September 11, 2001
4 planes hijacked - 2 hit the World Trade Center, 1 hits the Pentagon, and 1 crashes in Pennsylvania
PETA’S ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM STANDING BY IN WAKE OF NYC DISASTER
Subject: New York City Animals Need Help!
Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2001, 11:40 AM
Dear DDAL Animal Activist:
Please read this Action Alert and forward it to your friends and
familywho
care about animals.
Doris Day Animal League
227 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20002
www.ddal.org
New York City's Animals Desperately Need Your Voice(from People for
the
Ethical Treatment of Animals ?http://www.peta-online.org/)
Obviously our hearts go out to every human being affected by the
tragedy
at the World Trade Center. This terrible tragedy has serious
repercussions
for animals, too. Due to the tremendous loss of human lives, there
will
undoubtedly be many animals left orphaned. Other
animals are trapped in buildings that have been evacuated and to
which people have learned they are unable to return.
PETA's headquarters is receiving calls from desperate New York City
residents whose companion animals are trapped inside now vacated
apartments, some so close to the World Trade Center that the animals
inside can only be highly traumatized by the explosions, the
sirens,the
noise, the shaking ground, the smoke, and now the unexplained
absence of their families. We know of at least one 13-floor
building, 120
Greenwich Street, practically across the street from the World Trade
Center, where more than 20 dogs and an undetermined number of other
companion animals are locked inside apartments without food or water
or
comfort.
These animals need your immediate help.
Mayor Giuliani has a poor record when it comes to animals. In 1998
he refused to allow desperate New Yorkers whose apartment building ís
scaffolding collapsed, the opportunity to tend to or rescue their
beloved animals for more than five days, leaving animals to become
dehydrated and starving.
Please urge Mayor Giuliani to set up a task force to locate and
rescue animals in need. To many of this disaster's victims and their
families, these beloved animals are members of the family and would
be a
great source of comfort.
PETA and other animal protection groups are willing to send trained
rescuers into the buildings to take the animals out, if given the
chance. We will sign waives of liability in the event of any injury
or death. United Animal Nations (UAN.org), can offer assistance with
mobilizing volunteers and rescuing and caring for abandoned animals.
Mayor Giuliani's address is:
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
Tel.: 212-788-9600
E-Mail: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
If you have a difficult time getting through to Mayor Giuliani due
to phone line trouble, please don't give up; keep trying.
