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Originally Posted: 19 Jan 2009Save Iditarod Dogs from Brutality - WRITE
From the Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org
Imagine the cruelties these cute sled dog pups will eventually experience in the Iditarod.Contact information, email blocks and sample letter are below.
Please help end the barbaric treatment of dogs by sending protest emails to organizations that support the Iditarod. What happens to the dogs during the Iditarod includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases, broken bones, torn muscles and tendons and sprains.
Dog beatings and whippings are common. During the 2007 Iditarod, eyewitnesses reported that musher Ramy Brooks kicked, punched and beat his dogs with a ski pole and a chain. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, "A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective." "It is a common training device in use among dog mushers..."
Iditarod dog kennels are puppy mills. Mushers breed large numbers of dogs and routinely kill unwanted ones, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason are killed with a shot to the head, dragged, drowned or clubbed to death.
When they're not hauling people, most Iditarod dogs are forced to live at the end of a chain. It has been reported that dogs who don't make the main team are never taken off-chain. Chained dogs have been attacked by wolves, bears and other animals. Old and arthritic dogs suffer terrible pain in the blistering cold.
Most Internet service providers allow people to send up to 40 email addresses
at a time. For your convenience, the addresses have been divided into groups
of 40. Please email the first group first. Individual email addresses are
given under the sample letter. The groups contain addresses for the Iditarod
sponsors, promoters, and the sponsors of the 73 mushers who signed up for the 2009 Iditarod. Email blocks with semicolons are on
http://www.helpsleddogs.org/sponsors.htm.GROUP ONE EMAIL ADDRESSES:
marianne.amssoms@inbev.com, investor@discoveryholdingcompany.com, John_Ford@discovery.com, Darien_e.wilson@roche.com, investorrelations@columbia.com, investor.relations@medtronic.com, executive-editor@nytimes.com, rick.ludwin@nbcuni.com, info@dlife.com, corporate_communications@hmco.com, investorrelations@target.com, aly.noormohamed@dpsg.com, rick.blake@harcourt.com, rosepr@rosemail.org, aarpmagazine@aarp.org, Anne.sweeney@disney.com, rick.ludwin@nbcuni.com, lee.davies@spcorp.com, wayne.hearn@rotary.org, betsy.o'rourke@wyndhamworldwide.com, info@renegadepictures.co.uk, mark.kroeger@scrippsnetworks.com, Christopher.Gay@cabelas.com, charlene.jagannath@millenniumhotels.co.uk, karen_dmochowsky@timeinc.com, jlopes@aurn.com, tedronneburger@680thefan.com, PDoyle@adn.com, roy.a.betts@usps.gov, info@zoasis.com, Shareholders.IM@pg.com, corporate.communications@blockbuster.com, mary.dillon@us.mcd.com, yum.investor@yum.com, mike.morgan@harley-davidson.com, toyota_cares@toyota.com, sarah.palin@alaska.gov, Virginia.Q.Sanchez@shell.com, tmattia@na.ko.com, Catherine.Gacad@wellsfargo.com
GROUP TWO EMAIL ADDRESSES:
Catherine.Gacad@wellsfargo.com, rabello@hollandamerica.com, jbenson@princesscruises.com, investor_relations@scholastic.com, biorigin@biorigin.com.br, kroger.investors@kroger.com, media@cerberuscapital.com, Spring.Jeffrey@aaa-calif.com, editor@independenttraveler.com, newsroom@alaskaair.com, bigshow@plj.com, comments@komo1000news.com, angie@wnwv.com, curt.hansen@cumulus.com, jpenchoff@csg.org, info@floridamedia.org, bspeltz@standard.com, info@havemilk.com, cstorey@udidaho.org, pubaffmr@chevrontexaco.com, enterprise.comments@exxonmobil.com, investor.relations@horizonlines.com, investor_relations@netapp.com, rwhatley@jbpco.com, info@sportees.com, abbietaylor@theblackdog.com, gene@motosolutions.com, information@lynden.com, info@havemilk.com, ablank@gpworldwide.com, info@laderma.com.au, Ethel.Minchello@MSDK12.net, info@eLongo.com, customerservice@jetboil.com, info@talusoutdoortech.com, portgamble@orminc.com, lat62@alaska.net, boardofdirectors@horizonlines.com, info@lake-rescue.org, info@canada-goose.com, nschnell@ista-in.org
GROUP THREE EMAIL ADDRESSES:
reservations@akalpinelodge.com, info@vertikal.net, post@vomoghundemat.no, mahays@mtaonline.net, kneern@pobox.alaska.net, raft@talkeetnariverguides.com, morsecin@ssd.k12.pa.us, morsecin@ssd.k12.pa.us, mfrank@the-aps.org, cherylm@lilacblind.org, MBenedetti@greatbatch.com, pmaddock@camrudlaw.com, principal.perryes@pac.dodea.edu, jacksonj@mail.leon.k12.fl.us, ktrail@sfsd.k12.pa.us, lmilitello@williamsvillek12.org, michele_svihovec@bismarckschools.org, streadaw@cabarrus.k12.nc.us,
