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Shelter In Need of Help
Mar 12, 2008
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The Leland Mississippi Shelter is in such dire need that Jamie and I have decided to make an emergency run from Rushville Indiana to Leland Mississippi. The United States Animal Protection, a national animal rights group is helping with the van, vaccines and more, the volunteer's at ARRF are giving us a place to stay overnight and chipping in towards gas. The situationuppies have been freezing to death outside, rats are eating the dog food, sewage backs up into the shelter. The City of Leland owns the building but will not even provide food for the animals. The 4 volunteers have exhausted themselves physically and financially. In addition to the shelter being overflowing, a hoarder is willing to give up the 42 dogs he has. Leland is in dire circumstances! We will carry dog food, vaccines, tools to make necessary shelter repairs and provide womanpower to coordinate a weekend rescue effort. We will also be documenting the conditions at the shelter and the many starving strays in Leland.

If you are a rescue and are willing to take some of the Leland dogs, please message Gabby or email Linda at ubenframed@cinci.rr.com. We are also working to coordinate with rescues along our route home in hopes that we can find safety for the left over animals. We will be traveling through Cincinnati OH, Louisville KY, Bowling Green KY, Nashville TN, Memphis TN, Leland MS. Interstates I61, I40,I65. We leave for Leland on Friday March 28 and return early on March 31th. To see the conditions at the shelter visit www.arrf-arrf-org

We are raising money to help with the cost of the van rental, gas money, supplies, vaccines etc. Any cash left over will be given to the voluteers at ARRF who take care of the dogs at this destitute shelter. Where chipin logo doesn't work you can donate thru paypal: ubenframed@cinci.rr.com ( I realize the irony of the email but it is a take on my business name, custom framing!) Thank you,

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Posted: Mar 12, 2008 11:15pm
Feds Seeking to Convict Animal Rights Activist
Sep 17, 2007
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: None at this time
Location: United States
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Bobbie Date: Sep 17, 2007 2:34 PM By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
8:41 AM PDT, September 17, 2007
SAN DIEGO -- Federal prosecutors here are seeking to convict environmental activist and ex-convict Rodney Coronado for something he said during an animal rights speech to a gathering of vegans in 2003.

Just hours after an arson fire destroyed an upscale condominium project under construction, Coronado, in answer to a question, told the group how he built the incendiary device that gutted an animal research laboratory at Michigan State University in 1992, a crime for which he served four years in prison.

The arsonist who burned the San Diego condo project, causing $50 million in damage, was never caught, and no one was hurt in the August 2003 blaze, but a 12-foot banner was left behind by the Earth Liberation Front, an organization labeled by the FBI as a terrorist group. Coronado once was the group's spokesman.

In 2006, federal authorities charged Coronado with one count of distributing information about explosives likely to cause mass casualties. The trial had to wait until Coronado, who lives in Tucson, finished an eight-month jail term in Arizona for disrupting a government-sponsored expedition to hunt mountain lions by breaking traps and spreading mountain lion urine.

While in jail, he issued a letter to his followers renouncing violence and saying he wants to be regarded as a man devoted to peace and love.

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Coronado, 41, a charismatic figure to the animal liberation movement, traces his activism involving the protection of animals and open spaces to his heritage as an American Indian.

If convicted of the San Diego charge, he could face 20 years in prison.

One of his lawyers, Tony Serra, whose clients have included the Black Panthers and Huey Newton, said it was a clear case of an oppressive government trying to punish free speech.

Information on making firebombs, far more explicit than what Coronado told the vegans, is readily available on the Internet.

The case, which may go to the jury today, is a holdover from the tenure of former U.S. Atty. Carol Lam, who was among several U.S. attorneys nationwide fired by the Bush administration.

Coronado has characterized his speech as his standard environmental and animal rights speech. He blasted the administration for allegedly furthering corporate interests at the expense of the environment and referred to the president as "Emperor Bush."

Unequivocal information about Coronado's speech was difficult to obtain. The event organizer videotaped it, but the camera battery failed before the question-and-answer session.

Lam jailed two vegans for 80 days for refusing to testify to the grand jury that later indicted Coronado.

"Teaching people how to build explosives in order to commit violent crimes is unacceptable in civilized society," she said in announcing Coronado's indictment on Feb. 22, 2006. "There is no excuse for it."

At trial, two undercover police officers who were in the audience disagreed on whether the word "bomb" was used by the questioner at the speech.

