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send me Alerts !
Wonderful!! We can’t have enough of this…until all cages are empty and all live free from exploitation and harm.
Hello
I would like to bring yet another issue to your tables, so to speak. I am one of the Directors for a new group, National Urban Wildlife Coalition (NUWC). Our mission is to unite all wildlife enthusiasts and animal groups to combat what we have been helpless observers of.
Our wildlife management system is broken and corrupt. It has evolved into a hunting business, with states competing against each other for federal tax payer funds ENTIRELY hinged on selling more hunting licenses, recruiting our kids to hunt, and arranging hunting seasons to ensure a bumper crop of game animals each year.
Meanwhile, our society still thinks “we need hunting to save animals from starving to death”. We believe the maligning of animals to be nothing more than “disease ridden nuisances” – so that we will look away from these animals being trapped and used as live bait to train dogs to shred them alive.
Our government agencies (with ranchers deep in their pockets) kill hundreds of thousands of animals all year long in the name of crop protection. Their “predator management program” is against the very core of natural wildlife management.
Until the Pittman-Robertson Wildnerness Act (the gun tax program) is repealed, this will never change. Our wildlife will continue to be exploited, non-sporting enthusiasts will be ignored as “radical anti’s”, and citizens who deserve some of the $300+ million gun tax will be ignored as well. Hunters are 4% of our population. This monopolized management must change.
http://www.examiner.com/x-41663-Urban-Wildlife-Examiner~y2010m7d14-Wildlife-Conservation-has-an-agenda–our-taxes-ensure-unsound-management
In a few weeks NUWC site will go live at USwildlife.us There is now a Facebook page for the group.
We will pursue this goal with all we have, we intend to lobby and seek production of a documentary and/or TV commercials – we will not give up. But we need awareness. I hope you will help in any way you can.
Thank you.
Katherine McGill
561-262-8100
Hi, nice to meet you !
Thanks for creating this blog. We need blogs like this a lot.
I have received your email and I am working on my “new job”!
I will keep in touch!
You are amazingly brilliant! Thank you so much, I know you must be incredibly busy, whenever you have a convenient moment. In the meantime, I’ll stalk your blog and all the cool tricks you have!
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes visionary thinking.” – Murray Bookchin
Keep it up!
Who are you?
That pretty much explains who we are. Unless you mean names? There are a lot of us, I am Stacey.
I would just like to say thank you for all the work you do here keeping he rest of us informed on important issues concerning the welfare of animals…..
Also adding this is done in an orthodox manner without all the threats, bashing and such….although I do join in those tactics and do not oppose them whatsoever, at the same time I feel this manner of fighting animal cruelty shown here, is as much needed as any other…
We all need to fight what ever way we can….
This creates a diversity of armies, therefore hitting “all” targets….
Thank you & Keep up the great work. !!!
Would it be possible to include our Petition currently on Change.org under your FUR/SKIN section.
I am the Founder of Protection 4 Animals where we rent land and buildings so we can take in all Animals that, where it appears we are there last chance. My wife and myself are non funded, receive no donations and look after the Animals ourselves.
With enough support gathered from Social Media such as Compass, Change.org, Our Blog, Twitter and FaceBook our hope that within a year we can register as a charity, raise funds, receive donations and work at this full time and help more Animals. Our Policy is once we take an Anima in, it has a home for life and lives out it’s natural life safe and loved.
Please support Protection 4 Animals on Change.org by clicking: http://www.change.org/protection_4_animals
By clicking here: http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-raccoon-dogs-being-skinned-alive-in-china-for-fake-ugg-boots-suffering-slow-sickening-horrendous-deaths will take you to me, and if we have not already done so, become friends or send a message.
In the mean we would be very grateful for your kind support by signing our petition President of China: Stop Raccoon Dogs Being Skinned Alive in China for Fake Ugg Boots it would really be appreciated.
You can also read more information on the background of this petition Raccoon Dogs Skinned Alive for fake Ugg Boots and other articles on our blog http://protection4animals.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/raccoon-dogs-skinned-alive-in-china
We can now also be found on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protection-4-Animals/209786769090038?sk=wall
You can follow Protection 4 Animals Twitter @P4Animals
Protection 4 Animals recently started Stop Fur Trade which can be found on twitter @StopFurTrade and on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/StopFurTrade-Protection-4-Animals/294957717181999?sk=wall - early days yet!
Best wishes and thanks again,
Mike
Mícheál Caomhánach
Protection 4 Animals
Hi there! I have nominated you for the Shine On Blog Award. Do with it what you will. http://girrlearth.com/2013/05/13/receiving-and-giving-the-shine-on-blog-award/
-Best,
Girl for Animal Liberation
Awesome! Thank you so much, Girl for Animal Liberation, I am honored!
my pleasure!