sonja.braziel@browardschools.com, mmaddox2@bcps.org, jquick@clearfield.org, LHall@henhudschools.org, info@fcesptsa.org, info@crosbysmiles.com, info@janssenfuneralhomes.com,
info@trapperscreek.com, office@toughdivorces.com, alaskarv@mtaonline.net,
fishhomer@gmail.com, info@talkeetnalodge.com, alaskarv@mtaonline.net,
awp@co.hamilton.in.us, media@aecf.org, davidnee@wcgmf.org, wginsberg@cfgnh.org, natas@asi-seattle.net, wendy@diamondbrand.com, webmaster@ionearth.com, wellingj@mishawaka.k12.in.us
GROUP FOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES:
info@teckcominco.com, info@inlettower.com, rodney.bolls@bglobal.us, info@ndindustries.com, bbroquet@gci.com, websales@antonbauer.com, wccinfo@wcclp.com, help@mtaonline.net, AskMLP@muni.org, investor_relations@netapp.com, msteele@eaglepack.com, info@frontierflying.com, fhees@alaskanbeer.com, info@penair.com, Mayor@ci.anchorage.ak.us, ircontact@simon.com, info@thecrossingrestaurant.net, info@midnightsunbrewing.com, info@canada-goose.com, mathew@mountainadventuretours.org, info@EpicenterPress.com, info@greatriverjourney.com, info@trabitsgroup.com, ruediger.henke@queo-media.com, ahelion@wcasd.net, lodging@mtaonline.net,
khabermann@mammut.ch, sales@handwarmers.com, info@coastalhelicopters.com, para@alaska.net, jay@dswf.org, info@azumano.com, manager@ci.nome.ak.us, info@penair.com, mayor@ci.wasilla.ak.us, resumes@crowley.com, Lbeck@udelhoven.com, sean.karin@alaska.net, socks@wigwam.com, rtraini@akteamsters.com
SAMPLE LETTER (Please personalize the letter.):
Dear Iditarod Supporter:
Please end your organization's support of the Iditarod dog sled race. For the
dogs, this event is a bottomless pit of suffering. What happens to the dogs during the Iditarod includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases, broken bones, torn muscles and tendons and sprains. At least 136 dogs have died in the race. No one knows how many dogs die after this tortuous ordeal or during training. For more facts about the Iditarod, visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website, http://www.helpsleddogs.org.On average, 53 percent of the dogs who start the race do not make it across
the finish line. According to a report published in the American Journal of
Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, of those who do finish, 81 percent have lung damage. A report published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine said that 61 percent of the dogs who complete the Iditarod have ulcers versus zero percent pre-race.Iditarod dog kennels are puppy mills. Mushers breed large numbers of dogs and routinely kill unwanted ones, including puppies. Many dogs who are
permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, including those who have outlived their usefulness, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged, drowned or clubbed to death. "Dogs are clubbed with baseball bats and if they don't pull are dragged to death in harnesses....." wrote former Iditarod dog handler Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska's Bush Blade Newspaper.Dog beatings and whippings are common. During the 2007 Iditarod, eyewitnesses reported that musher Ramy Brooks kicked, punched and beat his dogs with a ski pole and a chain. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, "Nagging a dog team is cruel and ineffective...A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective." "It is a common training device in use among dog mushers..."
Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, "He [Colonel Tom Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving dogs to maintain their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens. Or dragging them to their death."
During the race, veterinarians do not give the dogs physical exams at every
checkpoint. Mushers speed through many checkpoints, so the dogs get the
briefest visual checks, if that. Instead of pulling sick dogs from the race,
veterinarians frequently give them massive doses of antibiotics to keep them running.Most Iditarod dogs are forced to live at the end of a chain when they aren't hauling people around. It has been reported that dogs who don't make the main team are never taken off-chain. Chained dogs have been attacked by wolves, bears and other animals. Old and arthritic dogs suffer terrible pain in the blistering cold.
