Bill
HB2534 has been introduced to stop the bobcat kill, but it has not been
passed in the State House of Representatives. Help send a strong message
to the PA legislature that this is unacceptable to PA citizens. (Photo-left:
Bobcat kitten in tree)
Please call Barb toll-free at 1-866-6ANIMAL or email: Mud45@aol.com to
help.
Action Alert to our PA supporters in the Harrisburg area sent by Committee
to Abolish Sport Hunting, Wildlife Watch
ARC
- the Animal Rights Coalition has made it its goal to end this grisly
annual event. To help ARC end this, please contact Durk A. Gescheidle,
Animal Rights Coalition (ARC), POB 8750 Minneapolis, MN 55408 or
e-mail animallib@email.msn.com (Phote-left
by Star Tribune Jerry Holt)
Photo and article in the Star Tribune, 425 Portland Ave., Minneapolis
MN 55488 Pair of gopher feet fetch $1.25. Gopher trappers exchange
gopher feet for money! This has been going on for 125 years in Viola
Township in Minnesota. People came with feet in buckets, coffee tins.
Sent by Carol Ames, Forest Hills, NY - Harriet Carter's 42nd
Fall catalog on Page 26 shows a hunt cap that reads: BORN TO HUNT
FORCED TO WORK and on Page 31 there's a Hunter Tee - I'M NOT A HUNTER!
I'M A WILDLIFE POPULATION CONTROL SPECIALIST. THEIR NUMBER IS 1-800-377-7878;
they will most likely tell you to write to: Gretta Ross, Harriet
Carter, Dept. 30 North Wales, PA 19455. They said that the "interest
in the items is greater than the objections." Please let them
hear from you. You can let them know that you don't feel hunting
messages are fitting for a family catalog: they promote the use of
firearms and cruelty to wildlife. Ask that they remove those items
from their catalog.
THANK YOU TO:
İMarilyn Grindley for her generous donation of stock to Wildlife
Watch!
İMiriam Cohen and Chris Arenella for their contributions of saleable
items to C.A.S.H. for fund-raisers
İFrank and Mary Hoffman Foundation for hosting the C.A.S.H. website www.all-creatures.org/cash
Please keep in mind that Stu Chaifetz is running for Congress,
4th Congressional District, NJ You can learn about him at www.HonorandNonViolence.com
REMEMBRANCES JAY DINSHAH
1933-2000
Founder and head of the American Vegan Society
Robert Cohen who became his friend encourages everyone to call
the American Vegan Society and order a book, several books, or a
hundred books. Their number is: 856-694-2887.
SOME OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO LATELY
Wildlife Watch continues to maintain a wildlife hotline in two
counties and has been able to help folks who wish to help wildlife
(or non-lethally remove wild animals) with direct help or by linking
them to wildlife rehabilitators and wildlife veterinarians in their
area.
C.A.S.H. member, Richard Orr, had a brilliant
idea.
Get hunter orange pieces of plastic or material and post the
forests with it. It should reduce the amount of shooting.
Wildlife
Watch held an animal rights coalition meeting to initiate efforts
to get a no-kill shelter in Rockland County. The model for
the shelter is the Ulster SPCA. We interviewed Christine French,
Director of the SPCA in Kingston in order to bring the "no-kill" concept
and program to those who could promote it. Christine said there's
an interim period that every no-kill shelter has to go through, but
it can and does work! They boast an extremely high rate of adoptions.
To the left is the cat exercise area where cats are rotated from
cages so that everyone spends one or two times a day stretching,
running, playing, climbing. There's also an outdoor area for cats
where they can enjoy the sun. Contact Christine French for step by
step details about turning a kill "shelter" to a no-kill
shelter - her e-mail address is: ucspca@ulster.net .
Baby birds had been hurled to the pavement horrifying shoppers
and Wildlife Watch was called. We got Wallkill Price Chopper to uphold
their policy against power washing signs during nesting season by
calling for a boycott. The boycott was called off upon their pledge
of "Never Again."
C.A.S.H. TABLES AND PETITIONS IN NYACK
ELECTED REPS SIGN
Linda
Segal and Chris Arenella (left photo) encourage folks to sign petitions
giving home rule to counties to ban trapping.
Abby
Wolf (right photo) explains the petitions. We'll have Abby on
tape soon on our website www.wildwatch.org
Photos by Anne Muller
