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| Get Off the Couch Archive
JUNE ACTION ALERT – URGENT – DO IT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU TO OUR ACTION LIST. YOU SAVED TIGER! Tiger is a staffordshire terrier who spent all the years of his
life at the end of this chain. Finally abandoned, he was headed
for the pound to be killed when Tails of Joy, Paw’d
Squad, and all of you stepped in. Thanks to you, this loving
sweet boy is now healthy, happy, and ready for his forever home.
“Following a flood of phone calls and emails from across the country, the Suffolk County, NY, District Attorney's office has upgraded the charges against alleged animal abuser Timothy Guider from a misdemeanor to a Class E felony. Guider had been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty earlier this year after he allegedly set his family's parakeet on fire, paraded the bird's dead body in front of peers at a New Year's Eve party, and posted photos of the incident on the internet.” Why is “justice” for a parakeet important? Animal cruelty indisputably escalates to violence against people (Humane Society of the U.S. First Strike Study). By getting the judge to understand this important link, YOU have made a difference for the future.
Senseless slaughter of a family's pet by a trigger-happy police officer The Cooke County, Tennessee police department "finds that no excessive force was used" in blowing the head off a tail wagging family dog, whose death they directly caused by refusing to simply close the car door after removing the occupants. The (innocent) mother, father, and teenage son who were on their knees, handcuffed on the ground in a mistaken traffic stop, begged the officers to close the car door for the dogs' safety, and repeatedly assured the officers the family pets were friendly, begging for their dogs' lives as an officer decapitated their dog with a shotgun. These were tourists passing through Tennessee, stopped by mistake. Whatever culture, whatever training, whatever Tennessee We cannot allow gestapo thugs in police WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR EMAILS. (PLEASE DO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD, EVEN A FEW LINES IS ENOUGH TO BE COUNTED) The Cookeville, Tennessee Police Department, District 5, listed below, has started an investigation. We need to let them know the nation is watching. Over the next several weeks, please work your way through the list below with (polite but stern) phone calls, letters, and/or emails, and make these points. 1. We will not give one penny to the Tennessee tourist industry until you train your police force to deal correctly with FAMILY PETS AND PEOPLE. 2. We request that the authorities take responsibility for mishandling the situation. 3. If this is "standard procedure", as claimed, and not considered "excessive force", as claimed, we demand police procedures be changed. We demand THIS procedure be put in place:
4. The video of the tail wagging dog, whose family assured the officers the dogs were friendly and begged the officers to shut the car door to keep the dogs from getting killed on the highway, clearly shows the dog was no threat before the police blew his head off. The officer then filed a false report. Any officer of the law filing a false report should be disciplined and fired. He does not "serve the people". He should not be on the people's payroll. He should not be carrying a gun. 5. Procedures and training need to be changed. Cookeville Mayor Charles Womack Chief Robert E. Terry THP District Six Headquarters One letter from a reader. Dear Editor: I had planned a trip to Tennessee this summer with a small group of my university history students. We were going to tour Civil War battlefields in several locations. Problem: I was going to bring my two dogs on the trip. The Tennessee trip has been cancelled, including all the motel reservations. The motels were told why they will not be getting our money. I will, however, take my students (and dogs) to another state and, rest assured, we will not even drive through Tennessee to get there. Maryann W.
Get Real, Dr. Phil On his show last week (right before Thanksgiving), Dr. Phil was giving a family advice on how to cut their budget. He advised them to get rid of all their children's pets. Appalling, on every level. Below is one letter sent by a rescue worker, and here is where you can email the Dr. Phil show and make your voice heard. Pets are members of the family. They are not disposable. And what could he possibly know about children to make such an ignorant and harmful suggestion? This man gets PAID to give ADVICE? EMAIL DR. PHIL AT http://www.drphil.com Below is one letter sent by a rescue worker, and here is where you can email the Dr. Phil show and make your voice heard. Pets are members of the family. They are not disposable. And what could he possibly know about children to make such an ignorant and harmful suggestion? This man gets PAID to give ADVICE? To Dr. "Get Real" Phil, Do you realize that your recent advice to the family experiencing financial difficulties that they get rid of the family pets is tantamount to telling them to kill the animals? If you operate under the mistaken delusion that these animals could be turned into a shelter where they would then be adopted into new homes, you need to "get real." Very few animals picked up as strays or turned in to shelters ever leave. The few who do are usually puppies and kittens, not mature animals like this family had. Even the young animals are fortunate if they are adopted out and most remain among the more than five million companion animals killed in shelters each year in this nation simply because there aren't enough homes for them. Undoubtedly, this family should have been advised not to take on any additional responsibilities that come with adopting an additional pet. But I strongly disagree with your advice that they tighten the family budget by killing off the pets they already have. Pets can play an invaluable role in a family. Children, especially, can learn important lessons about trust, responsibility, respect for life, commitment and so many other values through a pet and the family's treatment of that pet. What does it teach a child about commitment if parents break the commitment made to a pet by tossing it aside when it's no longer convenient to keep it? What respect for life will they be taught by parents who allow the family pets to be killed because they are viewed as an unnecessary expense? What is the lesson to these children about being responsible if they see their parents disavow the responsibilities they took on for these animals' lives when they adopted them? What trust will the children have for these parents who seem to offer love and security one day to a pet, but the next day allow it to be killed because it didn't fit into the new budget? While I disagree with your advice to this family, I have no doubt that you stand behind it. When it comes to issues like trust, respect, commitment and responsibility, I think my views must be very different from yours. In a recent article, your first wife was quoted, saying about the end of your marriage to her, "When I confronted him about his infidelities he didn't deny these girls and told me that it had nothing to do with his feelings toward me, to grow up, that's the way it was in the world." Is Dr. Phil a person who honors his commitments? Does he keep his vows and live up to his responsibilities? Does he show respect and can he be trusted? Get real Action Update On his show right before Thanksgiving, Dr. Phil gave a family advice on how to cut their budget. He advised them to get rid of all their children's pets. Appalling, on every level.Thanks to all of you who emailed the show. Here is the update: Neither Dr. Phil nor anyone from his show ever answered any of
these emails that we know of.
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