----- Original Message -----
From: <SledDogAC @ aol.com>(remove spaces)
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: Princess Cruises thinks dog abuse is inspirational


PLEASE CROSSPOST

From the Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org:

Iditarod race winner Libby Riddles is glorifying the cruel Iditarod dog sled
race in talks on board Princess cruises. In its brochure, Princess asks
passengers to listen as Riddles "shares moments of her inspirational quest."

Rather than being inspirational, the Iditarod is an example of the dark
underbelly of animal abuse and suffering that exists in Alaska. Living tethered
to four foot chains in their own waste, Iditarod dogs face a bleak existence
even
when they are not racing. Some dogs have their vocal cords cut, and many others
are beaten and killed. Iditarod dogs are unhappy prisoners with no chance of
parole.

Please tell Princess that the Iditarod dog sled race is not inspirational and
should not be promoted.

EMAIL: rames @ carnival.com, media @ carnival.com  (remove spaces)

SAMPLE LETTER TO PERSONALIZE:

Dear Mr. Ames:

I understand that Iditarod winner Libby Riddles is promoting the Iditarod dog
sled race on board Princess cruises. Rather than being inspirational, the
Iditarod is an example of barbarism. Please stop promoting this cruel race and
the evils associated with it.

Mushers treat their dogs abominably. In the Iditarod, dogs are forced to run
1,150 miles over a grueling terrain in 8 to 15 days, which is the approximate
distance between Miami and New York City. Dog deaths and injuries are common
in the race. USA Today sports columnist Jon Saraceno called the Iditarod "a
travesty of grueling proportions" and "Ihurtadog." Fox sportscaster Jim Rome
called it "I-killed-a-dog." Orlando Sentinel sports columnist George Diaz said
the race is "a barbaric ritual" and "an illegal sweatshop for dogs." USA Today
business columnist Bruce Horovitz said the race is a "public-relations
minefield."

Please visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website
http://www.helpsleddogs.org to see pictures, and for more information. Be sure
to read the quotes on
http://www.helpsleddogs.org/remarks.htm. All of the material on the site is true
and verifiable.

At least 120 dogs have died in the Iditarod. There is no official count of dog
deaths available for the race's early years. In "WinterDance: the Fine Madness
of Running the Iditarod," Gary Paulsen describes witnessing an Iditarod
musher brutally kicking a dog to death during the race. He wrote, "All the time
he was kicking the dog. Not with the imprecision of anger, the kicks, not kicks
to match his rage but aimed, clinical vicious kicks. Kicks meant to hurt
deeply, to cause serious injury. Kicks meant to kill."

Causes of death have also included strangulation in towlines, internal
hemorrhaging after being gouged by a sled, liver injury, heart failure, and
pneumonia. "Sudden death" and "external myopathy," a fatal condition in which a
dog's muscles and organs deteriorate during extreme or prolonged exercise, have
also occurred. The 1976 Iditarod winner, Jerry Riley, was accused of striking
his
dog with a snow hook (a large, sharp and heavy metal claw). In 1996, one of Rick
Swenson's dogs died while he mushed his team through waist-deep water and
ice. The Iditarod Trail Committee banned both mushers from the race but later
reinstated them. In many states these incidents would be considered animal
cruelty. Swenson is now on the Iditarod Board of Directors.

In the 2001 Iditarod, a sick dog was sent to a prison to be cared for by inmates
and received no veterinary care. He was chained up in the cold and died. Another
dog died by suffocating on his own vomit.

Tom Classen, retired Air Force colonel and Alaskan resident for over 40 years,
tells us that the dogs are beaten into submission:

"They've had the hell beaten out of them." "You don't just whisper into their
ears, ‘OK, stand there until I tell you to run like the devil.' They
understand one thing: a beating. These dogs are beaten into submission the same
way
elephants are trained for a circus. The mushers will deny it. And you know what?
They are all lying." -USA Today, March 3, 2000 in Jon Saraceno's column

Beatings and whippings are common. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing
Manual, "I heard one highly respected [sled dog] driver once state that
"‘Alaskans like the kind of dog they can beat on.'" "Nagging a dog team is
cruel and ineffective...A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but
is effective." "It is a common training device in use among dog mushers...A whip
is a
very humane training tool."

Mushers believe in "culling" or killing unwanted dogs, including puppies. Many
dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for
any reason, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged or clubbed to death.
"On-going cruelty is the law of many dog lots. Dogs are clubbed with baseball
bats and if they don't pull are dragged to death in harnesses....." wrote
Alaskan Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska's Bush Blade Newspaper (March,
2000).

Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, "He [Colonel Tom
Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving dogs to maintain
their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens. Or
dragging them to their death."

The race has led to the proliferation of horrific dog kennels in which the dogs
are treated very cruelly. Many kennels have over 100 dogs and some have as many
as 200. It is standard for the dogs to spend their entire lives outside
tethered to metal chains that can be as short as four feet long. In 1997 the
United States Department of Agriculture determined that the tethering of dogs
was inhumane and not in the animals' best interests. The chaining of dogs as a
primary means of enclosure is prohibited in all cases where federal law applies.
A dog who is permanently tethered is forced to urinate and defecate where he
sleeps, which conflicts with his natural instinct to eliminate away from his
living area.

Iditarod dogs are unhappy prisoners with no chance of parole. Please stop
promoting this cruel race.

Sincerely,

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Please circulate! Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda & Mike Bober
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:44 AM
Subject: [voicesforRahkim] Please keep pressing the media/KY puppymill


We beg of you to please continue to press the media in the appalling case of
animal abuse and neglect in KY.  Perhaps if it is brought to the national level
something will be done and we can get those animals out of the hell they are in!
Please see following:
_________________________________________________________

Letters are needed to help the mill dogs/puppies in KY.

Please click on the link below, which will take you to the Congress.org web site
media guide, for ABC news headquarters. Just click on Compose Message. Either
copy, and paste the following letter or write a few lines of your own. Ask the
ABC network, to please provide National coverage of this story, to help make
people aware of the plight of mill dogs, and this mill in particular. We need
more outrage at the plight of these animals.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=org_pages&org_id=533

***I also went to www.abcnews.com and emailed every news show they have.  I
didn't want to take a chance on having it fall through the cracks.  Please do
the same***
Also following is the letter I wrote, feel free to use it, in part or in whole
if you need to:
__________________________________________________________

Here is what I sent.
       This message will be sent to:

               � ABC News Headquarters





             Linda Bober
             Chicago, IL 60633
             June 30, 2003
             ABC News Headquarters
             147 Columbus Ave
             3rd Fl
             New York, NY 10023
             ABC News:
             I beg you to please bring this horrid place to the attention of
people. There is a deplorable situation unfolding in Kentucky and these animals
need your help. Here is the original message I recieved regarding the situation:
"We want to know why Laurel County Attorney Keith Early there refused to take
action even after TV news crews from Channel 36, an ABC affiliate, filmed the
dead and dying animals in with rotting carcasses and a dog covered in flies,
maggots and feces giving birth in this filth.

             We want to know why rescue personnel are being required to furnish
County Attorney Early with the statutes and Kentucky laws concerning animal
cruelty before he will act when he should already be familiar with these laws
and should have acted on them already.

             We want action and we want it now. These poor animals must not
suffer any longer.

             What does it take to put an end to animal cruelty in Kentucky and
the indifference of officials to this suffering?" ________ This came from:Angell
Larson Founder, Senior Dog Rescue and Retirement Home 1525 Joe Acree Road
Edmonton, KY Phone: (270) 432- 2857 angeltax @ scrtc.com      (remove spaces)

             President, ELIPS of Metcalfe County (Every Litter Is Preventable,
Spay)

             ______________ This is the person to contact in an attempt to get
something done: Commissioner Billy Ray Smith Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Capitol Annex, Room 188 Frankfort, KY 40601 Phone (502) 564-5126 Fax (502)
564-5016

             Email ag.web @ kyagr.com  (remove spaces)

             ______ The following is the letter I sent to the commissioner:

             To whom it concerns: I received an email which is quoted below. Is
this horror really unfolding in Kentucky and no one is doing anything to stop
it?? This is deplorable, unacceptable and completely irresponsible. These
animals have no voice, they cannot ask for help or call 911. They depend on
humans to aid them...humans that brought them into this world. They did not ask
to be born, they did not ask to get pregnant with litter after litter of
puppies, they did not ask to live in this filth. For a brief moment, read the
quote, let the scenario sink in, only replace the dog with a human. No way in
hell would women in America be forced to give birth against their will in maggot
covered feces so why should these animals? Something needs to be done and it
needs to be done immediately! There are a plethora of rescue groups that would
help at the drop of a hat...all they need is some legal action. Be the voice for
those with none, stop this nonsense and punish the horrid people responsible for
it.

             Thank you in advance for your valuable time, Very Sincerely,

             Linda Bober

             Cause4Paws, Illinois

             _______ As you are reading this message these animals are dying.
There are people waiting in the wings to help but our hands are tied by legal
binds. Please, the rescue community begs of you, please cover this story and
give some justice to the animals that have no voice. If you need to contact me,
please do so. Thank you in advance for your valuable time.

             Very Sincerely,
             Linda Bober, Cause4Paws, Illinois





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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE


                   It is with an intense sense of urgency that the Universe cries
out for a plea of gentleness, and empathy for all living creatures.  God created
those who are voiceless, and defenseless for their own glory and for  a far
greater purpose than most humans can contemplate.


                   ANIMALS  inspire LOVE.


                   I implore everyone to offer to the Universe but "A Moment In
Time", a moment of synchronous, silent, yet united reflection of prayer and
meditation for those souls who love so unconditionally, and ask for nothing in
return. For those souls who are truly the masters of spiritual evolution, yet
suffer so universally, and with such torment, by the hands of the human animal.
And, for those souls who have passed and have finally found eternal peace.


                   Let us, all together, harness the powerful energies that we
all possess to change the tide for the "Innocents" forever.  It only calls for: 
"A Moment in Time".


                   Marijo Anne Gillis


                   FOR THE ANIMALS
                   Please Join Us:) !


                   PLEASE RIGHT CLICK THE ABOVE BANNER OR TAKE IT FROM THE MOMENT
IN TIME PAGE
                   AND ADD IT TO YOUR WEBSITE TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND ENOURAGE
OTHERS TO JOIN THIS WONDERFUL MOMENT TOGETHER !
                   PLEASE LINK IT BACK TO THIS PAGE,
                   http://www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/MomentInTime.html

                   WE THANK YOU, AND THE ANIMALS THANK  YOU
                   CANADIAN VOICE FOR ANIMALS FOUNDATION
                   http://www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org
                   CANADIAN VOICE FOR ANIMALS/UK
                   http://www.canadianvoiceforanimalsuk.org/ukintro.html

                   CANADIAN VOICE FOR ANIMALS U.S.A
                   One of our sister sites.
                   WAG (Welfare for Animals in Greece - a Lobby Group)
                   UNDER CONSTRUCTION-PLEASE BEAR WITH US
                   http://www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/WAG_NewYork.html


                   Greek Animal Rescue...Canada
                   http://www.garcanada.bizland.com/


                   PLEASE FORWARD THIS ON TO OTHER ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS AND
INDIVIDUALS



2004 ATHENS OLYMPICS - GREEK ANIMALS RACE FOR THEIR LIVES

Marijo Anne Gillis - Founder
WAG-New York (Welfare for Animals in Greece - a Lobby Group)
===================================

Rita Fazio,
Media Liaison, Sirius
Global Animal Org. Charitable Trust. http://sirius.2kat.net

Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS)
International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA)
http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voicesforRahkim/
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as
now they look upon the murder of men." - Leonardo da Vinci

The Real Joys of Eating Meat
An "in your face" true story of a revelation this man had on the serious side
effects of eating meat, and the importance of respecting all life forms.
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
http://hometown.aol.com/gentleshewolf/index.html

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Please circulate widely, especially to breeders.

Please be very careful about who you adopt/sell dogs to! Dogs, as well as most
other animals suffer incredible cruelty in every country!

----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: Please Cross Post


Please cross-post and make ppl aware of this letter below it is very disturbing
.  Rottie and GSD breeders (in Europe for sure) need to be aware of this post
being sent . I am sending it as I got it, but the letter is very explicit in
what this man is wanting. Personally I don't like this idea rather hoax or fact.
Just a heads up on this letter ...

A very good friend sent this to me.....she received this
in her email.....

Thanks For Being You
Bonnie And My Girls
Their Guardian Angels
http://cairnsandfriends.homestead.com/index_1.html

The animals' voices are silent
But their cries can be heard
if you care enough to listen
         ~Gerry Brehm~


----- Original Message -----
From: wills Tony
To: kunta199@...
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: Dear Breeder


Dear Breeder,

   I am pleased to visit your website and satisfied with the quality of dogs,for
this reason I will want to initiate a business negotiation between your kennel
and the Nigerian Army

Owing to the latest reshuffling in the Army the Minister of Defence with orders
from the presidency has directed that the Dog section of the Nigerian Army be
re-established with immediate effect.
The Nigerian Army in the 90's used to supply the Police,Navy and Air force
dogs,The dog section of the Army had about 1000 dogs which covers the 36 state
of the Federation.
       I have been mandated to invite contractors to supply the Army Rotweiller
and Shepherd dogs.I am of the hope that you are up to the task,a sum of Two
million three hundred thousand Dollars(2.3Million USD)Has been released for the
execution of the contract,to this end I am nominating you as one of the
contractors.I do hope that you will accept this offer with a view of making a
good partner with the Army.Kindly furnish me with your phone number and Fax
number so as to facilitate a speedy transaction.In acknowlegement of your mail i
will in turn give you my Direct line and other necessary steps to take.

Regards

Major Orji


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----- Original Message -----
From: סמדר
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Bull Used In Spain As Dart Board In Sickening Festival--Sample letter


PLEASE CROSS POST

SAMPLE LETTER FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE
6/23/03--Bull Used As Dart Board In Sickening Festival
http://www.kinshipcircle.org
1 letter

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
PETA  Action Alerts E-News, June 20, 2003
http://www.peta.org/alert/automation/AlertItem.asp?id=757

*DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original
source. I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or
for the consequences of its use.

*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a
campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.

===========SAMPLE LETTER============

City Hall of Coria
email: info @ coria.org   (remove spaces)

Tourism
Avd. Extremadura, 39
10800 Coria
Caceres
Spain
email: turismo @ coria.org   (remove spaces)

Diputacion Provincial de Caceres
Plaza de Santa Maria, s/n
10071 Caceres
Spain
fax: +34 927255471;
email: presidencia @ dip    (remove spaces)

Honorable Officials:

I have chosen to send the following letter, because it accurately describes my
feelings on this issue.

I am shocked to learn that authorities in Coria, Spain and the European Union
(EU) not only condone, but also promote the grossly inhumane Fiesta of San Juan.

In an effort to keep the Spanish "tradition" alive, tourists and locals chase a
bull through the streets to shoot darts into the terrified animal. Men aim for
sensitive areas such as the nose, eyes and testicles. After at least two hours
of sheer agony, the weak and blood-drenched animal is castrated while still
alive.

