SOS for Bruce, a Bully, Doomed to Die Because of Breed!

Eleventh Hour Mercy Plea to Save Death Row Dog Bruce

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Please leave a comment on this site. We can only hope...

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Anita criticalpetsrescue@gmail.com wrote:

OUR LAST HOPE IS TO GET THIS OUT AND GET MORE SIGNATURES ON THE PETITION, AND IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IN THE MEDIA ABROAD, CONTACT THEM WITH THIS STORY.

WE DON'T KNOW IF ANYTHING AT THIS POINT, THAT WILL SAVE BRUCE'S LIFE, BUT WE HAVE TO TRY!
(Click on title above to go to petition site)

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Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM

Heartbreaking: The Judge has ordered Bruce be destroyed on Monday...
To: cvfa.uk@virgin.net, southwestanimalprotection@yahoo.co.uk, rich@russom.com, Simsshineon@aol.com, zpenzel@nyc.rr.com, julia-sowden@live.co.uk, criticalpetsrescue@gmail.com, Melgraj2@aol.com

Bruce due to be destroyed on Monday


Dear all,

You may remember the links I sent to the videos of Bruce's story, well court date came on Monday 29th and Bruce's owner Shannon has posted the sad, despicable news that the judge has ordered that Bruce be put to sleep on Monday. How could the judge have ordered Bruce's death after all he and his family have been through? Here is the link, below, to Bruce's Bebo group where Shannon posted the news 11 hours ago. I will be telephoning David Brown on the numbers Shannon has posted tomorrow and I hope to find out more, please do the same if you can and I'm hoping between us if we share this news quickly and get some details to International media, TV stations etc., we might make a breakthrough to save this innocent dog's life. He has done nothing wrong and he has suffered immensely simply for being born a bully breed of unproven origin. Bruce even had a rescue place waiting at a shelter specialising in bully breeds. Death cannot be an option can it?

Please help if you can and share this update.

Thanks,
Maria xx


Bebo group Bring Bruce Home
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4936149910


Shannon-Leah Brown

Hi everyone
The judge decided Bruce should be put down. Their doing it this Monday!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont know what else I can do! I have made an appointment to see solicitor, to see if there is anything I can do, but I dont think there will be!

THE NUMBER FOR PEOPLE WHO TOOK BRUCE IS: 02891278006 OR: 02891270371 YOUR BEST PHONING THAT 1ST NUMBER, AND ASKING FOR DAVID BROWN!

There all murderers to me, for doing this 2 my baby!

Links to youtube videos of Bruce's story -

Bring Bruce home where he belongs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRJYVszJ7tE

A plea from Bruce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyhwJNnzlxw

Facebook groups that can hopefully help -


DDAWatch
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27193457689


Bring Bruce Home facebook group -
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=10616243761


Petition for Bruce with currently 8,855 signatures:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/BRING-BRUCE-HOME-X
(Click on title above to go there)

www.maria-daines.com
www.oneliferescue.org

'But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.'

~Plutarch, C.A.D. 46-C

PETA Makes War on Primate Sanctuary

Don't know what's going on with PETA, but I do know, I no longer support, respect, or trust them! All the suffering they caused with BSL, killing thousands of adoptable animals and now trying to ruin this sanctuary for no good reason..............

Click on title above to read story and see vid;
http://www.primarilyprimates.org/videos/ppvid_Refuge.htm

Please circulate. Thanks!
Be sure to check out this site also: PetaKillsAnimals.Org

PLEASE ATTEND INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST KOREAN DOG EATING

WHAT: Vigil to expose the Korean dog eating season coming up in July and August.

WHERE: Korean Visa Office
460 Park Avenue, (57th St. & Park Avenue)
NYC

WHEN: July 14, 2009 4-6:30 PM

South Koreans are preparing for the July and August dog eating months, where up to 2 million dogs will be slaughtered and
eaten. In Defense of Animals has been a leader in exposing this horror by holding protests and vigils.
Won't you join everyone at this event? Previous such events have made the Korean print and television news, both here and
in Seoul, South Korea. We will have banners, DVDs showing the horrors, posters, flyers, speakers, and of course, BRING YOUR DOGS !!

PLEASE PRINT OR ORDER 25 COPIES OF THE FLYER AT http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/korea/multimedia.html AND BRING WITH YOU.
REACH OUT TO POTENTIAL SPEAKERS SUCH AS CELEBRITIES, POLITICIANS, AND REPS FROM OTHER GROUPS AND INVITE THEM TO SPEAK.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.

To find out what cities/countries are holding protests and vigils visit the In Defense of Animals website announcement at

(Click on title above to go there)
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/korea/events.html

If you have any questions call 718-544-PETS. If you have no questions SEE YOU ON JULY 14TH !!!

Garo Alexanian
Companion Animal NetworkTV

China Reports: Half of vegetarian processed food contains meat

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Investigation Bureau has recently found that some processed foods advertised as vegetarian contained meat, and it has vowed to refer producers who knowingly added meat to their products for prosecution on fraud charges.
Pu Chang-en, a technician at the bureau's department of forensic science, said yesterday that among samples collected from 31 vegetarian food vendors in Taipei City and County for safety checks, food taken from 17 vendors were found to contain meat. DNA tests revealed that in the two most serious cases, the vegetarian patties and ham of one vendor and vegetarian dried shredded pork from another vendor contained at least 20 percent beef or pork, Pu said.

An investigation targeting the producers of the fraudulent vegetarian processed foods has been launched to find out whether meat was deliberately added to the soybean-based products to enrich their texture and flavor.

Fu explained that it is possible that vegetarian foods showing small traces of meat could have been contaminated by poorly cleaned work tables or cooking equipment in factories that also produce meat products.

