This is amazing!

What a fantastic example of how an organized, dedicated group of people can achieve a very swift victory for the sake of the animals.

Now let's go after Geico next (they have apparently teamed up with "The Association of Zoos and Aquariums").

Posted by: Michele | January 24, 2008 01:57 PM

Their email makes it sound like they were already not sponsors. "Per our conversation today, we do not have a sponsorship," means that according to what they had already told you in a conversation that day, they were not sponsors. So had they already ended the sponsorship before you talked to them? Their email doesn't make any sense given that you say they didn't end the sponsorship until after you talked to them.

Posted by: Ashes | January 24, 2008 02:31 PM

I was up way too early,
But I sent it.
What I wrote down is that we have many, many freinds in the east, I think quite a few people wrote that also.
I was already calling friends to tell them about Lukoil
When at 1:28 pt PETA sent out
another alert saying WE DID IT.
I screamed at myself , what did we do?

This took from 8:22pt to 1:28pt. Not bad at all.
Peace!!!!!

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | January 24, 2008 02:36 PM

This is brilliant news, here in Ireland ARAN launched our Stop Circus Suffering in Ireland in 2005 with an undercover investigation into Irish circuses and thankfully our campaign is having a huge effect with attendence numbers literally dead in the water! Great news again PETA, you guys ROCK!!!!

Posted by: John Carmody | January 24, 2008 02:57 PM

This is great news! A lot of people/ companies dont know what happens behind closed doors or are just oblivious to animal cruelty. Knowledge is power!

Posted by: maeghan | January 24, 2008 03:51 PM

Oil :D

Posted by: Caboose | January 24, 2008 04:33 PM

OMG!

PETA is kicking some...butt...

:)

YAY!!

Posted by: Tamara | January 24, 2008 04:52 PM

I think 2008 is going to be a great year.

Posted by: K | January 24, 2008 08:01 PM

kickass says:

judith, your animal welfare friends aren't going to be happy with you!!! they don't mind animals in circuses!!! send them an apology letter!!!

Posted by: kickass | January 25, 2008 07:32 AM

YES! WE DID IT!!

(Does this make anyone else wanna sing the dora the explorer song called "we did it!"?
Thanks Lukoil!

Posted by: Amber Falobas | January 25, 2008 08:35 AM

asskick,
boy do you choose the wrong people to pick on. If you are seeking to endear yourself to hardliners then I suggest you stick to abusing AARA's like me and not the Judiths of this world. At least she exudes compassion, not bully-boy aggression. You'll probably get over that after puberty.

You appear to be under the impression that rights and welfare are mutually exclusive. All power to you, you have more effect on support for animal liberation than I could ever hope to accomplish through truth and reason.

Read that last sentence slowly and carefully, and if you still don't understand just start by:

asskick asks rojo...

I look forward to your next informative and constructive post.
Yes I know playing with your psuedonym is juvenile, it's just to RYBP for extra performance.

Posted by: rojo | January 25, 2008 08:24 PM

This is GOOD NEWS:)
Keep up the good work! I am starting to see a day without the circus in our near future:)

Posted by: Dana | January 26, 2008 11:20 AM

kickass returns!!!!

rojo, kickass says: you are a backwards oxy-moron!!!
!!!!norom-yxo sdrawkcab a era ouy,ojor

kickass/asskick is not out to endear!!!!
AARA rojo is on the wrong site!!!!
AARA rojo is not a peta member!!!
AARA rojo does not donate to peta!!!
AARA rojo is for humane slaughter!!!!
AARA rojo eats dead animals!!!
what the hell do you know about compassion, oxy-moron???
tying all together: whose nads did you borrow to mouth off, little boy????
get your head straight: go to a AARA site to air your farts!!!!

Posted by: kickass | January 30, 2008 12:04 PM

wow asskick, it took you 5 days to come up with that? Your mastery of the english language knows no bounds, I never would have thought of writing a whole sentence backwards. What exactly was the effect you were trying to acheive?

Assuming I take joy irritating obnoxious bullies, then I would say I was on the right site. Everything else you say is true. Did you figure that all out by yourself or did mummy help.

Constuctive and informative as expected, glad you could spare the time to reply!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: rojo | January 31, 2008 06:22 PM

ROTFLMAO - Rojo, I think we'd better lay off kickass, he looks like he's having a stroke or seizure or something! ;)

Posted by: Maya, C.V.T. | February 1, 2008 11:53 AM

maya, yes i was thinking that last night as i went to sleep, it is easy to push someone so close to the edge over it. A poignant reminder.

cheers

Posted by: rojo | February 2, 2008 12:15 AM

Rojo and Maya, that's okay, fortunately I think kickass broke his "!" and "?", and possibly his "shift" keys on his keyboard - I could practically hear the pounding/slamming/smashing!

Posted by: Michele | February 2, 2008 01:28 PM

Maya, Rojo, Michele,
Mr. Kickass's mom and dad needs to use the Parenal Controls to it's computer.
Or, maybe he fell in his Red Bull drink.
LOL

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | February 4, 2008 05:34 PM

I have always loved animals but before watching PETA's footage on Elephant cruelty I was ignorant of same - I had heard of "Mexican Circuses" but knowing what goes on right under our American noses makes me sick - My best regards to the investigators.

Posted by: doxierodan | June 11, 2008 10:33 PM