From: Ingrid Newkirk
To: MyProfile
ReplyTo: Ingrid Newkirk
Subject: PETA Donor Report: Animals freed from chains, neglect, and abuse
Sent: Jul 20, 2012 5:38 PM
Dear Cindy,
I hope you are having an enjoyable summer.
This season, PETA staffers have been working hard to help dogs, cats, and other companion animals. I'd like to mention just a few of the many accomplishments that this dedicated team has made in recent weeks, thanks in part to your generous support.
Since April, the staff of PETA's mobile clinics division has performed more than 2,000 low-cost to no-cost spay and neuter surgeries—as well as administered vital care to dogs, cats, and rabbits who belong to indigent families—preventing many thousands of puppies and kittens from becoming part of the animal overpopulation and homelessness crisis.
In June alone, the team sterilized more than 600 animals, including Booboo, pictured here, whose guardian contacted PETA for help with flea prevention and getting the matting out of her coat. He planned to breed this little dog and sell the pups, but when PETA offered to groom her for free, he accepted our offer to spay her at the same time. The mobile clinics team also made a special effort to thank the many service members at the bases near PETA's Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters by offering to spay or neuter or vaccinate their four-legged companions for just $4 in celebration of Independence Day.
The last few weeks have also seen some terrific news in our efforts to help chained dogs. It makes me sick to know that millions of dogs live their entire lives—24 hours a day—on a chain. PETA fieldworkers see many of these lonely animals confined to barren patches of dirt, covered with summer flies who eat the skin from their ears, all alone without any of the love and attention that every dog deserves. One city where PETA's Community Animal Project (CAP) staff has responded to countless calls about chained dogs is Hampton, Virginia.
Our team has met many dogs in that city for whom life on a chain turned deadly. One such animal was Smokey, a black pit bull who was left outdoors during the rising floodwaters and torrential rains of Hurricane Irene and who died in the storm. C
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