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From: Arthur R. McKendry

"Metropolitan Property and Casualty" discriminates against Doberman owners by dropping home coverage without any pre-warning. Yesterday I received a check in the mail from them. It only had the word "CANCELLATION" printed in a remarks section. After a call to our agent, he said it was due to "a substantial change of risk" because we have three Doberman Pinchers and a Cocker Spaniel. We have also never had an insurance claim against us period. Let alone because of one of our dogs.

If you like dogs and enjoy their companionship then you should certainly be upset by the movement in this country by large corporations to take away your freedom to choose your companions, or even to have any pets at all. Find out what their policies are and plan on finding alternative providers to companies that are prejudicial against responsible dog owners.

Please join me and avoid using any MET products or services in an effort to send the message that this type of discrimination should not be tolerated any more than discrimination against religion, race or creed.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office
One Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010
(212) 578-2211,
M-F, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
or 1-800-METLIFE
info@metlife.com

Greyhound BusLine Won't Support Rescue!

Thousands and thousands of greyhounds are destroyed each year because they are too slow, or become injured at the race track. The lucky ones get adopted. We need to encourage people to support adoption of ex-racing greyhounds. They make sweet, devoted pets. We are asking Greyhound Bus Lines, which has been using live greyhounds in its television ads, and photographs of greyhounds on its website to promote itself; to step up and support greyhound adoption. So far, they have refused, saying it does not match with their corporate giving policy. They will not even include a link to one of the groups promoting greyhound adoption on the web page!

Please write to Greyhound Bus Lines and tell them to support greyhound adoption. Be sure to include your name, city and state, as they will ignore anonymous e-mails. And actually, please send a fax or letter if you can - it's harder for them to hit the -delete- key!

Greyhound

E-mail: custserv@greyhound.com
Fax: 972-789-7234
Mail:
Greyhound Lines Inc.
Ralph J. Borland, VP Marketing
PO Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266-0362

Send them something similar to this sample
letter or write your own!

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Dear Greyhound Lines;
Please support the adoption of retired racing
greyhounds. These dogs need help to find their way into loving homes. Greyhound Bus Lines can help by putting a link on their website to one of the national greyhound adoption referral groups, such as:

The Greyhound Project, www.adopt-a-greyhound.org; or numbers for National Greyhound Adoption Network, 800-446-8637 (800-G-HOUNDS) or Greyhound Pets of America, 800-366-1472 on print or TV advertising. The pictures of cute greyhounds on the website, and the TV ads help to show people what an attractive dog the greyhound is. Please help by directing interested people to groups that can tell them about the fine qualities of greyhounds as pets, and how to adopt one. Greyhound Lines uses greyhound dogs to promote itself, we’d like you to give a little promotion backto the dogs! Thank you,

Signature, Name, City, State