Please end your organization's association with this horrific race.
Sincerely,
Iditarod sponsors
K & L Distributors, Inc. (AB-Inbev distributor)
Email: marianne.amssoms@inbev.com, fabio.spina@inbev.comCabelas
Email: Christopher.Gay@cabelas.comChrysler (Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.)
Email: media@cerberuscapital.comCoca-Cola
Email: tmattia@na.ko.comMillennium & Copthorne Hotels
Email: charlene.jagannath@millenniumhotels.co.uk, david.curtis-brignell@mill-cop.comWells Fargo & Company
Email: Catherine.Gacad@wellsfargo.comKroger Company (Fred Meyer Stores)
Email: kroger.investors@kroger.comSpenard Builders
Email: ewaite@sbsalaska.comChevron Corportation
Email: pubaffmr@chevrontexaco.comExxon Mobil Corporation
Email: enterprise.comments@exxonmobil.comAnchorage Daily News (Mc Clatchy Company)
Email: PDoyle@adn.comProvidence Health System
Email: employment@providence.orgAlaska Airlines (Alaska Air Group)
Email: newsroom@alaskaair.comPeninsula Airways, Inc. (Pen Air)
Email: info@penair.comAlaska Brewing Company
Email: fhees@alaskanbeer.com
The City of Anchorage
Email: Mayor@ci.anchorage.ak.usThe City of Nome
Email: manager@ci.nome.ak.us5th Avenue Mall (Simon Property Group)
Email: ircontact@simon.comHorizon Lines
Email: investor.relations@horizonlines.comCity of Wasilla
Email: mayor@ci.wasilla.ak.usNetwork Appliance, Inc.
Email: investor_relations@netapp.comGeneral Communication, Inc. (GCI)
Email: rcs@gci.com, bcs@gci.comCrowley Maritime Corporation
Email: resumes@crowley.comAnton/Bauer, Inc.
Email: websales@antonbauer.comAnchorage Municipal Light and Power
Email: AskMLP@muni.orgAlcan Signs
Email:alcansigns@alaska.netWorld Communication Center
Email: wccinfo@wcclp.comAlaska Serigraphics
Email: dpowers@akserigraphics.comElectrochem Commercial Power (Greatbatch, Ltd.)
Email: MBenedetti@greatbatch.comIonEarth
Email: webmaster@ionearth.com
Iditarod Promoters
Target Corporation Target Corporation
E-mail: investorrelations@target.comHarcourt School Publishers
Email: hbspcs@harcourt.com, rick.blake@harcourt.comCarnival Corporation
Email: rabello@hollandamerica.com, jbenson@princesscruises.comHoughton Mifflin Company
Email: investor_relations@hmco.comDiscovery Network (Discovery Communications, LLC; Discovery Holding Company)
Email: investor@discoveryholdingcompany.com, John_Ford@discovery.comScholastic Corporation
Email: investor_relations@scholastic.comRenegade Pictures
Email: info@renegadepictures.co.ukThe New York Times
Email: executive-editor@nytimes.comLate Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC-TV)
Email: rick.ludwin@nbcuni.comZoasis Corporation
Email: info@zoasis.comDiamond Brand Outdoors
Email: wendy@diamondbrand.comSports Illustrated
Email: karen_dmochowsky@timeinc.com
Email: robert_broderick@timeinc.comCarolina Day School
Email: bsgro@cdschool.orgLilac Services for the Blind
Email: cherylm@lilacblind.orgNational Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Northwest Chapter
Email: natas@asi-seattle.netThe Council of State Governments
Email: jpenchoff@csg.org, dsprague@csg.orgFlorida Association for Media in Education
Email: info@floridamedia.org, buckysmom@tampabay.rr.comAAA of California
Email: Spring.Jeffrey@aaa-calif.comUnited States Postal Service
Email: roy.a.betts@usps.govAmerican Physiological Society
Email: mfrank@the-aps.orgThe Annie E. Casey Foundation
Email: media@aecf.orgWilliam Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
Email: davidnee@wcgmf.orgFoundation for Greater New Haven
Email: wginsberg@cfgnh.orgHome & Garden Television (Scripps Networks)