Producers found not to have deliberately defrauded consumers would not be subject to prosecution but would receive a warning and be ordered to remove problem products off store shelves, Fu said.


http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/06/15/212209/Half-of.htm

Regulators Approve New Vaccine for Dogs

NOT-SO-EASY BREATHING Sophie, left, and Pugsly, adopted from Mid-Atlantic Pug Rescue, may be susceptible to the dog flu because of their short, bent respiratory tracts


Regulators approve a new jab for dogs By John Carroll

The USDA has approved the first new vaccine to protect dogs from the H3N8 flu virus.

The virus evidently first jumped from horses to dogs about five years ago and is particularly lethal for canines with a pushed-in nose, like a pug. And the researchers who have been working with it say they have no idea how this virus, just like any other, could mutate and evolve.

"I don't think we know what this virus is going to do yet," said Dr. Cynda Crawford, a vet at the University of Florida and one of the researchers who discovered the virus.

Scientists believe the virus circulated in horses for decades before a series of mutations spurred the jump to dogs. Among the canines that are infected, five percent die. And that's a high rate. The deadly 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic killed two percent of its victims.

NY Times' Article;

New Flu Vaccine Approved — for Dogs


By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Published: June 29, 2009
There is a new flu virus going around. It initially looked quite lethal, and caused panic. Now it is clear that it has killed relatively few victims — and many of those have underlying conditions. It is particularly dangerous to be the possessor of a pushed-in nose — that is, to be a Pekingese, a pug or a Shi-Tzu.

Do you have a question about dog flu? Dr. Cynda Crawford answers readers’ questions about canine influenza and the first vaccine approved for it.

It is the H3N8 dog flu. The virus, scientists believe, jumped from horses to dogs at least five years ago, but it has never infected a human.

Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it had approved the first vaccine for it.

While fears of a flu pandemic among humans have shifted from the lethal H5N1 avian flu to the relatively mild H1N1 swine flu, the H3N8 canine flu has been a quiet undercurrent in the United States, rarely discussed except among veterinarians and dog owners in the few areas where it has struck hard: Florida, New York City’s northern suburbs, Philadelphia and Denver.

In line with the virologists’ adage that the only predictable thing about flu viruses is that they are unpredictable, the dog flu has baffled those following it.

“I don’t think we know what this virus is going to do yet,” said one of its discoverers, Dr. Cynda Crawford of the University of Florida veterinary school.

When Dr. Crawford began studying it in January 2004, it had come to her notice as a mysterious cough and pneumonia that killed a third of the greyhounds at a Florida dog track. By the next year, she had found it in seven states and had shown that it could be passed by dogs who just rubbed noses on the street or shared a water dish, and that humans could carry it on their clothes. There was a brief flurry of fear that it would kill 1 percent to 10 percent of the country’s 70 million dogs.

It has proved about as deadly as Dr. Crawford predicted. She estimates that by itself, it kills 5 percent of the dogs that catch it. Add the deaths at shelters that eliminate the virus by killing all their dogs and disinfecting their cages, and the total mortality rate is 8 percent.

(By contrast, the mortality rate of the 1918 Spanish flu in humans was about 2 percent.)

But it has not spread nearly as vigorously as she expected. It has now been found in 30 states, but almost exclusively in settings where dogs live closely together: shelters, pet stores, kennels and dog schools. Because the owners of these establishments have learned to turn away sick dogs just as school principals facing swine flu send home sick children, the disease’s progress has been slowed.

“Probably over 10,000 dogs have been infected,” Dr. Crawford said, “but I can’t say whether it’s 20,000 or 30,000. In a population of 70 million, that’s a drop in the bucket.”

Dr. Edward J. Dubovi of the veterinary school at Cornell University, another discoverer of the virus, said it is “probably not as well adapted to dogs as it could be.” It took five mutations to let it jump to dogs from horses, where it had circulated for 40 years.

Another mutation or two “could make it a very serious issue,” he said, but at the moment, “it takes a certain density of dogs to keep it going.”

Some veterinarians have found that the dogs that tend to die from it are the “brachycephalics” — dogs with short snub noses.

Just as obesity has proved dangerous to human flu victims because of the weight on their chests, being bred to have a short, bent respiratory tract is dangerous for dogs.

“It really puts a strain on their ability to breathe,” Dr. Crawford said. “They can’t move air in and out of their lungs.”

Kansas regulators postpone decision on racetracks, including Wichita Greyhound Park

The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas regulators have postponed a decision until July 17 on revoking licenses for closed racetracks in three cities.

The Racing and Gaming Commission met briefly Wednesday to discuss Wichita Greyhound Park; Camptown Greyhound Park in Frontenac; and The Woodlands in Kansas City, Kan., which has separate dog and horse tracks.

The commission moved last year against the licenses of the tracks' because they weren't running races.

The owners persuaded the commission to put off revoking the licenses until July 6, to see whether legislators would revise a law allowing slot machines at racetracks. Legislators didn't.

Track owners say the law doesn't allow them to keep enough revenues to make slots profitable.

Commission Executive Director Stephen Martino says delaying a decision will allow all five commissioners to meet face-to-face.


http://www.kansas.com/topstories/story/875003.html

Dog Racing Ends in New Hampshire!

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Victory for the Greyhounds—Dog Racing Ends in New Hampshire!
Friends:

Today, we bring you great news!

After years of fighting for stronger greyhound protection laws in New
Hampshire, the dogs have finally had their day in the Granite State.
This morning, the last two remaining dog tracks in New Hampshire announced
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Under a new law passed as part of the state budget, the tracks will be able to continue simulcast gambling without live racing.

This is an incredible victory for everyone who cares about animals, and
ends a sad chapter in New Hampshire history. Since 2005 alone, _nearly 1,200
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We are proud to say that due to the hard work of many advocates, this
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