End the Brutal Iditarod
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| Originally Posted: 12 January 2010 |
End the Brutal IditarodFROM Help Sled Dogs Please help end the horrific treatment of dogs by sending protest emails to organizations that support the Iditarod. Six dogs died in the 2009 race, including two dogs on Dr. Lou Packer's team who froze to death in the brutally cold winds. CONTACT Below are names of sponsors/promoters and their email addresses listed separately. Pick a few and send individual emails. And/OR below that are BLOCKS OF EMAILS if you want to send messages all at once. IDITAROD RACE SPONSORS: Cabelas Chrysler Group LLC Coca-Cola - Odom Corporation Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Wells Fargo & Company Kroger Company (Fred Meyer Stores) Chevron Corportation Exxon Mobil Corporation Anchorage Daily News (Mc Clatchy Company) Providence Health System Alaska Airlines (Alaska Air Group) Peninsula Airways, Inc. (Pen Air) Trimble Navigation Limited K & L Distributors, Inc. (AB-Inbev distributor) Alaska Brewing Company The City of Anchorage The City of Nome 5th Avenue Mall (Simon Property Group) Horizon Lines City of Wasilla General Communication, Inc. (GCI) Crowley Maritime Corporation Anton/Bauer, Inc. (Vitec Group) Anchorage Municipal Light and Power Alcan Signs Alaska Serigraphics Electrochem Commercial Power (Greatbatch, Ltd.) IonEarth Iridium Roadpost Northern Air Cargo LifeMed Alaska WorkSafe, Inc. Alaska Toy Rental IDITAROD RACE PROMOTERS: Target Corporation Target Corporation Harcourt School Publishers Carnival Corporation Discovery Network (Discovery Communications) Scholastic Corporation Chicago Park District Lance Armstrong Foundation Nike All Things Considered (National Public Radio) Toronto International Film Festival Nick.com Outside Magazine Jackson-Madison County Library - National Endowment for the
Arts National Science Foundation Digital Library Cleveland Museum of Natural History Robert Tuchman, author Riverview Counseling Center Education World (EDmin) Regent Seven Seas Cruises REI and Boulder Digital Arts Kaukauna Area School District Montana State Reading Council Schade Vineyard & Winery Des Plaines Park District AAA of Arizona Auto Show with Greg Damon Catawba County Schools Angels Program Natrona Country School District McMurry Foundation Humane Society of Central Oregon Northfield Community Elementary School Columbus Torah Academy Sylmar Dogwear Calvary Baptist Church Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association DOXA Documentary Film Festival National Education Association Atlas Cruises & Tours Exploritas (Elderhostel) Forest Preserve District of Will County MUSHER SPONSORS: Clarion Suites and Comfort Inn (Choice Hotels International) Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Hawthorne Suites (Wyndham Hotel Group) Harley-Davidson, Inc. Jiffy Lube International, Inc. (Shell Oil Company) Blockbuster Video McDonalds Restaurants (McDonald Corporation) Taco Bell (Yum! Brands, Inc.) Batteries Plus Oomingmak Kaladi Brothers Coffee Company Inlet Tower Hotel & Suites Colorado Altitude Training J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. Western Products (Aurora Capital Group) Macgellan.com Eagle Pack (WellPet) FogTech (Motosolutions) Redpaw Feed Lynden Incorporated General Physics Corp. (GP General Strategies Corp.) National Lake Rescue Institute Trabits Group, LLC P.O. Trapper Creek Smoking Company Canada Goose The Eldorado Hotel Janssen Funeral Homes, Inc. Great River Journey Inc. Queo Media MTA Usibelli Coal Mine Udelhoven Companies Kenai River Seafoods Horizon Lines, Inc. Grabber Hand Warmers Wiggy's Outdoor Gear Jamaica Tourist Bureau Caribou Creek Dog Food Blackwood Pet Foods Senator Dan Kotowski Wedgewood Resort (Fountainhead Hotels) Chukka Caribbean Adventures West Jet Vacations (West Jet) Alaska Zoo Annamaet Pet Food Chempetitive Group Invicta Law Group, PLLC Striker