A Day at the Shelter

[Ivana Olson]

Your links were broken. I turned them into smaller links via TinyUrl.com.. 
so hopefully this will be better..

Article - http://tinyurl.com/hxnkd

Slideshow - http://tinyurl.com/j2695


I will pass it on to my other groups.. thanks!

-Ivana

----Original Message Follows----
From: Pam Racich <windsorcastle at cox.net>
Reply-To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info
To: ccd discuss <central-city-discuss at gcna.info>
Subject: A Day at the Shelter
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:54:27 -0700



In a world of big important stories about Irag or the bird flu or  Britney 
Spears, some of the important smaller stories often get lost.  "A Day at the 
Shelter" is an important story written and photographed  by my friend 
Sherrie Buzby, a photojournalist at The Arizona Republic.  Many of us have 
no clue how many hundreds of animals must be euthanized  daily just in 
Phoenix due to the irresponsibility and ignorance of many  supposedly "pet 
loving" owners – and statistics show the problem seems  to be getting much, 
much worse. However, it is also a story about the  humanity of the AHS 
workers in their daily struggle to save animals and  not lose hope.

Here are direct links to the article and the slide show about this  growing 
problem and the hundreds-of-thousands of innocent animals who  must pay the 
ultimate price for our sometimes reckless vanity. 

*Note that the newspaper is a business that keeps track of hits on  stories 
and pictures, so if this receives a lot of traffic it will  influence their 
editorial choice of whether or not to cover this issue  more extensively in 
the future. Click early and click often, and don't  be shy about forwarding 
it to others. It might help spread the word and  actually influence the news 
process:

A Day at the Shelter (Article)
<http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0628phx- 
humane0628Z3.html>

Slide show
<http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/slideshowx.php? 
ssid=3976&slide_nbr=1&HTTP_REFERER=http://www.azcentral.com/community/ 
phoenix/articles/0628phx-humane0628Z3.html>

-- Michael J. Novack

"Everybody wants to save the earth;
nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."

-- P.J. O'Rourke