20/20 to cover elephant trauma and sanctuary - 7/25/08. Cross post please

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This is the story of Jenny and all elephants in captivity (below). Please watch and then, attend the Concerned Citizens for Jenny Rally on Sunday, July 27 the Dallas Zoo (Freeway entrance by giraffe statue) from 1-2 PM. Jenny needs you to come and speak for her! Thank you. Margaret--- On Thu, 7/24/08, DawnWatch <news wrote:The website for ABC's show 20/20 has a beautiful connected with tomorrow night's, Friday July 25, show. The web story is headed, "'They're Like Us,' Elephant Researchers Say. From Kenya toTennessee, Elephants With PTSD Symptoms Are Finding Some Peace."20/20 airs on ABC Friday at 10pm.The on line article discusses the Post Traumatic

Stress Disorder common inelephants who've seen their mothers shot in front of them, and who'vebeen shipped out of Africa for lives in captivity. It includes wonderful quotesabout the misery of elephants in zoos, or those taken from their mothers, asbabies, to give rides to tourists. You'll find the on line story athttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5435466Please check it out, and post a comment on that page. It is important that20/20 sees that animal topics excite viewers. And please send a big thank you to 20/20 at http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346 & cat=20/20Positive feedback for animal friendly segments encourages more of them.I send thanks to Elizabeth Alderman for making sure we knew about the segment.Enjoy it, Friday night, July 25, on ABC at 10pm. (Check your local listings.)Yours and the animals',Karen Dawn(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media

watch that looks at animal issues in themedia and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You canlearn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. You mayforward or reprint DawnWatch alerts if you do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch inthe title and include this parenthesized tag line. If somebody forwardsDawnWatch alerts to you, which you enjoy, please help the list grow by signingup. It is free.)Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com to read reviews of Karen Dawn's newbook, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals” andwatch the fun celebrity studded promo video.To discontinue DawnWatch alerts go to http://www.DawnWatch.com/nothanks.php-------You are d to DawnWatch using the following address: dogs_goodDate: Thu Jul 24 21:17:05

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