OMG Sea Kittens Are Being Killed! October 7, 2008

Posted by Marta at October 7, 2008 6:33 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 11 ) | TrackBack

TAGGED: fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sea Kittens

We have an amazingly cute new campaign to tell you about: "Save the Sea Kittens!" What are sea kittens? They're fish, of course! In the campaign, we're asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to stop promoting the hunting of sea kittens (otherwise known as "fishing"). Send the FWS a letter now!

Sea kittens feel pain just as all animals do, so we need to help them! To learn a little more about sea kittens, check out our Sea Kitten Bedtime Stories.

And guess what? You can create your own sea kitten! Check out mine below, then click here to create your own!

Create Your Own Sea Kitten at peta2.com!
My unicorn princess sea kitten, Aurora, loves to get all dolled up, but she still needs her floaties! You'll get to see several other peta2 staffers sea kittens this week, so keep an eye on the blog.

Want some Street Team points, too?

Go here and grab a desktop background to save to your comp
Set it as your default on MySpace, Facebook, or Bebo, then e-mail us at StreetTeam@peta2.com

We'll give you 500 points. Easy, right? If you're really into it, you can even change your MySpace name to include "Save the Sea Kittens!"

After you post your own sea kitten on your page, be sure to post the name of your cutie as a comment on this blog, too.

Sea Kittens FTW!

♥ Marta

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US Government Sending Tigers to a War Zone? July 24, 2008

Posted by Marta at July 24, 2008 5:11 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 3 ) | TrackBack

TAGGED: tigers Iraq Baghdad Zoo U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service war

No need to wonder if you misread the subject line; it's true. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a permit for a roadside zoo in North Carolina to send two tigers to the Baghdad Zoo in Iraq.

If you're like me, you probably need to pick your jaw up off the floor. I mean seriously, do you guys remember how media reported that when the war in Iraq began, hundreds of animals at the Baghdad Zoo were killed, stolen, eaten, stuffed, sold, or let loose by looters, or they escaped when mortar blasts damaged their cages? So why should the zoo be any safer now?

The roadside zoo in North Carolina isn't the best situation, obviously, but at least it's a hell-of-a-lot less likely someone is going to try to kill or eat the tigers in North Carolina.

We need you to take action! Write to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and ask them to reevaluate their decision and deny the permit to export two tigers to the Baghdad Zoo.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!

♥ Marta