Animal Awareness Night – Sunday 10/11

WEDU has finalized their October WEDU+ schedule and have included The Witness in our “Animal Awareness Night” of programming.  WEDU+ can be found on Comcast channel 203, Verizon Fios channel 476, Brighthouse channel 605 or over-the-air on digital broadcast channel 3.4.  Please find below the promotional copy that we will be including in our WEDU Premiere Magazine and our e-newsletter.

Animal Awareness Night – Sunday 10/11

Includes the productions Guardians of the Gulf, looking at the impact of Red Tide on our local and worldwide waterways. Fifteen Legs documents a group of animal rights activists who are the pioneers of a network to preserve the lives of domestic animals in America. The Witness answers the question – “How does a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn neighborhood become an impassioned animal advocate?” And the WEDU productions Horses of Proud Spirit and Dolphin Rescue and a special episode of Up Close with Cathy Unruh devoted to protecting black cats.

Guardians of the Gulf – Sunday 10/11/09 at 8pm

Fifteen Legs – Sunday 10/11/09 at 9pm

Horses of Proud Spirit – Sunday 10/11/09 at 9:30pm

The Witness – Sunday 10/11/09 at 10pm

Dolphin Rescue – Sunday 10/11/09 at 11pm

Up Close with Cathy Unruh #124 Black Cat Rescue – Sunday 10/11/09 at 11:30pm

For the cats,

Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue
an Educational Sanctuary home
to more than 100 big cats
12802 Easy Street Tampa, FL  33625
813.493.4564 fax 885.4457

http://www.BigCatRescue.org

Until Sept. 27, 2009 you can vote once a day for Scott Lope, our Operations's manager, to win Animal Planet's Hero of the Year Award.  As many of you already know, Scott had a career in medicine, but gave it up to be a full time volunteer and then staff at Big Cat Rescue.  You can see a video of him in action rescuing all kinds of animals in addition to the care he provides the big cats at Big Cat Rescue on our web site at http://www.BigCatRescue.org

Please help him win as this is great publicity for the plight of big cats and it will provide $10,000 in cash to feed the cats at Big Cat Rescue as well as a much needed vacation for Scott.  Your DAILY vote can win this for us here:

http://animal.discovery.com/roar/hero-of-the-year/vote/

Free ways to join us and help the big cats:

Twitter:  Follow Me and be invited to enter our Animal Lover's Dream Vacation Giveaway!  http://twitter.com/BigCatRescue