Any college football fan knows of Uga, the live mascot that accompanies the University of Georgia at all of their home football games.
While usually a welcome sight on the sideline, not all are happy that the Bulldogs use a live bulldog as their mascot, and are calling for Uga's immediate retirement.
Who else but PETA would be upset by this?
The organization sent a letter to University of Georgia president, Jere Morehead this week ... calling for the school to replace Uga with a human at future sporting events.
According to TMZ, PETA claims Uga's presence at games "increases demand for breathing-impaired breeds like pugs, bulldogs and boxers."
PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman released a statement on the matter saying, "As the back-to-back national champion, can't UGA find it in its heart to honestly examine the impact of its promotion of deformed dogs and call time on its outdated, live-animal mascot program?
"PETA is calling on Jere Morehead to be a peach and replace poor Uga with a human mascot who can support the team in a winning way."
Georgia has used live mascots since the 1950s beginning with Uga 1; the current pup is Uga X.
Uga didn't make it out to Los Angeles for Georgia's domination of TCU, as its owners thought the five-hour plane ride would have been "too much: for the nine-year-old bulldog.
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