Securities, Inc. Topnotch Resort & Spa FoxFury Double Up Farms Loki Gear Archie McPhee Energi Tea ( Freed Teller & Freeds) Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc. Hawk Pointe Golf Course Pacific Tugboat Service Neos Overshoe Go Athletic Apparel Todd Communications Grasso Glass & Stone Point 6 Socks Red Ledge Equine Direct (Minnetonka Laboratories) 1st Security Bank of Deer Lodge Krokodil Foresight Multi-Media Bradley Reid & Associates Darn Tough TiGenix Activeion Fresh Catch Ltd Baffin, Inc. Brander Recruitment Aberdeen Snow Sports Centre Tunnocks Tea Cakes Reichenbach Spezialmaschinenbau Circles 41 Clubs Belgium GoNorth Travel Center Plaidfish Communications Spenard Builders K9 Hydrotherapy Centre Ten Squared Racing Wild Things Diamond M Ranch Resort Petro Marine Services Big G Electric & Engineering, Inc. Advanced Pain Centers of Alaska Adventures in Alaska RV Rentals Jeff Schultz Photography, Inc. Yukon Zinc Corp. Eldorado Logwork & Construction Zolfe Federal Premium Ammunition Alaska Direct Bus Line Holy Cross 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. The groups contain addresses for the 2010 Iditarod sponsors, promoters, and musher sponsors. Email blocks with semicolons and commas are on http://www.helpsleddogsorg/sponsors.htm. BLOCK ONE OF FIVE: Christopher.Gay@cabelas.com, joe.arterburn@cabelas.com, car8@chrysler.com,
rick.deneau@chrysler.com, richard.d.levy@wellsfargo.com,
Dana.L.Rogers@wellsfargo.com, investorrelations@wellsfargo.com,
pubaffmr@chevron.com, invest@chevron.com, capital.markets@exxonmobil.com,
craig.a.haymes@exxonmobil.com, elizabeth_hillman@discovery.com,
investor_relations@discovery.com, investorrelations@target.com,
susan.kahn@target.com, newsroom@alaskaair.com, Susan.Bramstedt@alaskaair.com,
jodom@odomcorp.com, sustainability@na.ko.com, Investor.Relations@ab-inbev.com,
DaveScott@KLDistributor.com, billing@roadpost.com,
investor.relations@iridium.com, info@vitecgroup.com, Marketing@ElectrochemSolutions.com,
info@margaritaville.com, keywest@margaritaville.com, info@westernplows.com,
glparsky@auroracap.com, info@visitjamaica.com,
investor_relations@westjet.com, jeanne.jackson@nike.com,
asilverman@npr.org, David.Bittler@nick.com, jobs@wellpet.com,
skenyon@mill-usa.com, david.curtis-brignell@mill-cop.com, PDoyle@adn.com,
ptira@mcclatchy.com, kprivatsky@horizonlines.com BLOCK TWO OF FIVE: fox@foxfury.com, espence@nea.org, danya.proud@us.mcd.com,
info@mychukka.com, morris@gci.com,
resumes@crowley.com, investor_relations@trimble.com, cburchfield@alaskanbeer.com,
dwspencer@microlinetc.com, enisson@nacargo.com, jo.norton@providence.org,
kroger.investors@kroger.com, Alyson.Johnson@wyndhamworldwide.com,
sparmelee@outsidemag.com, dhibbler@depaul.edu, desa@diabetes-exercise.org,
investor.relations@blockbuster.com, lailani@kotowski4senate.com,
publicrelations@arizona.aaa.com, info0808@striker.com,
david_peikin@choicehotels.com, investor_relations@choicehotels.com,
ir-newyork@shell.com, mjordan@invictalaw.com, rcotton@hawkpointegolf.com,
hbspcs@harcourt.com, TGallagher@carnival.com, greg.lee@livestrong.org,
jgooding@tiff.net, info@chempetitive.com, oberlander@topnotchresort.com,
frank.hazevoets@tigenix.com, rene.reichenbach@t-online.de,
board@rei.com, information@RSSC.com, kgood@scholastic.com BLOCK THREE OF FIVE: hotelrep@fdifairbanks.com <mailto:hotelrep@fdifairbanks.com%20>
, tmarkley@catawba.k12.nc.us, admin@krokodil.be, marketing@baffin.com,
abement@nsf.gov, ted@pacifictugboats.com, neos@overshoe.com,
enquiries@freshcatch.com, chris.deets@activeion.com, loki@lokiusa.com,
unicorn@mcphee.com, info@doubleupfarms.com, jrotepel@tahsinusa.com,
info@oceanbeauty.com, info@freedscoffeetea.com, Richard.Salmons@lssi.com,
chairman@arts.gov, bcumming@cmnh.org, Investor_Help@edmin.com,
jh@desplainesparks.org, webmaster@equinedirect.net, info@foresightmultimedia.com,
bob.klein@harley-davidson.com, ablank@gpworldwide.com, ian@brander.co.uk,
