Blatant Iams advertising?

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probably just happened to be there.


I doubt shelters have enough time to worry about advertising and most food is usually donations from people, they just take what they can get.

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I agree with PoodleMommy...that's how our shelter works...the volunteer taking the photo probably never gave the background a thought...cute pup though!
 
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I think he just happened to be there... if they really wanted to advertise Iams they would've sat the bag up... instead its kinda laying there.
 

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IAMs is pushing their crap all over TV so they probably don't need a whole lot more help convincing people to feed their byproducts and animal digest to consumers. IAMs is doing with the general public what Hills' has done to veterinary customers. They give them all a sense that they are feeding their pets the very best, when in fact, anybody who reads their ingredients knows better. Imagine a REAL Hill's Commercial or IAMs commercial, if truth in advertising were to exist for pet foods.

Hi! We are going to feed your carnivore corn in several different, the cheapest ingredient we can find, and tell you it's the right thing for you to buy. Then we are going to make you pay dearly to buy a bag of it and laugh all the way to the bank. Don't worry. We will make it taste good by adding flavor in the form of chicken guts and the digest from dead animals.
(Flash to a shot of someone hugging a hired shiney, bright-eyed healthy pet that more than likely eats Eagle Pack).
 
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Looks to me like, if they were thinking about it, they used the bad of dog food as a comparison to show how cute and little the puppy is.
 
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Dogs on Petfinders are more than likely to be in shelters, not nestled all snuggily in someone's foster home. This by no means is something a co. as big as IAMs would do to get their "product placement" in "advertising". It was probably the only slightly clear space of drab cement on which to place the homeless dog in the shelter to get the pic. The IAMs dogfood just happened to be stored there.
 

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Probably coincidence. I know around here that a lot of stores donate older, ripped, or damaged bags of dogfood to the shelters. So when you think about it, that pic might be advertising that the store couldn't offload the bag cheap, so they gave it away.
 

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