Please Call Your Legislator Today to Support the Ban on
Double-Decker Horse Trailers
DEAR FRIENDS,
Last week, we notified you that legislation prohibiting the transporting of horses in double deck trailers has been submitted. The rodeo industry has a lobbyist opposing this legislation. This legislation is coming up for vote on Thursday and calls are needed to your legislators. Go to this link to find your legislator. You can also call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-2141 and ask to be connected to your legislator.
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has an excellent sketch that more clearly explains the issue and the reason for the much needed legislation for the horses. AWI has granted SHARK permission to include this for your review and understanding.
Dimensions of Double Decker Trucks Transporting Horses
SIMPLE FACTS:
AVERAGE HORSE HEIGHT: 7'-7'8" (84"-92" or 15-17 hands) AVERAGE TRAILER CEILING HEIGHT: 4'7"-5'11" (55"-71") each level RECOMMENDED HEIGHT: 7-8' (84"-96") each level MODIFIED RODEO TRAILER: 5'11" (71") each level AVERAGE HEIGHT OF A HOUSE DOOR: 7' (84")
Please call your legislators today and politely ask them to support the language in the Surface Transportation Act banning the transportation of horses on double-deck trailers. This language will make transportation safer for horses and our roadways safer for drivers.
SHARK has addressed this issue and has a video about it. See it here:
Rodeo Horses Transported in Dangerous Double-Decker Trailers
Media Coverage of SHARK Asking Governor Nikki Haley to Stop
South Carolina Pigeon Shoot
Scheduled for February 9 - 12, 2012
On Monday, January 30, 2012, SHARK sent a letter to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asking her to stop the upcoming illegal pigeon shoot scheduled for February 9 - 12, 2012 at Broxton Bridge Plantation in Ehrhardt, South Carolina. SHARK sent out a press release about this to the media.
ABC-TV in Charleston, South Carolina is covering this issue:
SHARK believes these shoots are a violation of SC Code Ann. 47-1-70 (2011), which makes it illegal to "abandon" any animal by "deserting, forsaking, or intending to" give up an animal "without securing another owner or without providing the necessities of life."
Under South Carolina animal cruelty laws, an animal is defined as "a living vertebrate creature except a homo sapien." According to SHARK then, pigeons are considered an animal in the Palmetto State.
If you haven't already signed the petition to Governor Nikki Haley, please sign the petition here.
Kindest Regards,
Steve Hindi and Your SHARK Team
"Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." - Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers
