Dear friends, I would really appreciate your time on this...it would only take a minute or so to vote for this shelter.

Any group that has at least five votes during the week is eligible for the weekly prize -- so if you can get five friends to vote for your group, your group might win $500!

We're in the last two and a half weeks of the contest! The last day to vote is January 31st. I can tell you that based on our last contest, it isn't over yet. A big push or some local press can help your favorite group move into the top twenty prize-winning spots and even into first place!

Please click below and get an understanding of the odds this group is battling against! They are a no-kill shelter in a very poor section of West Virginia and they help ALL kinds of animals. I have been helping them for over a year now, and believe me they've had some rough setbacks, but they keep going! I am inspired by their love for the animals. By the way, some of you already know about this group through the Pocahontas Shelter group and Jaime. If you agree, please go vote and then pass the word on to your other animal loving friends. First place is $10,000...but the other 20 gift amounts will help thoroughly too! Here is the link to their site:

http://www.animalrescuelcar.com/

>>> One of the dogs helped there...

To vote, click on the banner below!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your help!

All my love, Linda

BOYCOTT KERALA TOURISM TO STOP TORTURING, SKINNING ALIVE AND SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS

Kerala, located on the southwestern tip of India has been BRUTALLY killing Dogs, Turtles, Rabbits, and all animals for a long time now.

The government, local Environment and Forest Department and the representatives of the government entrusted with PROTECTING the wild life and animals are themselves flouting the laws.

The ILLEGAL act happens in the open in front of children, people and tourists.

The barbarism with which the people, government and everybody is KILLING, SKINNING ALIVE and TORTURING the poor animals is indescribable.

The following links have proof enough to substantiate our claims :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj00Q3n_ADU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W78O29U5h4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbddYO-BRjw
http://picasaweb.google.com/rishidev000/KeralaTurtleFarming2007
http://picasaweb.google.com/rishidev000/Kerela
http://picasaweb.google.com/rishidev000/KerelaDogKillingsPressCoverage

This petition would be submitted to the :

1) Ministry of Tourism
2) State Government of Kerala
3) Central government of India
4) Other authorities

Please sign this petition and ask others too in order to directly communicate to the authorities that people are participating actively by choosing not to come to Kerala. Please remember if tourism comes down in Kerala, the whole state of the economy is affected severely.

This is the only way of making them see our concern for the pain of those who are helpless and without voices...these animals.

Thank You for and on the behalf of Citizens For Animals

It's frustrating for me to see so many people here on care2 shun politics because they think it's unrelated to protecting wildlife. It has everything to do with it. Where do people think petitions go? Who do they think orgs lobby for wildlife legislation? Every protection, every survival comes down to legislators who are either going to support wildlife or not. For people to be ignorant of this factor is just upsetting. This is why I examined the voting records and constructed a report based on the Humane Society's rankings of politicians based on their pro and anto-animal votes.

Congress and Animals

I also included links to other wildlife endorsements based on pro-wildlife voting records. It occurred to me that Congress had a very partisan difference between which party is pro-wildlife and which one is not. The Republican party, which also takes contributions from oil, gas, mining, and timber industries ( a complete conflict with wildlife) is also the party that votes against wildlife legislation. makes sense though. Protect the habitat and their contributors can't make any profit.

Only 3 out of 10 Repulicans voted pro-animal, where 7 out of 10 Democrats voted pro-animal. Some people don't want to see this. One man has already banned me from his wildlife group and deleted my posts because he doesn't want to acknowledge that his party is the party that votes againts his best interests. Ignorance!

To get the ball rolling I wrote a petition to ask the presdiential candidates to pledge to protecting animals and wildlife. If we don't show them we care, they won't care.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/vote-animals-08

I hope you'll all sign!