Important FU--Act Now to Save Jenny! Cross Post Widely, Please

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I am hearing that some city council person's offices are telling callers to speak to the Zoo about Jenny, as the Zoo is the decision maker. Do not let them get away with this, please. The City Council is the decision maker.

 

If you are told your Dallas City Council person is unavailable, tell the assistant that you want to leave a message for your council person registering your objection to Jenny being transferred to Mexico, as you do want her sent to a sanctuary in the USA. Ask that your council person return your call to discuss it with you, please.

 

If you do not live in Dallas, telephone the Dallas mayor and advise that you do not want Jenny sent to Mexico, but you do want her sent to a Sanctuary in the USA.

 

Thank you for speaking for Jenny.

Margaret

Chair, Concerned Citizens for Jenny--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Margaret Morin <dogs_good wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACT TODAY TO SAVE JENNY, THE ELEPHANTWE MUST STOP THE DALLAS ZOO FROM SENDING JENNY TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK IN MEXICO

 

 

1. 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 LeppertDallas City Hall1500 Marilla Street, Room 5EN

Dallas, TX 75201-6390Main Phone: (214) 670-4054

Fax: (214) 670-0646 tom.leppertIf you live in Dallas, telephone your city council representative:http://dallascityhall.com/government/government.html

Whether 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.htm

 

2. WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Write 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 ReadersThe Dallas Morning NewsBox 655237Dallas, Texas 75265

Or submit your letter online at http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi

 

 

HERE IS JENNY'S STORY

 

Today, 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.html

If you want to join Concerned Citizens for Jenny and work with me to save Jenny, please contact me ASAP by telephone.

Thank you.

Margaret Morin

Chair, Concerned Citizens for JennyContact: dogs_good or 972 578 0370