Sunday October 14, 2012, 5:47 pm
Done my friend!

Sunday October 14, 2012, 5:58 pm
signed, thnx Michelle.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:02 pm
Death is their reward for faithful service? Sick bastards. S&N.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:05 pm
Signed and noted. Thanks Michelle!

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:09 pm
Done

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:11 pm

Bill & Lou have worked as draft animals on the school's farm for over 10 years. They've provided many services for the college, are mascots/friends to students past & present. Since Lou has an injury to his left rear hock both will be slaughtered! ACTION!

These "beloved" oxen have been condemned to slaughter after ten years of hard work and service! Read their story below, immediately sign the petition, then pop off a fast email to the boneheads who are going to kill these beings after they've done nothing but toil and sacrifice their entire lives for humans!

Please help and send a heartfelt, courteous email to the following people:

Bill Throop Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs:

throopw@greenmtn.edu

Kenneth Mulder Farm Manager, Research Associate & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies:

mulderk@greenmtn.edu

THEY DESERVE TO BE SENT TO VINE SANCTUARY! ACT NOW AND SPREAD THE WORD OF THEIR PLIGHT! THEY LITERALLY HAVE DAYS LEFT! HOP ON IT! There is also a link at the bottom of the page for a Facebook petition....sorry, Facebook members only for that one. Make sure to sign and share the one below at the Care2 Petition site!

POULTNEY, Vermont. - Oxen team Bill and Lou have been beloved hard workers at the Green Mountain College farm for 10 years. "They would plow and cultivate, and spread their manure and the manure of other animals," said Ben Dube, a research assistant. The oxen are part of the farm's plan to be fossil-free. Instead of tractors, Bill and Lou do the work. But this summer, Lou suffered an injury and can barely walk. And Bill can't pull the plow alone. "Doing any work with them is a question. Even putting them in the yoke and not pulling anything," Dube said. The school already bought replacements, but kept Bill and Lou as pets until they could collaborate with the students, who were on summer break, about Bill and Lou's fate. "Because it is an educational, sustainable farm, we think we've got to help students understand how to make farms work ecologically, socially and economically," said Bill Throop, the provost at Green Mountain College.
The consensus: to slaughter Bill and Lou for meat. This would save the school from purchasing meat from a factory for at least a month.

http://www.wcax.com/story/19782348/gmc-oxen-pair-headed-to-slaughterhouse

VINE Sanctuary is ready to take these animals in for a peaceful life after all their contribution to their human owners. And despite many voices from around the world calling for the release of Bill and Lou to the sanctuary, the college authorities have remained determined to send the two retiring oxen to slaughter.
Indeed this heartless decision makes no sense because no one is starving at the college hall and these hard workers who shared the workload of their human companions on their back now deserve to live their natural life, whatever of it is left, in peace.

Please help and send a heartfelt, courteous email to the following people:

Bill Throop Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs:

throopw@greenmtn.edu

Kenneth Mulder Farm Manager, Research Associate & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies:

mulderk@greenmtn.edu

FACEBOOK MEMBERS ONLY: PLEASE - sign our petition (if you haven't already done so)

http://www.causes.com/causes/644857-let-s-turn-facebook-orange-for-animal-cruelty-awareness/actions/1692638

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:11 pm
signed! thank you, michelle

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:13 pm
Noted & Gladly Signed. Thanks Michelle.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:14 pm
Signed.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:17 pm
Signed and noted, thanks Michelle.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:17 pm
Signed 10/05/2012. Noted.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:29 pm
signed, even if I can't get the butterfly credits....animals like this shouldn't just be treated as stuff......

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:48 pm
Done, thank you

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:53 pm
Michael, You signed on October 14, 2012.
Your signature has been delivered to:
Green Mountain College

Sunday October 14, 2012, 6:56 pm
Signed and noted.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:06 pm
S&N

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:10 pm
Signed and shared earlier, thanks Michelle

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:32 pm
signatures: 5,965.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:35 pm
Wow, what a great way to thank those poor animals.. People are disgusting as always. What a bunch of heartless bastards...
Signed.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:44 pm
Noted, and signed...I just can't understand why the Administration of this School would do something like this...It isn't going to cost them 1 cent to have the Sanctuary take these Oxen to live out their lives in peace, and comfort...Why would they instead want to have these lovely creatures slaughtered, and then serve them in the School Cafeteria> How can they be so cruel, and cold hearted? I hope they change their minds...

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:50 pm
Thank you, also signed Facebook petition Michelle

Sunday October 14, 2012, 7:52 pm
Thank you for posting. Petition previously signed. emails sent from home. A win-win situation for not only the Oxen, but the faculty and students who care about the oxen, and the reputation of the college, the public outcry at large - would be to make the simple choice to send them to sanctuary. Everyone wins ! But apparently, the heads don't see it that way. This is more than just having "meat" for a month. This is about driving home their perspective that animals are merely utilitarian. I can only hope that they will wish to protect their reputations, because that is the most they can feel.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 8:38 pm
Signed, shared on facebook and twitters.
Did any of you look up their hypocritical ad?
Green Mountain College in Vermont is a four-year liberal arts college emphasizing environmental sustainability.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 8:47 pm
Signed

Sunday October 14, 2012, 9:13 pm
signed Cheers

Sunday October 14, 2012, 10:11 pm
signed and noted, thanks Michelle

Sunday October 14, 2012, 10:30 pm
Signed. Thanks for posting

Sunday October 14, 2012, 10:32 pm
I just can't understand. Signed of course.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 10:34 pm
Noted and Signed Tks. Michelle...

Sunday October 14, 2012, 10:50 pm
Signed and shared but will not send them a polite email because I feel like strangling them. They are pathetic evil lowlifes, who probably won't take any notice of what anyone says to not kill these animals. These people have no humanity.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 10:59 pm
Signed, Noted, Spoken, and Passed.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 11:04 pm
Another example of humans useing animals and then tossing them away when they can no longer get somthing from them-i hope everyone signs this petition!

Sunday October 14, 2012, 11:13 pm
Done.

Sunday October 14, 2012, 11:46 pm
S&N

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:16 am
Signed. Those bastards! They use animals for their own purposes and then disgard them when they are no longer needed! Disgusting! Especially when they have the appropriate option!

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:19 am
Noted and signed.

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:17 am
Colleges & universities have the ridiculous practice of live mascots. It's incredulous that they refuse to take responsibility for them as well.That does NOT mean that the animals end up in a slaughterhouse when they've outlived their usefulness.

So much for an institute of "higher" learning.

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:34 am
Petition signed and emails sent!!!!! Thanks Michelle for posting so I could take action!!!

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:52 am
Done! Thanks, Michelle.

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:53 am
Signed. How can they do that to a mascot when a sanctuary is willing to take them?

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:58 am
noted

Monday October 15, 2012, 2:05 am
noted & signed... hope this helps

Monday October 15, 2012, 2:11 am
These animals are sentient beings and have served the college well, I have asked them to remember this and to send them to a sanctuary where they can live out their lives in peace, it's the least they can do.

Monday October 15, 2012, 2:25 am
Noted and signed, thanks.

Monday October 15, 2012, 3:21 am
Noted & Signed petition. And also sent the following letter as it is imperative that we contact these men through letters as we don't have much time left and personal letters can often have a greater impact than just signing petitions. I urge everyone to do both for Bill and Lou whose lives are in such peril!

Sent the following letter to:
Bill Throop Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs:
throopw@greenmtn.edu

Kenneth Mulder Farm Manager, Research Associate & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies:
mulderk@greenmtn.edu

Dear Sir,

I respectfully request that you spare the lives of Bill and Lou by sending them to Vine Sanctuary who is ready to take these animals in for a peaceful life after all their contribution to their human owners.

Bill & Lou have worked as draft animals on the school's farm for over 10 years. They've provided many services for the college, are mascots/friends to students both past and present. Since Lou has an injury to his left rear hock, I now hear that both will be slaughtered!

There are other important lessons in life that students need to learn in college such as compassion, and what loyalty means to others as Bill and Lou were so much more to the school than just animals who performed labor. They indeed were friends, mascots, and pets and an important part of so many students' school lives at Green Mountain College. Character building is also an important part of the culture of learning and not every experience that one has can nor should be just translated into dollars and cents.

After serving this school for 10 years with their steadfast work of hard and backbreaking labor, these oxen finally deserve the opportunity to live out the remainder of their lives in a Sanctuary. In fact, this is why Lou injured his left rear hock from working so hard and diligently for his human companions. I please urge you to now show them the same consideration and loyalty by sending them to Vine Sanctuary to live out the remainder of their lives.

The students as well as many who work for Green Mountain College will be happier with this decision knowing that these animals will finally be able to live out the rest of their lives in a peaceful and pastoral setting and also the chance to go visit these animals that they have bonded with rather than seeing them heartlessly shipped off to be slaughtered! This will give them a much greater feeling of peace in knowing that the right decision was made in considering their lives and well-being which Bill & Lou are so deserving of.

This would also be a feather in Green Mountain College’s cap to be able to say that they acted out of the highest qualities of mankind- his compassion and ethical reasoning following in the footsteps of such giants as Albert Schweitzer, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanual Kant, and Albert Einstein who all believed that compassion toward all animals must be an essential part of mankind’s character if we are to live in peace with each other and live up to our greatest human potential.

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
-Albert Einstein

"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?" -Jean Paul Richter

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."- Albert Schweitzer

“Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.” -His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Respectfully,

Julia Richards,
Boulder CO. 80306

Monday October 15, 2012, 3:36 am
SIGNED!!! shabby treatment of these lovely creatures!
Shame on them for even considering slaughtering them, i would have thought they would want them to be retired into the security of a sanctuary, not have them as a darned main course for their blasted school!!!

Monday October 15, 2012, 3:41 am
signed, thank you Michelle

Monday October 15, 2012, 4:00 am
signed yesterday no facebook and now, still I wonder why student and teachers don't get together for a strike to force management to think different and act more involved and humane.

Monday October 15, 2012, 4:11 am
They were ok for working for 10 years and now must be slaughtered? Why?
Noted & signed. Thanks Michelle

Monday October 15, 2012, 4:14 am
signed, thanks

Monday October 15, 2012, 5:29 am
Noted and signed! Thanks!

Monday October 15, 2012, 5:55 am
Signed and noted.

Monday October 15, 2012, 5:55 am
signed and posted to FB, thanks

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:02 am
Signed on October 6, 2012.

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:11 am
Laurie, You signed on October 15, 2012.
Your signature has been delivered to:
Green Mountain College

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:12 am
Done!!

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:41 am
Done

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:42 am
Already signed Michelle, thanks as always, I will share it immediately. Ciao!

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:55 am
noted + signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:00 am
Noted and signed.
Thanks

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:02 am
Signed.

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:24 am
Done.

Monday October 15, 2012, 8:00 am
Signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 8:07 am
signed.

Monday October 15, 2012, 8:55 am
signed & noted.

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:16 am
signed & noted. thanks

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:16 am
Signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:20 am
Signed. Thanks.

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:26 am
Siogned and noted- ty Michelle and Sara for fw

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:41 am
Petition signed.

Allow the Oxen to live out their days at the Vine Sanctuary.

Ty, Sara & Michelle.
.

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:53 am
Signed!

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:04 am
Signed.

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:11 am
S@N
Thank you.

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:13 am
Signed and noted.

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:17 am
Lisa, You signed on October 15, 2012.
Your signature has been delivered to:
Green Mountain College

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:18 am
Noted, already signed. Thanks Michelle.

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:25 am
Signed!

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:36 am
Noted, signed and commented upon. Thanks.

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:41 am
Signed , Thanks

Monday October 15, 2012, 10:55 am
signed, TU

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:03 am
Previously signed!

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:11 am
signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:14 am
Noted, signed and commented on.

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:34 am
Noted and signed. Thanks.

