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Hermit crabs at these races can easily fall off the tables, damaging their insides.

Stop Hermit Crab Races!

Target:
National Hermit Crab Race Association
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This barbaric violation of the animals' rights to a cruelty-free, at least mediocre life needs to be put to a stop ASAP. These hermit crabs must endure stress from being cramped inside a small space with hundreds of hermit crabs right on top of them at a time. Hermit crabs easily die from stress and also  can drop their limbs, including their pincers, which are used to eat. Without these pincers, they will die.  These hermit crabs are used for pure entertainment and business interests. Nothing else. Imagine yourself as one of these crabs-- you're cramped into a tiny tank with barely any room to move at all. Maybe you can't move. Hundreds of other hermit crabs are on top of you, and you are very stressed out. Then, in a few weeks, it's race time! You are put onto a gigantic table surrounded by giant, frightening creatures shouting at you like monsters. Maybe they are monsters. You try to run away but end up falling off of the table, your shell cracked in half and a part of it jabbing into your internal organs. You are picked up and put back only to die a slow and highly agonizing death the next morning. What a life!

This needs to be stopped immediately! Please think of the animals before using them as a source of entertainment!

This barbaric violation of the animals' rights to a cruelty-free, at least mediocre life needs to be put to a stop ASAP. These hermit crabs must endure stress from being cramped inside a small space with hundreds of hermit crabs right on top of them at a time. Hermit crabs easily die from stress and also  can drop their limbs, including their pincers, which are used to eat. Without these pincers, they will die.  These hermit crabs are used for pure entertainment and business interests. Nothing else. Imagine yourself as one of these crabs-- you're cramped into a tiny tank with barely any room to move at all. Maybe you can't move. Hundreds of other hermit crabs are on top of you, and you are very stressed out. Then, in a few weeks, it's race time! You are put onto a gigantic table surrounded by giant, frightening creatures shouting at you like monsters. Maybe they are monsters. You try to run away but end up falling off of the table, your shell cracked in half and a part of it jabbing into your internal organs. You are picked up and put back only to die a slow and highly agonizing death the next morning. What a life!

This needs to be stopped immediately! Please think of the animals before using them as a source of entertainment!
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We signed the "Stop Hermit Crab Races!" petition!
# 128:
11:13 am PDT, Oct 27, Serda Ozbenian, Maryland
# 127:
8:16 pm PDT, Oct 18, Cameron Mo, Massachusetts
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# 126:
2:12 pm PDT, Sep 3, Arun Mahesh, Pakistan
# 125:
6:35 am PDT, Sep 3, Sonja Nielsen, Denmark
# 124:
9:15 am PDT, Sep 1, Karen Quinn, New Mexico
# 123:
7:12 pm PDT, Aug 19, Giamo Lao, Pennsylvania
This Needs to be stoped
# 122:
7:29 pm PDT, Aug 15, Angela Hill, Michigan
# 121:
12:09 pm PDT, Aug 13, Name not displayed, New York
# 120:
9:59 am PDT, Aug 13, Name not displayed, New York
Who do these races benefit? certainly not the hermit crabs who are being taken advantage of. These creatures belong in the wild, not on racing tables. How do these races better the society we live in? The answer to that is "they don't". The message being sent with these races is that if the exploitation of hermit crabs is okay, then the exploitation of any animal (humans included) is all right too. If prostitution and dog fights are illegal, hermit crab racing should be too.
# 119:
8:33 am PDT, Aug 12, Angeliki Lourdas, New York
It must be hard for some to believe that not everything and everyone on this planet was put here for our own comfort and pleasure but it's true. As humans we can only progress if we stop being so egotistical and actually have some consideration for other life forms. Hermit crabs aren't ours to do whatever we want with. This is a form of slavery, and supposedly enslaving is a thing of the past. Hermit crab races depict otherwise.
# 118:
9:37 am PDT, Aug 11, Jessica Vasvary, Ohio
Hermit crab racing is cruel, and an unneccessary form of entertainment. Not that its really that entertaining to put these creatures through misery.
# 117:
7:23 pm PDT, Aug 10, Maggie Walker, Canada
Too many people see hermit crabs as toys. They are living breathing and simply culturally different than us. This is sick and wrong.
# 116:
11:19 am PDT, Aug 9, Lucy Vince, United Kingdom
# 115:
11:15 am PDT, Aug 9, Dylan Mulenburg, Minnesota
# 114:
2:36 pm PDT, Jul 31, Name not displayed, Utah
I have hermit crabs... 5 of them, actually. and I would be devastated if any lost legs due to the stresses of racing. This is just WRONG!
# 113:
9:24 am PDT, Jul 25, Agnieszka Stepaniuk, Poland
# 112:
10:05 am PDT, Jul 13, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 111:
6:59 pm PDT, Jul 10, Jasmine Groves, Ohio
# 110:
5:57 am PDT, Jul 10, Rachel Donohue-Miller, Canada
# 109:
5:07 am PDT, Jul 10, Angie Slater, Australia
# 108:
8:41 am PDT, Jul 6, Jelly Bean, Missouri
# 107:
1:29 am PDT, Jul 4, Elaine Robinson, United Kingdom
# 106:
4:58 pm PDT, Jul 1, Pete DePolo, Ohio
I feel like this is a great decision to sign.
# 105:
12:52 pm PDT, Jun 30, Name not displayed, Washington
# 104:
3:09 pm PDT, Jun 28, Arthur Backes, Luxembourg
# 103:
10:49 am PDT, Jun 27, Name not displayed, Illinois
# 102:
10:52 am PDT, Jun 25, Name not displayed, Germany
THERE IS NO BIGGER BEAST THAN MAN!!!
# 101:
9:43 am PDT, Jun 25, Jacqueline Robinson, Georgia
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