A group of dog lovers rallied outside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Tuesday in protest of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. Animal rights group have criticized Romney for transporting his dog in a kennel tied to the roof of his car during a family vacation in the 1980s. The protesters demonstrated against Romney with their pets in tow.

Alan Charney: “The main purpose of this was really to use the dog show as a backdrop to get the information out to the general public about Mitt Romney and the mistreatment of the dog many years ago and what that says about his character and what that says about his fitness to be president of the United States. Someone who can mistreat his dog the way Mitt Romney did is probably not the kind of person that we want as president of the United States.”