Email: onair-ad@hgtv.com, mark.kroeger@scrippsnetworks.comScott & Todd in the Morning WPLJ - NYC
Email: bigshow@plj.comWorld News with Charles Gibson (ABC-TV)
Email: Anne.sweeney@disney.comIndependentTraveler.com
Email: editor@independenttraveler.comdLife TV Network
Email: info@dlife.comAARP The Magazine
Email: aarpmagazine@aarp.orgHamilton County Parks
Email: awp@co.hamilton.in.usFall City Elementary School PTSA
Email: lori@cobbsweb.us, info@fcesptsa.orgTournament of Roses
Email: rosepr@rosemail.orgMC Perry Elementary
Email: principal.perryes@pac.dodea.eduFort Braden School
Email: jacksonj@mail.leon.k12.fl.usSouthern Fulton Elementary
Email: ktrail@sfsd.k12.pa.us, rscott@sfsd.k12.pa.usCountry Parkway Elementary School
Email: lmilitello@williamsvillek12.orgPrairie Rose Elementary School
Email: michele_svihovec@bismarckschools.orgMount Pleasant Middle School
Email: streadaw@cabarrus.k12.nc.usPompano Beach Middle School
Email: sonja.braziel@browardschools.comJohnnycake Elementary School
Email:mmaddox2@bcps.orgClearfield Elementary School
Email: jquick@clearfield.orgBuchanan-Verplanck Elementary School
Email: LHall@henhudschools.orgAmerican Urban Radio Network
Email: jlopes@aurn.comKOMO-AM Seattle
Email: comments@komo1000news.comWALR-AM Atlanta )
Email: tedronneburger@680thefan.comWNWV-FM
Email: angie@wnwv.comWICC-AM
Email: curt.hansen@cumulus.comAdvocate Magazine (Indiana State Teacher's Association)
Email: nschnell@ista-in.orgFred J. Hums Elementary School
Email: wellingj@mishawaka.k12.in.usMusher sponsors
Intervet (Schering-Plough)
Email: lee.davies@spcorp.com, sabine.schueller@spcorp.comF. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Email: Darien_e.wilson@roche.com, basel.webmaster@roche.comHawthorne Suites (Wyndham Hotel Group)
Email: betsy.o'rourke@wyndhamworldwide.comColumbia Sportswear Company
Email: investorrelations@columbia.com, rparham@columbia.comAlaska Army National Guard
Email: sarah.palin@alaska.govRotary International
Email: wayne.hearn@rotary.orgMedtronic
Email: investor.relations@medtronic.com, leaddirector@medtronic.comHarley-Davidson, Inc.
Email: mike.morgan@harley-davidson.comToyota Motor Corporation
Email: toyota_cares@toyota.comLeer, Inc. (J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc.)
Email: rwhatley@jbpco.comCoastal Helicopters, Inc.
Email: info@coastalhelicopters.com7-up (Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.)
Email: aly.noormohamed@dpsg.comJiffy Lube International, Inc. (Shell Oil Company)
Email: Virginia.Q.Sanchez@shell.com, Mark.Quartermain@shell.comEukanuba/Iams (Procter & Gamble Company)
Email: Shareholders.IM@pg.comBlockbuster Video
Email: corporate.communications@blockbuster.comMcDonalds Restaurants (McDonald Corporation)
Email: mary.dillon@us.mcd.com, walt.riker@us.mcd.comTaco Bell (Yum! Brands, Inc.)
Email: yum.investor@yum.comBatteries Plus
Email: customersupport@batteriesplus.comOomingmak
Email: qiviut@gci.netKaladi Brothers Coffee Company
Email: sales@kaladi.comTracks of Alaska Photography
Email: traxak@clearwire.netInlet Tower Hotel & Suites
Email: info@inlettower.comAlaska Icefield Expeditions
Email: info@akdogtour.comColorado Altitude Training
Email: ryoung@altitudetraining.comJ. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Email: jbilitz@jjkeller.combGlobal, Inc.
Email: rodney.bolls@bglobal.usND Industries
Email: info@ndindustries.comWestern Products
Email: info@westernplows.comMacgellan.com
Email: Macgellan@mac.comEagle Pack
Email: msteele@eaglepack.comSportees Activewear
Email: info@sportees.comThe Black Dog Tavern Co.
