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9 August 2009
11 July 2009
13 June 2009
Last Screams of a Burning Kitten Echoes from oven
NEWS ALERT FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE:
Cheyenne Cherry tossed her ex-roommate’s kitty, Tiger Lily (above), into the
stove, then left so she didn’t have to hear the cat’s anguished cries.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/06/05/2009-06-05_evil_teen_who_tossed_cat_in_the_oven.html
Cheyenne Cherry is currently scheduled to appear in court on July 15, 2009.
Please see following information for contacts and remember the show about writting with IMPACT, please listen to it before acting on this situation. Letters are also more effective than emails:
Robert T. Johnson, Bronx District Attorney
The Office of the Bronx County District Attorney
198 East 161st Street; Bronx, NY 10451
ph: 718-590-2000, 718-590-2312; fax: 718-590-2198
email: angueirl@bronxda.nyc.gov Steven Reed, Director of Public Information
The Office of the Bronx County District Attorney
198 East 161st Street; Bronx, NY 10451
ph: 718-590-2235, 718-590-2234Joe McCormack, Assistant District Attorney
Bronx County District Attorney’s Office
198 East 161st Street; Bronx, New York 10451
ph: 718-590-2000, 718-590-2026; fax: 718-781-1129
email: mccormaj@bronxda.nyc.gov
Nancy Borko, Senior Assistant District Attorney
Bronx District Attorney’s Office
215 East 161st Street; Bronx, NY 10451-3511
ph: 718-838-7114Maria T. Rivero, Administrative Assistant District Attorney:
riverom@bronxda.nyc.gov
Anthony Girese, Counsel to the District Attorney
Bronx County District Attorney’s Office
198 East 161st Street; Bronx, New York 10451
ph: 718-590-2175; fax: 718-992-0545
email: giresea@bronxda.nyc.gov
ALL EMAILS FROM ABOVE, to cut/paste in TO or BCC line of your email:
angueirl@bronxda.nyc.gov, mccormaj@bronxda.nyc.gov, giresea@bronxda.nyc.gov,
riverom@bronxda.nyc.gov
Here is a sample letter to use as an example:
The Office of the Bronx County District Attorney:Thank you for recognizing public concern in the case of Tiger Lily, a kitten
scorched alive inside an oven on May 6, 2009. I understand Cheyenne Cherry,
17, is charged with felony aggravated animal cruelty, burglary, arson,
criminal trespass, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.
I respectfully ask for your utmost deliberation in the investigation of
Cherry and her accomplice, who allegedly broke into ex-roommate Valerie
Hernandez’s home and trapped Tiger Lily inside an activated stove.
Apparently, they ransacked the apartment and raised the stove’s heat before
fleeing with stolen items. The girls never heard Tiger Lily’s last screams
and scratches against the oven door.
Please seek maximum adult incarceration of two years for felony animal
cruelty. Cherry also faces possible jail terms of 15 years for second-degree
burglary, one year for arson, and four years for criminal mischief. I urge
you to hold both teens accountable. Both require psychological evaluation
and therapy. Both should be barred from possessing or working with animals.
At the very least, they ought to be interned in a juvenile detention hall
until age 18 (if applicable). Then, reassessment of the girls’ personality
traits can determine if adult imprisonment is necessary.
Adolescents who commit brutal crimes against humans usually begin with
animals. Columbine shooter Eric Harris, 18, smashed mice with a crowbar and
set them on fire. Washington D.C. serial killer Lee Boyd Malvo killed stray
cats with a slingshot. Kip Kinkle blew up a cow and burned a live cat. He
then shot 25 classmates and murdered his parents in Springfield, Oregon.
After Luke Woodham, 16, mortally stabbed his mother and shot nine others, he
confessed to bludgeoning his dog with baseball bats and setting her on fire.
These murderers, like Cherry, were able to torture and kill without remorse.
