PLEASE HELP SHIRE Boycott

Please help Shire by boycotting McCains products

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In brief:

The deWeerd family moved from Ontario to the village of Florenceville, NB with their elderly Rottweiler named Shire. Shire is a therapy dog. The deWeerds did everything right before moving; they asked the Florenceville village clerk if the village had breed specific legislation and she said no. The deWeerds purchased and received a dog license for Shire; the application specified Shire's breed. Contrary to the village clerk's statements, Florenceville does have breed specific legislation. However, the village council doesn't impose its breed specific legislation on the two Rottweilers living there that belong to "old families". The Florenceville village council has issued a warrant for Shire's death, and Shire has been moved into hiding to save her life.

The village mayor and council refuse to answer or even acknowledge any correspondence on the matter of Shire.

Shire is upset and lonely without her owners. She is elderly, and this relocation is stressing her greatly. Shire has done nothing to deserve a death sentence. If the deWeerds had been correctly advised by the village clerk, they would not have moved to Florenceville.

McCains Foods, the primary employer in Florenceville and the employer of one of Shire's owners, was asked to approach council to discuss the matter, and has refused. You and I know that the primary employer in a one-horse town has significant power. McCains' refusal to approach council on behalf of responsible owners and their unoffending dog, and Florenceville's refusal to lift its unfounded and unjust death sentence on Shire, precipitated by the village clerk's gross errors in stating there was no breed specific legislation and then issuing a dog license for Shire, leave me with the only course of action which I have already started.

I ask you to join me in a boycott of McCains and subsidiary products, and I ask that you write McCains to advise them that you are boycotting their products until Shire's unfounded and unjust death sentence is lifted and she is allowed to live out her days with her owners in Florenceville.

Please boycott all McCains, Maple Leaf, Dempsters, Oliveri, Hygrade (in Quebec), Burns, Shopsys, Tenderflake, Nutriwhip, California Goldminer Sourdough, Maison Cousin, Canada Bread, Olafson’s, POM and Ben’s products, and write a note to McCains on their contact page -

McCain Retail - Contact Us
http://www.mccain.com/mc_contact_form.htm
to let them know you will not purchase any of these products until Shire's death sentence is lifted.

Boycotting frozen french fries, pizza, desserts and beverages...changing from supermarket meats to local butcher meats....changing your brand of bread....these are not big steps for an individual to take. But if we all take these steps, we can use our consumer power to let a global conglomerate know our disappointment with their lack of response, and let a village council know our disapproval of its action in imposing an unfounded and unjust death sentence on a dog that has done no wrong.