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Cat General => Cat related Petitions => Topic started by: hels on September 30, 2007, 22:55:01 PM
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The Celia Hammond Animal Trust have been banned from entering the major part of the 800 acres that is to be the venue for the 2012 Olympic Games.
On site there are many stray domestic and feral cats trying to survive in what is a very dangerous demolition site. The picture above shows eight of the 147 cats the Trust rescued from the site before the ban was imposed.
Please help us get the ban lifted by signing our petition, for every day that passes more cats may die, being crushed in demolished buildings or from starvation, there is no escape for them as a huge wall now engulfs the site and the cats are trapped inside. To sign the petition go to
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/2012-olympic-site-cats-at-risk-of-starvation-and-death (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/2012-olympic-site-cats-at-risk-of-starvation-and-death)
We also urge cat lovers to email the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) direct asking them to lift the ban and allow the Trust back on site to continue the rescue project.
Thank You.
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signed, what a ridiculous ban :censored: :P
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Signed. And I agree with Puplehaze.
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We have this petition running on two threads and I signed it when it first appeared on Purrs.
Please sign it cos there is no reason why these cats cannot be saved.
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Signed, its outrageous :(
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signed ... absolutely disgusting.
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This is an urgent one – please sign the petition against the persecution of cats on the London Olympic site.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/2012-olympic-site-cats-at-risk-of-starvation-and-death
Some of you may not be aware of the enormous opposition Celia Hammond is facing from the authorities on the Olympic site. You can all help her by signing the petition, she desperately needs as many signatures as possible. The story is this: A very long time ago when it was learned that the site at Stratford, East London,was to be developed for the Olympics, Celia quickly realised that such sites would be teeming with homeless cats. She contacted them re trapping the cats before work actually commenced, but they assured her there were no ( or hardly any cats) there, and they were handling it themselves. She was not convinced, but could not act without their permission. A couple of months ago she received a phone call from them one Tuesday, acknowledging that there were indeed a number of cats there, and was told that demolition work would commence the next day. If she wished to rescue the cats it would have to be that very night. Of course, this was an impossibility. Trapping cats, just a couple, can take many nights of patient waiting,observing and leaving out food to tempt them. She went that night, and was horrified to learn of the enormity of the problem, she quickly assessed there were many hundreds there. Consequently she asked for an extension of time, which was granted for just a couple of weeks, but much time had to be spent doing a safety course...not just Celia but a number of helpers.
Celia has spent every night out trapping, getting to bed towards 6 a.m every night (morning!!) and she is completely exhausted. To date she has rescued over 150, many of them now at the Canning Town centre where I am a volunteer. Mothers and little kittens. Cats and kittens coming out of our ears, one could say. But the blow delivered to Celia is that she is now forbidden to enter the site any more, and that the remaining hundreds of cats will have to face a terrible death. Celia needs as many people as possible to sign a petition that she can continue her good work till all cats are safe. So, please, please spare just a couple of minutes to sign her petition...a modest 1000 signatures is what she wants...but more than that would be even better. A letter to Ken Livingston, or whoever else might be of influence, would also be an enormous help.Tell all your friends and family...time is of the essence.
Go to www.celiahammond.org and click on to the petition.
Thanks very much to every person who does this.
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The petition now has over a thousand signatures.
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Sorry i didnt see this & just posted the same just now but cant see my post so i take it its been deleted lol :-:
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Oops! sorry if i stole your thunder raties :shy:
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Oops! sorry if i stole your thunder raties :shy:
erh?
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Its an english expression Rattie ;D
Must have been 80 sigs in the last two hours cos it was on 920 when I went out.
More more more please ;D
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Mmmm i didnt understand that ...ya know me being scottish an all that lol
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Yes LOL but you could search it in Wikipedia or what ever its called :rofl:
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Sorry i didnt see this & just posted the same just now but cant see my post so i take it its been deleted lol :-:
Nope Mags just merged it with the one Hels started. Its just below here.
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Its an english expression Rattie ;D
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/steal+someone's+thunder.html :evillaugh:
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Awww i seeee............says the blind man lol
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One of my trusty informants has told me that this petition HAS WORKED! Sky news report confirms Celia Hammond Animal Trust will be allowed back on site to rescue any remaiming cats and kittens:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1288224,00.html
Well done to all who signed, either from reading about it on Purrs and on CC - FANTASTIC RESULT!
Love & Purrs from Gemini Cat, xxxx
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That's fantastic news! For once we know these petitions do work!!!
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Great news ;D
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Absolutly brilliant ;D
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Wow! What a fantastic outcome ;D
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Good news and well done!
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I've noticed that " Your Cat " Magazine has been giving their plight a lot of prominance which must be good. ;D