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Contact South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to Stop Cruel Pigeon Shoot
What to Help End Cruel Pigeon Shoots in PA?
Santa Cruz Fair/Rodeo Loses Money

Contact South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to Stop  

Cruel Pigeon Shoot   


Dying pigeon from a pigeon shoot
SHARK is calling on South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to use her authority to shut down what we believe is an illegal live pigeon shoot to be held at the Broxton Bridge Plantation, in Ehrhardt, South Carolina.

In a letter sent to her office today, SHARK states that we believe these shoots are a violation of S.C. 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."  An "animal" under the South Carolina animal cruelty laws clearly includes pigeons because "animal" is defined as "a living vertebrate creature except a homo sapien."

Every time a captured or hand raised pigeon is put into a box and launched into the air so they can be shot at for fun, that's abandonment. Furthermore, it has been our experience, after documenting dozens of pigeon shoots, that a large percentage of birds escape and fly away. Most of those birds are wounded and may take hours or even days to die. We believe that this absolutely is abandonment under South Carolina law.

If Governor Haley fails to do the right thing, SHARK investigators will be at the Broxton Bridge Plantation all four days and will ask that cruelty charges be filed against the plantation and individual shooters.

SHARK has also sent out a nationwide alert asking people to contact Governor Haley, and today we've launched an online petition as well.

The people of South Carolina need to know what is going to happen in their state, and their Governor needs to stand up for the law and shut it down before it starts.

Click here to sign the Petition asking Governor Haley to stop the pigeon shoot

Please contact Governor Haley and forward this email - we want to generate as much attention on her as possible. Please be polite.

Governor Nikki Haley
 
Office of the Governor 
1205 Pendleton Street 
Columbia, SC 29201 

Phone: (803) 734-2100 

Fax: (803) 734-5167
Email  
 

SHARK is looking for volunteers to assist our efforts to document and expose this cruel shoot and those participating in this atrocity to the world. 


Please contact SHARK at: [email protected] if you can help.

Want to Help Us End Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoots?   


SHARK is looking to build our local activist base in Pennsylvania to help document and fight pigeon shoots.

This includes legally videotaping at pigeon shoots. If you'd like to get some experience doing this, and help end this vile cruelty, then contact us today!

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Santa Cruz County Fair Losing Money With Rodeo 



An article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel states that the Santa Cruz Fair has spent $820,000 more than it brought in the last two years.

"The fair has run up a  bill of nearly $150,000 with the state Department of Justice for its legal defense in litigation sparked by the board's approval of a rodeo last year, Kegebein said." Read entire story here.

The litigation referenced above is a lawsuit that challenged a charity rodeo hosted by the fairgrounds for the first time in October. The plaintiffs, Citizens for Environmental Responsibility and Stop the Rodeo, argued the fair board, under the California Environmental Quality Act, should have conducted a review of potential impacts before approving the rodeo last spring. On Tuesday, January 24, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge threw out this lawsuit.

 

Eric Zamost of Stop the Rodeo said the group hasn't decided whether to appeal.

"The court has ruled that the fairgrounds can exempt itself from the state's environmental quality act," Zamost said. "We believe this ruling effectively allows them to discharge raw manure into a creek, making its way through the Pajaro River to the ocean, because they've been doing so for decades."


Read the entire article here.

This is another example among many we have cited previously, proving that rodeos are money losing events for losers. 

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