Prosecutors assert that Coronado's speech falls under the "clear and present danger" exception to the 1st Amendment: that demonstration on how to make and use deadly weapons, with an intent to urge their use, is not protected under the Constitution.

The statute under which Coronado is being prosecuted was adopted by Congress in the wake of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Coronado did not testify during the three-day trial.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arson18sep18,1,7896501.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true
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Posted: Sep 17, 2007 2:50pm
Alert: Puppy Mill: 600 Dogs STILL NEED OUR HELP!
Feb 12, 2006




















Alert: Puppy Mill: 600 Dogs STILL NEED OUR HELP!  


Focus:Animal Welfare
Action Request:Various
Location:United States


(source: blog Message: Puppy Mill: 600 Dogs STILL NEED OUR HELP! from SYLVIE G. )



Please sign & forward petition! http://www.petitiononline.com/mn56345/petition.html

Please read, pass on, sign this petition and call the officials listed at the end.





Thank-you EVERYONE! WE NEED TO WRITE! EMAIL & CALL! TOLL FREE NUMBER!
ONE STAMP CAN SAVE 600 DOGS!
ONE EMAIL CAN SAVE THESE DOGS!

Little Falls kennel had violations, USDA files show

Gary McDuffee, who intends to open a dog-breeding operation in Morrison County, had said there have never been complaints against him in his 25 years in the business. USDA records say otherwise.

Paul Levy, Star Tribune
Last update: February 03, 2006 – 8:39 AM

Little Falls kennel had violations, USDA files show

The plastic walls behind the dog runs at the Happy Tails Kennel near Little Falls, Minn., were lined with urine and waste buildup. Some kennels were below standard size; others had exposed, sharp edges. Expired medical drugs were found at the facility.
Gary McDuffee, owner of a proposed commercial breeding kennel where he intends to house 600 adult dogs in Morrison County, says there have been no complaints about kennels he's operated.

But the Happy Tails Kennel, which McDuffee says he co-owned until a year ago, failed to comply with numerous U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations -- including selling puppies deemed too young, failure to remove feces from primary enclosures daily, and not certifying the dates that dogs had last been fed and watered.

"I'm not going to comment," McDuffee answered repeatedly Thursday, when asked about USDA inspection documents from the past five years that the Star Tribune obtained this week.

According to USDA reports that were verified with the agency, Happy Tails sold a 47-day-old puppy on Aug. 14, 2002, and eight 50-day-old puppies in 2002 - even though the USDA mandates that puppies be at least eight weeks old and weaned before being transported.

A USDA report filed Jan. 22, 2003, said Happy Tails needed to remove feces from kennels for 120 adult dogs. Another report, filed eight months later, said the USDA inspector reported that the plastic walls behind three dog runs at Happy Tails "need to be cleaned and sanitized as they are dirty with feces and urine buildup," and that the problem affected 113 dogs.

The expired medical drugs were found on June 12, 2002. During that same inspection, the USDA agent noted that the interior height of enclosed kennels for 15 dogs didn't allow the required 6 inches of head room.

The USDA generally grants kennels two days to comply with regulations. Otherwise, kennels can be fined as much as $2,750 per violation for every day the kennel doesn't comply. A USDA spokesman declined to comment when asked whether Happy Tails complied.

In other reports, furnished by the USDA to the Star Tribune, the owner of an affenpinscher puppy bought in December 2003 and traced to Happy Tails, said his dog was sold with internal parasites and hernia repair. A cocker spaniel puppy traced to Happy Tails was sold with a stomach virus that required hospitalization, according to another report furnished by the USDA.

The USDA reports also note how the number of adult dogs kept at Happy Tails fluctuated - rising to 829, according to a Sept. 18, 2003, report.

It was the size of the proposed 600-adult small-dog kennel in Belle Prairie Township - and McDuffee's comment that he planned to surgically debark some of the dogs - that generated a "Stop the Puppymill in Morrison County, Minnesota" Internet petition, which has collected about 12,000 signees as of Thursday evening.

The county board has been inundated with so many complaints from across the nation that the commissioners no longer list their e-mail addresses on the county Web pages.

Roger Nelson, who owns the Belle Prairie township farm next to the new kennel location, said he plans to appeal the board's decision not to do any additional environmental studies of how dog manure might affect area wetlands. Marshall Tanick, the Minneapolis attorney hired by a group fighting the dog kennel, said Nelson's suit will be filed within the next week and an additional suit, challenging the conditional-use permit that allows the kennel, also is expected to be filed.

