Queenie Needs Your Help More Than Ever!
May 12th, 2010 | 
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Urge Senate Agriculture Committee to investigate USDA’s role in sending her to inadequate zoo
After a lifetime of abuse in the circus industry, and over the objections of IDA, elephant experts, and thousands of caring citizens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) orchestrated the transfer of the elephant Queenie last month to the San Antonio Zoo, as part of a settlement with abusive circus handler Will Davenport. There, she joins the misnamed Lucky, who has spent nearly her entire life confined in an outdated and inadequate pen unfit for one elephant, much less two.
IDA sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, which oversees the USDA, urging a full investigation into the agency’s actions in brokering Queenie’s transfer to San Antonio. The letter details the highly unusual conditions of the settlement, financial pressure exerted on Davenport to send Queenie to the zoo, and approval of a facility that does not provide the specialized rehabilitative care Queenie needs.
What you can do:
Please join us in urging the Senate committee to launch an investigation by taking a quick moment to send a fax to Committee Chair Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Ranking Member Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA).
Please follow up with a phone call. This is especially important if you live in these senators’ districts.
Sen. Lincoln: 202-224-4843
Sen. Chambliss: 202-224-3521
You can also call the Senate Committee’s main office at (202) 224-2035
Please continue to call USDA Secretary Vilsack’s office and tell him of your dismay over Queenie’s situation. You may be directed to another number but please follow through – it’s vital that the Secretary knows the widespread concern over Queenie is not dying down. Phone: (202) 720-3631
Queenie has endured many decades of intense confinement, abusive training, constant travel and neglect, and she is entitled to a true retirement in a sanctuary that can provide the stable environment and care she needs. Please don’t hesitate; send your fax today!
Posted in Animals in Entertainment, Elephants, Featured News, Wildlife | 
Tags: Circus, Elephants, Endangered Species, Exotic Animals, Government, Legal, Texas, Zoos
7 Responses to “Queenie Needs Your Help More Than Ever!”
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please help Queenie to have a safe and happy life
Hi there,
I live in Canada. What can I do to help.
Thanks
I almost didn’t click on send a fax because I don’t have a fax machine… please rewrite this so that people know all they have to do is fill out the online form… people may not click onto the form if they think they need a fax machine to send this letter. Thank you.
I urge everyone who reads this to send this fax to the Senate Agriculture Committee. Even if you have e-mailed them within the past two weeks, please send this fax. We must bombard them with thousands of faxes to get their attention and let them know that the public is outraged at this obvious case of govenmental collusion with the zoo industry. There is nothing subtle about this case. The USDA clearly brokered this deal that sent Queenie to “Palookaville” in San Antonio. C’mon everyone. Let’s sock it to ‘em!
Please, feel a little empaty with this suffering animal. The best is to send her to a sanctuary, not to a zoo to be confined!!!
Lets tweeit it #HelpQueenie
Hasn’t Queenie suffered enough!? How can you in good conscience send her to a zoo that is inadequate? how about we send you there to stay!
Please save the beautiful elephant, Queenie. She needs to be retired to a sancutary for animals.
She has earned the right! Please listen to the Will of the American people.
Protect and save Queenie – retire her to a real sanctuary.
Thank you.