Indeed, the intentional burning of an animal is a “particularly significant
predictor of violent and even homicidal behavior,” says Dr. Randall Lockwood
of ASPCA Anti-Cruelty Initiatives and a frequent consultant for cruelty
investigators, law enforcers and mental health professionals.
Cherry “thought we would play a joke on Valerie.” But she and her friend
are not guilty of warped humor or bad choices. Roasting a defenseless kitten
is the calculated action of a sociopath and a predator.
Thank you for prosecuting Cherry and her accomplice to the fullest degree
allowed by law.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your NameHere is the sources of the above information:
Terri Kelley, Kinship Circle Investigative Research Aide:
pawsitivedirections@yahoo.com
BRONX LOVE SPAT SPURS SICKENING KITTEN SLAY
Bronx teen confesses to roasting kitten
Petition to have Cheyenne Cherry tried as Adult
Thank you to everyone helping with this case to seek justice for this innocent kitten that did NOTHING to deserve what she was dealt.
Pawz Up,
DJ Ice and The Pawz Cauze Team
24 April 2009
Slashed Cat Needs Help
It was a call that will leave us with nightmares; but our pain is no where near to what “Scatt” endured.The good news? We believe he will recover.
“A cat,” the sheriff’s deputy told us, panic in his voice, “has been hurt so horribly, I can’t even look at the wounds.”
The veteran deputy who had investigated murders, now faced an animal cruelty case of untold horror. “Scatt”, he told us, was a therapy cat who resided at a church, just south of Seattle, Washington. He spent the last decade helping those who were trying to turn their lives around. In the end, one of those very people turned on him.
BROKEN RIBS – 8” KNIFE WOUND – PERFORATED LUNG –
It is a story of profound sadness, but thanks to those who acted quickly, Scatt may survive.
“Scatt” was a homeless cat who found his way to the doorstep of The Cross Church in South Seattle. The people there named him Scatt, for when they first told him to find his way home, he simply wouldn’t leave. And it was a good thing – he found kindness, and a forever home in the arms of the church staff and volunteers.
Over the last ten years, he became a “therapy cat” for humans who too were homeless, and like Scatt, down on their luck. He provided unconditional love to those who had nothing, and would curl up in the laps of complete strangers, purring.
Today, one of the very rehabilitation clients he helped, viciously attacked Scatt, nearly gutting him.
PERP ARRESTED!
According to The Cross Church’s Rehabilitation Director (who was “Scatt’s boss” during therapeutic sessions with the homeless or indigent) the perpetrator admitted to attacking Scatt. Sheriff’s deputies quickly arrested the man and booked him on First Degree Felony Animal Cruelty charges - punishable up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. The man, they learned, had multiple outstanding warrants against him.
Pasado’s Safe Haven teams up with veterinarians
It’s great news to know that the coward who allegedly attacked this innocent being, is in a jail cell. The courts will take care of him. But now, we need to take care of Scatt.
We need your help to support the life-saving care needed for Scatt, who is in the care of an excellent veterinary team at a south Seattle veterinary hospital. Scatt has already endured surgery to close the 8” “collarbone to tail” wound that was inflicted with a knife. His prognosis is “guarded”, the vets told us, and “optimistic”. We have every paw crossed that this little guy will make it.
Will you help? Any amount would be so appreciated.
Please donate here.
No adoption – Scatt’s church “family” wants him back – they adore him!
In addition to paying for Scatt’s medical bills, we asked if he needed long-term care at Pasado’s Safe Haven, and even an adoptive home. “No, we love him!” we were told. His family, for the last ten years, wants him back. And although we’d love to be able to wrap our arms around him and help him into his future, we know that the church, and the humans there, are his family. We’re just glad we can make him whole by helping with the medical bills. Thanks to you.
Please check pasadosafehaven.org frequently. We’ll be posting updates and photos often.
And thank you for this little being, who most likely walked up to the man who hurt him,
thinking he was his friend.
PLEASE DONATE HERE, and keep hoping that that “optimistic” prognosis comes true.
