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19 March 2014
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VICTORY!
Ducks Unlimited 2,000 Bird Pigeon Shoot CANCELLED!
United Poultry Concerns is pleased to send you this great news from SHARK – Showing Animals Respect and Kindness. Last night we posted a message on
the Ducks Unlimited facebook page urging that the proposed “phigeon” shoot be cancelled this weekend, and permanently, and today we were going
to post an Alert urging people to flood Ducks Unlimited with pleas to cancel the shoot. Instead we gratefully join SHARK today in asking you please to thank
Ducks Unlimited for cancelling the “phigeon” shoot in favor of a Clay Shooting event this weekend in Minnesota. Please read the SHARK Alert for
more information including why this particular demented atrocity is/was called a “phigeon” shoot. Thank you, SHARK!
March 18, 2014
VICTORY!
Ducks Unlimited 2,000 Bird Pigeon Shoot CANCELLED!
DEAR FRIENDS,
A short while ago you received an update from SHARK asking that you help stop a cruel live pigeon shoot that was to be
held on Thursday - just two days from now - as part of a fundraiser for Ducks Unlimited.
We are pleased to announce that after receiving complaints about the event, and less than one day after we released this video about the issue, Ducks
Unlimited has cancelled the shoot!
Here is the email we just received from Ducks Unlimited:
Dale Hall forwarded me your email regarding the pigeon shoot and asked that I respond to you directly. Earlier
today, several Ducks Unlimited members contacted headquarters staff to make us aware that one of our committees was
planning to hold a pigeon shoot as part of a DU event. We have policies in place holding our staff and local
volunteers to high ethical and moral standards, and do not condone wanton waste of wildlife or other animals. To
avoid the potential for wanton waste, the event committee has decided to change the live pigeon event to a sporting
clays shoot.
Sincerely,
Matt
Matt Coffey
Senior Communications Specialist
DUCKS UNLIMITED
This is an astounding turn of events; for 20 years Ducks Unlimited has been holding these “phigeon
shoots,” where innocent pigeons have sharp pheasant tail feathers forced into their backs, and yet within one
day, and working together, we all were able to stop this vicious shoot.
This is the power of your activism at work - everyone who called and spoke out helped save not only 2,000 pigeons
whose horrific deaths were just two days away, but perhaps tens of thousands of pigeons in the years to come.
We also want to thank Ducks Unlimited for recognizing that this was an important issue and taking quick action to
stop this atrocity from happening again.
If you’d like to thank them for stopping the pigeon shoot, please send a polite email to Dale Hall, CEO of Ducks
Unlimited. DHall@ducks.org
In the following picture, you will see three birds that SHARK rescued at live pigeon shoots. We know, from having held
these birds, and many more like them, that each of them is an individual living being who felt joy and suffering.
Thank you for helping us save 2,000 individual living beings just like these three.
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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
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