousands of unwanted animals in only a few short years, this kind of hands-on work is making a huge difference in some of the most impoverished areas surrounding PETA's Norfolk, Va., office.

PETA's mobile clinics also provide other essential care for dogs and cats who might otherwise go without it. This includes everything from minor surgeries (one recent case involved the removal of a nail embedded in a dog's paw; the guardians hadn't noticed it!) to testing and treatment for fleas and internal parasites to tick prevention. And each year, PETA custom builds and delivers hundreds of sturdy, weatherproof doghouses and fills them with warm straw in order to improve the lives of sad dogs who are chained outdoors year-round. We can't make their lives perfect, but PETA is providing them with some much-needed comfort and care.

Millions of individual dogs and cats in this country endure terrible suffering and neglect every single day. But you can do something about it by making the choice to support PETA today and help us meet the Bob Barker Challenge.

By making a gift right now, your donation can go twice as far to support all of PETA's work to stop the exploitation, abuse, and death of animals.

There is no more important action that you will ever take to improve the lives of animals. Please respond today. Thank you.

Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

P.S. You and I would no sooner neglect or harm our animal companions than we would our own children. Yet outside your home, there are many more dogs and cats who need your help. By donating during this special challenge, you can contribute to PETA's lifesaving work to end their suffering—and the suffering of animals everywhere. Please make as generous a gift as you can right now—and have it doubled during the Bob Barker Challenge.