European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE): Help Us Stop Primate Experiments. For Good.
We currently have a real opportunity to get a ban on all primate experiments across Europe – but we need your help.

The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights (FTCR) / OilWatchdog: Stick It to Big Oil
Send a free fax to your U.S. Senator by clicking here, and ask him or her to support McCaskill’s “Fair Fuel” bill, S. 1997!

Four Paws: Join us in a protest against the ruthless dog mafia in Europe
FOUR PAWS wants to thwart the unscrupulous trade in puppies. Take part! Support our protest and sign our online petition.

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Get Tina and Jewel Out of the Circus
Urge USDA to send suffering elephants to a sanctuary now

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Ask Prosecutor to seek maximum sentencing for animal hoarders
Over 100 Animals Removed from Animal Hoarders’ Home; Supplies needed to care for 68 surviving dogs and cats

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Give Vick Dogs a Fighting Chance at Life
Ask U.S. Attorney to allow rescue organizations to adopt qualified dogs

Kinship Circle: Help Philly Go Foie Gras Free, 9/4/07
Please Take Action to Help Philadelphia be Foie Gras Free

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Help save endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep
Ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect lands critical to the bighorn’s survival.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Californians: Tell your state legislators to vote Yes on important environmental bills
The California legislature will consider several important environmental bills before it adjourns in the next few days. Urge your state legislators to vote Yes for these critical bills.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Ask your representative to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169)
You can make a difference by asking your representative to co-sponsor the Pallone-Shays Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 2169.

Campaign Updates, Press Releases, etc.

Disaster Animal Victims of Peru Earthquake Need Our Help NOW blog
This blog contains information, links and postings about the current situation for animals in Peru affected by the August 2007 earthquake.

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): “Falling Star, Rising Son: The Football Player and the Pit bull” Art containing Actual NFL Football Tickets from Steeler/Eagles Game
To be Auctioned on E-Bay; All proceeds benefit nonprofit organization Dogs Deserve Better (ends 9/13)

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): DA Seeks to Bar Defense Evidence of Abuse on Doogie; Grimes Responds, Releases a Statement [.pdf]
Woman accused of dog theft issues statement in response to Pennsylvania DA’s attempt to bar defense evidence from trial

Newsletters

The Animals Voice eNewsletter: September 6, 2007
AnimalsVoice.com is the premiere online resource for animal rights and its defenders.

Best Friends Animal Society: eNewsletter, September 6, 2007
Events Around Town – super adoptions, hiking, racing for the animals!

In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, September 5, 2007
IDA Action Alerts, Campaign News & Updates

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM): PCRM Online, September 2007
Physicians Sue California University for Violating Animal Welfare Law; PCRM Report Card Reveals School Lunch Disparities; Stony Brook University, Saint Louis University End Animal Labs After Bar Association, PCRM Letters; Congress Updates America’s Farm Bill, The Cancer Project Holds Second Annual Symposium

Vegan Outreach: eNewsletter, September 5, 2007
Holy Booklets, Batman! New Records!

VegCooking.com: Recipe of the Week: September 5, 2007
Vegan Rosemary-Cheese Biscuits

Petitions

Help get justice for a tortured and killed cocker spaniel

Cruelty to Animals Statute in Idaho must be changed to a felony.

Remove section 3.14 of City Council Tenancy agreement restricting pet ownership

Levend gevild.Stop de bontboederijen,Fur for animals

Keep St Mary’s Street in Cardiff pedestrianised

DEAR OPRAH, Please read this book and have this guest on your show!

Your Daily Click-Through Reminders

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European Parliament Votes for Strict Import Ban of Dog and Cat Fur

Milestone for International VIER PFOTEN Campaign

Today, the EU Parliament voted for an import and trading ban of dog and cat fur throughout the European Union. With that, the aim of VIER PFOTEN to get a regulation without a huge loophole for animal cruelty comes closer. The Members of Parliament rejected an exception proposed by the European Commission. Following this suggestion, dog and cat furs would continue to be imported if the furs do not originate from fur farms. “VIER PFOTEN welcomes this vote for animal welfare by the European Parliament”, as Thomas Pietsch, expert on wild animals at VIER PFOTEN, explains. “The deletion of the loophole is a big success for animal welfare, import of pelts from brutally tortured pets will be a thing of the past soon”.

In the context of an online campaign by VIER PFOTEN more than 160.000 e-mails were sent to the EU Ministers of Agriculture within the last ten weeks. Celebrities support the campaign: In Germany, Hannelore Hoger, Juli Zeh, Barbara Rütting and Peter Horton side with animal welfare and demand, together with VIER PFOTEN, to delete the exception clause in the draft regulation. According to a representative opinion poll from April 2007, more than 88,1 percent of the Germans support a strict import ban of dog and cat fur. [to be adjusted nationally]

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From: FOUR PAWS – newsletter [at] vier-pfoten.org
Date: Apr 13, 2007 6:39 AM
Subject: Import prohibition for dog and cat fur

More than two million dogs and cats give up their lives for fur products every year in Asia. Many animals are specially bred for the fur industry, others are simply caught on the streets. Furs from dogs that often land on the dinner plate in Asian countries could also make their way into international trade. These dogs and cats generally vegetate in tiny wire cages. Brutal methods of killing are the order of the day, with some animals having their fur ripped off their still living bodies.

Hundreds of thousands of these furs make their way into the European Union each year where they are then sold to unsuspecting consumers as trimming on clothes, blankets, decoration articles or toys. Please help us close the European market to these products and stop this cruelty to animals!

There is a proposal for an import and trade prohibition being discussed at the moment in the EU. However, this prohibition is just limited to dog and cat furs that expressly originate from fur farms. The import of furs from other sources will continue to be allowed. For this reason VIER PFOTEN is starting an international campaign today for a loophole-free import prohibition! With your help, we would like to convince the European Parliament and the EU Member States to close the existing “loophole for animal cruelty” and to furthermore campaign for a statutory labelling obligation for all fur products. Our aim: No dog or cat fur to be allowed to make its way into the EU anymore! Time is running out as the final decision of the Council of Ministers is expected to be made on 7 May.

Take part! Get involved with our campaign for a loophole-free import prohibition. With just a click of the mouse you can appeal by email to the responsible Ministers for Agriculture from Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Rumania and Hungary to support our demands.

You could give this action even more weight by “inviting” as many animal lovers as you can to also become involved online. To do this, send the following text to friends and acquaintances:

Protest against the trade in dog and cat fur, together with me and VIER PFOTEN: www.vier-pfoten.org/furtrade

Many thanks for your support and best regards,

Take part! Click here and get involved with our campaign for a loophole-free import prohibition…

Your FOUR PAWS Team

FOUR PAWS International, Schoenbrunner Strasse 131, A-1050 Vienna
Tel.: +43/1/545 50 20-0 office [at] vier-pfoten.or

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