I understand the EU subsidizes the town of Coria because this so-called festival
enhances tourism. My friends, family and colleagues would never spend our
vacation dollars in a country that brutalizes animals for public amusement.

Tradition is never an excuse for cruelty. If it were, human slavery, lynching,
cannibalism or foot-binding would still be acceptable cultural mores. Neither
heritage, culture, entertainment, art, nor religion justify outright torture.

Scientists have long confirmed that animals exhibit an elaborate range of
psychological, perceptual, behavioral, personal and communal initiative. They
communicate differently, but the voice is there. They do not want to be gored
and mutilated. Like us, they want to live.

It is time for Spain to outlaw all archaic animal sacrifices--or face worldwide
censure. My family will not vacation in Coria until laws are enacted to prohibit
such cruel spectacles as the Fiesta of San Juan.

We will boycott Spain, and all products from Spain. We will boycott travel to
Spain, and spread this information far and wide, so other compassionate people
around the world will do the same, until the Spanish government outlaws this,
and all the barbaric cruel torture, and murder of animals in Spain

Thank you,




=====================================

Rita Fazio,
Media Liaison, Sirius
Global Animal Org. Charitable Trust. http://sirius.2kat.net

Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS)
International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA)
http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voicesforRahkim/
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon
the murder of animals as now they look upon the murder
of men. - Leonardo da Vinci "

The Real Joys of Eating Meat
An "in your face" true story of a revelation this man had on the serious side
effects of eating meat, and the importance of respecting all life forms.
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
http://hometown.aol.com/gentleshewolf/index.html


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It seems the proverbial shoe is on the other foot!

What Could Possibly Give You That Impression?!

Admitting that his 0-4 record is not impressive "on paper," trainers announced
that "Lucky," a German shepherd guide dog for the blind in Wuppertal, Germany,
is available for his fifth owner. Lucky led his first owner in front of a bus;
he led the second off the end of a pier. He then nudged his third owner off a
railway platform in front of the Cologne-to-Frankfurt express and walked his
fourth owner into heavy traffic, abandoning him to be hit and killed.

The new owner won't be told of Lucky's record - the trainers say that the dog
"might sense nervousness and do something silly..."


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Dearest Friends and Supporters:

       The most important and celebratory issue is to thank you with all our
hearts for the incredible job that you have all done.  Your e-mails of protest
and outrage to the Greek government, which numbered in the thousands, in
collaboration with WAG's insistent  lobbying created the opportunity for WAG-New
York and GAR - Canada to be invited to participate in official meetings with the
Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Greek Deputy Minister of Agriculture and
his Committee, the Mayor of Athens (an extremely powerful member of the
opposition party) and her Deputy Mayors and committee members and finally,
representatives of ATHOC (or the Athens Olympic Organizing Committee). The
meetings were gracious to a degree and we were provided an automobile and
chauffeur during our stay.

       I was interviewed by the major TV stations at our hotel and participated
in an early morning Radio Talk program.  I made the mistake of speaking candidly
which got me into a bit of "hot water", but nevertheless, Dianne's and my less
than diplomatic visit made news.  On Thursday, the 26th of June we drove to the
impressive new ATHOC headquarters and were startled to see police wearing bullet
proof vests.  The next day the Press reported that the "American" was going to
conduct a demonstration.  Yes, absolutely right...a demonstration consisting of 
myself, Dianne Aldan , our South African buddy Angela Flemming from Caring for
the Animals and our chubby Greek chauffeur.  My, we are a scary bunch of
terrorists.

       As many of you may know, Greek Press Officers are circulating releases, as
well as the wire services re the final outcomes of our 6 month campaign.  They
are as follows:

       The Government initiatives announced on June 26, 2003 reject euthanasia as
a solution for stray animals.  It provides for three stages:

       1.  The collection of stray animals from the greater Athens area.
       2.  Neutering and vaccinations in cooperation with local governments and
vets.
            (Identification?  Microchipping?)
       3.  Re-introduction of neutered, healthy, vaccinated animals back to their
natural environment
            - the area from which they were collected.

       At my insistence to Government officials, via the Embassy,  a
representative from a well-known and very outspoken animal rights organization
was invited to participate but this representative did not communicate with us
at all.  It was as if he was a separate entity.  Our hope was that we would work
in "concert".   Sadly, that did not happen.

       The initiatives for the protection of the Greek animals that we have "all"
pressured Greek Government Officials to institute, at this moment in time, are
just rhetoric.  This rhetoric MUST translate into action.

       (Don't rejoice until you see me and Dianne floating above you, on a
cloud!)

       The anticipated collection, sterilization and releasing of strays is a
task of monumental proportions.  Greece has never advocated humane education for
adults or children, although they say that will change with the new school year?
What about the adults???  The government's statement that they will capture the
abandoned animals is frightening indeed.  We are fearful of their being
manhandled.

       As we sat in posh Ministry offices, there were inconsistencies in remarks
made by officials with regard to plans and strategies for animal reform.  New
and pending legislation for "Owned and Stray Animals" is hardly comprehensive
and we are told must be amended by Presidential and Ministerial decrees if the
"new law" is to be effective and protective.  One concern with regard to this
"law"  ( we were given a translated version by a fiery and very active South
African born "Greek" activist ) is that if the old legislation was never
enforced and was considered to be a joke as are the animals in Greece, what
guarantee do we have that the "new" one will be implemented and enforced?

       One million euros ($1.163 million US) has been designated from the
Ministry of Agriculture to spearhead the Government's campaign.  ATHOC's
contribution remains a mystery.   This paltry amount is a sad indication of the
value that Greeks place on animals. The 2004 Olympic Committee's (ATHOC) budget
for security for the Games is close to one billion euros.    We must police any
Greek efforts and hold the ominous threat of a BOYCOTT over their collective
heads.  We were told by reporters and "sympathetic" officials that the threat of
a Boycott initiated by WAG-New York was the proverbial straw that broke the
camel's back.  Thank you all who supported this action and I need you to
continue.  We all need you so much--especially the animals of Greece.

       It was difficult for me to leave a country that I had loved and lived in
for so many years.  What was impossible emotionally, was leaving the animals.  I
am especially devastated but even more motivated.

       God bless you all and we thank you so very much!

       Marijo Anne Gillis  WAG, New York - a Lobby Group

       Dianne Aldan  GAR-Canada  (Greek Animal Rescue)

       2004 ATHENS OLYMPICS - GREEK ANIMALS RACE FOR THEIR LIVES
       Marijo Anne Gillis - Founder
       WAG-New York (Welfare for Animals in Greece - a Lobby Group)


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News










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      Posted on Tue, Jul. 01, 2003

       Graphic images open pet cruelty case
       Defense criticizes public efforts to sway outcome
       KYTJA WEIR
       Staff Writer

       MONROE - From the witness stand in Union County's District Court Monday,
insurance adjuster Mitch Helms recalled seeing a large snakeskin when he visited
Delores Perez's home in 1993 to assess barn damage.

       After commenting to her that such a large snake must cause trouble, he
testified, "She said she only lost one or two puppies a month to it."

       The audience of about 45 people, many wearing green Humane Society
bandanas as arm bands, gasped.

       But Judge Chris Bragg hushed the audience: "This is probably not going to
be the most graphic testimony ... We've got to keep the decorum of the court
room."

       Helms was the first witness in the anxiously awaited trial of Perez, 77,
accused of animal cruelty after more than 250 dogs were confiscated from her
home in April. The case, expected to wrap up today, is unusual for its graphic
descriptions of conditions at Perez's home and for its structure. Bragg is
simultaneously hearing a criminal misdemeanor and a civil case.

       Perez has denied the dogs were mistreated or unhealthy.

       The charges came about in late April when sheriff's deputies and animal
control officers raided Perez's 35-acre property in southeastern Union County
and seized dogs, puppies, two kittens and one parrot. They said she ran a "puppy
mill," breeding and selling dogs in squalid conditions. Since then, her case has
gained national attention, with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and
rescue groups nationwide urging stiff punishment. Followers of the case flocked
to the courthouse Monday with stickers on their chests reading "Stop puppy
mills" or "Perez Sucks."

       Perez had acknowledged to The Observer that she had more dogs than she
could handle and suffered from illness that prevented her from caring for them.

       Prosecutors and a Humane Society attorney, who brought the civil charge,
argued she had said the same thing before, back in 1993 when she faced similar
animal cruelty charges. The charges were eventually dismissed on appeal.

       Perez's attorney, Don Brown of Charlotte, called both the trial's
structure and the N.C. animal cruelty statute unconstitutional.

       "The only thing I want for Ms. Perez is a fair trial," he said in an
interview. "What we're seeing chips away at the Bill of Rights."

       But Bragg, who joined the two cases to conserve court resources, dismissed
Brown's motions, so Brown settled for peppering objections throughout witness
testimony.

       The court also saw graphic videos of dogs at the Perez home. Humane
Society President Cindy Poppino narrated the video, pointing out 18-inch piles
of feces under dog kennels in Perez's yard.

       But on cross-examination, Brown asked about the more than $25,000 that
Poppino's organization had raised after the raid. He asked about the nonprofit's
Web site, which urged people to keep the case in the media and press the
district attorney's office to seek stiff penalties.

       Poppino denied contacting any media outlets except for Channel 9, whose
video footage of the raid became the courtroom evidence.

       "I didn't call WSOC to publicize the case," she said. "We thought (the TV
reporter) would have some interest."

       After Monday's testimony, Brown questioned the Humane Society actions.
"Pressure and accepting donations? It just stinks," he said. "I'm concerned
about efforts to pressure a public official."

       In today's testimony, about eight witnesses are expected to testify. Bragg
said he intended to finish today even if it meant holding court into the night.


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       Kytja Weir: (704) 289-6576

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PLEASE CROSSPOST, Thanks!

The first email alert about this issue, had an incorrect email address,
presidencia@dip. The end after @dip was missing. This alert has the entire
address. There are more addresses, and  2 sample letters. If at all possible
please resend a letter to all addresses, and include just one of the pic's of
this atrocity, to show them that the world not only hears about this, but also
see's it! To make sure the pic. arrives with the email, it should be included as
an attachment, but if that isn't possible, copy and paste, because it might
work!

Please take a look at the single pic. of the bull standing in front of the crowd
of jeerers. Take a good look at this tortured, living, feeling being, and say a
prayer for those souls, who are unfortunate enough to be born into such a cruel
world!

Each year, during the Fiesta of San Juan in Coria, Spain, tourists and locals
armed with blowpipes shoot darts at bulls until the animals resemble pin
cushions. After the bulls are harassed, and tortured for two hours, they are 
castrated while still alive and killed in the street.

Please send a letter to the following, to ask that this atrocity be banned.
Sample letters are below.

AZNAR LOPEZ, Jose Maria.
President of the Government from May of 1996.
Email: jmaznar @ presidencia.gob.es   (remove spaces)
City council of Coria
Email: info @ coria.org   (remove spaces)

Tourism
Avd. Extremadura, 39
10800 Coria
Caceres
Spain
Email: turismo @ coria.org   (remove spaces)

Provincial delegation of Caceres
Seat of Santa Maria, s/n
10071 Caceres
Spain
Fax + 34 927255471
Email: presidencia @ dip-caceres.es   (remove spaces)

Send a copy of your letter to the Consulate General of Spain by going to the
following site:

http://www.spainemb.org/ingles/indexing.htm

On your left, click on Consulates, and you'll get a list of all the Spanish
consulates in the US. Choose your area under jurisdiction in each box, and send
a copy of your letter to that email address.

For other countries go to :
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Embassies_and_Consulates/

to find the Spanish consulate in your country.

=========Sample letter # 1==============

Honorable Officials of the Town of Coria,

I have chosen to send this letter, because it accurately describes how I feel
about this issue.

The picture below, of one of your festivals "the Toro de Coria" or "Fiesta of
San Juan," which is celebrated by tourists and locals chasing a bull through the
streets, to shoot darts into the terrified animal, is a disgrace! Men aim for
sensitive areas such as the nose, eyes and testicles of the bull. After at least
two hours of sheer agony, the weak and blood-drenched animal is castrated while
still alive.

The fact that animals are treated this way, and worse throughout Spain is a sad,
shameful connotation on your country! This is not the behavior of a civilized
society! This is a picture of a barbaric, backward Nation, who has no idea what
humanity is about! Spain is quickly becoming known, as one of the most cruel,
and saddistic nations in the world! If the European Union is actually condoning,
and promoting this barbarism to enhance tourism, they will soon see that this
behaviour, will actually damage Spains tourism trade.

If you have no concern for the brutality, and suffering that the citizens of
Coria cause the animals, please at least be concerned about the people
themselves!

Animal abuse is not just the result of a minor personality flaw in the abuser,
but also a symptom of a deep mental disturbance.  Research in psychology and
criminology shows that people who commit acts of cruelty against animals do not
stop there; many of them move on to their fellow humans.
The FBI of the US., has found that a history of cruelty to animals is one of the
traits that regularly appear in its computer records of serial rapists and
murderers, and the standard diagnostic, and treatment manual for psychiatric,
and emotional disorders, lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for
conduct disorders.

Will anyone want to travel to Spain on vacation, or purchase products made in
Spain, when they know about the atrocities commited in your country, by the
citizens, and that the government turns a deaf ear to the cries of pain from the
animals who are suffering? Compassionate, caring people who make up the majority
of the worlds population, will not!

Therefore;

We will circulate the information, that animals are abused and tortured in
Spain, to everyone we know, and ask that they pass it on. We will BOYCOTT all
things from Spain, vacations in Spain, all products and restaurants, if this
barbaric, abusive behavior toward animals, does not end once and for all.

Are the citizens of Coria, or anywhere in Spain,
proud of this picture?

Shame on the citizens of Spain!

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS

============SAMPLE LETTER # 2============

Honorable Officials:

I have chosen to send the following letter, because it accurately describes my
feelings on this issue.

I am shocked to learn that authorities in Coria, Spain and the European Union
(EU) not only condone, but also promote the grossly inhumane Fiesta of San Juan.

In an effort to keep the Spanish "tradition" alive, tourists and locals chase a
bull through the streets to shoot darts into the terrified animal. Men aim for
sensitive areas such as the nose, eyes and testicles. After at least two hours
of sheer agony, the weak and blood-drenched animal is castrated while still
alive.

I understand the EU subsidizes the town of Coria because this so-called festival
enhances tourism. My friends, family and colleagues would never spend our
vacation dollars in a country that brutalizes animals for public amusement.

Tradition is never an excuse for cruelty. If it were, human slavery, lynching,
cannibalism or foot-binding would still be acceptable cultural mores. Neither
heritage, culture, entertainment, art, nor religion justify outright torture.

Scientists have long confirmed that animals exhibit an elaborate range of
psychological, perceptual, behavioral, personal and communal initiative. They
communicate differently, but the voice is there. They do not want to be gored
and mutilated. Like us, they want to live.