If you experience any problems with our donation form please contact us at 360.793.9393
Newspaper coverage: The Seattle Times and The Seattle PI
Television coverage: Seattle ABC network affiliate and Fox News
Susan Michaels, Founder - Pasado’s Safe Haven
The only way that we can help animals is with your help. With your help we can continue getting down and dirty in the trenches to save animals. Pasado’s does what the other animal orgs do not and filling the voids left unanswered by shelters: 24-hour rescue, cruelty investigations, prosecution and convictions of perpetrators of animal cruelty, writing and passing record numbers of animal cruelty laws, pet sterilization, senior animal adoption and sanctuary to factory farm animals. Pasado’s saves those sentient beings that no one else does.
3 March 2009
Over 300 dogs rescued from horder
Hundreds of dogs living in filth, inches of feces, neglected, in an old school house in Kentucky. The owner, David Howery called it an animal shelter, police and rescue workers highly disagreed. …
Over 300 Dogs Rescued, 295 Charges of Animal Cruelty - VIDEO - http://fortheloveofthedogblog.com
20 December 2008
STOLEN DOG ALERT - Jinx
We are happy to report that Jinx has been found and has been returned safely to his family. The person whom stole Jinx is tucked neatly into the county jail right where he belongs. Thank you to everyone who helped find Jinx and return him safely home. We couldn’t have done it without your help. Pawz Up, DJ Ice.
1 December 2008
Missing puppy needs your help to return home
This puppy, Shelby, 1/2 boxer and has been missing since November 24th, 2008 from Beachwood Road in Rose City, MI. She was last seen walking down the road with a Great Dane whom returned home later that day without Shelby. She was wearing a black collar. She was born on April 30, 2008. We really need to find this lovable pooch before something bad happens to her.
If you have seen someone with Shelby or a dog that looks like her, please email me immediately so we can investigate the lead and keep her from becoming a lab experiment or stolen for someone else’s pleasure.
Thank you for your help. Email: ice@thepawzcauze.net please put the words “SHELBY THE DOG” in the SUBJECT line or you may end up in my spam folder.
Pawz Up.
Ice & The Pawz Cauze Team
24 November 2008
Calling all Pit Bull lovers
Please share with your contacts
Horse/Donkey abuse
FROM USER: http://www.youtube.com/user/R49
The Impactors Hard Horseback ( sample )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkdbynVn_bc ( please listen carefully to what the child is shouting in the background )
I’ve posted this. Spread the word that folks should go to www.texashorsetalk.com. They should click on the Breaking News icon and then go to links. This is unbelievable. I had no idea there were such monsters left in the horse world. Thanks for sending this Bonnie. I know Vicki will thank you as well.
Turkey Cruelty and Pathetic Palin Interview
With Thanksgiving coming up on Thursday, it’s no surprise that turkeys are have been in the news over the last week. The most widely circulated story is probably the one in which Sarah Palin, after pardoning a turkey, conducted a fun chatty interview as the other birds were being slaughtered behind her. Of greater import is the New York Times report on shocking undercover video taken recently at a commercial turkey farm. That is covered below.
Those who haven’t seen the Palin video can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDrC1FjjDk
Just over a minute into the video, the man who has been working behind Palin lowers a live turkey into the slaughter cone. We see the animal’s legs kicking pitifully and we watch the man grab them tight to keep them still as the turkey bleeds out.
It was interesting to watch the presentation of the story in the mainstream media. One anchor, whose station blurred out the kicking legs, suggested the video was so gruesome that parents should have children leave the room. Yet, as one would expect, Palin did her official pardoning not at a typical industrial plant but at a small farm where the birds are being carefully slaughtered one by one. While what viewers see may be enough to jolt many sensitive folks out of their complacency regarding the headless carcass on their table, it is a far cry from the typical treatment of turkeys who end up as Thanksgiving main courses.
