The Use of Cats and Dogs as Bait in France [Vegetarian]

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From: Geoff on 29 Dec 2006 05:01

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The Use of Cats and Dogs as Bait in France

PETA continues to monitor the situation in which dogs and cats were
reportedly being used as fishing bait on the island of R�union, and
there is some good news. According to the World Society for the
Protection of Animals, the French minister for overseas territories
visited R�union at the end of September to meet with the governor of
the island to ensure that measures to prevent such barbaric practices
are being put in place by R�union authorities; the governor assured
animal welfare groups that he condemns this cruel practice and
announced that any dog or cat found aboard a fishing vessel in R�union
waters registered with the municipal authorities will be confiscated.
Police have also been ordered to monitor and control these incidents,
and the judiciary has been told to punish any offenses with the
severest penalties. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society reports that
the first violator has already been charged as a result of efforts by
police to investigate the practice.

We encourage you to contact the minister and the governor to thank
them for their actions. Encourage them to continue to extend
enforcement of these measures:

L'Honorable M. Fran�ois Baroin
Le Ministre de l'Outre-Mer
27, rue Oudinot
75007 Paris
France

L'Honorable M. Laurent Cayrel
Le Gouverneur de la R�union
1, av. Victoire
97400 Saint-Denis
La Pr�fecture de la R�union

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"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you
spare yourself the sight."
- Albert Schweitzer

Check out Animal Aid�s brand new one-minute video.
This powerful film, containing shocking images,
just begs to be seen by as many people as possible.
Help raise awareness by sending it to your friends
and family. http://tinyurl.com/yjmxo2

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1.I was forced to as a child.
2.People who make soap are only after your money.
3.I wash on special occasions like Christmas and Easter.
4.People who wash are hypocrites-they think they are cleaner than everyone else.
5.There are so many different kinds of soap,I can't decide which one is best.
6.I used to wash, but it got boring so I stopped.
7.None of my friends wash.
8.The bathroom is never warm enough in the winter or cool enough in the summer.
9.I'll start washing when I get older and dirtier.
10.I can't spare the time .

From: Remus on 29 Dec 2006 08:42

"Geoff" <g23434ssd(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:app9p2tv10t0rvjaindhr2i8i7n27jnbbs(a)4ax.com...
> http://www.peta.org/about/hottopic006.asp
>
> The Use of Cats and Dogs as Bait in France
>
> PETA continues to monitor the situation in which dogs and cats ....

Visit www.petakillsanimals.com to see 'just' how much Peta cares for dogs and cats.

From: Geoff on 29 Dec 2006 09:35

From: Geoff on 29 Dec 2006 09:42

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:42:58 -0000, "Remus" <remus(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Geoff" <g23434ssd(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:app9p2tv10t0rvjaindhr2i8i7n27jnbbs(a)4ax.com...
>> http://www.peta.org/about/hottopic006.asp
>>
>> The Use of Cats and Dogs as Bait in France
>>
>> PETA continues to monitor the situation in which dogs and cats ....
>
>Visit www.petakillsanimals.com to see 'just' how much Peta cares for dogs and cats.

A pro hunt, pro nut, pyscho led website, fed by the meat, smoking and
vivisection industry. Talk about an agenda!

Better yet. See why they turned wild!

Is there a �Good Ol Boy� Network in North Carolina?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2005/06/315035.html

PETA has been involved with trying to improve animal welfare
conditions in parts of North Carolina for some time. A few years ago
PETA launched a campaign against Yadkin County officials who
continuously ignored �the dire living�and dying�conditions for the
unwanted animals whose care and custody they are charged with�. PETA
went public with their concerns causing Yadkin officials to receive
numerous letters of concern. This angered Yadkin officials and they
refused PETA�s help to build a shelter. Instead they took $15,000 for
a shelter from a sleazy lobbyist and front group for the tobacco,
restaurant, alcohol and meat industries called The Center for Consumer
Freedom (CCF). CCF has been attacking PETA for years calling the
organization �terrorists�. CCF is also the outfit behind the
�petakills� website. It is very confusing why Yadkin County, NC
refused PETA�s money for animal welfare improvement but took The
Center for Consumer Freedom�s (which hates PETA) money. Since when
does a lobbyist who represents industries such as tobacco, meat,
alcohol and restaurants care about animal welfare? Has there been an
accurate accounting of how Yadkin county officials used all the
donations they received to build the shelter? What is even stranger is
the behavior of the media not only in the USA and Canada but abroad.
They are interviewing CCF for articles regarding animal welfare. Makes
you wonder, is there some collaboration and corruption going on
between the �good ol� boys�; CCF and some North Carolina officials?

