Too Hot to Handle? Emily Miller Stars in Spay/ Neuter Plea for PETA: ‘Dogs Can’t Use Condoms!’
10 June 2025
Too Hot to Handle? Emily Miller Stars in Spay/ Neuter Plea for PETA: ‘Dogs Can’t Use Condoms!’
London – Getting physical might be forbidden on Too Hot to Handle, but since dogs aren’t being constantly monitored by a prudish robot, the reality show’s breakout star Emily Miller is reminding guardians that it’s their responsibility to have their companion animals spayed or neutered in a new PETA campaign. In an accompanying video spot, the animal adoption advocate – whose late canine companion, Twix, melted the hearts of her 2 million Instagram followers – answers the internet’s most frequently asked questions about “pedigree” dogs.
“‘Pedigree’ or ‘purebred’ really just means inbred – these dogs are mated with members of their own family to create certain genetic traits or appearances,” Miller says. “It’s f***ed up to buy a dog because of how they look … We live in an image-obsessed world, and people extend this to animals, which is just so ridiculous.”
The high-resolution image is available here. Credit: PETA
As Miller points out in the video, there are many health problems that come along with breeding dogs for certain physical attributes, including painful or chronic ailments such as hip dysplasia, blindness, deafness, heart issues, skin problems, and epilepsy. “Some breeders will literally mate dogs with their grandparents – that’s messed up,” Miller says, adding that mutts are typically “so much healthier” because they have genetic variation – which is “just one of so many reasons to put ethics over aesthetics.”
Every year, hundreds of thousands of dogs and cats end up in shelters because there simply aren’t enough good homes for them. The rest struggle to survive on the streets, where they are hit by cars, are attacked by other animals and people, and suffer and die from diseases, infections, and other injuries. That’s why PETA urges everyone to adopt animals from shelters – and never buy from breeders or pet stores, which fuel the homeless animal overpopulation crisis – and always have their animal companions spayed and neutered.
“Please, please, please adopt from a shelter,” Miller concludes. “I can tell you from experience, you won’t regret it.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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