Raccoons will be hunted for a competition to raise money for St. Judes hospital. They will be treed using UKC coonhounds. {A "hunt" doesn't necessarily mean they are killing the animals. You don't kill Easter eggs when you hunt them. But it doesn't stress out and terrorize Easter eggs.} Please put this to a stop! The Mothers, if killed, will leave behind their orphaned newborns, leaving them to starve in the brush.  St. Judes needs to stop accepting blood money, and find another way to fundraise! The Hospital denies injury of the raccoons, but we know what "Tree-ing" means: The coon hounds chase the raccoon up a tree, whether they shoot the animal or not, they are stressing it out and can cause physical problems. Excess stress can cause "myopathy". This is "white muscle disease" that causes a slow painful death. If the coon falls to the ground, and the hunter allows the hounds to rip apart the raccoon? They claim that doesn't happen but it does. We have much graphic footage to prove it if you'd like to see it....... This cannot happen next year. We need to Mobilize, Take this further than your internet screen, print this off, take it into the city tell all of your friends and family and tell them to spread the word. We need to be writing letters to the board of directors to the UKC and St. Judes. Explain to them that you will not give them anymore money if this continues.  How do you think the children on St. Judes would react if they knew this is how money was being raised? .. Tell everyone! Spead the word, and not just to "the choir" ... THIS NEEDS TO GO FURTHER THAN THE REHAB COMMUNITY !! .. Share it on all sorts of forums, make t-shirts... shout it out loud! THE COON HUNT NEEDS TO END! Raccoons are the most sentient of nature's creatures. Do NOT treat them like animals to be killed, treat them as a living breathing being.

Why in heavens would you want to teach children that it's fun to watch animals terrorize and chase other animals anyway? How about just donate the entry fee out of the goodness of your heart and not harm our wildlife?

"I only drove the get away car for money, I didn't rob the bank."

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www.stjude.org/content/sites/www/en_US/home/contact-us.html

To write to them here is the mailing address:
Address: 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105