#2. KC DIGEST: Carriage Horses, Pit Ban, Egypt Tragedy, Teens Hunt...

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PART 2: MAY KC DIGEST - Alerts From Kinship Circle Supporters http://www.kinshipcircle.org/digest/ PART 2: MAY KC Digest 7. Join Post Card Campaign For NYC Carriage Horses 8. Stop Ohio Bill To Ban And Euthanize All Pit Bulls 9. Egypt: Tragedy At Esma (Sakkara) & Request For Support 10. GUESS Brand Sponsors Bullfighting In Algarve, Portugal 11. 14- and 15-Year-Olds Hunt Big Game? Stop This Now. 12.

Officers' Role In Death Of Black Lab Questioned PART 1: MAY KC Digest PLEASE RESEND ME PART #1: kinshipcircle 1. Australia: Kangaroo Bloodbath Begins 2. URGENT ACTION: 9 Bulls In Trap at Duck Creek Face Slaughter 3. Stop The Killing At Caddo Parish, Louisiana 4. UK: “Healthy Eating” Trend Means More Animal Experimentation 5. Email/Call New Huntingdon Life Sciences Shareholder 6. Stop Korea From Legalizing Dog Meat ================================================================= 7. Join Post Card Campaign For NYC Carriage Horses ALERT FROM / REPLY

TO: Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, coalitionbanhdc http://www.banhdc.org BACKGROUND (edited for length): QUINN POST CARD CAMPAIGN: Speaker Christine Quinn is the major stumbling block in the NYC City Council -- not only for carriage horse legislation, but for every animal bill... Thanks to many, our campaign is off to a great start. BUT WE NEED MORE OF YOU TO PARTICIPATE. All you need to do is get some post cards addressed to Speaker Quinn signed

by your friends and colleagues and returned to us... CONTACT INFORMATION / TAKE ACTION: TO OBTAIN POST CARDS, EMAIL: coalitionbanhdc - Tell us how many Quinn post cards you would like. - Provide your street mailing address. - When you get cards (preprinted with message to the Speaker) ask friends and family to fill them out in your presence. - Return completed cards to us in the stamped envelope that will be enclosed. - We will deliver them to her office. BLINDERS: AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY info -- BLINDERS exposes the truth behind the tradition of the NYC horse-drawn carriage industry. Please visit http://www.blindersthemovie.com/ for details, updates, press, movie trailer. ================================================================= 8. Stop Ohio Bill To Ban And Euthanize All Pit Bulls ALERT FROM / REPLY TO:

Laura Allen, lauraallen BACKGROUND (edited for length): Ohio State Representative Tyrone Yates has proposed a bill that would prohibit the ownership of pit bulls in the state of Ohio. The bill requires all owners to surrender their "pit bulls" within 90 days of the effective date of the proposed law. The bill is unequivocal that the dog warden "shall" euthanize all pit bulls within 10 days of their surrender. Under this proposal a dog warden or other officer who has probable cause to believe a dog is a pit bull dog, may apply for a search warrant. With the search warrant the officer

will have the authority to seize the pit bull dog and surrender it to the dog warden to be killed. Under current Ohio law a vicious dog is defined to include pit bulls regardless of their temperament or behavior, but there is no statewide prohibition on owning and keeping these dogs. The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld Ohio's current law. A bill pending in the Ohio legislature, H.B. 566, would repeal the state law that defines vicious dog to include pit bulls. If you live in Ohio, call or write and urge him or her to vote NO on H.B. 568, a proposed ban on pit bulls in the state. CONTACT INFORMATION / TAKE ACTION: Click here for to locate your Ohio

Rep’s contact info and get talking points...so you can help stop this medieval, cruel legislation: http://www.animallawcoalition.com/breed-bans/article/524 ================================================================= 9. Egypt: Tragedy At Esma (Sakkara) & Request For Support ALERT FROM / REPLY TO: Egyptian Society For Mercy To Animals http://www.esmaegypt.org/News___Links.html mona, andrea,

kristen, bahra, susie LEFT: Mona holding BD. He died morning of 5/17/08. MIDDLE: Rubi, poisoned to death. RIGHT: Sabra did not survive deliberate poisoning at shelter. BACKGROUND (edited for length): One week ago, we noticed our dogs acting in a way too familiar to us. Our worst fears were confirmed: OUR DOGS HAD BEEN POISONED! Midday, in our shelter playground. STRICHNINE, which is only accessible to authorities, somehow found

its way inside. We do not know HOW it happened or WHO could/would do such an atrocious act... UPDATE: MAY 17, 2008: Fatalities have risen to six dogs. Four are still in critical condition and we are doing all we can with the means and meds available to us. In Memory -- These are our Angels lost...fatalities of the recent poison attack inside our shelter: Alex, BD, Poupsy, Salwa, Sabra, Rubi -- http://www.esmaegypt.org/In_Memory.html CONTACT INFORMATION / TAKE ACTION: Please help us in any way you can. Our vet bills are piling up due to this most unexpected horrendous crime... DONATIONS: http://www.esmaegypt.org/How_you_can_help.html ================================================================= 10. GUESS Brand Sponsors Bullfighting In Algarve, Portugal ALERT FROM / REPLY TO: Miguel Moutinho | ANIMAL, miguel.moutinho http://info@... BACKGROUND (edited for length):