McDuffee, 52, who said he will retire from his special education teacher's job at the end of the school year, refused to say when his new kennel will open. He would say only that he planned to sell puppies to pet shops and private owners nationwide and that his dogs wouldn't be sold for laboratory purposes.

McDuffee also declined to discuss his marriage to Wanda McDuffee, saying only that the couple is divorced, and that the marriage and business partnership ended about a year ago.

Wanda McDuffee, who was suspended by the American Kennel Club until 2008 for twice misrepresenting breeds, usually was the only "acting licensed partner" with Happy Tails, said Darby Halloday, a USDA spokesman in Washington.

Gary McDuffee said in two interviews last week that he has been in the dog breeding business for 25 years and that he was an owner Happy Tails. In a Nov. 23, 2004, report stating that the wire flooring in Happy Tails' kennels had openings large enough for puppies' feet to pass through, Gary McDuffee is listed as one of the kennel's licensees.

Wanda McDuffee could not be reached for comment. Jason McDuffee, 27, the McDuffees' son, said he didn't know how to reach her. But Gary McDuffee said she remains active in dog-breeding and that Jason also has been involved.

Gary and Wanda McDuffee both are listed in a report by the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS ), a nonprofit in Colorado dedicated to protecting companion animals. CAPS investigated Happy Tails last June. In its report, CAPS founder Deborah Howard writes that a West Highland terrier had feces-stained mats covering its chest and belly. The report also said that 10 percent of the undersized cages, stacked atop one another, were positioned on dirt with several weeks' accumulation of feces piled under them, along with feces-filled water underneath cages in the walkway.


MDA Minnessota Department Of Agriculture!

Ask Them to Investigate THE MCDUFFEE KENNEL IN RANDALL COUNTY & SHUT IT DOWN!


Contact APHIS & Ask Why Happy Tails WAS NOT SHUT DOWN AFTER COUNTLESS VIOLATIONS!

Let them know the public will not stand for PUPPY MILLS ANYMORE!

Revoke the Morrison County PERMIT !

DEMAND THE LAWS CHANGE! NO MORE DEBARKING! NO MORE PUPPY MILLS



TOLL-FREE NUMBER PLEASE CALL MONDAY!1-866-401-1111# 295

1-866-401-1111#170

WE WILL WIN THIS FIGHT & MOVE FORWARD TO STOP OTHERS FROM OPENING NEW FACILITIES!!

WE WILL GET NEW LAWS IN PLACE & START SHUTTING EVERY PUPPY MILL DOWN!
ONE BY ONE!!!

Morrison County Officials: PLEASE EMAIL,CALL & WRITE!!!

Morrison County District 1
Commissioner Tom Wenzel
20754 Highway #10
Little Falls, MN 56345
320-749-2288
email tomw@co.morrison.mn.us

Communities in this district:
Cushing Township, Darling Township, Green Prairie Township, Little Falls City - 3, Motley City, Motley Township, Rail Prairie Township, Randall City, Rosing Township, Scandia Valley Township

Morrison County District 2
Commissioner Jeff Schilling
25117 185th Avenue
Ft. Ripley, MN 56449
320-745-2617
Email: jeffs@co.morrison.mn.us

Communities in this district:
Belle Prairie Township, Buh Township, Little Falls City - 2, Platte Township, Ripley Township

Morrison County District 3
Commissioner Gene Young
15234 Game Farm Road
Little Falls, MN 56345
320-745-2537
Email geney@co.morrison.mn.us

Communities in this district:
Bellevue Township, Little Falls City - 1, Little Falls Township, Royalton City

Morrison County District 4
Commissioner Don Meyer
19628 305th Avenue
Pierz, MN 56364
320-468-6096
email donm@co.morrison.mn.us

Please sign & forward petition! http://www.petitiononline.com/mn56345/petition.html

Please contact MN State Officials & let them know..NO TO PUPPY MILLS! ASK THEM TO REVOKE PERMIT !!

PUPPY MILL OWNERS!
Feel Free to give him your opinion on puppy mills!
McDuffee, Gary and Wanda /Happy Tails Kennel
Jason McDuffee(son) also involved!

1805 Riverview Dr., Little Falls, MN 56345

Ph: 320-632-3870

Cell: 320-232-9090

Fax: 320-632-8315
gmcduffee@lfalls.k12.mn.us Mr greedy Mcduffee's email! please write!

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