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Animal-rights activists launched a protest questioning Mitt Romney's treatment of his dog outside the Westminster Dog Show Tuesday.

The event â€" organized by a group called Dogs Against Romney â€" is meant to highlight a widely circulated story in which Romney strapped his family dog, Seamus, in a kennel to the roof of his car during a 12-hour road trip to Canada despite the Irish setter suffering from diarrhea. The incident happened in 1983.

"The protest is sponsored by Dogs Against Romney â€" and will seek to focus more public attention on the fact that Romney forced his dog to ride for 12-hours on the roof of his car â€" and even coldly hosed the dog down with water after he became ill and frightened, soiling himself â€" before driving for hours more â€" all while Romney's luggage rode inside the car," the group said in a press release Monday.

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