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Help Save SPENCER Pit Bull Rescue Being Killed By CITY Because of breed ALONE! We Must STOP This NOW!!!!
Jun 4, 2006

Focus:Animal Welfare
Action Request:Phone Call
Location:United States

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Spencer SAVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1:23 PM
Everyone --

I am very pleased to let you know that Spencer
has been saved -- and the City of Mobile has agreed to let him come
here to Best Friends in Utah. In the interim, we do need to find
Spencer a short-term home until we can arrange transportation. if you
can help, please let us know ASAP.



David Phelps
Director, Community Programs & Services
Network Manager
Best Friends Animal Society

He posted other info, thanking us...but anyway/.........

SPENCER IS SAVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!









MY DOG VOTES RALLY TONIGHT AT 5:00 P.M. AT THE SHELTER FOR SPENCER PLEASE ATTEND!!!

Follow this link for details!!!
http://dogpolitics.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/my_dog_votes_or.html



LOOK EVERYONE...The Media is giving us a chance to speak for Spencer...PLEASE DON'T ASSUME THAT A-LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WILL DO IT AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO!!!! GO DO IT NOW!!!

They WAN'T To HEAR WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY!!!!

Please feel free to post your comments in our public forum.  Just visit http://community.wpmi.com/forums/default.aspx


PLEASE SIGN & CROSS POST!!! THEY NEED 1000 signatures QUIK!!!!




Thanks!!!



Date: Jun 4, 2006 4:56 PM

Thank You! We need all the help we can get. After speaking to my lawyer, I have learned that I need at least 1,000 signatures to "Keep Spencer Alive" if we want our case to have more leverage. If you wouldn't mind, could you help me get those through MySpace. All I need are names, addresses, and phone numbers to be sent to my messages. I WILL NOT give anyone's information out--we just need the signatures to back us.  Also, just in case anyone would like to help flood our mayor with calls, his Chief of Staff's name is Al Stokes, and his number is (251)208-7346. The mayor's name is Sam Jones. Thank you so much for helping out! We need all the help we can get!
Sincerely,
Cherish Lombard




Date: Jun 3, 2006 11:13 PM

Hi
My name is Cherish Lombard. I am a Morning radio host at WABB, 97.5 FM in Mobile, AL. I am also a member of the Animal Rescue Foundation, which is a no-kill rescue group in the area. The following was brought to my attention and now Im trying to get all the help and support that I can. If you cannot help, please forward this email to anyone you think may be able to. A Pit Bull puppy is being put down because of his breed. I have contacted the Mayor's Chief of Staff, Al Stokes, who told me, "The dog will be put to sleep--the city has spoken". I asked about a rescue group here, or out of state taking Spencer, and was told no. Mr. Stokes's phone number is 251-208-7346After the following articles were printed, we filed an injunction against the City of Mobile. We have a court date scheduled for Friday, June 9. If we lose, this friendly dog, who has never shown any aggression, will be put down shortly after. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please contact me if you can offer any suggestions to help Spencer, and others like him in the future.
Thank You,
Cherish Lombard


Mobile Register


Rescued pit bull terrier to be euthanized
Thursday, June 01, 2006
By RON COLQUITT
Staff Reporter

Some Midtown residents rescued a starved, dehydrated pit bull terrier found dragging a 10-foot-chain Tuesday night by calling Mobile Animal Shelter, but the dog will be put down next week because such breeds aren't put up for adoption, authorities said.
The leather collar around the dog's neck had "Spencer" stenciled on it, according to one of the residents who found it wandering the neighborhood.
The dog was so thin it was able to slip through the narrow bars of a wrought iron gate to get near the barbecue it smelled being grilled in the back yard of a Hunter Avenue home in Midtown.
Janet Jordan, kennel manager at the Animal Shelter, said Wednesday that the brown-and-white dog appears to be about 1½ years old. It doesn't have scars or open sores that would indicate it had been used for fighting, and it was not aggressive toward other animals at the shelter.
"He seems to be real friendly," the kennel manager said. "He doesn't bark at any of the other dogs."
"He's been neglected as far as food," she said. "And when you do that ... their internal organs suffer too because of the lack of caloric intake."
Jordan said the dog will be fed and given water and made comfortable for a week in case the owner wants to claim it. The dog will be euthanized Tuesday if not claimed, the kennel manager said.
"Our policy is we do not adopt out pit bulls because a lot of people use them for fighting, and because he is a fighter, you never know," she said.
Sarah Hopson, director of Mobile County Animal Control based in Prichard, said they have the same policy when it comes to pit bulls.
"We don't adopt out pit bulls. The liability is too great," Hopson said
Jordan and Hopson said owners of pit bulls never claim them because they know they could be fined or jailed on a cruelty to animals charge.
A person can be fined $172 for allowing a dog to "run at large," Jordan said.
Elizabeth Flott, humane officer with the Mobile Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said Wednesday that cruelty to animals is a Class A misdemeanor with a maximum fine of $2,000 and a year in jail
Jordan said Mobile Animal Shelter gets about five pit bulls a month.
Bill Fassbender, director of animal control at the Mobile Animal Shelter, said Wednesday that most of the pit bulls they pick up show signs of starvation and dehydration.
"It's almost the fighting weight," he said of the pit bull found in Midtown. "They (owners) like to keep them down thin for the fighting. I guess because they're quicker or something."

