URGENT: Speak Out for Cats Entombed Alive in Belarus
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BACKGROUND | SOURCE PETA
Officials in Minsk, Belarus, have reportedly entombed hundreds of stray cats in the basements of apartment buildings that are being sealed to keep out rodents. According to media reports, area residents are traumatized by the anguished cries of the trapped and dying cats. Forcing animals to die from starvation or dehydration is extremely cruel and unsanitary. Carcasses will cause buildings to smell, upsetting occupants and neighbors while attracting more rodents to the area!
Please urge Minsk officials to free any trapped cats. Advise them that placing multiple rags soaked with ammonia in basements will drive out all animals because they hate the smell. After 24 hours have elapsed, entry points can be safely sealed. Thank you, and please forward this alert widely!
WHOM TO CONTACT
Email Block:
info@minsk-region.gov.by ; mgik@minsk.gov.by ; mgik.jil.pol@minsk.gov.by ; kom_stroy.stroy@minsk.gov.by ; kom_stroy.invest@minsk.gov.by
Individual:
The Honorable Boris Batura
Chair
Minsk Oblast Executive Committee
info@minsk-region.gov.by
The Honorable Vladimir Yevguenyevich Kukharev
First Deputy Chair
Minsk City Executive Committee
mgik@minsk.gov.by
The Honorable Alexander Sergeyevich Avramenko
Director
Minsk City Executive Committee Department of Housing Policy
mgik.jil.pol@minsk.gov.by
The Honorable Viktoria Markov
Deputy Director of Housing
Minsk City Executive Committee of Construction and Investments
kom_stroy.stroy@minsk.gov.by
The Honorable Natalia Arturovna Yuditskii
Deputy Director of Construction Investment Projects
Minsk City Executive Committee of Construction and Investments
kom_stroy.invest@minsk.gov.by
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Honorable Batura, Honorable Kukharev, Honorable Avramenko, Honorable Markov, and Honorable Yuditskii:
Please Free Entombed Cats From Sealed Basements!
I was shocked to learn that cats in Minsk are being inadvertently entombed in basements when the buildings are sealed to keep out rodents. Forcing these animals to die from starvation or dehydration is extremely cruel and unsanitary. Carcasses will cause buildings to smell, upsetting occupants and neighbors while attracting more rodents to the area.
Please free any trapped cats. Placing multiple rags soaked with ammonia in basements will drive out all animals (they hate the smell). After 24 hours have elapsed, entry points can be safely sealed.
Thank you for your attention to this urgent appeal.
NAME
here we are, locked in this tomb.
it is dark in here, and filled with
gloom.
no water,no food,
we cannot lift our heads.
what did we do to
end up so slowly and
painfully,
dead.
please help us authorities
ofminsk, belarus.
open these torture chambers
and let us loose.
signed,
the cats!
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
triedto go to the link but it took me to the action center and whe i tried to access the bull festival it said it couldnt find it so i took a few other actions for acts and deers i’ll be back later to check the link it could lso be my computer too thabnks Stacey
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Wow, they must have just taken it down, it was active yesterday. Thank you so much for letting me know, hon, I will replace it with the horrible cat tragedy.
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here we are, locked in this tomb.
it is dark in here, and filled with
gloom.
no water,no food,
we cannot lift our heads.
what did we do to
end up so slowly and
painfully,
dead.
please help us authorities
ofminsk, belarus.
open these torture chambers
and let us loose.
signed,
the cats!
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Hi, The link provided is not linked to the petition but to the list of petitions. The petition itself cannot be found. Regards,
Andres Grijalva
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts – more clearly than in any book – that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans. ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:01:11 +0000 To: andres_98789@hotmail.com
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Hi, Andres. Thank you so much for letting me know. I was informed of this yesterday (I don’t know why PETA removed the alert), and I changed the post to one about entombed cats. Please ignore the link you received and click on the alert directly from Our Compass to take action for the cats. Thank you in advance for your participation.
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Sorry, unable to locate petition. c
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Hi, Christine. For some reason PETA removed the link, so I substituted another urgent alert instead. If you could please follow the link to Our Compass rather than the email link you received, it will reveal an alternate action: https://our-compass.org/2013/02/07/urgent-help-stop-bull-torture-festival-in-mexico-2/
Thank you!
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Stop torturing these innocent animals! You are condoning animal cruelty in face of the public!
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I agree, thank you, Marina.
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Please put an end to this horror…!!
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Animals destroyers do not kill only animals, they kill them themselves and their next generations as well. They are suicide, self-murderers. They easily betray their own children’s destiny exposing them open to attack in their future, especially grandchildren making them answer for their parents’ non-compliance with the Laws of Nature where we live IN, – through physical or mental deseases, sudden accidents, etc.
Existing in one and the only Earth magnetic field, of energy & information concept, we cannot get rid of ITS reaction being of boomerang origin… My condolence !
“Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers, you do it unto me.” Matthew 25:40
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Stop making common sense people suffer for animal disregard as our COMMON Nature beings.
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