It is time for Spain to outlaw all archaic animal sacrifices--or face worldwide
censure. My family will not vacation in Coria until laws are enacted to prohibit
such cruel spectacles as the Fiesta of San Juan.

We will boycott Spain, and all products from Spain. We will boycott travel to
Spain, and spread this information far and wide, so other compassionate people
around the world will do the same, until the Spanish government outlaws this,
and all the barbaric cruel torture, and murder of animals in Spain

Thank you,
YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS


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OMG..Can we put this on billboards? Can we tack it up in stores, on trees, etc?
Can we make flyers with this, and throw them out our car windows as we drive
around? There must be a way to get the message accross to the stupid, the
ignorant, the selfish, that animals are forever! They aren't disposable, like
trash!


Dear Mom and Dad,  (As written by their dog)

I died today.
You got tired of me and took me to the shelter.  They were overcrowded and I
drew an unlucky number.  I am in a plastic bag in a landfill now.  Some other
puppy will get the barely used leash you left.
My collar was dirty and too small, but the lady took it off before she sent me
to the Rainbow Bridge.

Would I still be at home if I hadn't chewed your shoe?  I didn't know what it
was, but it was leather, and it was on the floor.  I was just playing.
You forgot to get me puppy toys.

Would I still be at home if I had been housebroken?  Rubbing my nose in what I
did made me ashamed I had to go at all.  There are books and obedience teachers
that would have taught you how to teach me to go to the door.

Would I still be at home if I hadn't brought fleas into the house?
Without anti-flea medicine, I couldn't get them off me after you left me in the
yard for days and days.

Would I still be home if I hadn't barked and barked?  I was only saying "I'm
scared, I'm lonely, I'm here, I'm here!  I want to be your best friend."

Would I still be at home if I had made you happy?  Hitting me didn't help.

Would I still be at home if you had taken the time to care for me and to teach
me manners?  You didn't pay attention to me after the first week or so, but I
spent all my time waiting for you to love me.

I died today.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I looked at all the caged animals in the shelter...the cast-offs of human
society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and
betrayal. And I was angry. "God," I said, "this is terrible! Why don't you do
something?" God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly. I have done
something," He replied. "I created you." ~The Animals' Savior Copyright Jim
Willis 1999






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YES!!!! Fantastic news!

From: "Cindy Shipp" bitshort @ earthlink.net

           ~~SAVE LIVES....SPAY & NEUTER~~~
  PLS CROSSPOST

puppymill bist in lancaster pa. has closed the shelters there.  400 or
more dogs have been rescued.  breeds unknown.  owner selling dogs with bogus
akc registrations..read news story...we need to urge the  media for more
coverage too..cheryl
  email:  the tv station
  lannews@...

  http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/2297104/detail.html

  CHERYL HOLMES
  www.skyark.org (Volunteer Pilots and Donations Needed Pls)
  www.flyingpaws.org  (Volunteer Pilots Needed!!)

  HOME OF THE 2003 WORLD CHAMPION
  SAN ANTONIO SPURS!



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Maria Lopes <marialopes @ 2kat.net> (remove spaces) wrote:

       INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST BULLFIGHTS
       MOVIMENTO INTERNACIONAL ANTI-TOURADAS
       MOVIMIENTO INTERNACIONAL ANTITAURINO
       MOUVEMENT INTERNATIONAL ANTI CORRIDAS
       www.2kat.net/iwab
       marialopes @ 2kat.net (remove spaces)



       PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION OF TRISOMY 21 (Down Syndrome) PROMOTES BULLFIGHTING



       The Portuguese Association of Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) is going to stage
a bullfight on the 5th July in Setubal.

       It's outrageous that Charitable Organisations should use the torture of
animals to raise funds.

       We have no doubts that the use of bullfights to raise money for good
causes is merely an intentional and cynical exploitation of these causes to
whitewash torture by the bullfighters.

       There are many ethical and moral ways to collect funds for charities
without appealing to the sadistic bloodlust involved in the torture of non-human
animals.



       Please send protest letters to APPT 21.



       Associa��o Portuguesa de Portadores de Trissomia 21

       Rua Dr. Jos� Espirito Santo, Lote 49, Loja 1

       1900-672 Lisboa

       Portugal

       TEL 00 351 21  837 16 99,
       FAX: 00 351 21 837 17 12

       E-mail:

       appt21 @ net.sapo.pt  (remove spaces)



       You can also leave your opinions in the guest book on their web site
(click on "livro de visitas")

       http://www.terravista.pt/portosanto/1545/



       Sample letter (in English and Portuguese)



       Dear Sirs,



       I was astonished to learn that you are going to promote a bullfight on the
5th July in Setubal.



       Torturing animals to collect funds is unethical and morally unacceptable.
The funds so raised will be money stained with the blood of innocent animals.



       I consider this way of collecting funds for your laudable work totally
unacceptable and outrageous since there are many other ways of doing this
without practising and promoting cruelty.



       I trust that you will cancel this ill-thought bullfight; otherwise your
association will become notorious throughout the world thus damaging the cause
for which you are campaigning.



       I await your positive answer.



       Sincerely

       Name/Country



       _____________________





       Exmos.Senhores,



       Com estupefac��o tive conhecimento que V.Exas se preparam para promover
uma tourada no pr�ximo dia 5 de Julho , em Set�bal.

       Recorrer � tortura de animais como forma de recolher fundos � �tica e
moralmente inaceit�vel.



       O dinheiro obtido por esse meio mais n�o � que dinheiro manchado de sangue
de animais inocentes.



       Considero totalmente inadmiss�vel e ultrajante a forma como V.Exas.,
pretendem recolher fundos para a vossa louv�vel obra social uma vez que existem
variadiss�mas maneiras de custear a mesma sem o recurso a estas pr�ticas de
crueldade.



       Espero pois que cancelem desde j� a referida tourada, porque considero que
a realiza��o da mesma prejudicar� o nome da   vossa associa��o bem como a causa
pela qual lutam.



       Aguardando uma resposta positiva.



       Atentamente

       Name/Country




  Have a purrrfect day! Kat =^.,.^=

~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~



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----- Original Message -----
From: ASPCA News Alert
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: July is Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month/Pet Safety Tips for the 4th




                   PETFINDER HAPPY TAIL OF THE WEEK: NO MORE BAD HARE DAYS
                   Oscar the rabbit sat for long hours in the middle of the room
every day, with not much else to do but stare. His guardian, Jenn Feldmeyer,
felt bad about leaving him alone during her 12-hour nursing shifts. What Oscar
needed, thought the Minnesota resident, was a buddy.

                   Jenn's boyfriend tipped her off about Petfinder.com, the
ASPCA's online partner and searchable database of homeless pets--including about
2,000 rabbits. "He called me very excited about the many adoptable bunnies
featured," Jenn says, "and he specifically wanted me to look at Ingrid."

                   Jenn logged on to Petfinder.com and quickly found a photo and
description of the bun in question. The fawn-colored rex rabbit, listed on the
Minnesota House Rabbit Society's pet list, sported a mischievous expression that
convinced Jenn she'd be just right for Oscar. She also learned that Ingrid was
one lucky rabbit. "Ingrid was days away from being euthanized at a humane
society because of a sinus infection when the Minnesota House Rabbit Society
took her and gave her the medical attention she needed," she says.

                   After a get-acquainted meeting between Oscar and Ingrid, the
adoption was approved. "Ingrid has been a joy," relates Jenn. "Her litterbox
habits were impeccable from the day I brought her home. True to my first
impression, she is a coy little princess with a streak of mischief a mile long.
Best of all, the bunnies are truly friends, and Oscar no longer sits alone. Now
when I come home, I have two exuberant balls of fur underfoot!"

                   Pretty cute, right?! If you've been thinking about a bunny as
a pet, there's no better time to do your research than during Adopt A Rescued
Rabbit Month! You can visit ASPCA.org or stay tuned to ASPCA News Alert all this
July for more info on the species.

                   FOURTH OF JULY IS NO PICNIC FOR DOGS AND CATS
                   Loud, crowded fireworks displays are no fun for pets, so
please resist the urge to take them to Independence Day festivities. Instead,
keep your little guys safe from the noise in a quiet, sheltered and escape-proof
area at home. And for expert tips on how to keep your animal companions cool
when the weather heats up, visit ASPCA online.

                   THERE'S STILL TIME TO REGISTER: "CHILDREN AND ANIMALS BELONG
TOGETHER," JULY 17-20
                   Attention, educators! Join the ASPCA's Dr. Stephen
Zawistowski, Senior Vice President and Science Advisor, and Green Chimneys'
founder Dr. Samuel B. Ross, Jr., for a three-day conference that will explore
the present and future of humane education. To be held July 17-20 at Brewster,
NY's Green Chimneys, the event features Dr. Alan Beck, Director of the Center
for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University, who will speak at the banquet
dinner, and Dr. Marc Bekoff, author and professor at the University of Colorado,
who will discuss the importance of animal play.

                   The conference registration fee of $150 includes all meals and
keynote dinner. For more information or to register, visit ASPCA online or
contact Lisette Depew-Kubie at (845) 279-2995, ext. 107 or
lkubie@....

                   ASPCA SHELTER ANIMALS ARE SWEET ON TREATS
                   Four paws up to Treats4Pets, which recently donated a large
supply of goodies for the animals awaiting adoption at the ASPCA. Our shelter
cats and dogs are busy snacking on Meow-A-Roni and Woof-A-Roni, so we'd like to
thank this very generous company on their behalf.

                   FROM OUR E-MAIL BAG
                   In the May 22 issue of ASPCA News Alert, we ran an item on the
potential dangers of certain members of the lily family, such as Easter lily and
tiger lily, that can cause kidney failure in cats. In our article, we encouraged
feline caretakers to consider safer, and just as beautiful, alternatives, such
as African violets and Easter, tiger and lace orchids--much to the dismay of
reader Kristina B., who had heard that all orchids are toxic. "Or perhaps you
are using false nomenclature in naming the safe orchids," she writes. "Please
list the botanical name, so there is no confusion."

                   We asked Mindy Bough, veterinary technician for the ASPCA Pet
Nutrition and Science Advisory Service, to clear this up for us. Bough did
extensive research in addition to consulting with toxicologists at the ASPCA
Animal Poison Control Center (APCC), and here's what she found out: "There are
thousands of orchid species and more than 800 known genera in the orchid family,
and in a thorough search, APCC staff were unable to find a reference that
indicated orchids are toxic. Our sources also state that orchids are considered
nontoxic, and no reports of toxic exposure to these plants could be found."

                   Bough does point out that even the ingestion of a nontoxic
plant has the potential to cause gastrointestinal upset in companion animals.
"Pet owners should attempt to keep plants out of reach," says Bough. "However,
if only nontoxic plants are in the home and an exposure does occur, the worries
will be minimal."

                   For more on poison prevention for companion animals--including
lists of both botanical and common names of toxic and nontoxic plants--visit the
ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center online.

                   GOOD DEED OF THE DAY--PLEASE FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO ONE
PERSON!
                   Know someone who cares about animals as much as you do? Please
forward this issue of ASPCA News Alert to them. Anyone with an e-mail address
can register directly at our website. And please tell teachers, humane educators
and the children in your life about Animaland, the ASPCA's interactive website
for kids.

                   If you'd like to help us even more, you can find out how to
become a member of the ASPCA  or contribute to our special funds. To help pass
humane legislation in your state, visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center.












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Please forward widely!!

De: "iakakaps"
Para: "Friends of Korean Cats and Dogs Worldwide"
Data: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:12:54 -0700
Assunto: World Demonstration Day July 16, 2003

WORLD DEMONSTRATION DAY
JULY 16, 2003
Contact: Kyenan Kum :
  iaka @ koreananimals.org,  (remove spaces)  (510) 271-6795

Bok Days are the hottest days of the year in Korea. They are also the days in
which the greatest number of dogs are consumed. Some Koreans believe that eating
dog-meat stew will alleviate the summer heat, in addition to increasing a man's
sexual prowess. While this season spans 30 days, only three days are designated
Bok Days; this year they fall on July 16th, (the beginning of the season) July
26th, and August 15th.

We need as many people to support these demonstrations against dog-eating as we
can get! Each year over 2.6 million dogs and hundreds of thousands of cats are
tortured and killed for human consumption. Korean dog eaters believe that the
more a dog suffers, the more tender and sexually potent the meat. Korea's 1991
Animal Protection Law makes it illegal to harm or abuse dogs, cats and all other
animals, and yet the Korean government does nothing to stop these atrocities.
With our show of international force, we will lobby the Korean government for
stronger, enforceable animal protection laws that will protect companion animals
from being eaten.

If you are curious about how our demonstrations operate, please see :
www.koreananimals.org/update.htm  for examples. You can also download flyers for
the demonstrations from the same page.

Please join us on July 16th for our annual Bok Days protests! All demos start at
noon, unless otherwise noted. Contact IAKA or the organizer in your area for
more information:

ARGENTINA (Buenos Aries): Ana Maria,
anima @ anima.org.ar  (remove spaces)
location T.B.A.)

AUSTRALIA (Sydney): Alma,
offthemenu @ hotmail.com   (remove spaces)
at the Korean Consulate)

ENGLAND (London): Steve & Deb Wilkinson, iakauk.mid @ ntlworld.com  (remove
spaces)    +01782-256-983
at 60 Buckingham Gate)

ITALY (Rome): Ilaria Ferri,
intotheblue @ inwind.it  (remove spaces)
+390-62323-2569
at the Korean Embassy or Korean Air HQ)

KOREA (Daegu): Sunnan Kum,
kaps0127 @ hanafos.com  (remove spaces)
+82-53-629-6143
(location T.B.A.)

NETHERLANDS (The Hague): Aad Hoogesteger, ahoogesteger @ chello.nl
+0181-62-4422
at the Korean Embassy)

PUERTO RICO: Maria Boigues
mboigues54 @ hotmail.com  (remove spaces)
location T.B.A.)

UNITED STATES:
  New York): Greg Horak, lonecanislupus@...  (remove spaces)    (516)
933-7466
at the Korean Cultural Center)

Florida): Diana Morton
morton_diana @ hotmail.com  (remove spaces)

(Hawaii): Cathy Goeggel
selkie @ hawaii.rr.com
(at the Korean Consulate, 7:00 a.m.)

San Diego (USA), Las Vegas (USA) and New Zealand are also possible locations.

As always, please contact IAKA with any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas,
or concerns:

iaka @ koreananimals.org  (remove spaces)

www.koreananimals.org

Thank you and lets make some noise for the cats and dogs of Korea!


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----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie: K9love @ cox.net    (remove spaces)
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: WANT TO HELP SHUT DOWN A PUPPY MILL


WANT TO HELP SHUT DOWN A PUPPY MILL???  Here's how!!