Mobile Register

Drive under way to save stray dog

Saturday, June 03, 2006
By RON COLQUITT
Staff Reporter
WABB radio personality Cherish Lombard has begun a drive to stop the destruction of Spencer, the male pit bull terrier scheduled to be killed Tuesday at Mobile Animal Shelter.
Lombard said Friday that she is seeking the help of the national and regional offices of the Humane Society.
Workers at the Animal Shelter said earlier in the week that the dog appears to be gentle, even though pit bulls have a reputation of being very aggressive and vicious when they attack. Spencer was rescued earlier in the week by Midtown residents.
I think the dog deserves another chance," Lombard said of the dog. "He is being judged for his breed and nobody is looking at his individual, good characteristics."
According to Lombard, a Humane Society official at the national level expressed her concern for the dog, but she had not heard back from the regional official in Pensacola.
"Spencer" was stenciled on the grown dog's collar, and Lombard believes that is the dog's name. The starved, dehydrated animal was discovered Tuesday night dragging a 10-foot chain along Hunter Avenue in Midtown. An Animal Shelter worker took the dog to the shelter where it was given food and water.
The 23-year-old radio host said she will try Monday to get an injunction to delay or stop the euthanization.
Lombard said she contacted Al Stokes, Mayor Sam Jones' chief of staff, but he refused to intervene. Stokes was out of town Friday and could not be reached for comment.
Bill Fassbender, Animal Shelter director, said pit bulls brought to the shelter are destroyed unless the owner claims them, because the breed is considered too dangerous to be adopted.
"The decision has been made," Fassbender said Friday.
"I don't want to put the animal down no more than anybody else does, but we have to look out for the liability of the city and look out for the safety of the public
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Posted: Sunday June 4, 2006, 4:43 pm
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Kathy G. (407) 		Sunday June 4, 2006, 4:58 pm
I just sent this to one of the editors in the Best friends Network-we have a lot of info going on in there regarding this, Doran,etc(in her pitbull community).....so let's HOPE.

Christine M. (135) 		Sunday June 4, 2006, 5:51 pm
Thank you Kathy!

Kathy G. (407) 		Monday June 5, 2006, 8:40 am
Hope ya don't mind-gonna put this in other groups....

Janet Davis Photography (232) 		Wednesday June 7, 2006, 9:28 am
I posted the updates I received today too all but 2 groups.

Janet Davis Photography (232) 		Wednesday June 7, 2006, 10:13 am
Someone also said that Spencer has shown some dog aggression. I hope that doesn't hurt his case, but with the temperment test, I would think not.

Janet Davis Photography (232) 		Wednesday June 7, 2006, 10:38 am
Cross-post on dog aggression:
Please let everyone know that this e-mail is FALSE. Please read e-mail below from Cherish who is the person that began this campaign to save Spencer. Please crosspost.

Amy
This email is absolutley untrue!!!! Please let everyone you know the he
HAS BEEN TESTED and HAS NO VIOLENT TENDENCIES. He has shown NO
AGRESSION TOWARDS ANYONE OR ANYTHING!!! Pleas stop the false rumor. Thanks for
letting me know!
Cherish Lombard

Janet Davis Photography (232) 		Tuesday June 13, 2006, 3:04 pm
Spencer lost - he will be PTS on Friday. I will post info if I get any... sorry.

Kimberly B. (77) 		Tuesday June 13, 2006, 8:13 pm
Oh no, I have been staying away from animal posts for a little while because of just this, my heart is breaking. Janet you are a God sent, you truly are. Spencer, I am so so sorry baby.

Disheartened One (30) 		Tuesday June 13, 2006, 10:57 pm
DAMN DAMN DAMN
I'm crying my heart out here.

Kathy G. (407) 		Thursday June 15, 2006, 10:54 am
Ok-I don't have time to post this in all the groups...:( The paper is taking comments:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
PLEADING WITH ' EVERYONE ' TO GO HERE -Be POLITE&RESPECTFUL ONLY! ( or that alone could sign his death warrent )

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13305350/ READ THE ON LINE STORY AND LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS - LET THE PAPER KNOW THAT WORLD WIDE - PEOPLE ARE SHOUTING OUT FOR THIS DOG TO BE SPARED !
People around the world have been fighting for this dog, and the judge still ruled not to save him.

Here's the LATEST ARTICLE on Spencer's case in Alabama:
"Judge denies request to save pit bull": http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13305350/

peggy c. (28) 		Thursday June 15, 2006, 4:01 pm
Not enough of us have signed up with NBC 15 and left our comments on Spencer. Please do so before it's too late.

Past Member (0) 		Thursday June 15, 2006, 8:00 pm
I posted a message at the above forum..I hope it and all the messages reach the people who are making decisions.

Kathy G. (407) 		Friday June 16, 2006, 12:27 am
Did the nola.com blurb get removed? I can't access it..:( The one with the judge's contact info,etc...

Lady Vader IsAnAlias (331) 		Friday June 16, 2006, 7:58 am
Signed & commented. Thanks for the info. (((hugs)))

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