Sunday, October 14, 2007
Owners of Pets Thrown Off Bridge in Puerto Rico Receive Help
The animal welfare groups plan to help the Puerto Rico housing project residents to pursue legal action against the animal control workers that seized their pets and killed most of them by throwing them from a bridge. Friends of the Animal, a Puerto Rican company that rescues and rehabilitates abandoned pets and farm animals, and many other groups will help the pet owners with claims of animal cruelty and civil rights violations.
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Hopefully there will be protests about this horrible act but it would be good if concerned people wrote to the governor of PR, Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, demanding he does something about this by signing stronger laws preventing cruelty against animals. The link to his office is
[http://www.fortaleza.gobierno.pr/oficinas.htm ]
Most Puerto Ricans are, like me, shocked and disgusted by these news. No matter where you are, please contribute by writing to Acevedo. Let's put a definitive stop to this kind of abuse.
Thanks.
For the English-speaking, here are other links. Please sign these petitions, which will be forwarded to the appropriate authorities, local and federal:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/puerto-rico-pet-massacre
and
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/Puerto-Rico-Stop-Animal-Abuse
In visiting the website of the main newspaper in the island (El Nuevo Día)
(http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/portada/noticiashasta_las_ultimas_consecuencias/297060) I was happy to read a minute ago that there will be legal prosecutions/lawsuits against the contractors who commited this savage act, and many, many comments have been posted on their blog as an outcry against it. Everyone in Puerto Rico is disgusted and shocked and it seems there are various organizations that are already mobilizing to put an end to this.
Thank you for your support.
I am happy to report the petition at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/puerto-rico-pet-massacre
which will be forwarded to the governor of PR demanding justice for this despicable act has reached 3,200 signatures and counting. If you haven't signed, please take a minute to do so and forward this link to everyone you know.
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