You don't have to live in the vicinity to help!!  All assistance is greatly
needed and appreciated!!
PLEASE CONTACT:

Ray Adams, email:  cajunbear 9 @aol.com (remove spaces)

Puppy Mill Operator:
Melanie Szegedi,
6019 Wagener Rd.
Wagener Sc.
Szegedi104 @ Hotmail.com  (remove spaces)

Please help the innocent little ones, no money required. Please help I can't do
it alone!  Her animals have mange,
  worms and other diseases.  Animal control only cites her, she is and always
will be a criminal.  She has approx. 70 dogs and a TIGER!!!
The chihuahuas are especially being abused.  She has them mixed in with the
large dogs and the TIGER!!!
Last week Friday the Aiken County sheriffs deputies,  Animal Control and myself
were ready to move on the puppymill and arrest Melanie Szegedi, but the state of
Ohio refused to come and get her.  She has outstanding warrants on NCIC, but
they chose not to honor the warrant.  This is from the prosecutor John Gamble in
Columbiana County Ohio.  She is back to her old ways.  They say writing bad
checks, and breaking probation, and flight to avoid arrest is not enough reason
to come get her.  They said it would cost too much and she is too much trouble. 
Meanwile she is free to spread her cuelty everywhere she feels like.
Here's what I need to happen: Your help will count, and anyone you can get to
call please do.  I will never give up until she is in jail, if it takes the rest
of my life!  Everyone that wants to help:  Please call the following people and
request that they do their Jobs and go get her:

Prosecutor, John Gamble @ 330-420-0140

Judge Tobin @ 330-424-7777

Columbiana Sheriff's Office: 330-424-1104
      Lieutenant Jerry F. Herbert
      Sergeant Allan D. Young

Aiken County South Carolina :
  - Animal Control  803-642-1537
  - Sheriff's Dept.  803-642-1761

These people have the authority and just cause to end the reign of terror spread
by this evil female.  I can't
describe the  filthy and nasty conditions the poor puppies and chihuahuas are
living in.   I have filed suit
against her, in Aiken county.  The only way to stop her at least for a while and
rescue her animals, including  the Tiger is to get Ohio to do their job and come
get her.  She has been arrested aprox. 35 times or more.  This time she broke 
probation and fled arrest and incarceration.

UPDATE:

"Felony Melanie" has committed fraud all over.  She is a wanted criminal
fromColumbiana Ohio.  People from OH to PA and other areas want her, as  she
sells dogs over the Internet and doesn't deliver.She is presently in Jail for
failure to comply as directed by Aiken County Animal Control, in regards to the
Tiger, for how long I don't know.  When she gets out, we will try to put her
back in.  I am checking with animal control on what's happening with her
animals.

Ray Adams
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, there you have it.  Contact Ray Adams @ cajunbear 9 @aol.com   (remove
spaces)for more info, additional email addresses to contact, etc.  He will be
more than happy to provide you with whatever additional info you need.
Betty Kryszewski, Todos Santos, BCS Mexico
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     "Few things in this modern world remain all black and white,   But one which
surely does is cruelty to animals.There is simply no excuse for it-any time, any
place , for any reason."

Thanks For Being You
Bonnie And My Girls
Their Guardian Angels
http://cairnsandfriends.homestead.com/index_1.html

The animals' voices are silent
But their cries can be heard
if you care enough to listen
         ~Gerry Brehm~

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We know that there are too many cruel people, who enjoy torturing, and killing
living beings. Everyone, everywhere, needs to keep their animals inside, even
dogs, and watch them when they go out in the yard. Please! I'm sure everyone has
heard of copycats! Please don't let your little ones become a victim of a very
sick mind!

----- Original Message -----
From: A5402mel@...
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:21 PM
Subject: possible "cat serial killer" in DENVER!! PLEASE KEEP YOUR CATS INSIDE


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^^^^^^^^^^^^
Subj: [save_my_Wheezer] possible "cat serial killer" in DENVER!!
Date: 07/01/2003 8:58:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: goldie544@...

Plz cross this to all groups, possible cat serial killer in Denver.......PLZ PLZ
PLZ if you live in this area keep your cat inside........Thanks,Cathy

More dead cats found in Denver area
'It breaks my heart'
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 Posted: 6:44 PM EDT (2244 GMT)

Caitie Hughes is placing flyers in her neighborhood in Aurora,  Colorado, to
call attention to the cat mutilations.
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DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Four more dead cats have been found in the Denver area,
heightening fear among pet owners that a serial cat
killer is in their midst.

Authorities say at least 40 mutilated cats have been discovered in Denver and
its suburbs in the past year, including four killed over the weekend. The toll
in Salt Lake City is 10 cats and another
unidentified animal.

Christy Hughes had stopped reading stories about the attacks. Then her husband
found the eviscerated body of their 15-year-old cat,
Bugsy, outside the front door of their Aurora home two weeks ago.

"I blame myself, because had I read it, I never would have let my cat outside,"
she said Monday. "I've had a hard time forgiving myself for
that."

Authorities are worried that despite the attacks, pet owners still are letting
their cats roam outside.

"I've had people say, 'They don't like to stay inside,"' said Temma Martin,
spokeswoman for Salt Lake County Animal Services. "Well, look
at the stakes here."

In several cases, it appears the attacker kills the cat, then taunts the owner
by bringing back the remains. Some of the animals were cut
with surgical precision. Some may have been killed by another animal.

The Colorado penalty for aggravated cruelty to animals is up to 18 months in
jail and a $100,000 fine.

Hughes said Bugsy was attacked sometime between 1 a.m., when he last went out,
and 6:15 a.m., when he was found dead.

She said she is "retraining" her two kids and husband not to let their two
kittens outside anymore.

"For a week I couldn't sleep because I just kept seeing my cat over and over,"
she said. "It breaks my heart seeing somebody else go through this."




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Subj: [hsus-action] HUMANElines Issue 254
Date: 7/3/2003 7:44:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: owner-hsus-action @ lists.hsus.org
Reply-to: humanelines @ hsus.org  (remove spaces)
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Issue 254 --- July 3, 2003
A Project of The Humane Society of the United States and The Fund for Animals
http://www.humanelines.org/
DON’T FORGET THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FUR INDUSTRY:

Although summertime signals the traditional end of the fur garment season, the
animals killed for the fur industry suffer year-round. Visit the Fund for
Animals’ “Neiman Carcass” website for tips on how you can become involved
in asking the nation’s largest promoter and retailer of fur garments in the
nation, Neiman Marcus, to stop its complicity in the cruel fur trade.

UPDATE: ALABAMA GREYHOUND CRUELTY CASE ENDS:

According to The Mobile Register (7/2), the case against Robert Rhodes, the
Alabama man who admitted to killing more than 2,000 racing greyhounds over the
last decade, has drawn to a close, due to the unexpected death of Mr. Rhodes.
Although the case against Mr. Rhodes is dead, charges against four Florida
greyhound kennel operators for conspiracy to commit animal cruelty are still
pending. Stay tuned for more updates on the pending cases!

UPDATE: MINNESOTA DISTRICT ATTORNEY GRANTS PLEA BARGAIN IN VICIOUS DOG-KILLING
CASE:

Against a flood of public pleas to fully prosecute admitted dog killer Michael
Dean Weske, the Carlton County, MN District Attorney has instead struck a plea
deal with Weske. According to the Associated Press (7/3), Weske admitted earlier
this year to trying to kill a friend’s dog by dragging him behind an all
terrain vehicle for nearly a mile and then savagely beating him with a pipe (see
HUMANElines Issue 226). Although the dog was able to drag himself home, he was
shot to death by his guardian to end his suffering. On Wednesday (7/2), the DA
accepted Weske’s guilty plea to felony animal cruelty charges in exchange for
suspended jail time, probation, psychological counseling and community service.
While the felony conviction and psychological counseling are certainly
appropriate, the lack of jail time is a disappointment to the thousands of
animal advocates who had hoped to see Weske serve significant jail time for his
vicious crime.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR ANIMALS --- TODAY!!
To receive directly, call 202-955-3668 or email humanelines @ hsus.org (remove
spaces) For more information on legislation, how to find your legislators, or
past HUMANElines, go to http://www.hsus.org/ or http://www.fund.org/















"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrongdoing that we have the
power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt".**Anna
Sewell**















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----- Original Message -----
From: RatAttackTeam @ aol.com   (remove spaces)
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:33 PM
Subject: Weske pleads guilty


Thank you all  !!!

Last week Michael Weske, Moose Lake, MN dog dragger< pled "guilty" to FELONY
ANIMAL ABUSE & a lesser crime of coercion with a minor.
The other smaller charges were dismissed.

Weske was evaluated & said to be "no serial killer" (yet) and is continuing
counseling. He also got 1 year suspended sentence, 2 years probation > if broken
will do jail time < and 200 hours community service.
The original violation would have carried 2 yrs in jail / $5000 fine or both.
He does however have 2 family dogs at home! Hope he is watched closely. This was
a long battle & we won. This sentence does inconvenience the poor boy in that he
can not enlist in the military like he wanted & can't hunt with fire arms. ;-)

Thank you all who wrote letters & phoned. It really did make a huge difference.(
reporter said over 1000 letters were received by the D.A.)  The story  should be
in paper next couple of days.
Rathugs,
Jan
AnimalVoices,
RatAttackTeam &
Safe & Humane Circus Coalition

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----- Original Message -----
From: Katie Walter
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Trooper - Please, please help - VERY DESPERATE - WORST CASE OF ABUSE I
HAVE EVER SEEN!


PLEASE CROSSPOST VERY WIDELY!

From: Rayofjoy @ aol.com   (remove spaces)           VERY, VERY URGENT!

PLEASE HELP THIS GUY - ONE OF THE WORST CASES OF ABUSE- YOU CAN ALL HELP A
LITTLE EVEN IF IT MEANS JUST FORWARDING THIS ON.  THANKS, JOY RAY
Just when we though we could take the day to unwind from the pressures of the
day, this arrives.  Poor little guy!

THANKS, JOY RAY

From: Patt Claghorn this terribly sad story just in, July 4th morning...   :(  
PattChRiSSaY -SOAR RESCUE <SOARrescue @ msn.com> (remove spaces) wrote: From:
"ChRiSSaY -SOAR RESCUE"

   ***PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST!***

   Warning photos below are graphic!

   This is TROOPER. He is in desperate need of some help!! This is a plea for
help. On the morning of July 1st, one of my volunteer's co-workers found a
puppy, a four month old male Black Labrador mix. The puppy was injured with
burns. My volunteer called me and I said to bring the puppy over. I was not
prepared for what I saw, I figured maybe little cigarette burns, WRONG, this dog
was
burned from his neck to the base of his tail. His skin was hanging of his body
and BUBBLING. There was a stench of dead flesh and infection... It was some
type of chemical burn (possibly battery acid). This poor little dog was in so
MUCH PAIN. They brought him over in a box, and he would start screaming every
time he barely moved. How could someone do this to this poor dog??? People are
so cruel. As well as the burns some of his teeth were CUT IN HALF.... I was in
shock when I saw him. He was rushed to the vet immediately where he under
went surgery to remove the dead skin and to treat the infection along with an IV
full of pain killers and fluids, and had a blood panel to hope the infection
didn't reach his blood. His skin is very infected and his entire back is raw.
He's in a lot of pain. He's currently at our vet and will stay there for AT
LEAST two weeks. The bill for the first day was $389 every day thereafter the
bill will be between $120 and $175 PER DAY. His bills will reach over $2000.
This
is a plea to ask if any one can help us to help this little boy now named
Trooper. Our rescue does not have the funds to pay this type of bill and we are
NOT going to give up on this guy. If not any help with funding we ask for your
prayers for darling Trooper... he needs them... This poor little dog, he's
such a Trooper though... (hence the name =)..) I go and see him at the hospital
and stick my hand in his kennel and he stops crying as soon as I hold him or
let him lay his head on my hand, really pulls at the heartstrings. This guy has
a will to live and we're not going to give up on him... He's doing A LOT
better now than he was when he first came in....


   ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE AND CAN BE MADE OUT TO:
SOAR RESCUE
   SEND TO:
   P.O. Box 9233
   San Bernardino, Ca 92427
   Chrissay Sloan
   SOAR RESCUE
   909-887-0289

THE VET HE IS BEING TREATED AT:
   General Dog and Cat Animal Hospital
   In San Bernardino, California
   909-888-9188

   *`*ChRiSSaY SLoaN*`*
   SOAR
   Shepherds and Others Animal Rescue
   http://www.SOAR.petfinder.org

   (The photos... three of him in his kennel at the vet, which under all the
bandages IS COMPLETELY BURNED, as you can see on his leg, that's what his entire
back looks like!... Poor guy, then the last shot is a picture of his face and
how happy he looked even though he was in so much pain... all he wanted was for
someone to love him...)

   > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=Trooper1.jpg > ATTACHMENT part 3
image/jpeg name=Trooper2.jpg > ATTACHMENT part 4 image/jpeg name=Trooper3.jpg >
ATTACHMENT part 5 image/jpeg name=Trooper.jpg



   a.. Wee Bar None Ranch Pet Placement
   b..               Apple Valley, CA
   c..         pattclaghorn @ yahoo.com   (remove spaces)


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Charlotte Observer | 06/30/2003 | City neglects best solutionPlease vote on this
poll ASAP. I don't know how long it will be active. Link is below next to the
pic. :-(
I am just crossposting this.

----- Original Message -----
From: yks30ver60x@...
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: Fw: SPAY/NEUTER STATISTICS by DISTINGUISHED PAPER!


WOW my Friends!  Great article!  Must read and vote "YES" on the poll.  AND,
let's tell the writer that in addition to spay/neuter, ALL breeders have got to
GO!!!  Breeders are the cancer of the animals!!!!!  Destroying the breeders'
BU$INE$$ is animals' ONLY salvation!  Thank you for writing them!    Adela

The Charlotte Observer
P.O. Box 30308
Charlotte, NC 28230-0308

opinion @ charlotteobserver.com  (remove spaces)

Fax: (704) 358-5022

---- Original Message -----
From: 21stcares@...;
Joseph Pastore: jpastore46@...
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: Fw: Charlotte Observer Makes a Good, Clear Point


Excellent article forwarded from Randy Warner (21stcares@...).
Joe P.

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             City neglects best solution
             Euthanasia - and costs - drop where government backs spay-neuter
clinics
             SCOTT DODD & MICHELLE CROUCH
             Staff Writers


                         More photos

                         BROWN COLLIE. Picked up with her two puppies off South
Boulevard. Fate: Killed five days later. Almost from the beginning, this one
didn't have a chance. One of her puppies was adopted.


             FULL REPORT | Death at the pound


             POLL | Should Charlotte spend more on spay-neuter clinics?


             As cities across the country reduce the number of unwanted pets they
kill, the euthanasia room at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg animal shelter is getting
busier.

             In a single day recently, it was the last resting place for a litter
of gray kittens, a friendly black Labrador and more than 50 other dogs and cats
-- all killed with a shot of muscle relaxant that stopped their hearts.

             The Observer found that while the city spends more than $4 million a
year to catch, house and kill animals, it has done little to address the cause
of the problem: the exploding population of unwanted pets.

             Charlotte puts no public money toward spaying and neutering and has
done less than many cities to increase adoptions or public awareness of
sterilization.

             "It's atrocious," said Ron Simons, a former Charlotte Animal Control
supervisor who heads a local group pushing for more spaying and neutering.
"Every day, we're killing healthy, adoptable animals. I'm tired of putting down
this many animals when there's a solution."

             A report to Charlotte City Council late last year recommended
changes. It called the current system -- which kills seven of every 10 animals
at the shelter, more than 14,000 last year -- "an unconscionable waste of life
and a needless drain on public money."

             The Observer found:

             � The city kills 19 animals a year for every 1,000 Mecklenburg
County residents, one of the higher rates among cities its size in the country.
The national average is 16, according to an annual survey, and cities such as
Phoenix and Portland have lowered their rates to eight by changing their
approaches.

             � Seven months after the city report that recommended changes, the
most effective reforms have yet to be enacted. Animal control officials say they
need more time to develop a plan, and formed a committee this month, after an
interview with Observer reporters.

             � The city hasn't invested public money to increase animal
sterilizations or target low-income communities that experts say need
spay-neuter services most. For two decades, officials have left sterilization to
the Humane Society of Charlotte.

             � Officials have provided little oversight of the Humane Society,
which operates under a city contract. No one noticed the group hadn't submitted
a budget, as required, to the city for three years. City officials couldn't
agree on who was responsible for monitoring the Humane Society's work.

             � The city only recently began considering strategies to help
increase awareness of the growing animal population and promote adoption at the
city shelter, where adoption rates remain below the national average, according
to the city report.

             Officials say Charlotte's Animal Control Bureau is trying to change
its approach, but reform will take time and resources.

             "I don't think it's a good idea for us to go in and pump a lot of
money into spaying and neutering as many animals as we can willy-nilly," said
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens, who said a detailed plan is
needed first. His department includes Animal Control, which serves the entire
county.

             The city has other priorities, too, he added, and shouldn't bear the
full blame for the problem, which is created by irresponsible pet owners.

             Animal Control officers see the results often, such as the call last
month from an elderly woman in a poor north Charlotte neighborhood. She wanted
them to take her dog away.

             When Officer Shannon Corkwell arrived, the woman said she simply
couldn't care for the black Labrador mix named Jasmine. The woman led Corkwell
to the back yard, where the dog was tied to a 2-foot metal chain. Instead of a
collar, a coat hanger twisted around her neck.

             "You know we'll probably put her to sleep don't you?" Corkwell asked
as she petted the dog, which licked her face.

             "Yes, that's OK," the woman said. "When I got her, she was such a
little thing, and she curled up on the couch with me. But I can't take care of a
big dog like this. I'm 79."

             Jasmine was killed that night. Her owner didn't plan to grieve.

             "I'm going to try to get me another little one before too long."

             A better way of managing

             For years, Charlotte's Animal Control officers did little more than
catch and kill strays. Then several workers went to an Arizona conference in
fall 2000, where they learned the latest ideas used in other cities to curb
animal death rates. They wanted to bring those strategies here.The result: The
Community Animal Management Program, developed with several animal welfare
groups and volunteers from Leadership Charlotte. The plan has five major steps:

             � Increase sterilizations and public education, especially in
low-income areas.

             � Increase the number of animals adopted from the shelter.

             � Embed microchips in animals who leave the shelter so, if they're
picked up as strays, the owners can be identified.

             � Trap and neuter feral cats.

             � Help pet owners train their adopted animals so they don't develop
behavioral problems and get returned to the shelter.

             So far, Animal Control has made strides on two steps, adoptions and
microchipping. It now places updated pictures of animals offered for adoption on
the Internet and recruits volunteers who take animals to Wal-Mart on weekends to
shop for new owners. It's also spending $47,000 this year to embed microchips in
animals from the shelter, paid through higher fees from the new owners.

             But adoptions and microchipping aren't expected to have a major
impact. "It is only through spaying and neutering," the plan says, "that shelter
admissions will be reduced."

             Officials initially said they had no immediate plans to spend public
money on sterilization programs. As recently as last month, Capt. Tammy
Williams, who heads Animal Control, said the city is "not in the business of
spaying and neutering, and we don't want to be in that business anytime in the
near future."

             Williams now says the city will take a different approach. The city
learned this month it has won a $25,000 grant that it will spend to help
low-income people get their pets neutered.

             To fulfill the full city strategy, though, will require additional
planning, Williams said. A funding request to the City Council could take a year
or more.

             "You don't just walk across the street and ask for half a million or
even $50 without a strategic plan to validate it," she said.

             Even so, supporters say one of the most compelling arguments for
more spaying and neutering is that it could save city money.

             In New Hampshire, a statewide program cut the cost of neutering pets
to $10 for poor residents. The state saved $3 in animal control costs for every
$1 spent on the program.

             And it saved animals' lives. Over an eight-year period between 1993
and 2001, the state recorded a nearly 75 percent drop in the number of dogs and
cats killed.

             "The folks in Charlotte don't have to invent anything," said Peter
Marsh, a national consultant on pet population who helped implement the New
Hampshire program. "The model is right there in other cities."

             The International City/County Management Association says dozens of
cities have opened government-subsidized spay-neuter clinics or provided
vouchers to low-income residents. Others have passed laws requiring all pet
owners to sterilize their animals unless they pay for a breeder permit.

             Whatever the strategy, it's up to government agencies to take the
lead, experts say.

             "You need public money" to succeed, Marsh said. "It's absolutely
critical, because you can't raise enough private money, and you need to have
money year in and year out."

             Efforts fall behind

             Two decades ago, the Charlotte Humane Society and its executive
director, Patti Lewis, pushed the city to let the group open the first low-cost
spay-neuter clinic in the state.

             The city began requiring every animal adopted from its shelter to be
sterilized at the clinic. And in 1992, the city moved its pound to a new
facility and began leasing two former shelter buildings to the Humane Society
for $1 a year.

             For years, the clinic worked. Immediately after it opened, the
annual number of animals killed dropped from 15,079 to 9,551. But in the past
decade, the numbers have risen again, and the city has done little to keep up.

             The wait for spay-neuter surgeries has grown to more than a month,
and Lewis says the society can't handle the volume of pets without more
resources.

             "It's a very tiny clinic," she said. "... I can't put more people in
there because they're stumbling over themselves now."

             One thing that could help keep euthanasias down, experts say, is
making it easier for low-income pet owners to get their animals sterilized.
That's important because poorer people are traditionally less likely to spay and
neuter pets. About 80 percent of animal control calls nationwide originate in
low-income communities.

             Although pet owners at the Humane Society clinic pay less than half
the surgery's cost at a private vet's office, experts say $30 for cats and $40
for dogs is still more than many low-income residents are willing or able to
spend.

             "You've got this whole segment of society that's going to have pets,
and they're not going to have the money to get them spayed and neutered," said
Dr. Marty Davis, a veterinarian at Monroe Road Animal Hospital.

             Charlotte's city manager sets the fees for the Humane Society
clinic, which are the same no matter a pet owner's income. Other cities have
reduced the charges to as low as $10 or even free for residents who qualify.

             City Manager Pam Syfert said last week she relies on the Humane
Society to ask for fee changes and has never considered a sliding scale.

             "You're raising some policy issues about how you handle the animal
population, and I'm not the right person to talk to about that," she said.

             Animal Control has helped organize special clinics in low-income
neighborhoods, but they've asked other animal welfare groups to pick up the
sterilization costs. At three clinics in the past year and a half, 77 animals
have been neutered. At the next clinic, the city plans to pay for the surgeries
with the grant money it received recently, officials said last week.

             Oversight is uncertain

             City leaders have done little to oversee the Humane Society. Under
the spay-neuter contract with the group, city officials can inspect the
society's books and should receive annual budgets.Lewis said the city used to
visit yearly and look over financial records, but that hasn't happened recently.
And city budget officers didn't notice that the society didn't provide a budget
for the past three years until The Observer asked for copies last month.

             "Through miscommunication or misunderstanding of roles, the budget
used to come to the budget department for review, then go to police," city
spokesman Rick Davis said, "and that has not happened."

             City officials couldn't agree who should provide oversight.

             "I can't answer that," Chief Stephens said. "Our only relationship
with them is that they fulfill the spay-neuter contract. We don't even manage
the contract. I think that's the city manager's office or the city attorney."

             The city manager's office, however, said animal issues are the
police department's responsibility.

             "Quite frankly," said Davis after checking with the manager's
office, "animal control is really not on anybody's radar screen up there."

             Cities that manage to stem their animal kill rates don't stop with
sterilization. They often pair those services with extensive public education.

             Those efforts let the public know the size of the problem and what
happens to thousands of unwanted pets every year. Cities have taken out
billboards, allowed euthanasias to be recorded and shown by news media, and
walked shelter dogs wearing the dates they'll be killed if they aren't adopted.

             Charlotte spends nothing on television, print or billboard
advertisements, although private groups have occasionally funded such efforts.

             Williams allowed Observer reporters and a photographer to view
euthanasias, but wouldn't permit pictures of animals being injected or dead
bodies.

             "We don't think we need to shock the community by showing them 50
dead animals," said Williams, who added that the bureau is upfront about its
euthanasia rates.

             Speakers spread the word

             The bureau's main method of convincing people to neuter their pets
is sending speakers to schools, city events and neighborhood meetings.

             "Are we in the schools enough now? No," Williams said. "Are we going
to try to improve that? Yeah. We've got to do more to get the word out."

             This month, Charlotte City Council raised pet license fees for the
first time since 1992. Owners now will pay $2.50 more per year for a sterilized
animal and $5 more for an unaltered animal.

             That will bring in more than $80,000 a year in extra revenue. Some
animal welfare advocates want that money to go toward spaying and neutering.

             But right now, it's set to be folded into the city's general fund,
with none designated specifically for animal programs.

             Chief Stephens said it's not good policy to designate fee revenue
for a specific use, because the city's priorities may change. Fees, though, are
frequently used to fund other local government functions, including parks,
building inspectors and utilities.

             "The license fees are part of the general fund, and that's where our
budget comes from anyway," Stephens said. "So you could say we already get that
money back."

             The bureau is trying to find other ways to pay for its efforts,
including more private grants.

             Animal Control workers say they hate killing animals, and their goal
is to do it as little as possible. But as long as the unwanted pet population
grows, there's no alternative. Shelters and rescue groups can't save them all.

             "We do not take pleasure in what we do," Williams said. "But we're
the only ones who do it."


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Has no-one else realised that the sole purpose of these on-line polls is to
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Charlotte Observer | 06/30/2003 | City neglects best solutionPlease vote on
this poll ASAP. I don't know how long it will be active. Link is below next
to the pic. :-(
I am just crossposting this.

----- Original Message -----
From: yks30ver60x@...
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: Fw: SPAY/NEUTER STATISTICS by DISTINGUISHED PAPER!


WOW my Friends!  Great article!  Must read and vote "YES" on the poll.  AND,
let's tell the writer that in addition to spay/neuter, ALL breeders have got
to GO!!!  Breeders are the cancer of the animals!!!!!  Destroying the
breeders' BU$INE$$ is animals' ONLY salvation!  Thank you for writing them!
Adela

The Charlotte Observer
P.O. Box 30308
Charlotte, NC 28230-0308

opinion @ charlotteobserver.com  (remove spaces)

Fax: (704) 358-5022

---- Original Message -----
From: 21stcares@...;
Joseph Pastore: jpastore46@...
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: Fw: Charlotte Observer Makes a Good, Clear Point


Excellent article forwarded from Randy Warner (21stcares@...).
Joe P.

   PROVING MY POINT TO A " t ".



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--------------------------------------------------------------------

            Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2003

             City neglects best solution
             Euthanasia - and costs - drop where government backs spay-neuter
clinics
             SCOTT DODD & MICHELLE CROUCH
             Staff Writers


                         More photos

                         BROWN COLLIE. Picked up with her two puppies off
South Boulevard. Fate: Killed five days later. Almost from the beginning,
this one didn't have a chance. One of her puppies was adopted.


             FULL REPORT | Death at the pound


             POLL | Should Charlotte spend more on spay-neuter clinics?


             As cities across the country reduce the number of unwanted pets
they kill, the euthanasia room at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg animal shelter
is getting busier.

             In a single day recently, it was the last resting place for a
litter of gray kittens, a friendly black Labrador and more than 50 other
dogs and cats -- all killed with a shot of muscle relaxant that stopped
their hearts.

             The Observer found that while the city spends more than $4
million a year to catch, house and kill animals, it has done little to
address the cause of the problem: the exploding population of unwanted pets.

             Charlotte puts no public money toward spaying and neutering and
has done less than many cities to increase adoptions or public awareness of
sterilization.

             "It's atrocious," said Ron Simons, a former Charlotte Animal
Control supervisor who heads a local group pushing for more spaying and
neutering. "Every day, we're killing healthy, adoptable animals. I'm tired
of putting down this many animals when there's a solution."

             A report to Charlotte City Council late last year recommended
changes. It called the current system -- which kills seven of every 10
animals at the shelter, more than 14,000 last year -- "an unconscionable
waste of life and a needless drain on public money."

             The Observer found:

             . The city kills 19 animals a year for every 1,000 Mecklenburg
County residents, one of the higher rates among cities its size in the
country. The national average is 16, according to an annual survey, and
cities such as Phoenix and Portland have lowered their rates to eight by
changing their approaches.

             . Seven months after the city report that recommended changes,
the most effective reforms have yet to be enacted. Animal control officials
say they need more time to develop a plan, and formed a committee this
month, after an interview with Observer reporters.

             . The city hasn't invested public money to increase animal
sterilizations or target low-income communities that experts say need
spay-neuter services most. For two decades, officials have left
sterilization to the Humane Society of Charlotte.

             . Officials have provided little oversight of the Humane
Society, which operates under a city contract. No one noticed the group
hadn't submitted a budget, as required, to the city for three years. City
officials couldn't agree on who was responsible for monitoring the Humane
Society's work.

             . The city only recently began considering strategies to help
increase awareness of the growing animal population and promote adoption at
the city shelter, where adoption rates remain below the national average,
according to the city report.

             Officials say Charlotte's Animal Control Bureau is trying to
change its approach, but reform will take time and resources.

             "I don't think it's a good idea for us to go in and pump a lot
of money into spaying and neutering as many animals as we can willy-nilly,"
said Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens, who said a detailed
plan is needed first. His department includes Animal Control, which serves
the entire county.

             The city has other priorities, too, he added, and shouldn't bear
the full blame for the problem, which is created by irresponsible pet
owners.

             Animal Control officers see the results often, such as the call
last month from an elderly woman in a poor north Charlotte neighborhood. She
wanted them to take her dog away.

             When Officer Shannon Corkwell arrived, the woman said she simply
couldn't care for the black Labrador mix named Jasmine. The woman led
Corkwell to the back yard, where the dog was tied to a 2-foot metal chain.
Instead of a collar, a coat hanger twisted around her neck.

             "You know we'll probably put her to sleep don't you?" Corkwell
asked as she petted the dog, which licked her face.

