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ACT TODAY TO SAVE JENNY! WE MUST STOP JENNY FROM BEING SENT TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK IN MEXICO1. CONTACT THE DALLAS MAYOR AND THE DALLAS CITY COUNCILTelephone Mayor Leppert and politely urge him to send Jenny to a sanctuary in the USA. Whether or not you live in Dallas, making a polite

phone call is the most important thing you can do. Here is Mayor Leppert's contact information:Mayor Tom Leppert

Dallas City Hall

1500 Marilla Street, Room 5EN

Dallas, TX 75201-6390

Main Phone: (214) 670-4054

Fax: (214) 670-0646

tom.leppertIf you live in Dallas, telephone your city council representative:http://dallascityhall.com/government/government.htmlWhether or not you live in Dallas, email the Dallas Mayor and the City Council ALL at one time by going to:http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/mcc/MCC_Mail_Form.htm2. WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITORWrite a letter to the editor of the Dallas Morning

News objecting to Jenny's transfer to an amusement park in Mexico and describing why Jenny's life would be better in a

sanctuary than in a Mexican safari park that operates outside

U.S. animal welfare and anti-cruelty laws. Letters should

be between 50 and 200 words. Letters are

selected for publication based on their clarity and brevity. They

require the writer¢s name, city and telephone number.

Send your letter objecting to Jenny's transfer to Mexico to:

Letters From Readers

The Dallas Morning News

Box 655237

Dallas, Texas 75265

Or submit your letter online at http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgiHERE IS JENNY'S STORYToday, the Dallas Morning News ran a story entitled

"Dallas Zoo's lone elephant to be moved to wildlife

refuge in Mexico" about the zoo's controversial decision to

dump Jenny, a 31-year-old African elephant, at a safari

amusement park in Mexico. Since the death of Jenny's elephant companion, Keke (39), in

May, Concerned Citizens for Jenny and In Defense of Animals have urged the zoo to send Jenny to The Elephant

Sanctuary in Tennessee.

The Mexican park offers an unnatural, confining exhibit of

only 4.9 acres -- a small fraction of the 2700-acre Elephant

Sanctuary, where Jenny would share a spacious, 300-acre natural

habitat with three other African elephants. It is shocking that the Dallas Zoo is moving Jenny to

a distant facility in a foreign country where she will not be

protected by U.S. animal welfare and anti-cruelty laws,

especially when there is a nearby facility with hundreds of

acres that is prepared to take her.

After being torn from her mother's side in Africa at the age of two, she was forced into seven years of brutal training. Jenny has been at the Dallas Zoo for 22 years, where she has had a traumatic and troubled stay. Between 1996 and 2001, the Dallas Zoo medicated her with the

tranquilizer Acepromazine because of aggression and

self-mutilating behaviors. Federal regulators characterized

Jenny's long-term treatment with this psychotropic drug as

"highly unconventional." While African elephants in the wild are

known to reproduce into their 50s and live into their 60s, in

zoos they commonly die decades short of their natural time. In

short, the Dallas Zoo's decision is a matter of life and death

for Jenny.THE ZOO MAY SHIP JENNY TO MEXICO BEFORE THEY THINK WE CAN STOP THEM. PLEASE ACT FOR JENNY TODAY!IMPORTANT! If you live in Dallas and will consent to your name being listed

as a member of Concerned Citizens for Jenny, please email me your name,

address, phone and in which Dallas district you live. The more Dallas Citizens, who are listed as members, the more influence we have for her. Here is a district map: http://dallascityhall.com/government/council/adopted_map.htmlIf you want to join Concerned Citizens for Jenny and work with me to save Jenny, please contact me ASAP by telephone. Thank you.Margaret MorinChair, Concerned Citizens for JennyContact: dogs_good or 972 578 0370