Urge Officials to Secure Welfare of Horrifically Neglected Animals

SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Acting Director Flider OR Honorable Governor Quinn,

McLean County, Illinois, resident Curtis Cleary was taken into police custody on November 5 after firing gunshots at his girlfriend. Responding officers reportedly discovered a horrific scene: the decaying carcasses of as many as 60 cats and a dozen dogs, and approximately 30 sick and malnourished farm animals on the property. Reports indicate that Cleary had been left to run his deceased former girlfriend’s animal rescue, but instead of caring for the animals, he allegedly beat them, tormented them, and starved most of them to death. Sources indicate that Cleary may regain access to these animals after being freed on bail. Please immediately seize the animals and work to gain permanent custody of them to ensure their welfare.

When I try to imagine what possible motive animal abusers entertain for subjecting their animal victims to such malicious, heinous acts of brutality, I fail, but I am thankful for a lack of cognitive understanding and rationalization. To engage in such malevolent behaviour absolutely suggests sociopathic and sadistic tendencies and demonstrates an incontrovertible lack of morality regarding other living beings and a gross disrespect for the law. In fact, a person who shows such a remarkable lack of compassion towards animals has, disturbingly enough, the ability to show such indifference towards humans. This link between animal and human abuse has been established, and if we excuse or ignore such negligence and suffering, we would be serving an injustice to both animals and society.

We must do everything in our power to allocate necessary resources to investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of animal cruelty cases and to ensure the ongoing care, treatment, and welfare of the animal victims.  Please ensure these animals are no longer subjected to such indifference and secure custody of them.

Thank you for taking the time to read this urgent appeal.

NAME

help us please,
we have been through
so much.
our treatment at the hands
of curtis cleary
much too rough.
many of us died.
some of us will.
we do not deserve
so bitter a pill.
department of
agriculture,
please take us in.
so our lives as
animals in safety,
can begin!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson