BREAKING NEWS ON ELEPHANT JENNY--READ & ACT NOW, PLEASE! CROSS POST OKAY

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WE MUST STOP THE DALLAS ZOO FROM SENDING JENNY TO A SAFARI ANIMAL DISPLAY AMUSEMENT PARK IN MEXICO. HERE’S WHY. 1. JENNY WILL BE ALONE AND ISOLATED IN MEXICO. At the Mexican Safari Animal Display Park, Jenny will be completely isolated. Jenny is an African elephant and she will not be able to associate with the two female Asian elephants, who live there. Here's why -- Asians and Africans do not blend herds and do not associate well. Their behaviors and language are different. Additionally, African elephants in North America have been infected with a herpes virus that is fatal to Asians, so Jenny will NEVER be allowed to associate with the Asians. The Zoo is claiming Jenny the two females at the Safari Park will be company for Jenny and we now know this to be untrue. 2. JENNY WILL

HAVE NO LEGAL PROTECTION IN MEXICO. There will be NO U.S. USDA, Animal Welfare or Anti-Cruelty Laws covering Jenny in Mexico.3. JENNY WILL HAVE A SMALL AREA IN WHICH TO LIVE IN MEXICO.The sanctuaries who will accept Jenny have thousands of acres versus 4.9 acres at the Safari Display Park. The 4.9 acres is subdivided further, so Jenny may actually have far less than 4.9 acres. She may end up with a smaller area in which to live than she has now. We know the bull is presently segregated from the two female Asians. And, Jenny will be separate from them all. By contrast, the Elephant Sanctuary (http://www.elephants.com/) is a state of the art, 2,700 acre elephant refuge. It is the largest natural habitat refuge in the world. PAWS Sanctuary (http://www.pawsweb.org/) in California has hundreds of acres and is also a state of the art, internationally recognized facility. Both

U.S. sanctuaries are excellent and Jenny should be able to retire to one of these and be in the company of other African elephants. 4. AZA ACCREDITATION IS MEANINGLESS. The Zoo is touting the reason for transferring Jenny to the Safari Display Park it that it is Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited. The AZA is just a trade association. Their standards are minimal and voluntary. AZA standards allow zoos to lock a six ton elephant up for life in a very small space and that meets AZA standards. AZA facilities have been cited for breech of animal welfare law in the past, so AZA accreditation is no guarantee of quality of care.PLEASE TAKE THESE ACTIONS FOR JENNY NOW!1. CONTACT THE DALLAS MAYOR AND THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL BEFORE THEY RECESS ON JULY 1. We must convince the Mayor and the City Council to stop this transfer to Mexico and send Jenny to an elephant

sanctuary instead. Please keep calling them until they do the right thing by Jenny. TELEPHONE MAYOR LEPPERT. Whether of 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 5ENDallas, TX 75201-6390Main Phone: (214) 670-4054Fax: (214) 670-0646tom.leppertTELEPHONE YOUR CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE, if you live in Dallas. Council contact info is available at:http://dallascityhall.com/government/government.htmlEMAIL DALLAS MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, whether or not you live in Dallas. You may email ALL at one time by copying and pasting the web address immediately below into your search field (if you click on it, you will email the mayor

alone):http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/mcc/MCC_Mail_Form.htm2. WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR TODAY! We must keep Jenny's plight before the public by gaining access to the media. Letters to the editor is our best option, as we do not have a PR firm like the Zoo does. Please write a LTE to the Dallas Morning News advocating that Jenny go to a sanctuary rather than to an amusement park in Mexico, where she will have no protection of U.S. animal welfare and animal 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.Reference the DMN story “Dallas Zoo's lone elephant to move to Mexican wildlife park” to get the best chance of getting your LTE published.

(http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/062408dnmetelephant.3564425d.html) Send your letter objecting to Jenny's transfer to Mexico to:Letters From ReadersThe Dallas Morning NewsBox 655237Dallas , Texas 75265Or submit your letter online at http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgiHERE IS JENNY'S STORY:On Tuesday, 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 has 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 2,700-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 U.S. 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." In human health care, this is called "chemical

restraint."Jenny is an abused, emotionally fragile animal. She rocks back and forth, a sign of her extremely stressed mental state or "zoochosis," caused by her living conditions in the Dallas Zoo, an AZA accredited facility. Jenny ekes out her existence in a small, barren prison at the Dallas Zoo, where she has nothing to occupy her time or her mind. The Zoo did not act in Jenny's best interests in the past and they are not acting in her best interests now. She is beyond child bearing age and emotionally unstable in a Zoo setting (including the park in Mexico). Jenny is not suitable to the Zoo's future expansion plans. They are sending her in another country where no one will be able to track her and where she will be beyond our help.In Mexico, Jenny will have no US animal law protection and she will be constantly viewed by tourists in cars. She deserves to retire to a world-class

sanctuary where she may roam in peace with other elephants.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 ORGANIZE ACTION TO 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 work with me to save Jenny, please contact me ASAP by telephone. CROSS

POST WIDELY, PLEASE! Thank you.Margaret MorinChair, Concerned Citizens for JennyContact: dogs_good or 972 578 0370

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Keeping a female elephant in isolation is extremely cruel due to her

intense need for the society of her own kind. An elephant expert

said this to the Zoo with me present on Tuesday last. The Zoo did

not mention that they intend to send Jenny to exactly this fate -- an

existence in isolation, probably for the rest of her life. Please

stop the Zoo from doing this terrible thing to Jenny. Margaret

 

, Margaret Morin

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>

> WE MUST STOP THE DALLAS ZOO FROM SENDING JENNY TO A SAFARI ANIMAL

DISPLAY AMUSEMENT PARK IN MEXICO.   HERE'S WHY.

