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Stamps To The Rescue

by Mr. Ed — Read all 1,530 poems by Mr. Ed

Tuesday, May 4, 2010


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From Oil-Ravaged Wildlife, To Our Abused Pets;

There’s So Much Work, For All Of Us, To Do Yet.

 

 

“These stamps continue a Postal Service tradition

Of bringing attention to social issues of the day,

One letter at a time.”

 

Jack Potter,

Postmaster General

 

 

A brand new series of U.S. postal stamps

Featuring American pets, is available, today

Five Canines and Five Felines, all now adopted

Please purchase some of these stamps, right away

 

Every year now, about 8 million pets, enter shelters

And so tragically, less than half of them, are adopted

The rest, through no fault of their own, are euthanized

We as a nation, must promote more pet adoptions, instead

 

We must also promote, the spaying and neutering of U.S. pets

And, we as a nation, must stop patronizing Puppy Mill pet stores

The millions of abused, abandoned, and homeless pets of America

Are truly deserving of being disrespected by our vast nation, no more

 

During the launch of this new series of stamps promoting American pet adoptions

The Halo Pet Food Company is donating one million meals to U.S. shelter animals

Please ask every dog and cat lover that you know, to purchase some of these stamps

To spay and neuter their own pets, and to stop purchasing pets at U.S. shopping malls

 

Jake, the adorable Boston Terrier, pictured on one of the stamps above

Was purchased at a pet store, and very quickly ‘dumped’ by his family

Peaches, the grey and white cat, was born under a cat’s owner’s porch

Who refused to spay his own cat; then ran off her kittens, so mercilessly

 

We cat and dog lovers in America, now truly yearn for a new era in our nation

In which, every truly deserving feline and canine born here, has a loving home

We will never be able to accomplish this, without new nationwide ‘Pet Respect’

Please help us, help them; we want to end our never ending animal cruelty poems

 

 

Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet is the Postal Service's 2010 ‘Social Awareness’ Stamp.

Past social awareness stamps have highlighted such important issues as children's health, literacy, breast cancer awareness, organ and tissue donation, philanthropy, and Alzheimer's awareness.

 

Please Pet Adopt – Please Don’t Shop;

 

Please Spay and Neuter Your Very Own Pets;

 

Please Purchase Some of These Shelter Pet Stamps;

 

Please Help Us, To Help Them, Have Much Better Lives.

 

 

©2010, Mr. Ed

 
      Stamps To The Rescue



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Reviewed by Star Fire (Reader)
Reviewed on May 5, 2010
I agree totally, but I think you should check with Regis on this. ;')

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on May 5, 2010
great idea!

Reviewed by Christine Alwin
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
My next roll I can assure you!

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
You fly the flag wonderfully again, Ed, with compassion and awareness...there may not be the same interest and use of stamps as there used to be but that the post office prints this lovely series is commendable... as is your sharing.

John

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
What a great way to raise awareness!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
Cool stamps for a cool idea! I'm buyin' Patrick

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
Great idea and the more awareness the better...
fee

Reviewed by Annabel Sheila
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
What an awesome way to raise awareness about this horrific problem....great job, Ed! You rock!!!!

Anna

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
What a great way to 'stamp' out needless abuse and neglect.

Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
Yeah, I have to agree with the oldest brother, I hardly EVER use stamps anymore, all my bills, what I can pay, are done so on-line so stamps are not worth much anymore, but I will buy them just in case anyway...ed

PS: would love to go the the Gulf coast and help the animals there though the problem is lack of funds...gas & living arrangements down there and all would be my problem...clean a bird or two for me...though NJ "may" see some of the problem what with the oil getting into the gulf stream, eventually...Jersey

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on May 4, 2010
Sorry about raining on anyone's parade, but on this age of e-mails, letters are so seldom, as seldom as people adopting instead of buying pets.
Go figure.

Georg



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