             "Yes, that's OK," the woman said. "When I got her, she was such
a little thing, and she curled up on the couch with me. But I can't take
care of a big dog like this. I'm 79."

             Jasmine was killed that night. Her owner didn't plan to grieve.

             "I'm going to try to get me another little one before too long."

             A better way of managing

             For years, Charlotte's Animal Control officers did little more
than catch and kill strays. Then several workers went to an Arizona
conference in fall 2000, where they learned the latest ideas used in other
cities to curb animal death rates. They wanted to bring those strategies
here.The result: The Community Animal Management Program, developed with
several animal welfare groups and volunteers from Leadership Charlotte. The
plan has five major steps:

             . Increase sterilizations and public education, especially in
low-income areas.

             . Increase the number of animals adopted from the shelter.

             . Embed microchips in animals who leave the shelter so, if
they're picked up as strays, the owners can be identified.

             . Trap and neuter feral cats.

             . Help pet owners train their adopted animals so they don't
develop behavioral problems and get returned to the shelter.

             So far, Animal Control has made strides on two steps, adoptions
and microchipping. It now places updated pictures of animals offered for
adoption on the Internet and recruits volunteers who take animals to
Wal-Mart on weekends to shop for new owners. It's also spending $47,000 this
year to embed microchips in animals from the shelter, paid through higher
fees from the new owners.

             But adoptions and microchipping aren't expected to have a major
impact. "It is only through spaying and neutering," the plan says, "that
shelter admissions will be reduced."

             Officials initially said they had no immediate plans to spend
public money on sterilization programs. As recently as last month, Capt.
Tammy Williams, who heads Animal Control, said the city is "not in the
business of spaying and neutering, and we don't want to be in that business
anytime in the near future."

             Williams now says the city will take a different approach. The
city learned this month it has won a $25,000 grant that it will spend to
help low-income people get their pets neutered.

             To fulfill the full city strategy, though, will require
additional planning, Williams said. A funding request to the City Council
could take a year or more.

             "You don't just walk across the street and ask for half a
million or even $50 without a strategic plan to validate it," she said.

             Even so, supporters say one of the most compelling arguments for
more spaying and neutering is that it could save city money.

             In New Hampshire, a statewide program cut the cost of neutering
pets to $10 for poor residents. The state saved $3 in animal control costs
for every $1 spent on the program.

             And it saved animals' lives. Over an eight-year period between
1993 and 2001, the state recorded a nearly 75 percent drop in the number of
dogs and cats killed.

             "The folks in Charlotte don't have to invent anything," said
Peter Marsh, a national consultant on pet population who helped implement
the New Hampshire program. "The model is right there in other cities."

             The International City/County Management Association says dozens
of cities have opened government-subsidized spay-neuter clinics or provided
vouchers to low-income residents. Others have passed laws requiring all pet
owners to sterilize their animals unless they pay for a breeder permit.

             Whatever the strategy, it's up to government agencies to take
the lead, experts say.

             "You need public money" to succeed, Marsh said. "It's absolutely
critical, because you can't raise enough private money, and you need to have
money year in and year out."

             Efforts fall behind

             Two decades ago, the Charlotte Humane Society and its executive
director, Patti Lewis, pushed the city to let the group open the first
low-cost spay-neuter clinic in the state.

             The city began requiring every animal adopted from its shelter
to be sterilized at the clinic. And in 1992, the city moved its pound to a
new facility and began leasing two former shelter buildings to the Humane
Society for $1 a year.

             For years, the clinic worked. Immediately after it opened, the
annual number of animals killed dropped from 15,079 to 9,551. But in the
past decade, the numbers have risen again, and the city has done little to
keep up.

             The wait for spay-neuter surgeries has grown to more than a
month, and Lewis says the society can't handle the volume of pets without
more resources.

             "It's a very tiny clinic," she said. "... I can't put more
people in there because they're stumbling over themselves now."

             One thing that could help keep euthanasias down, experts say, is
making it easier for low-income pet owners to get their animals sterilized.
That's important because poorer people are traditionally less likely to spay
and neuter pets. About 80 percent of animal control calls nationwide
originate in low-income communities.

             Although pet owners at the Humane Society clinic pay less than
half the surgery's cost at a private vet's office, experts say $30 for cats
and $40 for dogs is still more than many low-income residents are willing or
able to spend.

             "You've got this whole segment of society that's going to have
pets, and they're not going to have the money to get them spayed and
neutered," said Dr. Marty Davis, a veterinarian at Monroe Road Animal
Hospital.

             Charlotte's city manager sets the fees for the Humane Society
clinic, which are the same no matter a pet owner's income. Other cities have
reduced the charges to as low as $10 or even free for residents who qualify.

             City Manager Pam Syfert said last week she relies on the Humane
Society to ask for fee changes and has never considered a sliding scale.

             "You're raising some policy issues about how you handle the
animal population, and I'm not the right person to talk to about that," she
said.

             Animal Control has helped organize special clinics in low-income
neighborhoods, but they've asked other animal welfare groups to pick up the
sterilization costs. At three clinics in the past year and a half, 77
animals have been neutered. At the next clinic, the city plans to pay for
the surgeries with the grant money it received recently, officials said last
week.

             Oversight is uncertain

             City leaders have done little to oversee the Humane Society.
Under the spay-neuter contract with the group, city officials can inspect
the society's books and should receive annual budgets.Lewis said the city
used to visit yearly and look over financial records, but that hasn't
happened recently. And city budget officers didn't notice that the society
didn't provide a budget for the past three years until The Observer asked
for copies last month.

             "Through miscommunication or misunderstanding of roles, the
budget used to come to the budget department for review, then go to police,"
city spokesman Rick Davis said, "and that has not happened."

             City officials couldn't agree who should provide oversight.

             "I can't answer that," Chief Stephens said. "Our only
relationship with them is that they fulfill the spay-neuter contract. We
don't even manage the contract. I think that's the city manager's office or
the city attorney."

             The city manager's office, however, said animal issues are the
police department's responsibility.

             "Quite frankly," said Davis after checking with the manager's
office, "animal control is really not on anybody's radar screen up there."

             Cities that manage to stem their animal kill rates don't stop
with sterilization. They often pair those services with extensive public
education.

             Those efforts let the public know the size of the problem and
what happens to thousands of unwanted pets every year. Cities have taken out
billboards, allowed euthanasias to be recorded and shown by news media, and
walked shelter dogs wearing the dates they'll be killed if they aren't
adopted.

             Charlotte spends nothing on television, print or billboard
advertisements, although private groups have occasionally funded such
efforts.

             Williams allowed Observer reporters and a photographer to view
euthanasias, but wouldn't permit pictures of animals being injected or dead
bodies.

             "We don't think we need to shock the community by showing them
50 dead animals," said Williams, who added that the bureau is upfront about
its euthanasia rates.

             Speakers spread the word

             The bureau's main method of convincing people to neuter their
pets is sending speakers to schools, city events and neighborhood meetings.

             "Are we in the schools enough now? No," Williams said. "Are we
going to try to improve that? Yeah. We've got to do more to get the word
out."

             This month, Charlotte City Council raised pet license fees for
the first time since 1992. Owners now will pay $2.50 more per year for a
sterilized animal and $5 more for an unaltered animal.

             That will bring in more than $80,000 a year in extra revenue.
Some animal welfare advocates want that money to go toward spaying and
neutering.

             But right now, it's set to be folded into the city's general
fund, with none designated specifically for animal programs.

             Chief Stephens said it's not good policy to designate fee
revenue for a specific use, because the city's priorities may change. Fees,
though, are frequently used to fund other local government functions,
including parks, building inspectors and utilities.

             "The license fees are part of the general fund, and that's where
our budget comes from anyway," Stephens said. "So you could say we already
get that money back."

             The bureau is trying to find other ways to pay for its efforts,
including more private grants.

             Animal Control workers say they hate killing animals, and their
goal is to do it as little as possible. But as long as the unwanted pet
population grows, there's no alternative. Shelters and rescue groups can't
save them all.

             "We do not take pleasure in what we do," Williams said. "But
we're the only ones who do it."


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----- Original Message -----
From: Carla Hernandez
To: AnimaliA (Animal information Alliance) Electronic Mailing List for animal
protection professionals around the world
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: [hsi-animalia] 2 seals need help in MX


Hello I am from Mexico my name is Carla and I received this news from a friend
in Mexico city.
We need your support trying to help 2 seals!
please read following information and send a letter to the email adresses asking
not to send the seals to the circus again.
If somebody has a better idea  on how to help them please let us know, we don't
have expertise on this matters.

Thanks

Carla Hernandez
01152 818 81450000 x. 200



JULY 3rd

There was an accident with a truck in Mexico city, this truc was moving 2 seals
propierty of a circus.

Seals were translated to six flags park were they received medical help, one of
them has a damaged eye and both showing signs they were not properly feeded.

Seal's owner and truck's driver didn't show up.

PROFEPA (authority in charge of this cases) declared as soon as they appear they
would asked them for documents proving they were authorized  to have the seals,
planning to send them back to the circus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



JULY 4th

The seal's owner appears on a TV show (apparently with problems after the
accident), seal's vet appear too and says:

"they really sorry but due the accident they had to leave the seals at the
accident place "

"the seals have been well fedded except for that day due they had to travel"

"the eye damged on one of the seal is a normal sickness on seals"

"all the trash inside the truck is due the owner lives with the seals, because
they are as his familly!!!!" (unbelievable)



Please send the letters to the authorities and TV shows, Mexico really needs
your support on this matters, no many people is worried about animals, it is
time to start.

Thanks for your help!



Profepa:

pfpaweb@...

Partido Verde Ecolog�sta:

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Estereo Joya, programa hoy con Mariano:

urias60@...

Gobernador del D.F. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador:

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Presidente Vicente Fox:

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Noticiero Hechos:

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Kinship Circle LETTER/Canada's Commercial Seal Carnage----- Original Message
-----
From: Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Kinship Circle LETTER/Canada's Commercial Seal Carnage


SAMPLE LETTER FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE
6/12/03--Canada's Commercial Seal Carnage
http://www.kinshipcircle.org
1 letter

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Protect Seals Newsletter,
Protect-Seals @ hsus.org (remove spaces)

http://www.protectseals.org/
http://www.hsus.org
Sea Shepherd
http://www.seashepherd.org/main.asp

*DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original
source.
I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or for the
consequences of its use.

*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a
campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.

*postage from the U.S. to Canada is 60 cents

===========SAMPLE LETTER===========

Prime Minister's Office
Right Honorable Jean Chr�tien
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington St. Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K1A OA2
fax: 613-941-6900; email: pm @ pm.gc.ca  (remove spaces)


Canadian Tourism Commission
55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 600
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6L5
ph: 613-946-1000; email: Use the Contact Us form on http://www.canadatourism.com

Honourable Prime Minister of Canada and the Canadian Tourism Commission:

As long as hundreds of thousands of seals are annually butchered, my family will
not support Canadian tourism and commerce. Officials not only allow the hunt,
but also actively endorse it.

High-powered riles are aimed at the flesh of pups valued for their satiny white
fur. An estimated 95% of fatalities in the November 15-May 15 hunt were 12 days
to 12-months-old. Sealers are also armed with the hakapik, or club, to shatter
the skulls of wounded seals. While the 2003 bloodbath has ended with no
definitive numbers for seals bludgeoned or shot on the ice east of Newfoundland
and Labrador, the Canadian government has already authorized a three-year quota
that permits hunters to kill nearly one million seals.

Last year's hunt swelled beyond the quota by at least 30,000 seals. Witnesses
documented over 660 violations of the Marine Mammal Regulations. How have
Canadian officials elected to penalize sealers? They've boosted the quota to
975,000 seals over the next three years!

So far, worldwide appeals for Canadian officials to support the humane treatment
of seals--rather than promote a commercial carnage--have gone unheard. The seals
are hauled across ice with sharp boat hooks. The injured are dumped on to piles
of dead animals. When confronted with proof from an international coalition of
veterinarians that four out of five sealers do not confirm an animal's death
before skinning, Canadian authorities still refused to crack down on sealers.
According to a 2001 report, up to 40% of seal pups were skinned alive.

I understand officials use the decline of cod populations in the North Atlantic
to justify the hunt. Yet the Canadian government has never produced one
peer-reviewed study to confirm a connection between harp seals and diminishing
cod. Over-fishing is the more likely culprit, as documented in a 1994 report
from two of the government's own scientists. In addition, seals consume fish
that prey on cod. Thus, decimating the seal population leads to an increase in
predatory fish species--ultimately worsening the cod stock's condition.

My family and friends are not comfortable spending our vacation dollars in a
nation that cultivates the world's largest massacre of marine mammals. I call
upon the Canadian government to address the critical problem of over-fishing,
stop scapegoating seals, and permanently ban the notoriously inhumane seal hunt.

Thank you,

Your name and address





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Kinship Circle LETTER/Target: HLS Japanese Business Affiliates----- Original
Message -----
From: Kinship Circle
To: 7 Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: Kinship Circle LETTER/Target: HLS Japanese Business Affiliates


SAMPLE LETTER FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE
6/10/03--Target: HLS Japanese Business Affiliates
http://www.kinshipcircle.org
1 letter to multiple contacts

**SOME OF THE EMAILS IN THIS ALERT MAY NOT WORK BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN DISABLED.
OTHERS ARE "POSSIBLE EMAIL ADDRESSES" BASED UPON A COMPANY'S SETUP FOR EMPLOYEE
NAME + EMAIL SUFFIX. PLEASE SEND TO ALL IN AN EFFORT TO REACH AS MANY HLS
SUPPORTERS AS POSSIBLE.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
closehls closeHLS @ ziplip.com   (remove spaces)
  http://www.shacamerica.net

*DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original
source. I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or
for the consequences of its use. Nothing in this email is intended to encourage
illegal action of any kind in whatever country you are reading it in.

**To download the Who Is Huntingdon Life Sciences fact sheet with graphic
photos: http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/default.html

**Inside/Out: Diary Of Madness--the booklet that recounts images from HLS
protests and investigations inside Huntingdon Life Sciences--is available in
color for $10.00. A graphic depiction of vivisection at its worst. To order
Inside/Out: Diary of Madness, send an email request, with your name and street
address, to:
info @ kinshipcircle.org (remove spaces)

FOLLOWING THE SAMPLE LETTER is contact info for HLS Japanese business
affiliates:
the lab's sales office, CBC, and three Japanese customers documented as having
contracted with HLS at least as recently as 2001: Sumitomo, Yamanouchi, and
Saten

HLS cites Japanese contracts as vital to the lab's survival, comprising at least
20% of its business. This week, animal activists are declaring a global week of
protests against Japanese customers. These people pay HLS to torture animals. 
Until YOU put an end to it!

============SAMPLE LETTER===========

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I write as a conscientious consumer to caution you against contracting
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to test your company's products and ingredients.
Please do not employ HLS to conduct toxicity tests or promote its services to
the Japanese market.

