Dear members,

Marilena Squillaro, the woman who cared for the dogs of "SOSCoky" urgently needs our help. The community of Santa Maria di Castellabate sent her a penalty and Marilena now badly needs money to employ a lawyer - money that Marilena of course can not get together. 

Please read and crosspost the following plead - in the name of justice!

I thank you all from my heart!

Marion
Neuburger Tierhilfe e.V.

http://www.neuburger-tierhilfe.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

SOSCoky emergency update

Dear animal lovers,

it would seem that despite all our, and your, best efforts to help the poor dogs of Santa Maria di Castellabate and to offer our moral and practical help to Marilena and the shelter, things are going wrong:

After out visit to the Mayor of Castellabate, when we assumed that finally appropriate action would be taken to house the dogs in humane, healthy conditions, the forces of law and order and the local dignitaries did indeed take fright, but instead of arranging for the completion of the new local refuge, they brought all their weight to bear on Marilena. She has been made the scapegoat for all their lack of care and failure to take any action to help these poor creatures, rather than giving her the respect she deserves for devoting nearly twenty years of unpaid work to what anyone else would have given up long ago as a lost cause.

Three weeks ago she received a legal notice from his Worship the Mayor, informing her that the police would be coming to seize the dogs and ship them off to various dogs’ homes all over Campania. At our last visit at the beginning of November things nevertheless seemed to come to a good end. A vet of the A.S.L managed the affairs and the dogs will come to good shelters. So far so good for the animals.

But things run different for Marilena: The community conveniently planted an article in the local press agonising over the conditions at this ‘illegal/unauthorised’ place, which of course they hadn’t bothered to do anything about for over 6 years, and Marilena was held up as a monster and the cause of the animals’ distress.

 To add insult to injury they have even had the nerve to inform her that she will be held liable for every last brass farthing that they, of course, decide this ‘errand of mercy’ has cost them. Marilena needs our help NOW. Time is very short to launch an appeal against this monstrous miscarriage of justice, but as we all know, lawyers don’t come cheap. Virtually every penny Marilena manages to earn goes on the dogs and there are just no funds to pay for legal action. So we are appealing to all of you, who really do care, to make a difference.

We need 2,500 Euro as a down payment for the lawyer to take on the appeal. Just 10 euro from only 250 of you would make it possible to call a halt to this appalling victimisation. The bank account details of the association are given below.

Please send your donations with the purpose "Marilena" to:

Neuburger Tierhilfe e.V.

Sparkasse Neuburg-Rain

BLZ 721 520 70

Konto 985 127

Please share!!  As many of you know, Sgt. Beberg's dog "Ratchet" is now home from Iraq and in Minnesota safe and sound.  More than 69,000 people signed the petition asking for clemency for the soldier's dogs, with orders of "shoot to kill" and certain death awaiting Ratchet.  The AP sent the story to every news agency around the world and it became headline news everywhere.  With the eyes of the world watching, the Army finally released  the soldier's dog and after a third attempt to transport Ratchet out of iraq, Operation Baghdad Pups finally rescued the dog.

 But, our efforts do not end with Ratchet. Many more soldiers are anxiously waiting for their pets to be granted safe passage home to the U.S. Operation Baghdad Pups receives 4-5 requests a week from soldiers in Iraq & Afghanistan, asking for safe passage home for their pets. 

Our letter and petition to the Department of Defense to appeal their policy against animals and soldiers is now online.

 Please take a moment to read the petition and sign it. A letter writing campaign to the DOD is our objective. The Army heard our voices about Ratchet and released him. Now, we must make sure the DOD hears our voices and listens. The policy must be changed. We know far too much about PTSD to ignore this problem.

 Please go to: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/change-military-policy-about-animals/

Please share this with friends, family and your online communities. Thank you for your time and continued support.

M.A.R.S.  Safe Haven
http://www.mars-safehaven.net/
Supports Rescue Programs and Animal Welfare
Sponsors of "Clemency for Ratchet" petition

Hello Friends,

I am Roger Rankin, US Ambassador for World Animal Day,

A petition has been created on Care2 that I need you to read and sign.  The owner of this really great dog is not even allowed to see her dog and the dog has done nothing wrong that any dog (rescue) does.  Please read the petition and go with your soul.  Thank you,

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-brindi-this-dog-must-not-be-euthanized

• Please contact Calene to sign up.
• Bring a sign and bring a friend - friendly dogs on leashes are also welcome.
• Do not patronize stores like Petland that sell puppies and kittens; not for an animal, not even for supplies. Instead shop at stores that support animal rescue.
• Contact the Southpark Meadows management company to let them know that Austin does not welcome Petland:
  Inland Southwest Management, LLC
  2901 Butterfield Road
  Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
  E-mail: prestinario@inlandgroup.com
  Phone: 877-646-5263
  
  
• Please sign the online petition to “Say No to Petland in Austin.”

Imported from external blog

    Stop China's sadistic fur trade! Please help. Last chance! Petition ending and there are not yet enough signatures!

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.

You can do even more by

1) putting this message in your own group or crossposting in other Care2 or myspace groups. 

2) Copy & were appropriate  the URL displayed below, or you can find it ate the petition site itself next to the video and above the picture or the fox, and create a banner for the petition

3) Put the link for this petition on your billboard on your personal petition site, and don't forget to forward, forward, forward!!!

URL; (only if the Internet site where you because to draw it supports Java script, unlike myspace, if not try step 2)

<div id="peSiteTargetDiv646679262"><a
href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/" style="display: block; width:
252px; text-align: center; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-
serif;">Petition powered by ThePetitionSite.com</a></div>
<script src="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/js/widget.js?
petitionID=646679262"></script>

Step 2; copy and are appropriate code into myspace to this or other Internet sites that don't support Java script.

<br>< br>< b>< font size= 2> help US spell live skinning or animals!! </b>< br>< br>< a href=http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZXBldGl0aW9uc2l0ZS5jb20vcGV0aXRpb24vNjQ2Njc5MjYy>Please Sign our Petition Today< /a>< /font>< br>< br>

for your billboard on CARE2;

    Stop China's sadistic fur trade! Please sign this petition! Against monsters who throw animals to the ground and skin them alive for their fur.

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

On behalf or the animals and myself, thank you very much!

Sven