[pyrnet] (Fwd) [BSL-UPDATES] DOGCHAT:please support Shire....CROSSPOST

["Judith Stroh Miller" <jsmiller@newmex.com>]

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Subject: Please help Shire by boycotting McCains products

Please crosspost widely.

In brief:
The deWeerd family moved from Ontario to the village of Florenceville,
NB with their elderly Rottweiler named Shire. Shire is a therapy dog.
The deWeerds did everything right before moving; they asked the
Florenceville village clerk if the village had breed specific
legislation and she said no. The deWeerds purchased and received a 
dog
license for Shire; the application specified Shire's breed. Contrary
to the village clerk's statements, Florenceville does have breed
specific legislation. However, the village council doesn't impose its
breed specific legislation on the two Rottweilers living there that
belong to "old families". The Florenceville village council has issued
a warrant for Shire's death, and Shire has been moved into hiding to
save her life.

The village mayor and council refuse to answer or even acknowledge 
any
correspondence on the matter of Shire.

Shire is upset and lonely without her owners. She is elderly, and this
relocation is stressing her greatly. Shire has done nothing to deserve
a death sentence. If the deWeerds had been correctly advised by the
village clerk, they would not have moved to Florenceville.

McCains Foods, the primary employer in Florenceville and the employer
of one of Shire's owners, was asked to approach council to discuss the
matter, and has refused. You and I know that the primary employer in a
one-horse town has significant power. McCains' refusal to approach
council on behalf of responsible owners and their unoffending dog, and
Florenceville's refusal to lift its unfounded and unjust death
sentence on Shire, precipitated by the village clerk's gross errors in
stating there was no breed specific legislation and then issuing a dog
license for Shire, leave me with the only course of action which I
have already started.

I ask you to join me in a boycott of McCains and subsidiary products,
and I ask that you write McCains to advise them that you are
boycotting their products until Shire's unfounded and unjust death
sentence is lifted and she is allowed to live out her days with her
owners in Florenceville.

Please boycott all McCains, Day & Ross Companies & Wing Wong 
Foods,and
write a note to McCains on their contact page -

McCain Retail - Contact Us

http://www.mccain.ca/framework/ContactUs/ContactUs_Form.asp

to let them know you will not purchase any of these products until
Shire's death sentence is lifted.

Boycotting frozen french fries, pizza, desserts and
beverages...changing from supermarket meats to local butcher
meats....changing your brand of bread....these are not big steps for
an individual to take. But if we all take these steps, we can use our
consumer power to let a global conglomerate know our disappointment
with their lack of response, and let a village council know our
disapproval of its action in imposing an unfounded and unjust death
sentence on a dog that has done no wrong.

Feel free to crosspost






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