Dear Friends and Supporters,

This is Part III of our 2016 Year-in-Review. Please click HERE to read the full mailer we've sent out, and HERE to watch our hard-hitting year-end video.

We implore you to share this email with all your friends and all those who care about animals. Please let them know that the animals need a hard-working group like SHARK and that we need financial support to keep fighting for them.

Please Click Here to Donate to SHARK so That We May Continue to Fight for Animals!

 

 

SHARK Scores Major Victories Against the Philadelphia Gun Club!

 

Pigeon Shooter’s Lawsuit Dismissed!

 

SHARK has been fighting against cruel live pigeon shoots held at the notorious Philadelphia Gun Club since late 2009. Over the years we have saved dozens of innocent victims and documented unspeakable cruelty at the club that has changed the way the public looks at pigeon shoots. In retaliation, the wealthy members of the gun club filed federal and state lawsuits against us, to harass and drain our resources.

The federal lawsuit targeted not only SHARK but five of our investigators by name. We contended that the lawsuit was baseless and the federal judge hearing the case agreed! The judge threw out the lawsuit before it went to trial, stating that the charges that we violated federal law were “sheer conjecture” and unsupported by any evidence. This was a legal victory where David stood against Goliath and won!

One of the many victims of the Philadelphia Gun Club that we rescued. Pigeon shoots are killing for the sake of killing with pleasure taken from the spilling of innocent blood
 
Do you know why the pigeon shooters sued us and no one else? Because SHARK is the only group that has continually shut down pigeon shoots and saved lives. They fear us because they know how effective we are. Indeed, we know that lawsuit was part of a larger effort by the pigeon shooting community to try to stop us from fighting any pigeon shoots in Pennsylvania. We stood up to the pigeon shooting bullies and won!

Even though we just handed the pigeon shooters a commanding defeat in court, they are once again threatening multiple lawsuits against us. They have neither the moral nor legal high ground, but they have money, and they are willing to use that money to harass us and try to hurt us.
 
Historic Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Against Pigeon Shoot Worker
 
 
On January 30, 2016, SHARK filmed a worker at the Philadelphia Gun Club torturing wounded pigeons used in a live pigeon shoot. We sent our video to the Bensalem Police who, with our help, discovered the torturer was a 17-year-old boy from New Jersey. The torturer was charged with committing animal cruelty to which he plead guilty. This is a historic and long overdue event in the fight against pigeon shoots!
 

 
 

Our mission now, with your help, is to take this victory to the next step and prove that all pigeon shoots in PA violate existing law and should be shut down. This isn’t going to be easy, as pro-pigeon shoot organizations such as the NRA are spending a great deal of time and resources to protect pigeon shooters, but SHARK has never shied away from tough battles to save lives and we won’t do that now either!

 

Watch THIS video to understand the abject cruelty committed at a pigeon shoot held at the Philadelphia Gun Club, and why we have fought so hard to stop them.

 

SHARK Exposes the Myth of California’s “Happy Cows

 

Top: News coverage of SHARK’s campaign to expose the cruelty of California’s dairy farms. Bottom: Dead cows on a dairy farm

According to the California Milk Advisory Dairy Board, their cows live happy lives. SHARK's video showing cows slugging through muck with dead cows piled on top of each other destroyed that myth.

SHARK went to California to document what dairy farms are really like. This was important for cows suffer terribly on dairy farms and the public needs to be aware of the truth, and not have the truth white-washed by false advertising.

The dairy farmers, just like other animal abusers we have encountered, were angry that we were documenting their cruelty. One farm worker drove his Jeep right at us, while a Stanislaus County Sheriff’s deputy watched and did nothing, even after he was asked to do his job. Once again, cruelty and corruption go hand in hand, but it will never deter us from our mission.

 

Barnyard "Scramble" Cruelty Stopped

 

 

2016 was the third year that SHARK sent investigators to the Martinsville Scramble, in Martinsville, Illinois. Although this is still a ridiculous affair, and the cruelty has not completely ended, our pressure, and our documentation, has resulted in a marked reduction in violence and abuse. Children and adults still chase, but no longer jump on or tackle animals. Rabbits and chicks are no longer held by their ears or necks. Piglets are no longer carried upside down by their legs.

 

Thank to SHARK's hard work, this doesn't happen anymore
 
While we want to continue to monitor this event, and hope for its ultimate demise, we have come a long way, and simply need to be able to keep up the pressure.
 

All the victories and ground-breaking campaigns we have shown you in this email, and that we will show you in forthcoming ones, would be impossible if not for your generous support. The truth is, we need that support right now. Our funds are almost gone. There is only enough money to pay for our investigators for a few months, then it’s over.

SHARK has only four full-time investigators who work day and night fighting for animals, and I mean that literally. You will find no more dedicated servants for the animals anywhere and the amount of work we do with so few people humbles me. I’m willing to bet that if you add all of their salaries (I am and have always been unpaid) it will come in under what one top executive of one of the big corporate animal groups rakes in every year. No where else will you find better value for your donation than with SHARK.

I believe in SHARK and our mission. That’s why I implore you to reach out to every one you know, show them what we do, and ask them to help us continue our vital work. I truly appreciate all that you have done for SHARK in the past, and I sincerely hope you will support us so that 2017 may bring even greater victories for the animals we all care about so much.

For the Animals,

Steve Hindi
Founder and President

Please either mail a check to: SHARK at P.O. Box 28 Geneva, IL 60134 or click here to donate online

 

When we come across animals in need, we don't turn away - we take action. When we saw an injured goose in distress, we rescued her, and named her Cloe. When we saw a family of ducklings fall into a sewer, we worked until we rescued every single one of them and got them back to their mother. Now we need your help so we can continue to fight and save lives, just as we did these animals