Be Prepared!

first i wanted to say THANK YOU to Kathy!! she called this morning to let me know how Cinny is doing and all is well! as i knew it would be! she is having a ball playing with Sunny (a little male Japanese Chin dog) Soooooooooo precious to see them romp!
Now my nerves can get back to some kind of semblance of 'normal' lol
Onto the REAL reason for this entry...i recently learned of something VERRRYYY disturbing to say the least!
Did you know that in Taiji, Japan, the annual dolphin hunt starts October 1st and continues through March 30th. Here, the massacre of dolphins is strongly encouraged by three local dolphinariums that purchase show-quality dolphins at a high cost and ship some of them off to othe facilities in Japan and abroad. This brutal massacre the largest scale dolphin kill in the world goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.
If you need to see a video on SOME of what goes on, check this out here, but please be warned, this is BRUTAL!
Let Japanese officials know that international pressure will continue to mount as long as the dolphin massacre is allowed to go on. Demand a permanent end to the drive fisheries and the preservation of dolphins and whales as natural treasures.

Ryozo Kato
Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
2520 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: (202) 238-6700
Fax: (202) 328-2187

For more information, including photos and video of the Taiji dolphin slaughter,
see www.savetaijidolphins.org.

Donate to the Save Taiji Dolphins Campaign today!

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E-mail: marinemammal@earthisland.org

Mail:
SAVE TAIJI DOLPHINS/International Marine Mammal Project,
300 Broadway, Suite 28,
San Francisco, CA 94133-3312

Phone: (415) 788-3666

Fax: (415) 788-7324
Let's see if we can help put an end to this horrendous event!!
If that's NOT enough, here's an excerpt from Flickr.com about VW & songbirds!
IDA (In Defense of Animals, IDAUSA.org) was sickened to learn that the Volkswagen Foundation is paying experimenters at German and U.S. universities to capture and use beautiful songbirds in worthless experiments that terrify the birds before they are ruthlessly killed for curiosity's sake. Although the use of any animal for experimentation is objectionable, the thought of birds-who are universal symbols of joy and freedom-captured, caged, terrorized, and vivisected, is particularly heinous.

Help drive Volkswagen to make the right decision. Please Take Action and send a polite message to Stefan Jacoby, VW President and CEO asking him to use his influence to earmark funds for research that does not entail the use of animals. Then print your letters out and mail or fax to:

Stefan Jacoby, President and CEO
Volkswagen of America
3800 Hamlin Rd.
Auburn Hills, MI 48326-2829
Tel.: (248) 754-5000
Fax: (248) 754-4930


Send very polite emails to Mr. Jacoby's assistant at bettina.weidemann@vw.com.

Contact our literature department for VW leaflets so you can educate other shoppers.


To learn more visit:

www.vivisectioninfo.org/campaigns/volkswagen/
Now i haven't checked this out, but for the LIFE of me, i cannot imagine why they would need to experiment on songbirds of all things!!?? But it is sickening to know this kind of stuff goes on! Russia & Canada still have those seal hunts as far as i know too! just awful!
Please see what you can do to help put an end to these malicious hunts! i will too!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a great day :) hugs!