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From: API Newsletters - donotreply [at] apiforanimals.org
Date: Aug 3, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: “Guess?” to Drop Fur in 2008; API Helps Make San Francisco Coyote-Friendly

Alerts at a Glance

* Update: “Guess?” to Drop Fur in 2008
- In response to activists’ letters, Guess? announces plans to phase out fur. Please urge Guess? to take additional step to put its fur free commitment in writing – by signing on to the Fur Free Retail program – and ask that it not spend even one more season trading in animal lives.

* API Helps Make San Francisco Coyote-Friendly
-Recent coyote incident causes San Francisco Animal Control to work with API to launch a major public education campaign on coexisting humanely with coyotes. Find out how you can do the same in your community.

* Other Ways to Help Animals
- API’s Café Press Store: Fur Free Designs: Show off your Foxy good taste with a variety of products from our line of fur-free designs and help build the fur-free brand by sporting the look that lives!
- Sedona Spa Beauty Products: Pamper yourself with cruelty-free spa products while helping API help animals.

National Alert: Update: “Guess?” to Drop Fur in 2008

API would like to thank all of you who joined activists around the world in writing letters to Guess? and urging the company to go fur free. This international effort has resulted in a recent announcement by Guess? that it will phase out fur — it will no longer buy fur after September 2007, and will stop selling fur in stores by April 2008.

Guess? is a multinational clothing chain headquartered in Los Angeles. With about 800 stores in over 60 countries around the world, Guess?’s influence on the international fur trade is considerable.

While Guess?’s announcement is significant, there is still more it can do to show consumers that it is truly committed to ending its role in the horrendous cruelty involved in fur fashion. Now is the time to urge Guess? to put its fur free commitment in writing — by signing on to the Fur Free Retail program — and to ask that it not spend even one more season trading in animal lives.

To find out more and take action on this alert, go to www.api4animals.org/actionalerts.php?p=1233&more=1

National Alert: API Helps Make San Francisco Coyote-Friendly — Try It in Your Community

Recently two coyotes were shot to death in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park after the coyotes, a male and a female, attacked two domestic dogs in the park. Authorities later learned that someone had been feeding the coyotes daily in the park, which likely led to the aggressive attack. Feeding coyotes causes the animals to lose their natural fear of humans leading to abnormal aggressive behavior.

With the help of API, San Francisco Animal Care and Control has embarked on a major public education campaign to teach residents how to coexist with coyotes. They began by ordering 2,000 of API’s coyote doorhangers to educate residents surrounding the park. But they did not stop there. Using information from API, the agency is developing its own PSA and will be including information about coexisting with coyotes in the city water bills and voter registration materials. In addition, API is
assisting the agency in developing “Be Coyote Aware” signs and posters for use in the city and around the parks.

Together we are working to make San Francisco coyote-friendly. You can do the same in your community, and API is here to offer assistance.

For more information and to find out what you can do for coyotes, go to www.api4animals.org/actionalerts.php?p=1261&more=1

Other Ways to Help:

API’s Cafe Press Store — Fur Free Designs: For the Look that Lives

Compassion is always in fashion. Choosing to not wear fur or fur trim is simple — and saves animals’ lives.

Show off your Foxy good taste with these fur-free designs and help build the fur-free brand by sporting the look that lives! Visit www.FurFreeShoping.com for more information about this International Fur-Free Retailer program led by API.

And when you shop API’s Café Press store, we benefit! API will receive $5 from every clothing item and accessory and $1 from every sticker or single button sold. Shop today at www.cafepress.com/api4animals/1891816

Sedona Spa Beauty Products

The Sedona Spa product line is an exquisite array of spa-inspired products using the best nature has to offer — and particularly the best of nature in the Southwest — to provide elegant products for face, hair and body. All of Sedona’s products are cruelty-free and use animal-free ingredients.

Shop Sedona Spa, and 50% of your sales total (minus shipping and taxes) will be donated back to API. Sedona — natural beauty, eternally Southwest. Click here.

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