Please protest torture and killing of dogs in Nis, Serbia, one prewritten letter, thank you.

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Please protest torture and killing of dogs in Nis, Serbia, one prewritten letter, thank you.Share Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 6:29pmThank you to Elizabeta for bringing this to our attention. Please condemn the torture of animals in Nis, Serbia, demanding these crimes not go unanswered. As always, please feel free to use my letter but it would be great if you could modify and shorten to send a variety of responses (for example, even the first paragraph is sufficient, feel free to edit at your discretion), thank you.From Elizabeta's note as taken from her alert:http://www.facebook.com/notes/elizabeta-stojanovic/ubijeni-stenci-u-nisu/357642595372Please, as a gesture of support, take five minutes of your time and send an e-mail to the Mayor of Niš, Mr. Miloš Simonović, with a couple of words about stopping the killing of dogs and using the money in an efficient and humane manner. His e-mail is mayorWHERE TO SEND YOUR LETTERS OF PROTEST:mayorSAMPLE LETTER:Dear Mayor Simonovic,I am gravely disturbed to learn of the deliberate torture of dogs in Nis, as perpetrated in the presence of

children. These dogs were deliberately hung on tree branches and killed in a blatantly cruel manner. This is not an isolated incidence and factually represents an indefensible, ongoing campaign conducted by communities to address the growing population of homeless animals. Indeed, given the transparent nature of these killings and the seeming lack of official intervention and termination, it is alleged that municipal approval has been extended to sanction this. As such, I am demanding immediate intervention to protect these animals and criminalize the people responsible for such cruelty.Allow me this moment to elaborate. Animals are sentient creatures who, as humans, experience joy, loneliness, fear, and pain. As humans, we unethically elevate ourselves to a status of superiority over all other beings, thereby rationalizing the brutality to which we subject them. We embrace this position as an elite class of six billion individuals, adopting

euphemistic descriptions and apathetic banalities to justify this inequity. Speciesism, the discrimination of other beings, is a dangerous precept on which to stand, as immoral as sexism and racism; when human animals allow the exploitation and killing of 60 billion non-human animals globally and annually, we have become a group willingly complicit in such brutality, apathetic and selfish, disguising such maliciousness as excusable necessity, which is not only grossly unjust and immoral, but it is also exceedingly wrong.Ours is not a challenge to be regarded as humans against humans but rather as a welcomed obligation, indeed privilege, to maintain an international attitude of compassion and justice to our non-human animal friends. We do not gain power or control by degrading animals but rather we desensitize ourselves to all cruelty and victims become mere numbers, statistics, or unethical financial means. Objectifying animals by condoning

their abusers' violent acts or rejecting animals as undeserving of empathy and respect only erodes our capacity for humaneness towards all living creatures.It is impossible to contemplate supporting any country, via tourism or commerce, that excuses such blatant animal cruelty; as a direct consequence, the global community, refusing to defend this maliciousness, will condemn any further exploitation through personal boycotts. Ours is not an ambiguous request; you should understand that further killing will prove not only socially unacceptable but also financially irresponsible. As such, please provide immediate relief for these innocent animals and instead be a representation of animal compassion and strive to foster an ideal whereby animals are respected and empathized by your citizens. Allocate resources to construct shelters; implement sterilization and vaccination programs to prevent homeless populations and colony disease outbreaks; accept

local and international advice and assistance; implement laws addressing current legal vulnerabilities; and enforce existing laws establishing animal cruelty as criminal.I hope this letter finds you willing to scrutinize both your own involvement in the intentional exploitation of animals and your desire to therefore protect, rather than harm, them. Thank you for your attention to this urgent issue.