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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
Late potcake star AMIGO is still hard at work, through
“AMIGO’S FUND,” helping his animal friends as he looks down from “doggie
Heaven.” His latest mission, along with Humane Society International, has been to
help sponsor the recently held Spay/Neuter Field Clinic in the Eight Mile Rock
area of Grand Bahama Island.
Spay/Neuter is a subject with which AMIGO was strongly
associated in his lifetime as the official ‘poster dog’ of the HSGB Spay/Neuter
Campaign. He was featured on its eye catching, timeless posters as well as full
page adverts in tourist magazines raising awareness to this desperately
important means of controlling pet overpopulation.
AMIGO’S FUND is a Bahamian Charitable Trust ( amigosfund.org)
which was set up after Amigo’s passing to honor his legacy and mission and has
helped HSGB to sponsor prior spay/ neuter initiatives and ‘puppylifts. ‘
Amigo, through his association with The Humane Society of
the United States (HSUS) of which HSI is the international wing as the star of
The BeKind Campaign, and most notably, along with HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle and
hip hop impresario Russell Simmons, was featured in Public Service Announcements
dealing with the issues of dog fighting and cruel animal trapping. Both PSA’s
can be seen in the “watch” section of bekind.org.
Amigo was the inspiration as well, behind the hugely
successful “Potcake Series” of Bahamian Commemorative Stamps featuring
paintings by famed Bahamian artist Alton Lowe provoking a literal ‘stampede’ of
buyers as First Day Covers were sold out even before they had a chance to be
properly publicized.
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