circles@pandora.be, catchg.glassandstone@runbox.com, kco@verdepr.com
<mailto:o@verdepr.com> , brian@wildthingsgear.com, stay@diamondmranch.com,
ken@zolfeeast.com, buschk@billings.k12.mt.us, joni@doxafestival.ca,
rabbikahn@torahacademy.org, pastor@calvaryws.com, JJohnston@udelhoven.com,
info@greatriverjourney.com, reach@plaidfish.com, sales@tunnock.co.uk,
info@inlettower.com BLOCK FOUR OF FIVE: lynne@boulderdigitalarts.com, swmoore@cbs.com, jfipp@ncs-nj.org,
mccabel@kaukauna.k12.wi.us, cs@darntough.ca, garthdeesports@btconnect.com,
owner@adventuresakrv.com, secretariat@41clubs.be,
admin@k9hydrocentre.com, plampi@alaskazoo.org, info@annamaet.com,
rambler@cariboucreekgold.com, ma@goathleticapparel.com, tlange@tcinc.us,
fsb@1stsecuritydl.com, info@brcomm.com, robert@100sportingevents.com,
Mary-Michael@RiverviewCC.com, info@schadevineyard.com,
joel_dvorak@natronaschools.org, pmroden@hsco.org, info@penair.com,
mayor@muni.org, manager@ci.nome.ak.us, gwells@simon.com,
vrupright@ci.wasilla.ak.us, AskMLP@muni.org, alcansigns@alaska.net,
dpowers@akserigraphics.com, Luke.Welles@lifemedalaska.com, info@worksafeinc.com,
rentme@valleycarrental.com, anchorage@alaskapain.net, bgabriel@biggelectric.com,
jimb@harborent.com, info@10squaredracing.com, yum.investor@yum.com,
info@trapperscreek.com, info@trabitsgroup.com, info@canada-goose.com BLOCK FIVE OF FIVE: sdean@jjkeller.com, customersupport@batteriesplus.com, larry@altitudetraining.com, information@lynden.com, contact@redpawfeed.com, orders@motosolutions.com, Macgellan@mac.com, orders@motosolutions.com, info@lake-rescue.org, info@alaskadirectbusline.com, pressroom@atk.com, dax@polarcom.com, info@yukonzinc.com, prints@alaskastock.com, ewaite@sbsalaska.com, ruediger.henke@queo-media.com, kbernier@mta-telco.com, sean.karin@alaska.net, amanda.fowler@warmers.com, wiggys@wiggys.com, eldorado@yknet.ca, info@janssenfuneralhomes.com, qiviut@gci.net, info@usibelli.com, ccampbell@wmcnet.org, bwalker@mcmurry.net, info@sylmardogwear.com, tours@atlastravelweb.com, newsmedia@Exploritas.org, jmcfarland@fpdwc.org INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS 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. During training runs, Iditarod dogs have been killed by moose, snow machines, and various motor vehicles, including a semi tractor and an ATV. They have died from drowning, heart attacks and being strangled in harnesses. Dogs have also been injured while training. They have been gashed, quilled by porcupines, bitten in dog fights, and had broken bones, and torn muscles and tendons. Most dog deaths and injuries during training aren't even reported. 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." He also said, "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. SAMPLE LETTER/INFORMATION Dear Iditarod Supporter: For the dogs, the Iditarod dog sled race is a bottomless pit of suffering. Please end your organization's support of this event. Six dogs died in the 2009 Iditarod, including two dogs on Dr. Lou Packer's team who froze to death in the brutally cold winds. 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. During training runs, Iditarod dogs have been killed by moose, snowmachines, and various motor vehicles, including a semi tractor and an ATV. They have died from drowning, heart attacks and being strangled in harnesses. Dogs have also been injured while training. They have been gashed, quilled by porcupines, bitten in dog fights, and had broken bones, and torn muscles and tendons. Most dog deaths and injuries during training aren't even reported. 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." He also said, "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, 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. 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. Please end your organization's association with this horrific race. Sincerely... Thank you for everything you do for animals! |
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