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Urgent: Help Kill Plan to Imprison Dogs for Blood

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A man named Jonathan Wilson has requested to keep and bleed numerous dogs on a property near Danville, Kansas. The Harper County Board of Commissioners will vote on the application on September 8. Please urge the Board to vote “no” on it.

Wilson is neither a licensed veterinarian nor a registered veterinary technician in Kansas, prompting concerns about his qualifications to provide adequate care for dogs, take blood from their jugular veins, and more. A PETA undercover investigation of a crude animal blood bank in Indiana that warehouses hundreds of dogs and cats in kennels and crowded pens for life found that its workers removed stray animals off the streets—and even answered ads seeking homes for unwanted animals, offering to give them a “good home”—only to put them in cages and bleed them until they died.

Harper County shouldn’t expose its residents and their beloved companion animals to this shady, secretive and unregulated industry. And given the success of community-based blood banks (which obtain blood from animals who live in loving homes), there’s no need to imprison dogs the way Wilson desires to do in Harper County.

Please urge the Harper County Board of Commissioners to protect dogs from being caged and bled their entire lives by voting “no” on Wilson’s request.

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Brian

Waldschmidt

Harper County, KS

Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

Jonathan Wilson’s request to bleed approximately 100 dogs on a property near Danville raises significant animal welfare concerns—and risks to county residents. I respectfully request that you deny this request.

Neither federal nor Kansas law addresses the animal blood banking industry or the many ways in which it compromises animal welfare and safety. Approving this request will pave the way for a business that will not be subject to any manner of oversight or inspection and surely operate in secrecy. And given the success in Kansas and elsewhere of community-based blood banks (which obtain blood from animals who live in loving homes), there’s no need to imprison dogs the way Wilson desires to do in Harper County.

PETA has extensive experience investigating this largely unregulated industry across the U.S., with each investigation revealing animal suffering and welfare concerns. PETA’s undercover investigation of an Indiana animal blood bank similar to that which Wilson proposes for your community found that workers removed stray animals off the streets—and even answered ads seeking homes for unwanted animals, offering to give them a “good home”—only to put them in cages and bleed them until they died. Harper County shouldn’t expose its residents and their beloved companion animals to that risk.

Respectfully, I urge you to deny Wilson’s request to operate a captive dog bleeding business. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
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