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Have a Heart: Sign Valentine’s Day Cards to Help Free Rocky the Coyote & Spur the Tortoise

Have a Heart: Sign Valentine’s Day Cards to Help Free Rocky the Coyote & Spur the Tortoise

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For Activist Appreciation Month, we're highlighting activists who are members of other species, like Rocky the coyote and Spur the tortoise who represent all animals languishing in captivity. Sign our cards to help liberate these animal activists from their prisons for Valentine's Day. With your help, we will hand-deliver oversized cards with a compelling plea for freedom to their captors!

Many months ago we joined the Chicago Alliance for Animals in its campaigns to free Spur and Rocky from the cruel confines of captivity in Illinois. Spur is an African Sulcata tortoise who was taken from the wild more than 30 years ago and she has been languishing in a tiny, tiled enclosure inside the window of The Animal Store in Lincolnwood ever since. Rocky is a coyote who was mistaken for a German Shepherd puppy and was then transferred to the River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook where he has been kept alone in a small, shabby enclosure for more than four years.

For Valentine's Day this year, and as part of our annual Activist Appreciation Month in February, we are calling on you to sign Valentine's cards written in the perspectives of Spur and Rocky to champion their freedom. The Chicago Alliance for Animals will then deliver the oversized printed cards to the Lincolnwood Trustees for Spur and the president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners for Rocky.

In Defense of Animals
Denise Katz lovingly provided the beautiful artwork that will appear on the front of each of the cards.

Help us give voice to Spur and Rocky and put pressure on Lincolnwood and Cook Counties to make ethical decisions and send them both to sanctuary! Desert Oasis Turtle & Tortoise Sanctuary in Arizona would love to provide a forever home for Spur and The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado hopes to provide a forever home for Rocky.

 

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