VERY URGENT- ABC NEWS TV - Greyhounds Kill Rabbits For Sport in Bay Area

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VERY URGENT! ABC News Channel 7 just ran a special investigative report on a brutal, barbaric "blood sport" called Open Field Live Coursing" in which greyhounds in packs of three are set loose in fields to flush out and kill wild rabbits. The dogs are specifically trained and rewarded for tearing the rabbits apart. There are extra points for killing and shredding the rabbit and the rabbit dies a slow painful death purely for the entertainment and amusement of the people involved.. There are artificial lures that can be used for training and racing these dogs instead.

This particular news reports featured a coursing event held in Fairfield, in Solano County APPROVED by CA Fish and Game. The report and video can be viewed at http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team & id=3874872

 

CAUTION---------IT IS VERY DISTUBING AND GRAPHIC

 

More information will be coming soon on how you can help proposed legislation to stop this needless killing spree of innocent animals. As hard as the video is to watch, please do so, THE ANIMALS NEED YOUR HELP NOW.

 

1. Please contact Assembly Person Loni Hancock who is working to pass legislation to ban this animal abuse. Her email is Assemblymember.Hancock

She represents the following areas, so letters from her constituents are especially helpful --The 14th Assembly District includes Albany, Berkeley, Canyon, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Kensington, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, San Pablo and parts of Martinez, Oakland and Walnut Creek.

 

Link For the Assembly website contact form is below. Be sure to give your mailing address, too. http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a14/contact_form.htm2. Please contact ABC New 7 and thank Jessica Aguirre and Dan Noyes for their compassion and concern regarding this profoundly cruel form of "entertainment"

Dan.NoyesJessica.Aguirre

 

3. Websites listing Open Coursing Events and Promoting the "sport" are National Open Field Coursing Association - I think they took down the website tonight

www.nofca.org

 

Similar Group but not the one featured

http://www.nationalcoursingclub.org/

 

More info soon,

 

Marcy SchaafChapter ManagerSaveABunnySan Francisco/ Marin House Rabbit Societywww.saveabunny.com415-388-2790