This alert is no longer active, but here for reference. Animals still need your help.

Imagine you’re on a road trip and you need to make a stop. You happen to arrive at one of the 430 Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores located in 41 states in the US. You fill up the tank, go into the convenience store for snacks, drinks and use the restroom. As you head up to the register and glance at the items on offer, you see the severed heads of several alligators on display for sale as novelties. Along with the usual impulse items  is a callous and disrespectful display of the heads of members of a fellow species. Tell Love’s to stop this cruelty!

Humans have largely vilified and feared, but also held a fascination for these ancient animals.  Although alligators are predators to be respected, Love’s sickening truck stops proves that we are far more deadly to alligators than they are to us.

Love’s disrespectful and callous display of these individuals’ heads may evoke smirks and trite conversation amongst some travelers, but to those of us who regard the lives of others, the sight is repulsive and abhorrent. We should not be subjected to the insensitive capitalization of animals’ heads, or any other body parts, regardless of their species.

Love’s merchandising department has not yet disclosed to us the number of its travel stops that profit from the selling of alligator heads. Let it be our mission to see that none of Love's truck stops be the purveyor of the heads of any species. The photo depicting the display of alligator heads at the Canton, Mississippi Love’s Country Store was taken by our Justice for Animals Campaign Director, Doll Stanley.

What YOU Can Do

This alert is no longer active, but here for reference. Animals still need your help.