PETA Donor Report: Animals freed from chains, neglect, and abuse

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From: Ingrid Newkirk
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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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Fw: Help PETA save animals in laboratories

 

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From: Ingrid Newkirk donore@peta.org
 Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:21 PM
Subject: Help PETA save animals in laboratories

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			Dear Cindy, Tiger's intake report showed that he was a healthy, friendly cat when he entered a University of Michigan (U-M) laboratory. Five days later, Tiger was dead. While Tiger's name before he was taken to the laboratory may never be known, once there he was treated as little more than a label, a cat known as "E8269." Given his stripes, we're honoring this handsome cat with a name more befitting him, Tiger. Like the cats many of us share our homes with, he probably enjoyed being scratched behind the ears and purred when he saw his food dish. But U-M officials certainly didn't care about Tiger's likes and dislikes when they tossed him into their intubation training lab—a grim laboratory in which cats had plastic tubes forced down their windpipes—and then killed him. Please support PETA's urgent efforts to stop the cycle of abuse and cruelty occurring at the University of Michigan and in other laboratories by making a special online gift right now. PETA exposed the abuse of animals in the University of Michigan's Survival Flight training program. We showed that university officials misled the public when they said that all the cats in their labs—healthy, lovable cats like Tiger—were adopted after they endured hideous procedures in the course. In fact, records show that more than half of the cats used in recent years were quietly killed. PETA's exposé and vigorous campaigning caused a public uproar. Unable to ignore our fury, U-M announced that it had ended its use of cats in its laboratories—a wonderful victory for cats! The cats have been replaced with modern, effective simulators. But U-M plans to continue to harm and kill pigs for other procedures in this training course. That means that gentle, intelligent pigs will have holes cut in their throats and chests and needles jammed into the tissue surrounding their hearts and will ultimately be killed just as cats like Tiger were. Thankfully, we care, and I know that you care about animals—cats and pigs—so I'm asking for your help. Won't you make a donation right now to help PETA fight for the replacement of pigs at U-M with simulators and support all our lifesaving efforts to expose and stop cruelty in university laboratories or wherever it occurs? Your past support has helped strengthen PETA's fight against animal testing. Will you take a moment to add your voice to those who are speaking out for animals condemned to painful, invasive animal tests like those conducted by the University of Michigan? We're building momentum—and our efforts have saved cats from this hideous abuse at U-M. But pigs continue to suffer at U-M, and millions of other animals are suffering right now in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests, biology lessons and training exercises, and horrible experiments. Your contribution today will be put to work immediately to help animals condemned to die in tests like these. I hope I can count on your support today. Together, we will pressure the University of Michigan until it stops subjecting any animal to cruel training exercises. Thank you in advance for supporting PETA in this urgent campaign. Very truly yours, Ingrid E. Newkirk President P.S. PETA is proud that we were able to save other cats from this agony at U-M. But we need to end the entire system of abuse there and at other universities and medical schools nationwide. Make a donation today to support our work to end the suffering of animals in laboratories!
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