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Omaha Steve

(99,609 posts)
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 08:02 PM Feb 2014

Nosey the Elephant Needs Your Help in Florida!


https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=5285&autologin=true&utm_campaign=Nosey%20Florida&utm_source=PETA%20E-Mail&utm_medium=Alert





We've just learned that a flea market in Florida is apparently teaming up with infamous exhibitor Hugo "Tommy" Liebel to host rides featuring the suffering elephant Nosey this weekend, despite abundant evidence of Liebel's decades-long neglect of her. Please join PETA in urging the manager of the International Market World flea market in Auburndale, Florida, to cancel rides on Nosey immediately.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered Liebel to pay a penalty to settle nearly three dozen charges of violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, most of them related to his mistreatment of Nosey, including repeatedly chaining her so tightly that she could barely move and denying her necessary veterinary care. Click here to learn more about Liebel's unrelenting neglect of Nosey's health and well-being: http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/pdf/liebel_family_circus_factsheet.pdf

Please urge the manager of International Market World to make the prudent and compassionate decision to cancel rides on Nosey immediately.

Take action at link.

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Nosey the Elephant Needs Your Help in Florida! (Original Post) Omaha Steve Feb 2014 OP
I'd love to NYFlip Feb 2014 #1
The petition is in the first link nt LiberalElite Feb 2014 #2
This work? Omaha Steve Feb 2014 #3
Thanks NYFlip Feb 2014 #4
I thought about putting it under the photo Omaha Steve Feb 2014 #5
signed, no more elephant rides!! send the elephants stuck in these horrible places to sanctuaries Sunlei Feb 2014 #6
I've signed many petitions for poor Nosey. Last one was earlier today. MoonRiver Feb 2014 #7

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
6. signed, no more elephant rides!! send the elephants stuck in these horrible places to sanctuaries
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 08:33 PM
Feb 2014

I'd be willing to chip-in and help buy her from the 'owner' .

Keep on dogging these old time animal abusers Peta. If they can't get paying gigs for elephant rides, they will sell.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
7. I've signed many petitions for poor Nosey. Last one was earlier today.
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 08:47 PM
Feb 2014

So hoping this sweet old girl can be retired soon. It's just tragic what humans do to animals.

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