Hi Everyone, It's been a hell of a week. We've gotten almost 12.000 signatures. WOOHOO! We're doing great but we have more work to do. A complaint was filed and an investigation has been opened. National Geographic and Millan have both made statements that what they did with using the pigs as bait for Simon the dog who killed 2 pigs is perfectly ok and a part of the training process. They are spinning the story to be about his methods and that he saves lives of dogs who would otherwise be euthanized. The law clearly states that using animals as bait is against the law at the state and federal levels and why this investigation was able to be opened. We also contact the petitioner of the first petition that was not addressed to anyone but a pig lover gathering signatures with no where to go. We have come together and between both petitions we are close to 25K signatures strong. The American Humane Association was flooded by our calls over the weekend so much that I got a call early Monday to talk about our petition. I spoke with the head of communications and was told that while they are required to be on the set of every movie and tv set where animals were being used in the film they were not required to be on the set of Reality Shows. I was shocked about this and he said that he didn't like it either but that was the case and that he would look into it and get back to me. On Friday that same week they sent a statement to National Geographic: MESSAGE TO NAT GEO REALITY SHOW: ABUSE IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE "Animal abuse is never acceptable, and should never be tolerated. American Humane Association has received complaints regarding an episode of a Nat Geo reality television series featuring Cesar Millan. As this country’s first national humane organization, we are always vigilant about stopping abuse wherever it occurs. We saw what so many concerned Americans saw in that segment. Clearly, the treatment of the animals did not meet our stringent “Guidelines for the Safe Use of Animals in Filmed Media.” American Humane Association oversees the humane treatment of animals around the world with our No Animals Were Harmed® animal welfare program, but sadly we are not invited to protect the animals featured in reality television productions. We call on the entertainment industry to have American Humane Association on all of their productions with animals, including reality television, so that American Humane Association can ensure that all animals in entertainment are safe and humanely treated. Situations like this should never, ever happen again. All animals deserve to be humanely treated, and abuse must end now." We are thrilled with this statement and now we must follow through and see what Nat Geo has to say about this. We need you to contact the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Tell them we need them to enforce the animal cruelty laws on the state and federal levels on Cesar Millan and his show Cesar911. National Geographic and Millan have come out stating that this is normal procedure for training and nothing happened to the pig so there is nothing wrong. This is all lies. Spinning the story this way is there way of confusing the public and deflecting away from the fact that what they have done is against the law and they need to be prosecuted. Celebrity status doesn't make anyone immune for breaking the law. Call and email ALDF and demand that they enforce these laws on Nat Geo and Cesar Millan. The website for ALDF are listed below. Do this now while the investigation is still open. They did it for Michael Vick's dogs. They can do it for all the thousands of animals used as bait for his so called 'training' on Cesar911. We rocked it in getting an investigation in less that a week but if we don't keep making our voices heard where it matters than all this talk, all this time spent on FB sharing this petition will be for nothing. FB was the beginning now is when the rubber meets the road. CALL the ALDF now and demand justice and let's get Cesar Millan out of the living rooms of millions of homes and hold Nat Geo accountable. Let's do this for the sake of the animals on all of the Reality Shows in the tv and film industry. Thanks everyone for your continued support NOW GO MAKE THAT CALL.