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TO:Federal & State Elected Officials

Dear Elected Official:

I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the use of canned hunting facilities whereby customers are allowed to shoot exotic, often tame, animals in the confines of a fenced enclosure. At many facilities, retired zoo and circus animals are the victims of the senseless cruel practice. The Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act, introduced as H.R. 3464 in the House, and S. 1655 in the Senate will put an end to these facilities. I oppose canned hunts whether it is used to end the lives of older animals whose zoo or circus careers have ended, for economic gain, or for any other purpose. Canned hunting is one of the cruelest ways to kill an animal. The use of enclosed facilities to ensure their deaths is an inexcusable and despicable practice. Canned hunting is unacceptable and I want you, as my elected official, to ensure that this practice is prohibited and that anyone arrested for snaring will be charged with a Class 1 Felony.

Before man started manipulating its environment, all of the plants and animals were able to reach a state of natural equilibrium by a balance of predators and prey and natural cycles of weather and procreation. It is man’s intervention that has caused nearly all losses of natural ecological balance. Animals should not suffer cruel fates at the hands of men when men caused the loss of equilibrium in the first place. Why should wildlife bear the burdens of man’s mistakes? Many of these animals were subjected to an unnatural life in zoos and circuses to being with and then they are further punished for nature’s aging process by being subjected to canned hunting.

It is up to our laws and policies to protect, not persecute, wildlife. Man should treat the earth and its inhabitants as trust property, to be cared for wisely and humanely. Because animals are unable to speak for themselves, it is up to us to speak for them.

This issue is important to me and to many of your constituents. Please protect our animals as they are an important part of our society and we need to ensure their safety and well being. They depend on us to protect them and as our elected official I hope you will take this into consideration.

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