Monika’s Doggie Rescue covered a holistic statistics released by NSW government that a huge number of dogs and cates were killed in NSW everyday in 2011.
The news called “NSW kills 150 dogs and cats everyday” had looked that 7600 pets were killed by council pound in 2010. Of the 50,000 abandon dogs in NSW pounds, over 1/3 of them were killed there .(Monika’s Doggie Rescue, 2011)
This year, the issues of abandon dogs become more serious. Monika’s Doggie Rescue is experiencing an unprecedented increase in the number in mature dogs being dumped at the pound in recent months becasse dogs are living longer than people’s expectation and people abandon them after they pass the cutest puppy time.
“Each week we are now getting a few dogs 10 or even 15 years old” says Monika, the owner of Monika’s Doggie Rescue“Never before have we seen so many middle aged dogs and right now we …show more content…
have more than 50 mature dogs looking for homes (2013).”
Continently breeding and abandon animals makes the number of abandon dogs keep increasing dramatically each year. “Yet we continue to breed more and more puppies each year. Why? Many of these puppies just end up losing their lives the very next year. “ Monika says.
So far, Monika’s Doggie Rescue has rescued 10,443 dogs. Unfortunately, the rescue shelter is facing to be closed because it is full of capacity. It is impossible for rescue to shelter rescue the abandon animals endlessly. Control the breeding and adopt the homeless animals are the permanent solution
Sincerely, YUN TIAN
Rational
The main opinion of the letter is auguring the fact that issue of abandon animals in NSW become very serious. The number of abandon animals has been increasing because of the immoderate breeding and abandon. It persuade government to control the breeder and people to adopt animals from rescue shelter.
The reason I choose this opinion is because I find the issue of increasing abandon pets could not be solved only by government pounds and rescue shelters. Public and government should take the responsibility as well.
There are three purposes of this letter.
Firstly, I want the public to understand the horrible situation of abandon pets in NSW. Secondly, I want the public to realized that abandon animals is an continue issue in Australia and it is not only the respirability of government pounds and rescue shelter to deal with the problems. Thirdly, I want to build a responsible image for Monika’s Doggie Rescue. I want the public to realize that Monika’s Doggie Rescue is not only a private dog rescue center, but is a responsible organization which concern the social issues. In addition, I want to the public to pay attention to the hard current situation of the Monika’s Doggie Rescue, which they are forcing to be closed and need the help from public.
The target media outlet is the Sydney Morning Herald. As the leading newspaper in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald has a wide audience. In addition, in the life&style part of the newspaper, it used to cover a number of news about the abandon animals. In 2009, it has covered a news of Monika’s Doggie Rescue (Sydney Morning Herald,
2013).
The language of the letter is formal. I use a large number of data in it. I think the data is the one of most intuitive manner to tell a fact. I want the editor to understand that the issue of abandon dogs is not personal touch but a social issue. In addition, I use several quotes in the letter in order to make the letter subjective but no too emotional (ACTNOW, 2013).
The structure of the letter contain three parts. According to ACTNOW, the letter should make the strongest appoint first (2013). The leads and first paragraph points the point of the letter firstly. It tells the horrible fact with statistics. The second and third paragraph support the argument. The last paragraph ends the letter with the personal suggestion to deal with the issue.
Reference:
Monika’s Doggire Rescue, 2013, accessed on 24th April 2013,
ACTNOW, 2013, “How to write a letter to the editor”, accessed 24th April 2013,
Sydney Morning Herald, 2013, accessed on 24th April 2013,