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AR group API responds to cobras allegations
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by tigers9 on May 23, 2008
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http://www.api4animals.org/weblog.php?p=1661&more=1
Born Free USA Blog:
An example of bad journalism
Published 05/23/08
By Zibby Wilder, Director of Public Relations
I have been receiving calls this morning prompted by an incredibly ridiculous story on WITN News in North Carolina that claims our group released two dangerous Monocled cobras on a road somewhere in North Carolina because we “want to make it illegal for people to own exotic animals and uses such tactics to raise awareness.”
These unfounded claims made by WITN, and apparently some unnamed “officials,” are not only an example of bad journalism (not citing sources, making unfounded and slanderous claims, not bothering to call the organization you are accusing — or responding to their attempts to contact you), they are great examples of how great a need the state has for regulation of dangerous wild animals.
WITN’s story mentions the fact that officials found a flyer stating someone had lost the snakes. Well, if someone was keeping two of the most dangerous venomous reptiles in conditions where they were able to escape and go for a tour of the countryside, wouldn’t it be logical that this person would be responsible for putting the safety of the community at risk — rather than pointing a limp finger at a well-respected animal advocacy group based more than 2,500 miles away? Shouldn’t people have the right to know that such animals are being kept by hobbyists in their neighborhoods? Shouldn’t the injuries, and even deaths, of people (particularly children) at the hands of people who improperly keep dangerous wild animals in North Carolina have already pushed legislators to take notice of the situation?
Obviously, this misguided hoax has turned the way they usually do — against the perpetrator. Whoever planted such a ridiculous story is only making it obvious, yet again, that the state needs to regulate ownership of dangerous wild animals such as venomous reptiles. If there truly are Monocled cobras that someone set loose somewhere in North Carolina, I am amazed someone would put people, not to mention the animals, at such great risk for nothing more than their own selfish desires.
Zibby
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by tigers9 on May 23, 2008
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Some info from 2006 on API tactics
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http://www.thefcf.com/press/API.asp?key=393
Animal Rights Group Secretly Films Exotic Animal Owners and Fails to Document Injuries Or Escapes
The Feline Conservation Federation notes that the API undercover investigation documented no real danger to the public and produced an edited video that carefully avoids depicting human/animal interaction in a positive light.
In the summer and fall of 2005 the Animal Protection Institute undercover operatives investigated the danger associated with the keeping of exotic animals.
During a three month period dozens of pet owners and USDA licensed exhibitors in three states were targeted for their expose'.
According to this animal rights organization lobbying to prohibit the keeping of exotic animals, "Across the United States millions of exotic animals are kept captive" and they "pose grave dangers to human health and safety".
The API goal was to use hidden cameras and edit the footage to make owners and animals appear dangerous and use it to further animal rights propaganda.
To accomplish this task two API investigators posed as European exotic animal owners wanting to visit the US. They struck up Internet friendships on various exotic animal chat lists.
Many in the exotic animal community graciously shared their animals with the travelers. Owners spoke candidly and gave their colleagues 'insider' tours to make their visit memorable.
The selectively edited footage in this API expose' is combined with ominous music and dubbed voice-overs to manipulate the viewer and give false impressions.
For example, the video depicts a very friendly bobcat leaping onto the owner's shoulders for affection, but the narrator described the interaction as an attack.
In another instance, the guests were given a tour of a large primate enclosure, but chose to only show footage of a lemur visibly upset at their presence, as the narrator criticizes the small enclosure that contained it. API failed to truthfully explain that the lemur was only being temporarily isolated for treatment of a medical condition.
Mostly what the video illustrated was the API philosophical objection to love and trust shared between people and exotic animals.
Despite these two activists being exposed to more exotic animals and having more close encounters with them during several months of travel than the average person has in their lifetime, none of the API investigators were injured and no escapes or serious mishaps occurred.
The Feline Conservation Federation is the nation's original non-profit organization dedicated to responsible captive husbandry. FCF notes that API has done a groundbreaking investigation and produced an edited video that carefully avoids depicting human/animal interaction in a positive light.
What is especially apparent is that the API video effort failed in its mission to uncover and document public injury or animal escapes.
June 2006
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by sloblk8 on May 24, 2008
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Yeah thats what I would do. Ask the group being accused if they did it because they would tell you the truth if they actually let 2 cobras loose right. With a name like zibby I wouldn't expect less than a stupid post like that.
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by sloblk8 on May 24, 2008
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And what the hell does bad journalism have to do with exotic animal regulations or bans? Not that I'm a genius but if she is the smart one in the bunch WOW. Any person with some sense can see how they/she is trying to use anything and everything she can to get her way even if it makes no sense at all. What a tool. The really sad thing is there are people that praise her and buy her/their crap.
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