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:40 am
Noted and signed. Sending positive vibes.

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:59 am
Signed and noted!!

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:04 pm
Signed. I Sent emails but I think we should send this petition to the sanctuaries for big/ farm animals all over the nation to give an opportunity to any of them to step ahead and offer protection! Same with big institutions for the protection of animals and groups of conscience!!! We have n o time left! I will check to see what can I find.
Noted. THANK YOU MICHELLE!

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:11 pm
S&N

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:11 pm
S&N

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:15 pm
Thanks for posting Michelle i feel so sad for Bill and Lou i just read and posted an article sent to me from a friend a day or two ago that stated that the green mountain college does NOT care how many signatures or petitions their are or emails that there are it is their secision and they have already made it they are going to go threw with the slaughter they said it will give them meat for over a month its disgusting and heartbreaking they just WONT listen to reason they also said they ARENT giving them to a sancturay they made their decision and arent changing their minds hopefully with all this mounting pressure they will backdown yet it seems the more we ask them NOT to slaughter Bill and Lou the MORE firm they are about slaughtering Bill and Lou a bunch of A$$E$ shared tweeted noted and thanks again Michelle a big fat green star for you my friend lol

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:16 pm
Already signed. Thank you!

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:19 pm
I had already signed but have also sent emails.

I suppose that the uni would get a few $s for each carcass which is the ultimate end of a meat animal and the uni must desperately need the money...... I am sure that they would do better to be humane and receive donations or a bursary.

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:21 pm
Signed that is so unfair, Thanks Michelle

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:23 pm
I can't believe they would do this! Definitely signed for these poor oxen.

Monday October 15, 2012, 12:36 pm
Noted and previously signed. Thank so much, Michelle.

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:12 pm
signed and commented. decision maker made shame on college and humanity!

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:18 pm
Signed & shared on FB Oct 5.

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:20 pm
Noted and signed. Thank you Michelle!

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:27 pm
Noted!~ Previously signed!~ Reposted to Facebook!~

Monday October 15, 2012, 1:37 pm
Signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 2:22 pm
Signed before, thank you

Monday October 15, 2012, 2:37 pm
Noted and signed, this is an unnecessary cruelty!!

Monday October 15, 2012, 2:56 pm
S & N! Please save their lives!

Monday October 15, 2012, 3:48 pm
Signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 4:38 pm
N&S

Monday October 15, 2012, 4:45 pm
Done! Thanks, Michelle.

Monday October 15, 2012, 4:52 pm
Total crap to be doing this--noted and signed. Bless all.

Monday October 15, 2012, 5:01 pm
"Green Mountain College in Vermont is a four-year liberal arts college emphasizing environmental sustainability. Our students gain real-world experience ..."
That's what they say. And we do need environmental sustainability
This is what I said when I signed...
"You say that you are environmentally friendly. But you are obviously not animal friendly Sad"
Thank you Michelle

Monday October 15, 2012, 5:43 pm
Signed

Monday October 15, 2012, 5:50 pm
Signed!

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:06 pm
They deserve honorable retirement not slaught.

Monday October 15, 2012, 6:11 pm
done.

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:34 pm
Vine Sanctuary News:

UPDATE ON LOU AND BILL. http://blog.bravebirds.org/archives/758
Memo to Green Mountain College Board of Trustees )Oct 15/2012

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:42 pm
Done!!

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:51 pm
Thank you dear friend Myraida for the bravebirds blog. It reads:


"Memo to Green Mountain College Board of Trustees
By bravebird, on October 15th, 2012

Green Mountain College has posted an evidently official refusal to reconsider the decision to slaughter Bill and Lou on its Facebook page. We could–and probably will–go line by line, pointing out the inconsistencies and inaccuracies. However, it seems clear that the college administrators—perhaps due to a combination of Groupthink and the confirmation bias–are too set in a defensive stance to either dispassionately decide what is best for the college or compassionately decide what is best for Bill and Lou.