HLS presence in Japan will spark the same complaints and protests that have
inspired a majority of suppliers, brokerage firms and clients to abandon HLS
around the world. Most reputable businesses do not wish to contend with the
international animal rights movement. More importantly, I ask your credible firm
to consider the negative ramifications of associating with a contract research
laboratory that violated animal welfare regulations over 600 times.

HLS flaunts 32 violations of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act, 16 violations of Good
Laboratory Practice in England, a $50,000 payoff to the U.S. Agriculture
Department for inept record keeping, and verified animal abuse/scientific fraud
in five investigations.

Investigations in 1997 exposed lab technicians punching beagle puppies and
flinging them against walls. Another videotape depicted workers slicing open the
chest of a live monkey during a presumably post-mortem dissection. By 2000 two
more investigations uncovered the same reckless mistreatment of animals. One
former employee who worked in the Histology department claims that necropsy
reports are riddled with errors and scant explanations. She states that animals
are never anesthetized or euthanised properly and that she regularly heard the
yelping and coughing of conscious dogs during fatal procedures.

Yet another former employee states: "I saw monkeys hunched over in pain after
abdominal surgery performed by laboratory personnel who had no formal veterinary
training. One of the employees doing the surgery told me that she had 'no idea
what [she] was doing.' HLS lab workers joked about the 'Platinum Club'--you
automatically become a member if you kill an animal. They keep a list of those
in the club and the animals they had killed."

Please make the ethically responsible decision to NOT place orders with HLS,
host a Japan-based office, or facilitate HLS services in Japan. Why align
yourselves with an institution that continually falsifies research reports and
ignores animal cruelty laws?

I encourage your company to evolve with the most credible, proficient and humane
technologies available. Many research/development facilities now fulfill study
requirements with non-animal research tools, including in vitro analysis, cell
imaging, epidemiology, computer and mathematical modeling, genetics, clinical
research, autopsy/biopsy studies, and advanced MRI imaging.

Your firm has the fiscal means to choose to do business with companies that
positively impact our world. Thank you for making a difference.

Sincerely,

==========CONTACT INFO===========

If your email software permits, cut and paste the lists of emails into the TO
and CC lines of your email to send your message all at once.

**SOME OF THESE EMAILS MAY NOT WORK BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN DISABLED. OTHERS ARE
"POSSIBLE EMAIL ADDRESSES" BASED UPON A COMPANY'S SETUP FOR EMPLOYEE NAME +
EMAIL SUFFIX. PLEASE SEND TO ALL IN AN EFFORT TO REACH AS MANY HLS SUPPORTERS AS
POSSIBLE.

All emails below have a space before and after the @ sign. Please remove the
spaces before using. Thanks!

EMAILS LISTED IN THIS ALERT:
yutaka.awakawa @ sumitomocorp.co.jp, admin @ cbcamerica.com, accounting @
cbcamerica.com, credit @ cbcamerica.com, info @ cbcamerica.com, hr @
cbcamerica.com, plastics @ cbcamerica.com, chemsales @ cbcamerica.com, cctv @
cbcamerica.com, cctv @ cbcamerica.com, chemsales @ cbcamerica.com, sales @
toli.com, mvision @ cbcamerica.com, sales @ discmatic.com, plastics @
cbcamerica.com, pisales @ cbcamerica.com, info @ santeninc.com, info @
santen-inc.com, rbrown @ santeninc.com, pgleeson @ santeninc.com, pgleeson @
santen-inc.com, jwells @ santeninc.com,
jwells @ santen-inc.com, rkellar @ santeninc.com, rkellar @ santen-inc.com,
tgalles @ santeninc.com, tgalles @ santen-inc.com, lotero @ santeninc.com,
lotero @ santen-inc.com, resume @ santeninc.com, ip@...,
networkservices @ santeninc.com, dtobey @ santen-inc.com, dbeeby @
cbcamerica.com,
jholihan @ cbcamerica.com, rjohnson @ cbcamerica.com

***Sumitomo***
New York (headquarters)
Sumitomo Corporation of America
600 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10016-2001
ph: 212-207-0700; fax: 212-207-0456

Atlanta
Sumitomo Corporation of America
Six Concourse Parkway, Suite 2150
Atlanta, GA 30328-5351
ph: 770-399-3160; fax: 770-399-4690
email: yutaka.awakawa @ sumitomocorp.co.jp

Chicago
Sumitomo Corporation of America
Two Prudential Plaza
180 North Stetson, Suite 4600
Chicago, IL 60601-6710
ph: 312-540-5000; fax: 312-616-1041

Denver
Sumitomo Corporation of America
7600 E. Orchard Road, Suite 310-S
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-2520
ph: 303-623-2236; fax: 303-221-5664

Detroit
Sumitomo Corporation of America
The American Center Building
27777 Franklin Road, Suite 1000
Southfield, MI 48034-2337
ph: 248-353-2320; fax: 248-553-8661

Houston
Sumitomo Corporation of America
1000 Louisiana, Suite 6800
Houston, TX 77002-5014
ph: 713-653-8400; fax: 713-658-9246

Los Angeles
Sumitomo Corporation of America
444 South Flower Street, Suite 1600
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2949
ph: 213-627-4783; fax: 213-489-3000; fax: 213-623-7849

Northern California
Sumitomo Corporation of America
5150 El Camino Real, Suite C31
Los Altos, CA 94022
ph: 650-237-4191; fax: 650-938-5189

Philadelphia
Sumitomo Corporation of America
2300 Computer Avenue, Suite A5
Willow Grove, PA 19090-1733
ph: 215-830-0960; fax: 215-830-0965

Pittsburgh
Sumitomo Corporation of America
5000 USX Tower
600 Grant Street, Suite 5000
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-2702
ph: 412-391-1892; fax: 412-765-2623

Portland
Sumitomo Corporation of America
1300 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2800
Portland, OR 97201-5667
ph: 503-226-3271; fax: 503-220-0233

Washington, D.C.
Sumitomo Corporation of America
800 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20006-2709
ph: 202-785-9210; fax: 202-861-0690

===================================================
***Yamanouchi***

Yamanouchi Pharma America, Inc.
S. 61 Paramus Rd., Mack Centre IV, 4th fl.
Paramus, NJ  07652
ph: 201-291-2556
http://www.yamanouchi.com/
  http://www.yamanouchiamerica.com/

Yamanouchi Venture Capital LLC and,
Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies, Inc.
Stanford Research Park
1050 Arastradero Road
Palo Alto, CA  94304
ph: 650-849-8753; fax: 650-849-8750/8505

Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies (Manufacturing Center)
613 Cedar Lane Rd.
Norman, OK  73072-8106

===================================================

***CBC***

New York (Long Island)
Chugai International Corp. (CBC)
55 Mall Drive
Commack, NY 11725-5714
ph: 631-864-9700, toll free: 800-422-6707; fax: 631-864-2420
CBCAmerica.com

California (near L.A.)
CBC (America) Corp.
20521 Earl Street
Torrance, CA  90503
ph: 310-793-1500, toll free: 800-888-0131; fax: 310-793-1506

Don Beeby: dbeeby @ cbcamerica.com
Jim Holihan: jholihan @ cbcamerica.com
Ron Johnson: rjohnson @ cbcamerica.com

ADDITIONAL CBC PHONE NUMBERS & EMAILS:
Administration
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9710
email: admin @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

Accounting
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-2420
email: accounting @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

Credit
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9603
email: credit @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

General Information
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-2420
email: info @ cbcamerica.com   (remove spaces)

Human Resources
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-2420
email: hr @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

Plastics & Resins Division
ph: 631-864-4343; fax: 631-864-8151
email: plastics @ cbcamerica.com   (remove spaces)

Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Division
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9710
email: chemsales@...  (remove spaces)

CCTV SECURITY DIVISION:
CCTV Division--CA
ph: 800-888-0131; fax: 310-793-1506
email: cctv@...

CCTV Division--NY
ph: 800-422-6707; fax: 631-543-5426
email: cctv @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Division
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9710
email: chemsales @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

Flooring Division
CERES
ph: 800-446-5476; fax: 631-864-8151

TOLI
ph: 800-446-5476; fax: 631-864-8151
email: sales @ toli.com  (remove spaces)

Industrial Optics/Machine Vision
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9710
email: mvision @ cbcamerica.com   (remove spaces)

Multimedia Division
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9710
email: sales @ discmatic.com  (remove spaces)

Plastics & Resins Division
ph: 631-864-4343; fax: 631-864-8151
email: plastics @ cbcamerica.com

Precision Instruments Division
Viscometer Products
ph: 631-864-9700; fax: 631-864-9710
email: pisales @ cbcamerica.com  (remove spaces)

===================================================

***Santen Inc.***

Headquarters
Santen Inc & Santen Holdings U.S. Inc
555 Gateway Drive
Napa, CA 94558
ph: 707-254 1750; fax: 707-254 1755/3648/1769/0650
email: info @ santeninc.com, info @ santen-inc.com (remove spaces)

http://www.santen-inc.com/  http://www.santeninc.com/

Top People
Adrienne Graves, President and CEO.
photo at: http://www.optistock.com/profiles/santen.htm

Scott Zion, Senior Vice President of Santen, Inc.

Richelle Brown, Director, Marketing Communications
ph: 707-256-2418; fax: 707-254-3648
email: rbrown @ santeninc.com (remove spaces)

Pamela Gleeson, VP & Controller
??possible emails: pgleeson @ santeninc.com, pgleeson @ santen-inc.com   (remove
spaces)

Jeff Wells, VP of clinical & regulatory affairs
??possible emails: jwells @ santeninc.com, jwells @ santen-inc.com  (remove
spaces)


Robert Kellar, Senior VP of Manufacturing
??possible emails: rkellar @ santeninc.com, rkellar @ santen-inc.com  (remove
spaces)


Rosemarie Vertollo, VP of sales and marketing

Todd Galles, Director of Marketing.
??possible emails: tgalles@..., tgalles @ santen-inc.com  (remove
spaces)

Leo Otero, Product Director, Anti-Infectives
??possible emails: lotero@..., lotero @ santen-inc.com   (remove
spaces)


Human Resources:
fax: 707-254-1769; email: resume @ santeninc.com

IP Department
fax: 707-254-1769; email: ip @ santeninc.com    (remove spaces)

IT Department
email: networkservices @ santeninc.com  (remove spaces)


Kathryn Davidson
ph: 707 256 1418; email: kdavidson @ santeninc.com (remove spaces)
  --BOUNCING

Dave Tobey
24712 Sarah Lane
Lake Forest, Cal 92630
work ph: 949-462-3285; home ph: 949-859-3103
email: dtobey @ santen-inc.com  (remove spaces)

SANTEN INC. SUBSIDIARIES
(Formerly known as Surgidev (Corp) now one of its brand names)
Advanced Vision Science, Inc.
5743 Thornwood Drive
Goleta, CA 93117
toll free: 800-235-5781, customer service: Ext. 224, sales: ext. 223
ph: 805-683-3851; fax: 805-964-3065
email: contactus @ avsiol.com  (remove spaces)
   - possibly dud
advancedvisionscience.com






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Kinship Circle LETTER/Agony In A Bucket: Kentucky Fried Cruelty----- Original
Message -----
From: Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 10:01 AM
Subject: Kinship Circle LETTER/Agony In A Bucket: Kentucky Fried Cruelty


SAMPLE LETTER FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE
6/19/03--Agony In A Bucket: Kentucky Fried Cruelty
http://www.kinshipcircle.org
3 letters

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
AnimalAdvocacy @ yahoogroups.com   (remove spaces)

http://www.KentuckyFriedCruelty.com/
http://www.upc-online.org

reference sites:
"broiler" chickens: http://www.UPC-online.org/broiler/
poultry industry: http://www.UPC-online.org/industry/
poultry slaughter: http://www.UPC-online.org/slaughter/

*DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original
source. I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or
for the consequences of its use.

*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a
campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.

=========SAMPLE LETTER #1=========

David Novak, Chairman and CEO
KFC - Yum! Brands, Inc.
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213
ph: 800-CALL KFC, 502-874-8300
fax: 502-874-8291, 502-874-8567

CC:
Cheryl Bachelder, President and CEO
KFC Corporation
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213
fax: 502-874-8790

Jonathan Blum, Senior Vice President
Yum! Brands, Inc.
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213
fax: 502-874-8315

Dear Mr. Novack,

I am a consumer who is appalled by the horrendous conditions 700 million
KFC-raised chickens endure every year. I will encourage friends and family to
join me in a boycott of KFC foods until  visible strides are made to reduce the
suffering of chickens on all contract factory farms.

Numerous affidavits attest to the unnecessary torment. Among them is former
employee Virgil Butler's description of felony animal abuse at Tyson Foods,
KFC's largest supplier. Butler, who worked the kill floors at two Tyson
slaughterhouses, describes workers who shoved dry ice bombs inside chickens'
rectums. He alleges that other workers flattened chickens beneath forklifts and
deliberately smothered birds. The legs of larger birds were purposefully broken
to conform to shackles. When Butler repeatedly appealed to management he was
told "'You do your job, and we'll do ours.'"

Neither KC, its parent company Yum! Brands, Inc., nor the National Chicken
Council are "doing their job" with respect to the humane treatment of animals. I
respectfully ask KFC to work with its suppliers and the National Chicken Council
to instigate the following policies:

1. Utilize gas killing methods instead of the present breakneck production line
that begins with shackled birds slung upside down from a revolving rail. Their
heads are plunged into electrified water baths. Still cognizant, the birds'
throats are slit. Some remain conscious when tossed into feather-extracting
tanks of scalding water.

2. Place monitored video cameras at unloading sites, stun baths, scalding tanks,
and throat-slitting areas to intervene whenever sadistic cruelty (like that
observed by Virgil Butler) occurs.

3. Use a mechanized capture system to gather birds. The current practice of hand
capture causes four times as many fractured legs and over eight times more
bruising.

4. Use genetic selection to breed birds for less aggressive traits. This would
help to eliminate the gruesome practice of slicing off the birds' beaks and toes
in an effort to curtail fighting and competitive behaviors.

5. Do not use growth hormones to concoct breast-heavy birds with swollen joints,
crippled feet and heart disease. Anatomically altered birds cannot support their
own weight and many starve to death within inches of food before reaching
slaughter weight at six-weeks-old.

6. Provide ample space for birds to move freely and engage in natural behaviors
such as nesting or food foraging. Birds are stuffed by the tens of thousands
into lightless, waste-filled sheds where ammonia fumes sear through eyes and
lungs. With each bird occupying a space roughly the size of a standard sheet of
paper, there is no room to move let alone establish a pecking order. Please
increase space by at least 30% or 0.86 sq. feet per bird.

7. Give birds an opportunity for mental stimulation and exercise. Provide simple
objects to perch on or peck at so that these abused animals can express some
instinctive habits.

Domestic fowl share the same neurophysiological makeup as mammals and possess a
complex nervous system, according to Dr. Michael Gentle of the Agricultural Food
Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research.
"Therefore the ethical considerations normally afforded to mammals should be
extended to birds," Dr. Gentle says.

