This One Will Make It

Update 2/26/2007: The efforts to care for these rescued sheep continues and we urge you to read more about them courtesy of chimerae over at LiveJournal. chimerae’s brother is a veterinarian assisting with the survivors’ ongoing rehabilitation.

We have some additional donation/contact information below for those organizations accepting emergency care funds, projected to be in excess of $120,000 even before the Oklahoma Supreme Court hears this case on March 13. Dr. Marcotte said it best:

The new law is supposed to empower law enforcement to act quickly to secure the resources to provide for the care of animals in need. It’s a tragedy that that the law has to be tested for the first time when the need and expense is so great.

Craig County is desperately underfunded for this effort. Please give what you can to help save these innocent lives. And when we say “save lives,” that does not include auctioning them off to cover the cost of their rescue and rehabilitation.

Craig County Livestock Rescue Fund
First National Bank of Vinita
102 W. Illinois Ave.
Vinita, OK 74301

Marcotte Veterinary Service
30588 S 4400 Rd.
Vinita, OK 74301

The Kelly Family (providing care for 1200 sheep, 300 cattle)
26644 South 4360 Rd.
Vinita, OK 74301

Dr. Justin Roscoe holds an infant lamb rescued from the Bluejacket, Oklahoma “farm” where thousands of sheep were left to die of starvation when their owner, David Bradley Bell, couldn’t afford to feed them anymore.

Bell, who was previously investigated for failing to care for the cattle on his property, has lost his bid to have the surviving sheep in the current case returned to him.

David Bradley Bell doesn’t look like he’s missed many meals to us. His sheep didn’t fare so well.

Their feed bunks and barns held only the decomposed bodies of their herdmates.

Rescuers and caretakers of the survivors need your help to provide food, shelter, and veterinary care for them. Please consider donating to:

Oklahoma Alliance for Animals

Craig County Oklahoma Sheriff's Office
301 W. Canadian Ave.
Vinita, OK 74301

Shop cruelty-free AND cheap

Get over to the Big Lots on Vine St. and pick up Tom’s of Maine toothpaste for $2.50 a tube. Peppermint, spearmint, cinnamint, cinnamon-clove, mango-something, they’ve got shelves-full ready to move. This stuff is $4.51 at the CVS down the street, and all they have is about 5–6 tubes of peppermint at a time, or $4.99 if you order online. Manny’s over there at the Big Lots RIGHT NOW loading up on a year’s worth of toothpaste and sent us these blurry camphone pix.

And they have a half-shelf full of Nature’s Gate shampoo for $1.50 a bottle. It doesn’t look like the VeganEssentials bottles (at $6.59), but it’s the same company (Levlad). Yeah, the Herbal one smells weird in the bottle but your hair won’t smell like that, and the Rainwater Henna one smells really good.

The more you save, the more you can give. Or the more you can spend on necessities you can’t really find anywhere except online or the WFM. Vegan in this town is too damn easy.

World Farm Animals Day, Oct. 2

Some activity hints just to get you started:

Add one book or article to your reading list.
Be a vegan buddy for the day.
Contact your senators and representatives.
Donate to a farm animal sanctuary.
Encourage another person to go vegan for one day.
Foster a rescued farm animal.
Go vegan yourself for one day. Just one out of 365 is a start.
Help distribute literature.
Investigate farm animal cruelty in your area.
Join a World Farm Animals Day event in your area.
Keep informed about farm animal issues.
Learn how to include humane education in your curriculum.
Meet Your Meat.
Network with professionals in your field.
Oust an undesirable legislator.
Peek in on your own for a change. For once.
Question authority.
Read one journal article.
Sponsor a rescued farm animal at a sanctuary.
Type a letter to your local paper’s op/ed section.
Use your multi-million dollar acreage for something worthwhile.
Visit a farm animal sanctuary in your area.
Walk for a farm animal.
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Zap your zits the cruelty-free way.

Now how hard was that?

Would you like to hear our specials today?

We have a twisted-wire satay, marinated in two varieties of frayed string, and served alongside a patch of stinging weeds.

An artfully arranged plate that combines four layers of animal-hazardous fencing flavors.

We used to wonder where our Los Angeles Pierce College tuition, fees, and tax dollars finally came to rest once they fluttered out into the campus community, doing their part to educate us and enrich our lives, preparing our youthful path toward higher pursuits. Do you?

If so, Charity Navigator has something better to show you. Pick a 4–star entry in this category and just give. Even $5, spent only once and given from compassion for all species for the support of same, helps so very much.

He’s a little boy. With no particular place to go.