Alert

June 5, 2009

Elephants emaciated, chained and wounded

Thanks to the help of a concerned local citizen, IDA has located Tina, Jewel and Queenie in Loves Park, IL, where they were trucked over 1,000 miles from their home base in Leggett, Texas. After spending at least 20 hours locked and crammed into a trailer meant for two elephants, the three elephants were unloaded to reveal their shockingly debilitated condition. They are scheduled to perform today and through the weekend in the Shrine Circus.

Tina and Jewel are both severely underweight, and Jewel is particularly debilitated, emaciated, sporting wounds on her head and favoring her front left foot. All three elephants are chained with extremely short tethers to the truck - a situation that previously led to the near capsizing of the trailer onto the elephants during a fight.

IDA has informed the USDA of the elephants' whereabouts and once again demanded their confiscation.

Please send a link to this alert and these photographs to your representatives in Congress and your Senators. (Locate your elected representatives via our website. Please urge them to demand that the USDA take action to rescue these elephants by sending them to The Elephant Sanctuary before it is too late. Also email Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to once again to demand that he direct his agency to confiscate these elephants before they perish on his watch. AgSec@usda.gov.

For more information on Tina, Jewel and Queenie's plight, see http://helpelephants.com/tina_jewel_and_queenie.html

Tina looking depressed and underweight	Queenie straining at her leg chain
Jewel favoring an injured or painful foot	Queenie and Jewel looking emaciated and ill