Success! LTE for Elephant Jenny. Keep Writing! Cross Post Okay

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I cross posted the below email at the request of Jennifer Sellers, at her request. Also, remember that the two most important things you can do for Elephant Jenny are:1. Telephone the Dallas Mayor (whether or not you live in Dallas) and politely urge him to transfer Jenny to The Elephant Sanctuary in TN. If his office says the Zoo will make this decision and asks you to call the Zoo, please firmly advise that you urge the Mayor to make the decision, not the Zoo. Calling the Zoo is a waste of time. 2. Write a Letter to the Editor. The editorial page is the 2nd most widely read page

of the newspaper, so your letter counts. The more LTE received, the more likelihood that our letters will be published. Media coverage is hard to come by. We must keep Jenny's plight before the public. If it dies down, they will feel free to transfer her to Mexico. Margaret MorinConcerned Citizens for Jenny --- On Sun, 7/6/08, kitten kat <spikebros wrote:The following letters have been published within a week's time. Keep writing.JenniferLetters for Sunday, Dallas Morning News12:00 AM CDT

on Sunday, June 29, 2008Charles and Raquel Nipp, Dallas"Send Jenny to U.S. home"Re:

"Elephant getting new home – Animal whose companion died last month

will live in Mexico preserve; activists object to site," Wednesday

Metro.We are very upset at the way the city of Dallas is treating

Jenny, the elephant at the Dallas Zoo mourning the death of her best

friend.Jenny should be with other elephants in an elephant

sanctuary. An excellent nearby elephant sanctuary has offered to take

in Jenny at no charge to the city. The city informs us that Jenny will

be shipped off to a miniscule animal park near Mexico City where U.S.

standards for elephant care do not apply.Why can't we send Jenny to

a nearby American shelter, where we are sure she will get excellent

treatment from others of her own kind and trained, competent human

beings who will love her?Charles and Raquel Nipp, DallasDallas Morning News – Thurs. July3"Reroute that elephant"Re:

"Elephant getting new home – Animal whose companion died last month

will live in Mexico preserve; activists object to site," June 25 Metro.I

am concerned about the future arrangement for Jenny, the elephant from

the Dallas Zoo, to a park in Mexico. I grew up in Mexico, and I've seen

how elephants and other animals are treated there; it's inhuman and

cruel. There's a nicer offer for Jenny in an elephant park in

Tennessee. She has a better future here in the U.S.Nancy Castillo, DallasStar Telegram – July 5th"FOCUS ON ... Bad decision for Jenny"http://www.dallaszoo.com/The

choice by the Dallas Zoo to send Jenny the elephant to a safari park in

Mexico is a disastrous one. (See: “Dallas Zoo to send its last

remaining elephant to Mexico,” June 25) Jenny, a 32-year-old, 5-ton

African elephant, has lived at the zoo since 1986.As more

information becomes available, the situation looks even more dire.

Although it may be a lovely location, there are only three elephants

there — one male and two Asian females.Because Asian and African

elephants cannot mix, and the male cannot mix with the females, we now

know that the stated 4.9 acres in Mexico will be divided three ways.

Zoo officials said that they were sending Jenny to Mexico because the

site there is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, an

organization that sounds great but in truth can only make suggestions

to zoos.Jenny and Keke lived in horrid conditions at the Dallas Zoo for years, and that zoo is a member of the AZA.Jenny’s

medical records are online at In Defense of Animals, and the

veterinarian states that she is emotionally fragile. We also learn that

she has been kept on drugs for six years to control her delicate

emotional state and has abscesses on her feet from standing on the

cement with no ability to roam. AZA approved, indeed.I can just

imagine how our delicate Jenny will do when buses ramble through the

sanctuary with tourists. Not to mention that she will not be covered by

any animal welfare laws as she would be in the U.S.Isn’t it time

for this elephant to be able to interact with other African elephants

at a sanctuary, to roam at will, to forage like an elephant in the wild

and to be truly free, especially from gazing tourists, for whatever

time is left her?Jennifer Sellers, Richardson