Why? Simple, they don't care about Lucy, they want some media exposure. If they cared about Lucy, they would leave her alone. She is sick, too sick to travel, it would kill her. Does PETA care? NOPE!
They bring in some slick Toronto lawyer to convince a judge that Lucy is suffering, but the guy is an idiot!
High-profile Toronto lawyer Clayton Ruby, representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Zoocheck Canada, says the city is violating Alberta’s Animal Protection Act by keeping Lucy in isolation and in an enclosure.
“This is a city that’s having difficulty paying for snow removal. Why are they going to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep Lucy in these horrible conditions?” said Ruby during a news conference Monday in Edmonton.
Having difficulty paying for snow removal? No, we just have lefty idiots on our city council that can't budget themselves out of a paper bag. I wonder if that Toronto lawyer remembers that Toronto has to call in the army when it snows there! I guess it saves them from having to pay for removing their snow. If he thinks we Albertans are going to be impressed just because he is from Toronto, I suggest he goes on a tour of some of our buffalo farms, or maybe muck out some stalls after the dairy cows have left the barn. We know animals, we care for our animals and we will do whatever we think is best for Lucy, but we do not need some snooty lefty lawyer from Toronto telling us about our animals. He should be embarrassed to be representing PETA, they kill puppies don't they?
They have never visited her, they don't care for her everyday. Their vet has never bothered to visit her. They have done nothing to help Lucy on a day to day basis.
"It is my opinion that the conditions and standard of care at the Valley Zoo are causing Lucy unnecessary distress and that these conditions are not in conformity with [zoo association] standards," Dr. Ensley said in his affidavit.
He based his conclusions on his experience in the field and a review of information about Lucy's condition, although he didn't personally examine her.
The decision to keep Lucy in Edmonton has been the subject of controversy, with animal rights groups enlisting celebrities such as Bob Barker and William Shatner to push for her transfer to an elephant sanctuary.
Lucy has spent all her life here, this is all she knows, and she is loved by her caregivers and Edmontonians. We are doing everything we can to make her life comfortable, and PETA wants to tear her away for everything she has ever known and send her to a strange place, to probably die. But PETA is good at sending animals to die. We should be suing them for cruelty to animals.
Here is a truth about PETA. They would prefer to use their money on slick lawyers to sue Edmonton for one sick elephant to get media attention, then to spend that money on the dogs and cats they have in their care. Now who has blood on their hands? They kill more dogs and cats in one year than our hunters kill seals! Hypocrites!
February 2, 2010
Exclusive: PETA’s Pet Killing Program Set a New Record in 2008
Public Records: PETA Found Adoptive Homes for Less than 1 out of 300 Animals
Animal lovers worldwide now have access to more than a decade’s worth of proof that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) kills thousands of defenseless pets at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.
PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2008, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 95 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2008, PETA found adoptive homes for just seven pets.
Just seven animals -- out of the 2,216 it took in. PETA just broke its own record.
That's right folks, PETA kills dogs and cats. It is cheaper to kill them than it is to feed them. They need all the money they can get to throw pies in our Ministers faces and to try and kill Lucy the Elephant. Oh, they want to "save" her, not kill her, even though they have been told the journey might kill her, they don't care, because if she does die, then they can just say, see we told you to move her sooner.
The sicko's are the people of PETA. Prove me wrong. Send letters to the paper telling PETA to butt out of Lucy's life. Tell them to clean up their own organization before they yap about seals and elephants. And for heavens (animals) sake, stop donating to them!
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Dude, my grandfather was a hunter/trapper and my dad worked in the fur business. These people have been crazy for a long time now. I always thought it was hypocritical how the lobby for youthanizing animals and cutting their nuts off. I love my nuts. I would consider cutting them off to be cruel and unusual punishment. And yet, this is advocated by these clowns?
PETA advocates the torture of innocent testicle loving animals.
What no one is mentioning is that Lucy has been moved before - to Calgary. If I remember correctly, it took 8 hours to carefully transport her there, where she was placed with other elephants in hopes of her being able to join them permanently. She didn't adapt to the location, nor did she form any sort of bond with the other elephants (like people, elephants don't automatically like each other if you throw a bunch of them together). She wasn't accepted by the herd. So she was brought back to Edmonton (another long transport). The ordeal almost killed her, and it took months for her to recover.
And these people want her shipped to a bunch of strange elephants in the US?
PETA like many activist groups are a source of funding for the staff and little else.
The stunts and publicity help with fundraising campaigns.
Same with Greenpeas parliament stunt.
Pundits Guide noted the liberals fundraising went up during the Sept period and crisis period following the publicity stunts.
he beginning of January about Liberal Party president Alf Apps' fundraising letter in which he claimed the Liberals had raised $100K in the last three days of 2009 alone. Indeed, they appear to have raised $319,696 in the last week from large contributors.
http://www.punditsguide.ca/index.php
Iceman: WTF!!!
Off-topic, but speaking of LPC debts to us taxpayers: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Liberal+leadership+campaign+loan+payment+extension/2512945/story.html
Oh, and Danny Williams is at it again - he's causing quite the blogostorm in the USA. Seems he has to have heart surgery and is going to the USA for it. But, for once in his life, he's keeping mum and not divulging any information.
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