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Congratulations to Quad Squad (left) and a huge thank you to all of the Mad Rollin' Dolls, staff, and fans for being so supportive of AFA at the championship game on May 5.

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UW-Madison Resurrects Cruel Maternal Deprivation

MOTHERS DAY CANCELLED: UW SCIENTISTS REVIVE HARRY HARLOW’S CRUEL MATERNAL DEPRIVATION

Maternal deprivation -- crushing a monkey’s spirit by raising him or her without a nurturing caregiver -- was invented and promoted by UW-Madison’s Harry Harlow and his students in the 1970s and 80s. Harlow’s experiments with maternal deprivation are widely acknowledged as being profoundly cruel.

Compassionate people everywhere are urged to speak out against this revival of Harry Harlow’s cruel methods by calling and writing Dr. Robert Streiffer, Chair of the university oversight committee responsible for approving these experiments, and urging him to do everything he can to bring this outrageous ethical backsliding return to cruelty to the attention of the entire campus and to do everything he can to stop them.

For Dr. Streiffer’s contact information and much more detail see:
Harry Harlow's Cruel Maternal Deprivation Returns to UW-Madison

Yet Another Elephant Act Comes to Madison.
What the heck?

The Alliant Energy Center is bringing yet another elephant act to Dane County May 14/15 even though the County is currently discussing a ban on circus elephants in Dane County venues.

We believe that the Piccadilly Circus is contracting the Franzen Bros. Circus for their exotic animal acts. Like the Zor Shrine Circus the Piccadilly Circus contracts their exotic animal acts.

The Franzen Bros Circus has been cited by the USDA for its failure to provide proper veterinary care, its failure to meet the animals' nutritional requirements, and for its failure to provide sanitary conditions for the animals.

Most disturbing is a video that was taken of Brian Franzen at the Milwaukee Circus Parade in 2009. This video shows Brian Franzen jabbing and hooking his elephants before the parade in Milwaukee WI.

At a recent Dane County Public Works and Transportation committee, Executive Director of the Alliant Energy Center Bill DiCarlo defended the event, saying it is a “one time only” event and that the circus “has only one elephant.” While to some, that may seem like a positive thing, keeping elephants from others of their species is even worse than keeping them in a group.

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has recently required, due to the extreme sociability of elephants, that elephant groups must be no smaller than three elephants. Keeping one solitary elephant is inhumane. Because of this, many zoos are having to overhaul their exhibits or eliminate them altogether.

How you can help:

1. “Don't go.” ( Sorry, we couldn't resist that. )

2. Contact the Alliant Energy Center and tell them that you will not be attending the Piccadilly Circus and that you disapprove of this use of animals for entertainment.

3. Contact your Dane County Supervisor (they are your friends!) as soon as possible. Be sure to cc Dane County Executive Joe Parisi . If you do not know your new supervisor check the website here .

For information on how to help contact Elephants Living Free, a project of Alliance for Animals: elefriends005@gmail.com

Goose Patrol Volunteers Working with Madison Parks

When we asked for volunteers to help us in our goal to prevent future goose roundups there was no lack of interest. Dozens of concerned wildlife advocates joined our efforts as we set up teams to monitor several parks in the Madison area.

Madison Parks has helped coordinate volunteer opportunities for humane population control by asking other local governmental bodies to apply for nest depredation permits and allowing volunteers to oil eggs.

We were also provided with buckets for testing the eggs, corn oil for addlilng the eggs, and flags to mark the nests.

Currently, the best chance of stopping future round ups and massacres is by reducing the number of geese being hatched. The most humane way to control and reduce the goose population is to reduce the number of eggs that hatch.

This can be humanely achieved by oiling newly laid eggs before they are incubated. Early oiling is like the morning after pill. Eggs that have begun to develop into goslings are not oiled. Every oiled egg means one less gosling who won't be rounded up and killed.

Many goslings have already been hatched, due to the early spring, but we were able to oil a few nests. We have a good core group of "charter" goose patrolers, but if you'd like to get on the list for future work email us at alliance@allanimals.org.

Thank you to all who have helped!

 

Care About Elephants? Here Are Two Things You Can Do!

 

Add your photo to our Ban Elephant Acts in Dane County Support Page!

Whether you are a Dane County resident or not, you can help us to show Dane County officials and community members that we care about elephants and do not wish to be a part of their captivity, loneliness, and oh so sad lives.

Although the decision to ban elephant acts has been postponed, we will not give up hope that Dane County will do the right thing and join people from all over the world in saying "No more elephants in the circus."

Print your own sign. Take a glamor photo (alone or with companions) holding our sign and add your name, your city, your district, your profession - whatever you feel comfortable with and email it to us at alliance@allanimals.org.

We will collect all of the photos and post them on our website and on other publications for this campaign. Send your sign to alliance@allanimals.org.

 

Send County Executive Joe Parisi a Mothers' Day Card

It's almost Mother's Day. Nothing is more heartless than tearing a wailing baby elephant away from her mother for the sole purpose of entertainment. But that's what happened to most circus elephants when they were "trained" to perform their whole lives for humans.

Please print out and send Dane County Executive Parisi this Mother's Day card to remind him that elephant acts are not the Dane County Way and that we should ban elephant acts from Dane County venues.

Print out this card and mail it to Mr. Parisi at this address:
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi
City County Building, Room 421
210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Madison, WI 53703

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