The Wednesday, November 19 New York Times article presents a more gruesome and more typical picture. The piece, by Donald G. McNeil Jr. is headed, “Group Documents Cruelty to Turkeys.” (Dining Section, p D5)
It opens: “In what is becoming an annual Thanksgiving rite, an animal rights group on Tuesday released undercover videotapes taken at the nation’s premier poultry-breeding operation, showing turkeys being stomped to death and punched by workers.”
We read that after seeing the video, company representatives at Aviagen said they ‘’condemn the abuse of any of the animals in our care and will take swift action to address these issues.'’ Yet one of the many shocking segments of the video has a supervisor acknowledging that he knows some of his men enjoy beating up and killing the turkeys. He says that every now and then everybody gets agitated and has to kill a bird, and that is okay “as long as they don’t do it a lot.”
We read in the New York Times piece: “The Aviagen video can be seen at http://www.peta.org/. The scenes show stomach-turning brutality. Workers are seen smashing birds into loading cages like basketballs, stomping heads and breaking necks, apparently for fun, even pretending to rape one.
“On the tape, one worker describes losing his temper at a tom who pecked him, marking its head with a pen so he could find it again, fetching a broomstick, ramming it down the bird’s gullet and holding it up in the air while shouting ‘Let this be a lesson to y’all’ at the rest of the flock.”
You’ll find the full New York Times piece on line at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/dining/19peta.html and the video on line at http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/turkey_investigation
I do hope anybody considering eating turkey for Thanksgiving will watch it. My neighbor, heading towards vegetarianism but not sure what to do about Thanksgiving turkey, actually screamed out loud as he watched a worker’s boot come down on a turkey’s skull. But as Gretchen Wyler used to say, “We must not refuse to see with our eyes, what they must endure with their bodies.”We have a moral obligation to make the effort to make informed choices.
Of special interest in the New York Times is the opening line. Indeed, the release of these undercover videos has become an annual Thanksgiving rite; this operation is no aberration. PETA does not have the resources to put loads of undercover workers on various turkey farms or in turkey slaughterhouses trying to find “a bad one.” Yet every year an undercover investigator goes into one of the major producers and comes out with video like this. In “Thanking the Monkey” I discuss some of the videos, including one that shows a worker doing his boxing punching bag practice on the live turkeys moving past him, who are helplessly hung up by their legs headed for slaughter.
You can respond to the New York Times article with a letter to the editor
sent to letters@nytimes.com but far better, this week, why not send a letter to the editor at your local paper, thereby letting people in your town know about the video that
the New York Times covered last week? You can guide them to check it out.
And if you are preparing a veggie feast you can write merrily about that as well.
Newsweek has covered the Thanksgiving turkey issue in its November 19 edition (Society section), looking not at the cruelty aspects but at table dynamics when vegetarians join turkey eaters. The article, by Sarah Kliff, is headed, “A Recipe For a Family Fight:At Thanksgiving, vegetarians and vegans object to the menu (and the heckling), while other relatives feel family traditions are being scorned.”
You’ll find it on line at
http://www.newsweek.com/id/169906>1=43002
It presents a great opportunity for letters to the editor giving some of the background, the reasons one might refuse to eat turkey (for example the recent New York Times coverage of the PETA undercover video) which are not discussed in the article. Or you might just write a letter appreciative of Newsweek’s coverage of the issue. It is great to see vegetarianism get so much mainstream coverage, and positive feedback encourages more of it.
Newsweek takes letters at letters@newsweek.com
If you have any trouble finding the email address for a letter to your local editor, feel free to ask me for help.
Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when
sending a letter to the editor. Remember that shorter letters are more likely to be published.
Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn
(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media
outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at
http://www.dawnwatch.com/. You may forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts if you do so unedited — leave DawnWatch in the title and include this parenthesized tag line. If somebody forwards DawnWatch alerts to you,
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Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com to read reviews of Karen Dawn’s new book, “Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals” and watch the fun celebrity studded promo video.
Pawz Up,
Ice & The Pawz Cauze Team
