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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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RE: IMPORTANT- Toxic Cat and Dog toys SOLD at Wal-Mart
Sep 16, 2007
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: ANIMALS are SACRED Date: Sep 16, 2007 7:00 PM Purrfriends



Kimberly

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Date: Sep 16, 2007 3:36 PM


Lab Tests Find Lead, Other Toxins in Pet Toys Sold at Wal-Mart

Vets say there's no risk to pets but others aren't so sure




PLAY VIDEO HERE:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/09/pet_food_recalls73.html





By Lisa Wade McCormick
ConsumerAffairs.Com
Copyright © 2007 ConsumerAffairs.Com Inc. All Rights Reserved

September 16, 2007



Two Chinese-made toys for pets sold at Wal-Mart stores contain elevated levels of lead, chromium, and cadmium, according to a forensic toxicologist whose lab tested the products for ConsumerAffairs.com.

Two veterinarians, however, said the levels of toxic metals found in the toys do not pose a health risk to dogs or cats. Whether the toys are a hazard to children and adults who handle them isn't clear.

ConsumerAffairs.com hired ExperTox Analytical Laboratory in Texas to test four imported toys for pets -- two for dogs and two for cats -- for heavy metals and other toxins.

One of the dog toys -- a latex one that looks like a green monster -- tested positive for what the lab’s toxicologist said are high levels of lead and the cancer-producing agent chromium.

A cloth catnip toy also tested positive for “a tremendous amount” of the toxic metal cadmium, the lab said.

ExperTox also analyzed two other Chinese-made pet toys – a cloth hedgehog for dogs and a plastic dumbbell toy for cats. The lab detected cadmium in those toys, but said the levels were “about the amount you’d find in one cigarette” and not considered significant.

ConsumerAffairs.com purchased the four pet toys earlier this month at a Wal-Mart store in Kansas City, Missouri. All the toys had a tag attached that read “Marketed by Wal-Mart stores and Made in China.”

"Potentially toxic"
Forensic toxicologist Dr. Ernest Lykissa, Ph.D., director of ExperTox’s lab, described the levels of heavy metals in the green monster and catnip toys as potentially toxic and said Wal-Mart should pull the products off the market.

“Or put a warning label on them that says if you put this (toy) in your mouth you will get poisoned,” he said. “There is nothing good about the agents (in these toys) that I’m reporting to you.”

Lykissa said lead goes to the brain and causes learning disorders in children. “It’s also implicated in high instances of heart attacks. It is a very heavy metal.”

Chromium, he said, is a cancer producing agent. “It can cause cancer in the bladder and kidneys, and if it’s inhaled, cause cancer in the lungs. There’s nothing good about chromium. “And cadmium is a horrible thing to get into the body. It creates havoc in the joints, kidneys, and lungs.”

ExperTox’s tests on the green monster toy detected what Lykissa said are elevated levels of lead -- 907.4 micrograms per kilogram.

“That’s almost one part per million. With that kind of concentration, if a dog is chewing on it or licking it, he’s getting a good source of lead.”

The green monster toy also had what Lykissa considered high levels of chromium -- 334.9 micrograms per kilogram.

“With that kind of chromium in there you have what can be an extremely toxic toy if they (animals) put it in their mouths. And dogs put things in their mouths. If a dog puts this in his mouth, he runs a big chance of getting some type of metal toxicity that may shorten his life.”

Which is worse?
Which heavy metal -- chromium or lead -- poses a bigger threat to dogs?

“Toxic burden is toxic burden,” Lykissa said. “You are increasing the burden on the animal by having these in there. A dog is going to get a good dose of chromium and lead from this toy.”

The lab also detected other toxic metals in the green monster toy.
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RE: IMPORTANT- Toxic Cat and Dog toys SOLD at Wal-Mart
Sep 16, 2007
Focus: Animal Welfare
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----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: ANIMALS are SACRED Date: Sep 16, 2007 7:00 PM Purrfriends



Kimberly

DAPHNE
Date: Sep 16, 2007 3:36 PM


Lab Tests Find Lead, Other Toxins in Pet Toys Sold at Wal-Mart

Vets say there's no risk to pets but others aren't so sure




PLAY VIDEO HERE:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/09/pet_food_recalls73.html





By Lisa Wade McCormick
ConsumerAffairs.Com
Copyright © 2007 ConsumerAffairs.Com Inc. All Rights Reserved

September 16, 2007



Two Chinese-made toys for pets sold at Wal-Mart stores contain elevated levels of lead, chromium, and cadmium, according to a forensic toxicologist whose lab tested the products for ConsumerAffairs.com.

Two veterinarians, however, said the levels of toxic metals found in the toys do not pose a health risk to dogs or cats. Whether the toys are a hazard to children and adults who handle them isn't clear.

ConsumerAffairs.com hired ExperTox Analytical Laboratory in Texas to test four imported toys for pets -- two for dogs and two for cats -- for heavy metals and other toxins.

One of the dog toys -- a latex one that looks like a green monster -- tested positive for what the lab’s toxicologist said are high levels of lead and the cancer-producing agent chromium.

A cloth catnip toy also tested positive for “a tremendous amount” of the toxic metal cadmium, the lab said.

ExperTox also analyzed two other Chinese-made pet toys – a cloth hedgehog for dogs and a plastic dumbbell toy for cats. The lab detected cadmium in those toys, but said the levels were “about the amount you’d find in one cigarette” and not considered significant.

ConsumerAffairs.com purchased the four pet toys earlier this month at a Wal-Mart store in Kansas City, Missouri. All the toys had a tag attached that read “Marketed by Wal-Mart stores and Made in China.”

"Potentially toxic"
Forensic toxicologist Dr. Ernest Lykissa, Ph.D., director of ExperTox’s lab, described the levels of heavy metals in the green monster and catnip toys as potentially toxic and said Wal-Mart should pull the products off the market.

“Or put a warning label on them that says if you put this (toy) in your mouth you will get poisoned,” he said. “There is nothing good about the agents (in these toys) that I’m reporting to you.”

Lykissa said lead goes to the brain and causes learning disorders in children. “It’s also implicated in high instances of heart attacks. It is a very heavy metal.”

Chromium, he said, is a cancer producing agent. “It can cause cancer in the bladder and kidneys, and if it’s inhaled, cause cancer in the lungs. There’s nothing good about chromium. “And cadmium is a horrible thing to get into the body. It creates havoc in the joints, kidneys, and lungs.”

ExperTox’s tests on the green monster toy detected what Lykissa said are elevated levels of lead -- 907.4 micrograms per kilogram.

“That’s almost one part per million. With that kind of concentration, if a dog is chewing on it or licking it, he’s getting a good source of lead.”

The green monster toy also had what Lykissa considered high levels of chromium -- 334.9 micrograms per kilogram.

“With that kind of chromium in there you have what can be an extremely toxic toy if they (animals) put it in their mouths. And dogs put things in their mouths. If a dog puts this in his mouth, he runs a big chance of getting some type of metal toxicity that may shorten his life.”

Which is worse?
Which heavy metal -- chromium or lead -- poses a bigger threat to dogs?

“Toxic burden is toxic burden,” Lykissa said. “You are increasing the burden on the animal by having these in there. A dog is going to get a good dose of chromium and lead from this toy.”

The lab also detected other toxic metals in the green monster toy.
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