>

>

>  1.  JENNY WILL BE ALONE AND ISOLATED IN MEXICO.

> At the Mexican Safari Animal Display Park, Jenny will be completely

isolated.  Jenny is an African elephant and she will not be able to

associate with the two female Asian elephants, who live there.  

Here's why -- Asians and Africans do not blend herds and do not

associate well.  Their behaviors and language are different. 

Additionally, African elephants in North America have been infected

with a herpes virus that is fatal to Asians, so Jenny will NEVER be

allowed to associate with the Asians.  The Zoo is claiming Jenny the

two females at the Safari Park will be company for Jenny and we now

know this to be untrue.

>

> 2.  JENNY WILL HAVE NO LEGAL PROTECTION IN MEXICO.

> There will be NO U.S. USDA, Animal Welfare or Anti-Cruelty Laws

covering Jenny in Mexico.

>

> 3.  JENNY WILL HAVE A SMALL AREA IN WHICH TO LIVE IN MEXICO.

> The sanctuaries who will accept Jenny have thousands of acres

versus 4.9 acres at the Safari Display Park.  The 4.9 acres is

subdivided further, so Jenny may actually have far less than 4.9

acres.  She may end up with a smaller area in which to live than she

has now.   We know the bull is presently segregated from the two

female Asians.  And, Jenny will be separate from them all.

>

> By contrast, the Elephant Sanctuary (http://www.elephants.com/) is

a state of the art, 2,700 acre elephant refuge.  It is the largest

natural habitat refuge in the world.  PAWS Sanctuary

(http://www.pawsweb.org/) in California has hundreds of acres and is

also a state of the art, internationally recognized facility.   Both

U.S. sanctuaries are excellent and Jenny should be able to retire to

one of these and be in the company of other African elephants.

>

> 4.  AZA ACCREDITATION IS MEANINGLESS.

> The Zoo is touting the reason for transferring Jenny to the Safari

Display Park it that it is Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)

accredited.  The AZA is just a trade association.  Their standards

are minimal and voluntary.  AZA standards allow zoos to lock a six

ton elephant up for life in a very small space and that meets AZA

standards.   AZA facilities have been cited for breech of animal

welfare law in the past, so AZA accreditation is no guarantee of

quality of care.

>

> PLEASE TAKE THESE ACTIONS FOR JENNY NOW!

>

> 1.  CONTACT THE DALLAS MAYOR AND THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL BEFORE

THEY RECESS ON JULY 1.    We must convince the Mayor and the City

Council to stop this transfer to Mexico and send Jenny to an elephant

sanctuary instead.  Please keep calling them until  they do the right

thing by Jenny.  

>

> TELEPHONE MAYOR LEPPERT.  Whether of 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.leppert

>

>

> TELEPHONE YOUR CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE, if you live in Dallas. 

Council contact info is available at:

>

> http://dallascityhall.com/government/government.html

>

>

> EMAIL DALLAS MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, whether or not you live in

Dallas.   You may email ALL at one time by copying and pasting the

web address immediately below into your search field (if you click on

it, you will email the mayor alone):

>

> http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/mcc/MCC_Mail_Form.htm

>

>

> 2.  WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR TODAY!  

>

> We must keep Jenny's plight before the public by gaining access to

the media.  Letters to the editor is our best option, as we do not

have a PR firm like the Zoo does. Please write a LTE to the Dallas

Morning News advocating that Jenny go to a sanctuary rather than to

an amusement park in Mexico, where she will have no protection of

U.S. animal welfare and animal 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.

>

> Reference the DMN story " Dallas Zoo's lone elephant to move to

Mexican wildlife park " to get the best chance of getting your LTE

published.

>

(http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/

062408dnmetelephant.3564425d.html)

>

> 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.cgi

>

>

> HERE IS JENNY'S STORY:

>

> On Tuesday, 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 has 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 2,700-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 U.S. 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. "   In human health care, this is called  " chemical

restraint. "

>

> Jenny is an abused, emotionally fragile animal.  She rocks back and

forth, a sign of her extremely stressed mental state or " zoochosis, "

caused by her living conditions in the Dallas Zoo, an AZA accredited

facility.  Jenny ekes out her existence in a small, barren prison at

the Dallas Zoo, where she has nothing to occupy her time or her

mind.  The Zoo did not act in Jenny's best interests in the past and

they are not acting in her best interests now.

>

> She is beyond child bearing age and emotionally unstable in a Zoo

setting (including the park in Mexico).   Jenny is not suitable to

the Zoo's future expansion plans.  They are sending her in another

country where no one will be able to track her and where she will be

beyond our help.

>

> In Mexico, Jenny will have no US animal law protection and she will

be constantly viewed by tourists in cars.  She deserves to retire to

a world-class sanctuary where she may roam in peace with other

elephants.

>

> 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 ORGANIZE

ACTION TO 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 work with me to save Jenny, please contact me ASAP

by telephone.

>

> CROSS POST WIDELY, PLEASE!

>  

> Thank you.

> Margaret Morin

> Chair, Concerned Citizens for Jenny

> Contact:  dogs_good or 972 578 0370

>