Help Save 800 dogs from Animal Abuse

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Help Save 800 dogs from Animal Abuse

Dear Friends,

Click on this link to view a recent segment about the UCSF dogs on Channel 7 news.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/052505_nw_dog_heart.html

Many of you have asked if there’s anything else you can do to stop the animal abuse at UCSF, there is. Below is a sample letter to send to the 4 state legislators listed . You may use it to write your own letter or you may copy it and send it out as is.

Remember, there is absolutely nothing standing between those 800 dogs and a slow and painful death but ordinary citizens like us. Let’s each pull out 4 envelopes, address them and compose or copy a letter. It’s the least we can do for them at this point.

Please write to (or call) the following legislators, all of whom have their offices at:

455 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102

Senator Jackie Speier, Room 14200 [phone]

Senator Carol Migden, Suite 14800 [phone]

Assemblyman Marc Leno, Suite 14300 [phone]

Assemblyman Leland Yee, Suite 14600 [phone]


------------------SAMPLE LETTER TO OUR REPS; ------------------------


Dear Senator/ Assemblyman,

Re: Use of Dogs and Other Animals in Experiments at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Project #A1644-000961-71A, Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Adrenergic Function

Project #A43109-22783-02A, Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation;

Project #A43109-22715-02, Effects of Congestive Heart Failure on Electrophysiology and Remodeling

I, with over 200 other concerned citizens, have signed on to a letter identifying various concerns about the use of animals in 3 research projects at UCSF. Although the letter has b! een sent 3 times to UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop over the past several months, we have yet to receive a response. Our complaints include the universitys failure to utilize more reliable alternatives to living animals, the lack of scientific validity of the 3 research projects involving hundreds of dogsand other animals, and various discrepancies in the projects' protocols. Among our hopes, expressed in our letter to Chancellor Bishop, is that he allow us a meeting to discuss our concerns.

For your information, UCSF, like other research institutes across the country, is legally bound to “review, and, if warranted, investigate concerns involving the care and use of animals at the research facility resulting from public complaints,” according to the federal Animal Welfare Act.

Whereas we have been unable to obtain a response from UCSF, I ask that you please contact Chancellor Bishop and request that he respond to our concerns and work to resolve them. The chancellor's address follows:

J. Michael Bishop, Chancellor of UCSF, 513 Parnassus Ave, S-126, San Francisco CA 94143.

I look forward to your response and hope for your assistance.

Sincerely,