For PETA�s work regarding Yadkin County, North Carolina, please read
below

http://www.peta.org/feat/yadkin

Despite the efforts of the local humane society and animal advocates
throughout the U.S., Yadkin County officials continue to ignore the
dire living�and dying�conditions for the unwanted animals whose care
and custody they are charged with. Commissioners don�t seem to
consider their county�s unwanted animals as worthy of anything more
than the county landfill adjacent to the animal shelter.
Many of you remember lending your voices to the lost, stray, and
abandoned animals of Yadkin County, North Carolina. Complaints about
the county �shelter��a dilapidated collection of cramped wire-and-wood
cages with metal roofs offering little to no protection from the
elements�have been flooding PETA�s headquarters for years. These
animals still need your help.

PETA and many concerned citizens have attempted�in vain�to help Yadkin
County improve the deplorable conditions at its shelter. In 1996,
county officials rejected an offer to pay the difference in cost
between intravenous injections (the most humane method of euthanasia)
and the gas chamber. In May 2002, after receiving increased pressure
from PETA and local residents, Yadkin County commissioners finally
voted to put $75,000 toward the construction of a new shelter if the
community could raise an additional $75,000. PETA offered to donate
$15,000 toward the construction of the shelter if the county would
ensure that certain humane standards were met. The commissioners never
bothered to respond directly to PETA (but Commissioner Thomas Wooten
had the audacity to tell the media that the offer was �not as much as
[he] would have liked� and that each of PETA�s 750,000 members should
be willing to donate $1! And in January 2003, commissioners turned
down an offer by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to
visit the shelter and make suggestions for improvements for free. Why?
County Manager Cecil Wood told the local paper, the Elkin Tribune,
�We�re already aware of the problems we have over there. We�re
focusing on a new shelter.�

It is now nearly a year later, and nothing has changed for the needy
animals in Yadkin County. Not only has a new shelter not been built,
little if any effort is being made to find land to build it on,
either! And the animals are paying the price, often with their lives.

Animals at the shelter are killed in a crude, windowless metal box
pumped full of carbon monoxide. Even adequate carbon monoxide
equipment can fail, subjecting fully conscious animals to the horror
of watching and hearing others struggle and suffer as they succumb to
the fumes. But makeshift chambers, like the one used by Yadkin County,
are virtually guaranteed to subject animals to suffering and to a
prolonged, agonizing death. PETA is told�and video footage
confirms�that animals are crammed into the box one on top of another
and that live animals are thrown in, layer after layer, on top of dead
and dying ones. A shelter employee allegedly once bragged about being
able to stuff more than 80 animals into the tiny �kill box� at once.

Yadkin County�s Annual Animal Control Report for January 1, 2003,
through October 11, 2003, shows that out of 1,933 animals killed, only
four puppies and four kittens were euthanized by a veterinarian. This
means that the rest of the animals�including the old, young, and sick
ones, who are particularly susceptible to gas-related trauma because
they breathe and circulate oxygen and other gases differently than
healthy adult animals�were crammed into and died inside the chamber
that has been used to kill animals at the shelter for years. (News
reports indicate that Yadkin County commissioners have spent nearly
$7,000 on a new gas chamber, which they refuse to hook up until a new
shelter is built. So the new chamber sits unused.)

Yadkin County budget reports for 2001 through 2003 show that not one
cent was slated to be spent on training for the animal control staff
or on veterinary fees. One complainant wrote to PETA to say that on
one occasion, an adult dog had "a large flap of skin and muscle
[lying] down over his left hip, exposing bone. He lay from Wednesday
until Friday on kill day. He had numerous other wounds, and the hip
injury was teeming with maggots." PETA's file on Yadkin County is full
of similar heartbreaking accounts.

The General Statutes of North Carolina, specifically � 130A-192, state
that impounded animals who are not reclaimed can only be destroyed by
�a procedure approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association,
the Humane Society of the United States [HSUS], or � the American
Humane Association [AHA].�

The AVMA panel states that �inhalant agents [should] not be used alone
in animals less than 16 weeks old except to induce loss of
consciousness, followed by the use of some other method to kill the
animal.�

The HSUS states, �It is unacceptable to use [carbon monoxide] for the
euthanasia of dogs and cats who are � [o]ld �; [u]nder the age of four
months; [s]ick or injured; or ([o]bviously) pregnant.�

The AHA considers euthanasia by injection of sodium pentobarbital to
be �the only acceptable method for euthanasia of dogs and cats in
animal shelters� and states, �American Humane considers the use of any
other lethal method for dogs and cats in animal shelters unacceptable,
including use of carbon monoxide ...�

The AVMA also specifies in its panel that when carbon monoxide is
used, the �chamber must be of the highest quality construction and
should allow for separation of individual animals � [and] the chamber
must be well lit and have view ports that allow personnel direct
observation of animals �,� neither of which is followed by Yadkin
County.