Therefore, we have mailed off this memo to the Green Mountain Board of Trustees. (This follows a letter from the co-founder of VINE Sanctuary, asking the President to either show mercy and stay the order of execution or delay the slaughter until the Board of Directors has a chance to meet and discuss the question.)

To: Board of Trustees, Green Mountain College

From: VINE Sanctuary

Date: 15 October, 2012

Re: Formal request for inclusion in agenda of next meeting

The decision to send the oxen known as Bill and Lou to slaughter rather than accept the offer of a retirement home at VINE Sanctuary has raised an international outcry that threatens the reputation and academic credibility of the college as well as its ability to raise funds from alumni. Since administrators associated with the decision may be too invested in it to dispassionately consider alternatives, we ask that the Board of Trustees direct the President to delay the slaughter until after the Board has the opportunity to meet to decide the question.

Educational institutions generally greet offers of sanctuary for retired animals with gratitude, so we have been mystified by the response of Green Mountain College. Prominent scholars in the fields of ethics, ethology, animal studies, and environmental studies also have expressed their mystification. We welcome the opportunity to inform the Board on this matter and respectfully ask to be informed of the procedure by which we may sign up to address the Board at its next meeting."

Julia, you are a passionate and eloquent animal welfare warrioress, and I am proud to call you my friend. Deeds, not words. You ALWAYS go the extra mile and take proactive action on behalf of animals in need. All my stars to you, my amazing friend.

Monday October 15, 2012, 7:57 pm
Signed for sure! Thanks Michelle!

Monday October 15, 2012, 9:04 pm
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Monday October 15, 2012, 11:38 pm
Already signed and shared, calls made and emails sent.
thanks for posting this Michelle, and keeping the issue, and hopefully Bill and Lou, alive...1love

Monday October 15, 2012, 11:46 pm
signed

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 12:18 am
Signed & Shared on Facebook.

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 12:40 am
Signed & Noted

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 1:27 am
Already signed/shared

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 1:35 am
Already signed. Thanks Michelle!

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 2:28 am
thanks, signed.

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 4:30 am
For every action there is a reaction. According to the law of karma, if we cause

pain and suffering to other living beings, we must endure pain and suffering in

return, both individually and collectively. We reap what we sow, in this life and

the next, for nature has her own justice. No one can escape the law of karma.

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 6:09 am
Signed and noted.Thanks.

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 6:44 am
done, thanks!

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 6:58 am

Signed

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 7:32 am
Perviously signed

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 7:32 am
Sorry.."previously"...

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 8:38 am
Signed, shared and noted. Thank you Michelle.

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 9:06 am
Letter sent and petition signed for Bill and Lou. Let them retire!!!
TY Michelle.

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 9:07 am
This is a perfect example of _man's inhumanity.
Where are people's morals?
Are we becoming so hardened that we don't care about our animal cousins?
Are animals only permitted to live, if they provide us with service or food?

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 10:55 am
I guess they forgot about the other BILLIONS of animals 'processed' for their flesh already and can care less that these animals have been slaves for 10 years and DESERVE to live in peace.
I heard a similar situation recently where some animals were used in a 4H program. I m not sure of why, but they plan on killing the animals and SERVING THEM to the students.
people have LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS, and Im SICK OF IT.
I really wish humans with this mindset would evaporate or something...

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 11:46 am
S&N

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 11:46 am
S&N

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 11:51 am
Thanks Michelle for this post and your eloquent letter to the Board also..please keep us posted as to the outcome of this horrid situation. I really can't understand the reasoning behind these people deciding to kill such faithful and lovely animals....the students really need to rally behind this cause.....can't someone organize this?

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 12:29 pm
signed absolutely!!!!! noted with hopes for this animals!!!! thnx michelle!!!!!!!

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 12:33 pm
noted and signed---glad thee is a good place for them to go and live out their lives

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 6:33 pm
signed, thanks

Tuesday October 16, 2012, 10:33 pm
Thanks Michelle--noted, gladly signed and shared on fb.
Thanks for the forward Philip!

Wednesday October 17, 2012, 4:30 am
Signed and noted, Michelle! Thanks for sharing!