The brand GUESS is constantly involved with bullfighting in the Algarve, Portugal. Bullfighting activity in the heavy tourist Algarve region is mainly held in Albufeira, a popular beach town where the Albufeira Bullring annually hosts one bullfight per week from May to September... At the Albufeira Bullring, there is a GUESS? Store -- a permanent sponsor of pretty much all bullfights that occur there. CONTACT INFORMATION / TAKE ACTION: Ask GUESS? Inc. USA corporate headquarters to take action so that the brand is no longer associated with bullfighting: customerservice COPY (Cc): campanhas SAMPLE LETTER

from miguel.moutinho Dear Madams / Sirs, The shameful bullfighting activity in the Algarve region, in Portugal, is mainly held in Albufeira, one of the most popular beach towns in the region. Every year the Albufeira Bullring hosts one bullfight per week from May to September, trying to attract tourists to watch these medieval shows. At the Albufeira Bullring, there is a GUESS? store, which is a permanent sponsor of pretty much all bullfights that occur there. The presence of this store constantly associates your reputed brand with the economic and commercial support of bullfighting.

Bullfighting tortures bulls (at least six bulls per bullfight) just for entertainment. In the European Union, this brutal activity is only lawful in Portugal. In Spain and France it has lost its popularity and social acceptance. In Portugal in particular, where this GUESS? store promotes and sponsors bullfights, recent polls show the majority of the Portuguese public want bullfighting formally banned by Parliament. Foreign tourists attracted to the bullfights taking place at the Albufeira Bullring usually leave after a few minutes, disgusted and shocked with the violence towards animals. I urge GUESS? Inc. to clear its name and image in Portugal. Please stop this local store from

using your brand to promote and/or sponsor bullfighting. I look forward to your reply and thank you in anticipation for your attention. ================================================================= 11. 14- and 15-Year-Olds Hunt Big Game? Stop This Now. ALERT FROM / REPLY TO: Forwarded Message: Zelda, zpenzel Original Message: jain 4 animals, ddb_dunkirk * Mary Max BACKGROUND (edited for length): Whether you live in NY or not, please take a moment to write... Some bad

news: State Senate Bill 1284, which will allow 14- and 15-year-olds to hunt big game with firearms under mentored conditions, passed the State Senate with overwhelming support! Its companion bill in State Assembly, A733a, now sits in the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. If this bill passes here, bad news will turn into horrible news! We must stop it now! CONTACT INFORMATION / TAKE ACTION: Write a postcard/brief note to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Urge him to use his authority as leader of [NY] State Assembly to DEFEAT Bill A733a: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver 250 Broadway, Room 2307; New York, NY 10007 NOTE: It’s very important

we send a written note because Silver's office is getting bombarded with notes from hunters who want the bill passed. TALKING POINTS, from Mary Max: 1. Most accidental deaths occur while hunting deer and bears. These bills invite children into the "big game" arena. Youths are not permitted to marry, drive, or drink alcohol at age 14. NY State should not allow youths to handle weapons... Even with a "mentor" by their side, children can be impulsive and lack sound judgment. 2. An upstate pro-hunting daily newspaper reported: According to the Department of Conservation, the firearms injury rate per participant is relatively high among the youngest hunters compared to

Other age groups. (Post Standard, Syracuse, NY 3/2003). 3. Some children who are familiar with weapons tend to use them readily for suicide and/or shooting sprees in schools. ================================================================= 12. Officers' Role In Death Of Black Lab Questioned ALERT FROM / REPLY TO: Judy Bishop, jbishop_1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION (edited for length): http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/lab2008-04-29T21-20-19 Read this article about the beating of a family Lab who got out of her yard and was subsequently cornered and bludgeoned with a police officer's baton and then a shovel -- and had to be euthanized because of her injuries. Kansas has an animal cruelty felony law on the books for malicious and intentional cruelty to an animal. CONTACT INFORMATION / TAKE ACTION: Troy Hoover Supervisor for Shelter/Animal Control/Police Department ph: 620-960-3371; email: troy.hoover City Attorney Carolyn

Patterson: 620-694-2641 County Attorney Keith Schroeder: 620-694-2715 Amber Mings, Shelter Director: 620-694-1925 Hutchinson, Kansas Shelter and Supervisor for Animal Control ================================================================= EACH MONTHLY KC DIGEST INCLUDES: ALERTS forwarded by Kinship Circle supporters. DO NOT HIT REPLY! Respond to author of alert, clearly listed. Send submissions for KC DIGEST to kinshipcircle

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