In their latest advertisement, which will be shown during the SuperBowl interval on February 1^st 2015, GoDaddy has decided to go for the shock tactic to get their name promoted further.

The advertisement which was only released today is already causing a huge storm on social media among animal rescue centers and all animal lovers, all uniting with the same message: do not exploit animals for the sake of marketing.

Instead of having a cute and sweet ending, the commercial sent shivers down my spine.

In a world that’s already struggling to send the message loud and clear that animals are not a commodity—they are not ours to take advantage of or to exploit—why choose such a cold message to promote a service?

Surely there are a million other ways to get the message across in a manner that would leave viewers attracted to the service—rather than repelled.

I am not alone in my thinking, and the truly sad thing is that businesses often don’t honestly care about the moral of the story, so long as word is getting around.

I absolutely hate to be promoting GoDaddy further by highlighting this advertisement; however, hopefully, others will have the same reaction as myself and choose never to do business with a company with morals as low as this.

I have rescued puppies directly from puppy mills and cannot explain the harrowing lives they have in exchange for money.

This is something I cannot stay silent about.

Please watch the video and see for yourself:

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Author: Alex Myles

Editor: Emma Ruffin

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