Moreover, Yadkin County has a mandatory kill policy, prohibiting
adoptions, supposedly because of a fear of rabies. However, the county
dedicates no resources to enforcing North Carolina law requiring that
animals be vaccinated against rabies. The excuse? Money, which, of
course, would be collected if violators of the state rabies law were
fined as warranted!

Conditions for animals before they are destroyed are equally cruel.
The rundown structure that animals are housed in offers little to no
protection from harsh wind, freezing or scorching temperatures, rain,
and snow and more often than not is covered in urine and feces. Small,
weak animals are housed in cages with aggressive large animals, who
bully the smaller animals and prevent them from eating or drinking.
Food bowls are not used at the facility, so food is simply thrown on
the ground, contaminated by feces, urine, dirt, and water, creating a
disgusting health hazard for the animals. The water buckets provided
for the animals appear to be too tall for small dogs to reach, and the
water is often foul and black with mold and filth. Cats are forced to
sit on wire in small cages.

On November 4, 2003, Yadkin County Humane Society President Alice
Singh spoke to the House Interim Committee on the Prevention and
Disposition of Unwanted and Abandoned Companion Animals in
Raleigh�formed last August by the Honorable Speakers of the North
Carolina House of Representatives to address the overpopulation crisis
and related issues in the state�about dire conditions at the Yadkin
County shelter. Singh shared with committee members heart-wrenching
photos of the facility, and graphic video footage of gas killings shot
in 1997 (the same gas box is still in use) by a North Carolina School
of the Arts student. The following day, County Manager Cecil Wood
advised humane society members that they were no longer welcome to use
the county planning building for their monthly meetings as they had
been doing for nine months. The humane society is the only hope that
these animals have.

Please help. Commissioners must get their heads out of the sand and
immediately improve the deplorable conditions that the animals have
and continue to be subjected to right now. Construction of a shelter
hasn�t even begun and won�t be completed overnight once it does.
There�s a long list of simple things that the county can and must do
to make the shelter comply with minimum national standards.

Please contact Yadkin County commissioners and urge them to stop
shirking their legal, moral, and financial responsibilities to their
county�s lost, abandoned, and unwanted animals. Ask that they provide
these animals with the least they deserve: a painless, peaceful death
administered by a licensed veterinarian at least until caring
individuals can be trained. Please push for immediate improvements to
be made at the current facility. Animals shouldn�t have to wait for
fundraising and construction efforts before having their basic needs
met.

Yadkin County Commissioners

Cecil Wood, County Manager
Yadkin County Commission
P.O. Box 146
Yadkinville, NC 27055
336-679-4200
336-679-6005 (fax)
cwood(a)yadkincounty.gov

Roger Evans, Commissioner
6052 Aquilla Creek Rd.
East Bend, NC 27018
336-699-3261

Kim Clark Phillips, Commissioner
1139 Knoll Dr.
Yadkinville, NC 27055
336-463-4590
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***************************
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you
spare yourself the sight."
- Albert Schweitzer

Check out Animal Aid�s brand new one-minute video.
This powerful film, containing shocking images,
just begs to be seen by as many people as possible.
Help raise awareness by sending it to your friends
and family. http://tinyurl.com/yjmxo2

The logic some people use for not attending church, is used to avoid washing

1.I was forced to as a child.
2.People who make soap are only after your money.
3.I wash on special occasions like Christmas and Easter.
4.People who wash are hypocrites-they think they are cleaner than everyone else.
5.There are so many different kinds of soap,I can't decide which one is best.
6.I used to wash, but it got boring so I stopped.
7.None of my friends wash.
8.The bathroom is never warm enough in the winter or cool enough in the summer.
9.I'll start washing when I get older and dirtier.
10.I can't spare the time .

From: Derek Moody on 29 Dec 2006 12:19

In article <app9p2tv10t0rvjaindhr2i8i7n27jnbbs(a)4ax.com>, Geoff
<URL:mailto:g23434ssd(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

Nothing but did his standard cut and paste X-post job.

> The Use of Cats and Dogs as Bait in France
>
> PETA continues to monitor the situation in which dogs and cats were
> reportedly being used as fishing bait on the island of R�union, and

And they (and Pete) recycle the same story every few months in case there's
someone new out there who is gullible enough to swallow the story without
checking it or thinking it through.

Cherio,

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Writing: http://www.author.casterbridge.net/derek-moody/
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