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Dear friend,
In Colorado, we are working hard to educate voters about deeply ingrained, ruthless policies related to native wild cats and to urge voters there to sweep these archaic practices into the dustbin of history.
Shooting 500 mountain lions in Colorado during four-month season to start in late November — including hundreds of mother cats with dependent kittens — is disgraceful.
The hunts are rigged. Wealthy trophy hunters hire commercial guides with packs of dogs trained to attack and then drive the animal into a tree for an easy shot of a stationary animal. It’s a “guaranteed kill,” with the trophy hunter only paying the $8,000 fee after the kill.
It’s even worse for the bobcats. These native cats, just a step up in size from a house cat, are also attacked by packs of dogs — and also killed in baited traps. All to sell their fur to China.
That’s why it’s so important for voters to pass Prop 127 and halt these forms of commercial killing of our native cats.
We are telling our story to voters, especially through three powerful advertisements airing now throughout Colorado. I hope you’ll spend a minute and a half and watch each 30-second ad.
1.
Former
U.S.
Fish
and
Wildlife
Service
director
Dan
Ashe,
himself
a
sportsman,
called
trophy
hunting
“unsporting,
cruel”
in
the
ad
he’s
featured
in.
Watch
it
here
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.
2.
3.
Colonel
Tom
Pool,
DVM,
PhD,
and
our
senior
veterinarian,
tells
Coloradans
that
“as
a
fair-chase
hunter
and
veterinarian,
I
just
can’t
stomach
shooting
a
treed
cat
at
point
blank
range.”
Watch
it
here
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Pool
also
says
that
Colorado
needs
every
mountain
lion
in
the
state
to
do
his
or
her
work
to
arrest
the
spread
of
deadly
and
incurable
Chronic
Wasting
Disease
in
deer
and
elk.
But
for
lions
he
says,
CWD
would
have
spread
across
the
mountain
counties
in
western
Colorado.
4.
5.
“Treed”
shows
Colorado
voters
what’s
truly
at
stake
—
taking
us
to
the
front
row
of
a
guided
trophy
hunt
of
a
lion.
It’s
tough
to
watch
for
anyone
possessing
empathy
for
animals,
but
it
provides
an
essential
understanding
for
anyone
casting
a
ballot
on
this
subject.
Watch
it
here
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You and the supporters of Animal Wellness Action and Cats Aren’t Trophies have been extraordinarily generous and we’ve been able to raise more than $3 million to tell the story. But trophy hunting groups are spending millions, including one new front group that dumped in a half million dollars just days ago. We are running out of resources. We may have to pull back on the ads that you see above unless more generous supporters step up.
We have a winning message. But we need fuel to drive it forward.
Dr. Tom Pool and Dan Ashe are telling millions of Coloradans that lions and bobcats are crucial actors in the balance of nature. They check the spread of disease for the benefit of wildlife and all of the people of Colorado who enjoy these animals in many ways.
Will you donate to Animal Wellness Action today to allow us to be all-in on campaigns like this one? Please give what you can today so we can fund Prop 127 and other campaigns that deliver life-saving outcomes to animals. [[link removed]]
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For the cats and all other animals,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Animal Wellness Action
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