http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/animal-abuse-in-his-hyest-form-please-sign

Signing alone is good but not enough! Please forward this message and cross post in other groups so we can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach the goal of 10.000 signatures!

Still daily thousands of animals in an atrocious manner are killed for their fur-lined coat, and with the couple thousand signatures which we have now, there but little difference can be made! For this reason i ask  you kindly, but with insistence to help me in the fight against these practices and sign/ forward/ cross post this message.

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CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, lists the Clouded Leopard as an Appendix I species. This means that the Clouded Leopard is among the most endangered of all species. CITES prohibits international trade of Appendix I species except for singularly important reasons such as scientific research. The United States also lists the Clouded Leopard under the Endangered Species Act, further prohibiting trade in the animals or any parts or products made from them. In the countries of its native range, hunting of the Clouded Leopard is prohibited, however these bans are poorly enforced.

They are threatened by a high demand for their attractive pelts, which have ceremonial meaning in Taiwan. Due to the reclusive nature of the clouded leopard, it is difficult to assess how many remain in the wild, but they are highly endangered in some areas, and only relatively stable in others. Deforestation, habitat destruction, and poaching are major concerns for the future of the clouded leopard.

Deforestation, resulting from commercial logging and the growth of human settlements, is thought to be the foremost threat to the clouded leopard. Not only does deforestation remove the clouded leopard's own habitat, but it reduces the number of prey animals.

Rampant habitat loss and fragmentation throughout the clouded leopard forest habitat in Southeast Asia and active poaching of clouded leopards are causing a decline in their already uncertain population. Clouded leopard pelts have increased dramatically in the illegal wildlife trade due to active poaching in Asia.

Hunting of this cat for its fur and teeth as well as its bones, which are prized in the traditional Asian medicinal trade, is another major threat. The clouded leopard has also been featured on the menu of restaurants in China and Thailand which cater to wealthy Asian tourists, and it is sometimes persecuted for killing livestock.

Please sign to ask that these beautiful cats have more protection than what they are getting now and to make the penalties of breaking these laws much harsher. The Clouded Leopards are NOT food, clothing, or medicine. They are magnificent cats that should be more protected!

(Photo courtesy of www.thebigcats.com)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/11/protect-the-clouded-leopards

A desperad plea for more signature’s! Signing alone is good but not enough! Please forward this message and cross post in other groups so we can truly make a difference.

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I would like to ask everyone to sign my petition against the monsters who throw animals to the ground and then skin them ALIVE for their fur.  If you have time please watch the film (not for sensitive souls) and send it to all your friends.  The film is just a horror show and it needs to stop now I have put a lot of time into this but there are just not enough signatures yet to make a difference.

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SIGN THE CARE2 PETITION:

Stop The Brutal Asphyxiation of Pets in the Yadkin County, North Carolina Gas Chamber at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-gassing-carolina-pets

RELATED Story:

Yadkin County, North Carolina Update: Homeless Animals Continue to Suffer at http://tinyurl.com/2nhzzr

For more information, please visit http://helpinganimals.com.

Please contact Cecil Wood, county manager, and urge him to improve conditions for Yadkin County's animals.

CECIL WOOD
COUNTY MANAGER
YADKIN COUNTY COMMISSION
PO BOX 146
YADKINVILLE, NC 27055
FAX: 336-679-6005
cwood@yadkincounty.gov

THE YADKIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
1027 SPEAKS ST
YADKINVILLE, NC 27055

Phone: (336) 677-2500

Website: http://tinyurl.com/2vn7mk

Contact Us: http://tinyurl.com/34m642

Meet the Commissioners: http://tinyurl.com/3d2cfs



—Dave@SeniorPetsProgram.org


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Click Donate Now to American Senior Cats!

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Please sign Dave O's petition, cross-post and forward:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-gassing-carolina-pets

Can we hold our heads high, in Twenty-first Century America, when the blameless, the vulnerable, the orphaned and the friendless, perish gasping in the steel confines of the Yadkin County Animal Shelter Carbon Monoxide Gas Chamber?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-gassing-carolina-pets

URGENT HELP FOR THE DOGS OF CALARASI PETITION Animals  (tags: romanian animals, slaughtered, killed, petition, cruelty ) Simone - 1 day ago - oipa.org
A mass-slaughter has been planned for all stray dogs of the town of Calarasi, Romania. It is believed a fox suffering of rabies has infected all the dogs in the area. It is not known at this point if this is true or not, but it is likely to be another

Please help me get justice for dryfus, I had 2 male breeder dogs that got into a fight, my 16 yr. old female was in heat and we have not bred her in over 10 yrs. it was unusual for her to be in heat.  In all my 61 yrs. I've NEVER< EVER had to deal with the dog warden.  She took my dog dryfus saying he was a vicious dog, she did not give us any options as to what we could do to keep dryfus and said ( I should say screamed) to my g/f that we were going to get a $1,000 fine and have to have $50,000 insurance on dryfus.  She took dryfus on a wed. and said she (KATHY WHITEMAN) was going to gas him on Fri. at noon.  My g/f was so upset becasue she knew dryfus would suffer, my g/f called whiteman to beg her to let us keep dryfus, she was mean, cruel, and totally steam rolled my g/f with the power of her job.  Whiteman wanted a fax from our vet that dryfus was put down at 4 p.m. on friday.  I've raised all kinds of animals all my life, and NEVER EVER had something like this happen to me.  We need this person out of this shelter.  Please sign my petition and get your friends to sign too please, we go to court Oct. 19 and if the judge throws it out we are taking it to the PA. state representitive.  the link is http://www.thepetitionsite.com/13/justice-for-dryfus

 thank you from the bottom of our hearts and dryfus' heart too!!!!

 

Support HR 3327 to end dogfighting

Make a difference today.

Kim K.

Please sign the petition at this link to help stop the legal torture of Moon Bears in Korea. 

They need many more signatures!!  Please crosspost, or send along to friends, other groups, also.

Thanks for taking a moment to care!  We all do make a difference.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-bears-in-korea/sign.html

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/400-dogs-need-shelter

PLEASE FRIENDS READ ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN GLINA IN THE TOPIC NAMED ' 400 DOGS  EVACUATED IN GLINA', SEE THE VIDEO CLIP  PUT IN IT, AND PLEASE, HELP THESE POOR DOGS AND THE VOLUNTEERS WORKING THERE TO FIND A NEW SHELTER AND THE AUTHORITIES TO SUPPORT THE BUILDING OF A NEW SHELTER! THANK YOU GOD BLESS YOU!

http://www.protv.ro/stiri/social/operatiune-de-salvare-a-cainilor-fara-stapan-din-capitala.html

http://www.protv.ro/filme/operatiune-de-salvare-a-cainilor-fara-stapan-din-capitala.html?id_file=28694#28694

   These are the correct links...Veronica is new to computer work, and we must help her and undestand her. I don't know if you can undestand much from our romanian news

Hello to all readers:

Again I thank all of you for your support and signatures I still currently have the seal petition In circulation and as usual will be ongoing until I have reached my goal signatures I would please ask that you go to my care 2 site to sign my petition If you are Interested In doing so and apologize to those that have signed already this is a new revised petition please see the link below also feel free to go to my page and have a look around.

Thank you to all and please If you could pass this petition along to everyone that you know It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a million everyone 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/saveallseals

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/115302219

The Cincinnati Zoo is sending small, domestic cats to a research lab, as part of the zoo's "breeding program". This is wrong for two obvious reasons: 1. Animal cruelty in any form, is wrong. 2. We already have a huge problem with too many homeless cats in the world. It is irresponsible for the zoo to be breeding more cats, in a world that kills cats because there are already too many of them. Please, help us to save innocent domestic cats from being subjected to horrible experiments!

Stop Bear Farming and Bile Extraction From Bears. Bring in strict and stringent laws to stop the sale of Bile Extraction from Bears.

http://www.petitiononline.com/bears/petition.html

Chinese animal activists rescued this bear from a farm in the country's northeast. The bear was one of 10 found with
catheters implanted into the gall bladder to extract bile (Image: Reuters/China Newsphoto)

A diagnostic kit to crack down on illegal trade in bile extracted from live bears is being used by Australian and Canadian customs officers, an animal welfare group says.
Bear bile is a common ingredient in traditional medicines throughout East and Southeast Asia, says the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).

The test kit uses antibodies to detect a signature bear protein and was demonstrated this week at a meeting in The Hague of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITE, which involves 171 nations.

"Interest from wildlife trade enforcement officials has been very strong," says Professor Kate Sanders, an evolutionary biologist who adapted a technique used to identify species in venomous snakebites to develop the kit.

The kits are slated to go on the market at the end of the year and will cost no more than US$40 (A$47), says Sanders, from Australia 's University of Adelaide.

Theactive compound in bear bile is ursodeoxcholic acid (UDCA) and is thought to be effective for ailments ranging from liver disorders to haemorrhoids to hepatitis.

The compound has been available in a synthetic form for years, say animal rights groups calling for an end to bear farming.

Yet the use of bear bile is still widespread, a WSPA survey released this week shows.

More than half of 130 traditional Asian medicine shops in eight countries investigated illegally-sold products containing bear bile, the survey shows.

The WSPA says most originated from China, where the fluid is drawn off using one of several painful methods from more than 7000 animals held in box-like cages on dozens of farms. The procedure is not illegal in China, but CITES bans all cross-border commerce in bear parts.

The survey of Asian medicine shops in North America and the Asia Pacific region uncovered dozens of illegal bear bile products.

About 15% of the stores investigated in the US and Canada sold the contraband, with the percentage increasing to 22% in Singapore, 33% in Korea, 42% in Taiwan and 75% in Japan.

Cruel methods

The methods used to extract the bile from farmed animals varies from one country to the next, but all are condemned by animal welfare groups as cruel.

"In Vietnam, farmers typically immobilise the bears with a paralysing drug, often ketamine," known to recreational drug users as 'special K', says Dave Eastham, head of wildlife for WSPA.

"They use ultrasound to locate the bile and then insert a long hypodermic needle to draw off 100 to 150 millilitres of bile," he says, repeating the process once a month. The bears are conscious throughout the process.

"We have tapes showing the bears screaming with apprehension just before the procedure begins," he says.

In China, a more primitive technique has been outlawed but Eastham says it "is still very common".

The bile drips from a tube - surgically inserted through the bear's abdomen- equipped with a tap that can be turned on and off. Extractions are daily, sometimes twice a day.

It is like bleeding sap from a maple tree, "only more painful", he says.

More than half of bears farmed for bile in China do not survive for very long after extraction begins, but those that do can live for up to 10years.

Please sign this petition against this atrocity:

http://www.petitiononline.com/bears/petition.html

The Bush/Cheney Administration's politically-motivated draft "recovery plan" for northern spotted owls threatens to undermine years of progress in protecting these owls and the old-growth forests they need to survive.

Urge officials at the Fish & Wildlife Service to scrap the current plan and reconvene the Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Team to develop a real recovery plan that benefits the spotted owl, not just the timber industry.

There's just a few days left to take action. The Fish & Wildlife Service will only be accepting comments on this draft recovery plan until this Friday, August 24th, so thank you for standing up for the northern spotted owl today.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/108913633?z00m=9456766

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