Email: abbietaylor@theblackdog.comFogTech (Motosolutions)
Email: gene@motosolutions.comRedpaw Feed
Email: contact@redpawfeed.comKamik
Email: info@kamik.comBynje
Email: post@brynje.noVi sees
Email: anni@visees.noMacrogard (Immunocorp)
Email: biorigin@biorigin.com.brTeck Cominco
Email: info@teckcominco.comGoNorth Alaska Travel Center
Email: para@alaska.netDiabetes Sports and Wellness Foundation
Email: jay@dswf.orgThe Standard Insurance Company (StanCorp Financial Group, Inc.)
Email: bspeltz@standard.comLynden Incorporated
Email: information@lynden.comGeneral Physics Corp. (GP General Strategies Corp.)
Email: ablank@gpworldwide.comDairy Farmers of Washington
Email: info@havemilk.comCamrud, Maddock, Olson & Larson, Ltd.
Email: pmaddock@camrudlaw.com, jllarson@camrudlaw.comNational Lake Rescue Institute
Email: info@lake-rescue.orgAzumano Travel
Email: info@azumano.comSabold Elementary School
Email: morsecin@ssd.k12.pa.usFlexitol (Laderma)
Email: info@laderma.com.au, usainfo@flexitol.comLCITW.com
Email: info@lcitw.comFrelinghuysen Middle School
Email: Ethel.Minchello@MSDK12.netLongo Electrical & Mechanical
Email: info@eLongo.comJetBoil, Inc.
Email: customerservice@jetboil.comCold Avenger (Talus Outdoor Technologies)
Email: info@talusoutdoortech.comPort Gamble
Email: portgamble@orminc.comAlbert & Slater, P.S.
Email: office@toughdivorces.comEpicenter Press
Email: info@EpicenterPress.comTrabits Group, LLC P.O.
Email: info@trabitsgroup.comTrapper Creek Smoking Company
Email: info@trapperscreek.comBen Reel Productions
Email: mathew@mountainadventuretours.orgCanada Goose
Email: info@canada-goose.comTracks of Alaska
Email: traxak@clearwire.netAlpine Lodge - Fairbanks
Email: reservations@akalpinelodge.comThe Eldorado Hotel
Email: eldorado@yknet.caMichael Bertrand Photography
Email: mbphotos@rockisland.comJanssen Funeral Homes, Inc.
Email: info@janssenfuneralhomes.comRichard Crosby, DDS
Email: info@crosbysmiles.comLittle Cabin in the Woods
Email: info@lcitw.comGreat River Journey Inc.
Email: info@greatriverjourney.comQueo Media
Email: ruediger.henke@queo-media.comEast Bradford Elementary School
Email: ahelion@wcasd.netVertikal Press
E-mail: info@vertikal.netMTA
Email: help@mtaonline.netWigwam Mills
Email: socks@wigwam.comVom og hindemat
Email: post@vomoghundemat.noSusitna River Lodging
Email: lodging@mtaonline.netMahays Riverboat Service
Email: mahays@mtaonline.netDavid McGuire, MD
Email: kneern@pobox.alaska.netDiamond Cape Charters
Email: fishhomer@gmail.comLatitude 62 Motel
Email: lat62@alaska.netTalkeetna Alaskan Lodge
Email: info@talkeetnalodge.comTalkeetna River Guides & Rafters, Inc.
Email: raft@talkeetnariverguides.comTalkeetna River Adventures (Talkeetna RV LLC)
Email: alaskarv@mtaonline.netTalkeetna Aero Services, Inc.
Email: info@talkeetnaaero.comTeamster Local 959
Email: rtraini@akteamsters.comUsibelli Coal Mine
Email: info@usibelli.comHomer Stage Line
Email: hsl@xyz.netBasin Electric Power Cooperative
Email: frobb@bepc.comKenai Chrysler
Email: info@kenaichrysler.comFrontier Flying Service
Email: info@frontierflying.comUdelhoven Companies
Email: Lbeck@udelhoven.comKenai River Seafoods
Email: sean.karin@alaska.netThe Crossing Restaurant
Email: info@thecrossingrestaurant.netMammut
Email: khabermann@mammut.chArctic Midnight Furs
Email: amfurs@gci.netHorizon Lines, Inc.
Email: boardofdirectors@horizonlines.comMidnight Sun Brewing
Email: info@midnightsunbrewing.comGrabber Hand Warmers
Email: sales@handwarmers.com, amanda.fowler@warmers.comWiggy's Outdoor Gear
Email: wiggys@wiggys.comUnited Dairymen of Idaho
Email: dsessions@udidaho.org, cstorey@udidaho.org
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