Wednesday October 17, 2012, 5:03 am

IS IT TIME TO REALLY WORRY ABOUT THE MINDSET OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD IF THEY CAN BE THIS CRUEL TO OLD LOYAL SERVANTS THAT THEY WOULD DENY THEM THE CHANCE TO LIVE OUT THEIR TIME IN PEACE, DONT THEY KNOW ANIMALS HAVE A RIGHT TO RETIRE TOO IS IT TIME TO REPLACE THE PORKERS AT THE HEAD OF THE FARM.?
CONSIDERED IT SIGNED.

Wednesday October 17, 2012, 7:06 am
Signed and noted.

Wednesday October 17, 2012, 10:50 am
done and shared

Wednesday October 17, 2012, 5:26 pm
Sorry Michelle I got to this very important petition late.. Of course I signed

Friday October 19, 2012, 1:49 pm
Signed, are these animals safe now ??

Friday October 19, 2012, 3:18 pm
Noted/signed

Friday October 19, 2012, 5:49 pm
Signed and noted, thanks

Friday October 19, 2012, 6:07 pm
Signed and noted.

Friday October 19, 2012, 6:14 pm
noted and signed

Friday October 19, 2012, 6:15 pm
Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel Peace Prize Winner wrote in his book, 'Enemies a love story', "As often has Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought. In their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazi’s. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplify the most extreme racist theories the principle that might is right. Lest we forget!

Friday October 19, 2012, 7:55 pm
signed.

Friday October 19, 2012, 9:00 pm
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ---St. Francis of Assisi

Friday October 19, 2012, 10:29 pm
noted, signed, tu

Saturday October 20, 2012, 12:50 am
HOW CAN YOU SLAUGHTER UNIVERSITY MASCOTS??? It's like killing your Faithful FRIENDS!!! HAVE YOU NO SHAME or CMPASSION??? Silmy in HOngkong

Saturday October 20, 2012, 2:30 am
What's wrong with letting them enjoy their retirement in peace and hay?

Saturday October 20, 2012, 5:07 am
Signed and noted. It's a shame!

Saturday October 20, 2012, 11:09 am
These animals should be cared for and if not able to work anymore, retired with lifetime care. These are living animals not an old car that can't do.

Saturday October 20, 2012, 12:21 pm
Noted and signed !

Saturday October 20, 2012, 1:19 pm
Notato,firmato e condiviso. Grazie Michelle.

Monday October 22, 2012, 11:25 am
s&n. I can't stand the cruelty that's inflicted on these poor animals.They serve and their reward is death!!!!!! Thanks Michelle and Phillip

Monday October 22, 2012, 3:54 pm
THE TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THE COLLEGE IS NOT CHANGING THE SLAUGHTER PLAN OF BILL & LOU. ACT TODAY!

The oxen ARE STILL scheduled to be slaughtered end of October. We need you to please ACT today! Keep up the pressure!

From Vine Sanctuary: "writing with an update. Sadly, as of October 22, Bill and Lou are still scheduled to be slaughtered, but that is NOT stopping us. We are prepared to fight this through to the end, which we will do everything possible to ensure is NOT bitter. It is critical right now to KEEP UP THE PRESSURE. Contact media, contact the Town of Poultney, VT, US, contact Green Mountain College, contact the Board of Trustees of the school, call and write and email and make it clear that even if they murder these two individuals, we will NOT forget."

Leave Mr. Throop & Mulder a polite comment and urge them to change their mind AND send them polite e-mails as well:
Bill Throop's Phone number: (802) 287-8214, throopw@greenmtn.edu
Kenneth Mulder phone number: 802-287-2941, mulderk@greenmtn.edu

Urge the local media to write about Bill and Lou again:
Topix Local News: http://www.topix.com/city/poultney-vt/2012/10/green-mountain-college-to-slaughter-two-oxen

Rutland Herals Local News: http://www.rutlandherald.com/

Monday October 29, 2012, 1:33 am
so signed!

Monday February 11, 2013, 3:21 pm
signed

Tuesday March 26, 2013, 4:57 pm
signed.thanks