A particular car commercial featuring a cat infuriated animal activists and animal rights groups around the world and was boycotted from ever reaching public television in the United Kingdom where it was originally set to air. Although it was never shown on television, the ad traveled the world as an inadvertently released internet viral advert. However, a tamer ad featuring a pigeon was aired for a short run before it too was protested. This is the reason why foreign commercials will never be aired in America. There is a remarkable difference in ideas to what is socially acceptable and media friendly here in the US compared to other countries around the world. Just a warning to those who are sensitive to the treatment of animals, these advertisements (particularly the "cat" ad) are sick and twisted.
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