Fwrd: Kei the Wolf: Action Message

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Sender would like to you to learn about Kei and how you can help. Please read

the letter below.

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Forwarded Message:

Subj: KEI THE WOLF: ACTION MESSAGE

3/20/05 4:36:39 AM Eastern Standard Time

greg_leis

Received from Internet: click here for more information

 

 

20 Mar., 2005

 

For those who want to read the New Address first, please scroll down.

 

 

Topic:

Kei is a 12 year old female North American Eastern Timber Wolf who has

lived virtually her entire life on a 7 x 4 meter concrete slab in

almost total isolation from others of her species at the Okinawa City

Kodomo no Kuni Zoo in Okinawa, Japan. There she is routinely barked

and howled at and spends most of her time pacing in the hot

sub-tropical climate of Okinawa. Please do some of the actions below to

help us get her released and back to a wolf sanctuary in North America

so that she can live out her last years of life in a more peaceful

setting, giving her the dignity she deserves.

 

Actions To Take:

 

Please spread Kei`s Official Web Site amongst those you know and groups

or chats you belong to. Just ask them to take a moment to read a few

things about her and to consider joining her campaign. Direct them to

http://www.keithewolf.com/

 

Soon after this Action Message is received by everyone, you will also

get the “Count-Up: Watching Kei Dieâ€. Please re-title that and send to

the zoo, whose e-mail address is found in that message.

 

Don`t forget that Kei`s birthday, April 4th, is fast approaching.

Please take a moment to send a birthday card to her with a brief

message. Ask others that you know to do also. Be sure to make sure

you have the correct postage for the international rate. I think in

the U.S. it is 80 cents but in any case, please double check. At Kei`s

web site there are some pre-made cards available if you want to print

them out and fold them yourself. Or just buy your own.

 

You may want to include a printed page from the petition in with your

card. Many of the statements on the petition are quite passionate.

 

Send her card to:

 

Kei the Wolf

Kodomo no Kuni Zoo

5-7-1 Goya,

Okinawa City, Okinawa Pref.,

Japan

 

Some people have expressed concern that if the zoo personel see that it

is for Kei, they may just throw it away. If you are worried that that

may happen to your card, then please address it to either Yoshinobu

Nishikawa, Executive Administrator, -- or -- Genwa Higa, Zoo Director,

instead of Kei. Once they open it however, they will see that it is

for Kei.

 

Address and Update:

 

Hello Everyone,

 

Welcome all new supporters.

 

Kei`s status, sad to say, is still unchanged. But as stubborn as the

zoo is, so am I, and hopefully many of you are also with me on her

campaign until we get her out.

 

Kei`s web site is always being made better by Sam, our webmaster based

in the U.K. . Through his connections he has been able to get a flash

animation of Kei up on the main page. That actually is a silouette of

Kei pacing. My wife took that short of Kei pacing about 5 months ago

and after sending it to Sam he had a contact of his make the flash out

of it. You can see the mundane existence Kei lives in and get a feel

for how small her cage is.

 

Right now the flash animation of her is still in the process of being

made better. So check back once in a while and see how it evolves.

 

Also, in the gallery there have been a few more pics of Kei added. In

one picture you can actually see the dining room size patch of dirt Kei

had that the zoo proudly pointed to the fact that her enclosure wasn`t

ALL concrete. Kind of pethetic that they would point to that to try

and say she isn`t living on concrete.

 

Another addition to the site is the Star Supporter page. This is for

those who go the extra distance by doing something other than internet

actions. Presently, on that page you will find a bulletin board that a

classroom of kids made at their school and some handwritten letters

from the kids to the zoo officials. A few nice handdrawn pics as well.

Keep in mind, that page isn`t for kids only. If you do something

extra by creating something, then please let me or Sam know so that we

can try to highlight it. Please do share it because it could help to

inspire others.

 

Kei`s signatures on her petition have just went over the 8,100 mark.

Be sure to spread her petition around at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Earle2

 

Don`t forget, if you have kids and or a teacher of very young kids who

love animals, you can also download some pics of Kei for coloring to

send to the zoo from Kim Petersen`s site. Crayon colored pictures are

quite innocent and often have the power to pull at the heart. Here is

the link to those pics:

http://www.freewebs.com/voices4animals/kidsforkei.htm

 

Some of you may want to check out Cindy`s Care2Connect page for Kei.

It has a support network of nearly 200 people and many have posted

some interesting comments about, for, and to Kei:

http://www.freewebs.com/voices4animals/kidsforkei.htm

Actually, Cindy is going to print out every comment on that site and

send it to the zoo in a pink and red wrapped ribbon on March 25th. So,

if you would like your comments to go along in her package, please post

on her site a few times. BUT PLEASE, even if you do that knowing that

that will be sent to the zoo, PLEASE DO send a seperate birthday card

yourself to Kei. It is realy important that the zoo gets the mailbox

stuffed not with only one wrapped package, but with many individual

cards.

 

That`s it for now. Thank you all so much for not only the help with

Kei, but also the help with the many other animals issues I have come

to know a lot of you are working on.

 

As always, contact me anytime.

 

Greg

Okinawa, Japan

 

Organizer of The Campaign to Bring Kei Home

www.keithewolf.com

 

and

 

The Okinawa Zoo Action Project

www.okinawazap.com