NW In Defense of Animals: No Chained Dogs, Protect Oregon's Public Lands, & Upcoming Event

Action Alerts
Make Portland a Safer Place for Dogs and Children
URGENT ALERT - PROTECT OREGON'S PUBLIC LANDS FOR ALL CITIZENS, NOT JUST FOR HUNTERS!

Upcoming Event
Music Festival In The Field Saturday, June 25th



Action Alerts

Make Portland a Safer Place for Dogs and Children (Forwarded from PETA)

Dear Friend,
As you may recall, a 1-year-old Portland boy became one of the many child victims of chained dogs in the United States when he was attacked and critically injured on May 6. In response to such tragedies and criminal cruelty cases involving severely neglected, chained dogs, at least 68 American cities and counties'including Multnomah County'have passed laws that restrict or ban the cruel and dangerous practice of chaining dogs (also known as tethering).

PETA has asked Portland officials to join other jurisdictions that protect their constituents and community's dogs by taking the initiative to draft and pass such a law. Please contact the mayor, Tom Potter, and the city commissioners and politely encourage them to pass an anti-chaining ordinance in the wake of this tragedy.

You may wish to remind them that chained dogs are nearly three times more likely to attack than are dogs who are not tethered and that children are the most common victims of these attacks:

The Honorable Tom Potter
Mayor of Portland
1221 S.W. Fourth Ave., Rm. 340
Portland, OR 97204
503-823-4120
mayorpotter [at] ci.portland.or.us



URGENT ALERT:
(Forwarded from HSUS)

PROTECT OREGON'S PUBLIC LANDS FOR ALL CITIZENS, NOT JUST FOR HUNTERS!

VOTE NO ON H.B. 2529.

H.B. 2529 requires all public lands to be automatically open to hunting, UNLESS there is a public safety or wildlife management reason not to do so. It also mandates avoiding a 'net loss' of public lands accessible to hunting. This means that if the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife closes 2,000 acres of a 7,000 acre hunt area, the agency would be strongly encouraged to open up 2,000 acres elsewhere. In other words, hunting would be the priority on public lands even though less than 300,000 Oregonians hunt, a minority of Oregon residents.

STATUS: H.B. 2529 passed the House 44 to 13 on May 12, and is awaiting referral to Senate Committee.

* Please contact your Senator and the Governor's office and ask them to oppose H.B. 2529. Please be sure to mention that you are a constituent when contacting your senator.

1) You can reach your senator by calling 800-332-2313, or by using the following website:
http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/

2) Contact the governor by calling 503-378-4582 or via his website at http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/contact_us.shtml

TALKING POINTS - Please do not copy and paste. Use your own words.

-- This would create a one-size fits all approach, imposing hunting regardless of on-the-ground circumstances.

-- Public lands allocation should be based on careful review of the property to determine what its best use is for all Oregonians, not automatically default to minority special interests.

-- Public land belongs to all of us and should not automatically be allocated to hunting. This violates state law which requires "equitable utilization of available wildlife" and "decisions that allow for the best social, economic and recreational utilization of wildlife resources by all user groups." (496.012 Wildlife policy)

-- Allocation of public lands should not benefit any one special interest group. Placing hunting ahead of other recreational activities and interests does not evenly represent the great majority of Oregon citizens.

-- According to the Census Bureau and US Fish and Wildlife Service, fewer than 300 thousand Oregonians hunt while well over a million Oregonians engage in non-consumptive forms of recreation, like bird watching, hiking etc.

-- Since most Oregonians don't hunt, it is unfair to require public lands to be automatically open to hunting as the default position.




Upcoming Event

Music Festival in the Field
(Forwarded from POPPA)

Saturday, June 25, 2005
Noon ' 6:00 pm
Recycled Gardens
6995 NW Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro

Join us for our fourth birthday party! We will have acoustic music, blues, folk and jazz. $20 per person gets you in plus food - veggie burgers, salads, sides, cake, beer and wine AND one raffle ticket for a brand new guitar donated by Portland Music Company. Additional raffle tickets may be purchased for
$5 each or 5 for $20. FREE For kids under 5, $10 for kids
6-15 (does not include raffle ticket).

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Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
http://www.idausa.org , http://www.indigorescue.org , http://www.POPPAinc.org , http://www.hsus.org , http://www.peta.org

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