Please play your part in an industry-wide adoption of the humane reforms I have
outlined in this letter. The public is tired of excuses. I encourage KFC to
emulate McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's and other successful chains that have
begun to make basic improvements for farmed animals.

Thank you,

=========SAMPLE LETTER #2==========

Mr. Richard Lobb, Communications Director
National Chicken Council
1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 930
Washington DC 20005-2605
ph: 202-296-2622
fax: 202-293-4005
email: Rlobb @ ChickenUSA.org  (remove spaces)


Dear Mr. Lobb,

I am a consumer who is appalled by the horrendous conditions farmed chickens
endure every year. Numerous affidavits attest to the unnecessary torment. Among
them is former employee Virgil Butler's description of felony animal abuse at
Tyson Foods in Grannis, Arkansas.

Butler, who worked the kill floors at two Tyson slaughterhouses, describes
workers who shoved dry ice bombs inside chickens' rectums. He alleges that other
workers flattened chickens beneath forklifts and deliberately smothered birds.
The legs of larger birds were purposefully broken to conform to shackles. When
Butler repeatedly appealed to management he was told "'You do your job, and
we'll do ours.'"

Violence against animals is not exclusive to Tyson. Unrestrained abuse is
commonplace at all egg, broiler and poultry operations. As the prominent trade
group for these industries, the National Chicken Council can establish standards
for the humane treatment of animals. I respectfully ask you to instigate the
following policies:

1. Utilize gas killing methods instead of the present breakneck production line
that begins with shackled birds slung upside down from a revolving rail. Their
heads are plunged into electrified water baths. Still cognizant, the birds'
throats are slit. Some remain conscious when tossed into feather-extracting
tanks of scalding water.

2. Place monitored video cameras at unloading sites, stun baths, scalding tanks,
and throat-slitting areas to intervene whenever sadistic cruelty (like that
observed by Virgil Butler) occurs.

3. Use a mechanized capture system to gather birds. The current practice of hand
capture causes four times as many fractured legs and over eight times more
bruising.

4. Use genetic selection to breed birds for less aggressive traits. This would
help to eliminate the gruesome practice of slicing off the birds' beaks and toes
in an effort to curtail fighting and competitive behaviors.

5. Do not use growth hormones to concoct breast-heavy birds with swollen joints,
crippled feet and heart disease. Anatomically altered birds cannot support their
own weight and many starve to death within inches of food before reaching
slaughter weight at six-weeks-old.

6. Provide ample space for birds to move freely and engage in natural behaviors
such as nesting or food foraging. Birds are stuffed by the tens of thousands
into lightless, waste-filled sheds where ammonia fumes sear through eyes and
lungs. With each bird occupying a space roughly the size of a standard sheet of
paper, there is no room to move let alone establish a pecking order. Please
increase space by at least 30% or 0.86 sq. feet per bird.

7. Give birds an opportunity for mental stimulation and exercise. Provide simple
objects to perch on or peck at so that these abused animals can express some
instinctive habits.

Domestic fowl share the same neurophysiological makeup as mammals and possess a
complex nervous system, according to Dr. Michael Gentle of the Agricultural Food
Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research.
"Therefore the ethical considerations normally afforded to mammals should be
extended to birds," Dr. Gentle says.

Please initiate an industry-wide adoption of the humane reforms I have outlined
in this letter. The public is tired of excuses. I encourage the National Chicken
Council to take the lead in basic improvements for farmed animals.

Thank you,

=========SAMPLE LETTER #3========

Mr. John Tyson, CEO/Chairman
Tyson Foods, Inc.
PO Box 2020
Springdale, AR 72765-2020
ph: 479-290-4000
customer hotline: 800-643-3410; fax: 479-290-3923
email: John.Tyson @ Tyson.com  (remove spaces)


Dear Mr. Tyson,

I am a consumer who is appalled by the horrendous conditions chickens endure
every year. I will encourage friends and family to join me in a boycott of Tyson
products until visible strides are made to reduce the suffering of chickens at
all of your operations.

Numerous affidavits attest to the unnecessary torment. Among them is former
employee Virgil Butler's description of felony animal abuse at Tyson Foods in
Grannis, Arkansas.  Butler, who worked the kill floors at two Tyson
slaughterhouses, describes workers who shoved dry ice bombs inside chickens'
rectums. He alleges that other workers flattened chickens beneath forklifts and
deliberately smothered birds. The legs of larger birds were purposefully broken
to conform to shackles. When Butler repeatedly appealed to management he was
told "'You do your job, and we'll do ours.'"

Tyson Foods, Inc. is not "doing its job" with respect to the humane treatment of
animals. There is simply no justification for the unrestrained abuse commonplace
at all egg, broiler and poultry operations. I respectfully ask Tyson to work
with the National Chicken Council to instigate the following policies:

1. Utilize gas killing methods instead of the present breakneck production line
that begins with shackled birds slung upside down from a revolving rail. Their
heads are plunged into electrified water baths. Still cognizant, the birds'
throats are slit. Some remain conscious when tossed into feather-extracting
tanks of scalding water.

2. Place monitored video cameras at unloading sites, stun baths, scalding tanks,
and throat-slitting areas to intervene whenever sadistic cruelty (like that
observed by Virgil Butler) occurs.

3. Use a mechanized capture system to gather birds. The current practice of hand
capture causes four times as many fractured legs and over eight times more
bruising.

4. Use genetic selection to breed birds for less aggressive traits. This would
help to eliminate the gruesome practice of slicing off the birds' beaks and toes
in an effort to curtail fighting and competitive behaviors.

5. Do not use growth hormones to concoct breast-heavy birds with swollen joints,
crippled feet and heart disease. Anatomically altered birds cannot support their
own weight and many starve to death within inches of food before reaching
slaughter weight at six-weeks-old.

6. Provide ample space for birds to move freely and engage in natural behaviors
such as nesting or food foraging. Birds are stuffed by the tens of thousands
into lightless, waste-filled sheds where ammonia fumes sear through eyes and
lungs. With each bird occupying a space roughly the size of a standard sheet of
paper, there is no room to move let alone establish a pecking order. Please
increase space by at least 30% or 0.86 sq. feet per bird.

7. Give birds an opportunity for mental stimulation and exercise. Provide simple
objects to perch on or peck at so that these abused animals can express some
instinctive habits.
Domestic fowl share the same neurophysiological makeup as mammals and possess a
complex nervous system, according to Dr. Michael Gentle of the Agricultural Food
Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research.
"Therefore the ethical considerations normally afforded to mammals should be
extended to birds," Dr. Gentle says.

Please initiate an industry-wide adoption of the humane reforms I have outlined
in this letter. The public is tired of excuses. I encourage Tyson Foods, Inc. to
take the lead in basic improvements for farmed animals.

Thank you,










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Kinship Circle LETTER/GE & Ferro Corp. To Poison Thousands In HPV Tests
----- Original Message -----
From: Kinship Circle
To: 7 Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Kinship Circle LETTER/GE & Ferro Corp. To Poison Thousands In HPVTests


SAMPLE LETTER FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE
6/23/03--GE & Ferro Corp. To Poison Thousands In HPV Tests
http://www.kinshipcircle.org
2 letters

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
PETA  Action Alerts E-News, June 20, 2003
http://www.peta.org/alert/automation/AlertItem.asp?id=756
http://www.peta.org/alert/automation/AlertItem.asp?id=755

HPV chemical-testing program:
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/us.html

*DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original
source. I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or
for the consequences of its use.

*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a
campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.

========SAMPLE LETTER #1==========

Jeffrey Immelt, Chair and CEO
General Electric Company
One Plastics Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
ph: 203-373-3214; fax: 203-373-2884
E-Mail: Jeffrey.Immelt @ corporate.ge.com (remove spaces)
Kathleen.Lorenz @ corporate.ge.com (remove spaces)

Dear Immelt,

Please accept my comments in regard to General Electric's use of animal tests
for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) high production volume (HPV)
chemical testing program. GE continually elects to use animals to evaluate
chemicals--without accessing existing databases or reviewing public comments.

In violation of an October 1999 agreement reached with the EPA to diminish the
quantity of animals killed, GE has initiated tests before the close of the
obligatory comment period, essentially ignoring concerned individuals and animal
protection organizations.

GE's most recent plan--to test the chemicals n-methylphthalimide (PI),
4-nitro-n-methylphthalimide (4NPI), and 2,4,6-trimethylphenol (246TMP)--reflects
the company's refusal to use accumulated data or non-animal research modes. I
understand GE will destroy 675 animals for a reproductive/developmental toxicity
test, despite the fact that at least four distinct studies have already
established no reproductive or developmental repercussions.

An additional 1,300 animals are to perish in a separate reproductive test that
could be supplanted with another accepted test that decreases the animal
mortality rate by half.

If the application of these chemicals does not involve prolonged exposure, they
probably don't fall under the EPA's criterion for testing in the first place. GE
simply needs to inform the EPA about how and where the chemicals are used, to
discern if they qualify for a testing exemption.

Instead, GE opts to inflict needless suffering and death. For the 246TMP
studies, GE proposes to dose 675 animals in order to amass data that has already
been collected for a nearly identical chemical. Schenectady International,
Inc.'s plan for 236TMP renders the GE tests redundant and therefore all the more
inhumane.

Please do not sentence thousands of animals to a long and painful death by
poisoning. Even if the aforementioned chemicals do require further testing, it
would be in GE's best interest to evolve with the most credible, proficient and
humane technologies available. Many research and development facilities now
fulfill study requirements with non-animal research tools, including in vitro
analysis, cell imaging, epidemiology, computer and mathematical modeling,
genetics, clinical research, autopsy/biopsy studies, and advanced MRI imaging.

Please make the responsible decision to withdraw GE's plans to poison over 2,600
animals. I strongly encourage GE to examine existing data, acknowledge public
comments, and explore all non-animal options before committing to more animal
tests.

Thank you,

Your name and address.


=========SAMPLE LETTER #2=========

Hector R. Ortino, Chair and CEO
Ferro Corporation
1000 Lakeside Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44114-7000
ph: 216-641-8580; fax: 216-875-7266
email: ortinoh @ ferro.com  (remove spaces)


Dear Mr. Ortino,

Please accept my comments in regard to Ferro Corporation's use of animal tests
for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) high production volume (HPV)
chemical testing program. I understand Ferro Corporation intends to poison
thousands of animals with two chemicals used in the production of plastics,
resins, machine oils and hydraulic fluids.

The chemicals to be evaluated--2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate and isodecyl
diphenyl phosphate--have already been scrutinized in 23 studies, while data from
an additional 97 studies is gathering dust over at the EPA. It is difficult to
comprehend why Ferro has elected to repeat tests that inflict needless suffering
and death when ample information is readily available. Please do not condemn
over 2,000 animals to mutations, deformities, sterility and death in lethal-dose
poisoning experiments.

Ferro's proposal also represents a violation of the October 1999 agreement
reached with the EPA to decrease the number of animals destroyed in the HPV
program. Because the EPA has done little to enforce this agreement, I appeal
directly to Ferro. Please access existing databases and utilize non-animal
research tools whenever possible.

I encourage Ferro to evolve with the most credible, proficient and humane
technologies available. Many research and development facilities now fulfill
study requirements with non-animal research tools, including in vitro analysis,
cell imaging, epidemiology, computer and mathematical modeling, genetics,
clinical research, autopsy/biopsy studies, and advanced MRI imaging.

Please make the responsible decision to withdraw Ferro's plans to poison over
2,000 animals. I strongly urge you to examine existing data, acknowledge public
comments, and explore all non-animal options before committing to more animal
tests.

Thank you,

Your name and address








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From:  AR News
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:24 AM
Subject: AR-News: (NY) Urgent Alert! Ask Governor Pataki to Veto Pro-trapping
Bill!


(NY)  Urgent Alert!  Ask Governor Pataki to Veto Pro-trapping Bill!





ACTION ALERT!



The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, a special interest group representing wild animal
killers across the United States, is pushing a bill that would remove the
requirement that trappers list their name and address on each trap they set.  
Senate Bill 1068 would instead require that traps bear identification numbers
assigned to the trapper.  Introduced by Senator James Wright, the bill passed
both the Senate and Assembly unanimously.





WHAT YOU MUST DO



New York Residents should contact Governor Pataki immediately and ask that he
veto this anti-animal legislation.  The Governor can be reached at (518)
474-8390.





POINTS TO MAKE



Since hunters are required to carry identification and their hunting licenses
with them as they hunt, trappers should be required to publicly identify their
traps as they are laid out.



This legislation makes it harder to identify people who are trapping illegally
(out of season, on private property, etc.) and will cause law enforcement to use
more financial resources to track down rogue trappers.  In a time when New York
faces a budget crisis, this is not a wise expenditure of dollars.





Wildlife Watch Inc.

Helping People, Environment, and Wildlife

PO Box 562, New Paltz, NY  12561

Voice:(845) 256-1400; Fax:(845) 622-7999

e-mail: wildwatch @ earthlink.net  (remove spaces)



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From: adam @ wetlands-preserve.org   (remove spaces)

Top Science and Health News
--------------------------------------------------------------------

EU Bans Slaughter of Sharks for Fins
Reuters
Jul 4 2003 12:26PM
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has outlawed the practice of
slaughtering sharks for their fins, which are then sold to lucrative
Asian markets where shark fin soup is a delicacy, according to an official
regulation posted on Friday.

European fishing fleets have become major exporters of fins to Hong Kong, the
most significant market in Asia.

Shark meat is of little value as it is considered tough to eat, and the practice
of "finning," hacking the fins off living sharks and dumping them back in the
sea, has been blamed for pushing some
species close to extinction.

"The practice of 'shark finning'...may contribute to the excessive mortality of
sharks to such an extent that many stocks of sharks are depleted, and their
future sustainability may be endangered," the EU
said in its Official Journal.

Shark fin soup is widely served at Chinese wedding banquets as a symbol of
generosity and wealth, and as many as 40 sharks can be
killed to supply each wedding. In some restaurants in the region, a bowl of the
soup can cost $100.

The EU rules will come into force in 60 days and aim to stop fishermen hacking
off sharks' fins and dumping the fish in the sea, where they sink to the bottom
of the ocean and die.

"Measures to restrict or prevent the further development of the practice of
shark finning are urgently required, and the removal of
shark fins on board vessels should therefore be prohibited," read the
regulation's text.

The regulation applies to EU-registered ships as well as non-EU vessels that
operate in EU waters and will prevent them from landing or selling shark fins
that are removed on board.

Fishermen will still be able to remove fins if they can prove that they are
making efficient use of all shark parts by processing them separately on board,
in which case the entire body will have to be accounted for.

Environmentalists say around 100 million sharks are caught worldwide every year,
mostly just for their fins.

07/04/03 12:24 ET

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Recognizing the common roots of all forms of oppression, The Activism Center at
Wetlands Preserve fights for human, animal, and earth
liberation through protest, direct action, street theater, political advocacy,
and public education.  We always welcome people of conscience to join us as
volunteers or interns. For more information
call (201) 968-0595 or email
activism @ wetlands-preserve.org

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