Free Billy! A Letter from ‘Pam’ – Kristin Bauer

Kristin Bauer as "Pam"

True Blood’s Kristin Bauer, who plays our beloved Pam on the series, is urging fans to help in her campaign to free a lonely, caged, elephant called Billy, being kept at the L.A. Zoo. In a letter to True Blood fans, Kristin has this to say:

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To my fellow “True Blood” Fans. This is Pam. I would love to ask you for five minutes of your time ~ or I’ll track you down and bite you…wait, come to think of it, I am speaking to fans so let me change that ~ if you help us I promise to track you down and bite you! Well, I will certainly send you an autograph, but I would have anyway.

I love animals and want them to have lives as close to their natural and intended life as possible.

Billy is an elephant at the LA ZOO. You can see him, and his story on youtube at this link:
Billy on YouTube

Billy has been at the Zoo for two decades and has been alone for years. He stands bobbing his head all day. A behavior never once recorded in elephants in the wild. They are social animals who can live to be 70 but in Zoos and Circuses a majority of the time they don’t even live to 20. One of Billy’s exhibit mates died of a heart attack next to him. The other, Ruby, was moved to the Paws Elephant Sanctuary in California to live on hundreds of acres with eleven other elephants and they are ready to take Billy today! Bob Barker has even donated the $200,000.00 it will cost to move him!!

We have been working on this for a while. The City council members and the LA Zoo wanted to spend over $40 million of our tax payer money to build Billy a bigger enclosure which would have taken years and would never be even close to the Paws sanctuary where Ruby and hundreds of acres await Billy.
We have won that battle, construction has been halted!

We won with calls and e-mails from people who care. And it takes less than five minutes.

But they are still holding on to Billy. The LA ZOO people say, “Don’t let them take our Elephant. He has great medical care.” But so do our prisoners. The Zoo people care about the Zoo and keeping what it has. The Billy people want Billy to have the best medical care, friends and as much room to roam as possible.

We need to help get Billy to the Paws sanctuary to be reunited with his friend Ruby and to live a long healthy life!.

We can do that with e-mails to the council members, Oprah and the LA Daily newspaper.

1. Council member e-mail block: “Let Billy go to Paws!”

councilmember.reyes@lacity.org;

councilmember.greuel@lacity.org;

councilmember.zine@lacity.org;

councilmember.labonge@lacity.org;

councilmember.weiss@lacity.org;

councilmember.parks@lacity.org;

councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org;

jan.perry@lacity.org;

councilmember.wesson@lacity.org;

councilmember.rosendahl@lacity.org;

councilmember.smith@lacity.org;

councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org;

councilmember.huizar@lacity.org;

councilmember.hahn@lacity.org

2. Post to the LA DAILY “Move Billy to the Paws Sanctuary.”
LA DAILY

3. Tell Oprah about Billy and that we’d like to see a show about the treatment of Elephants.
OPRAH

4. Don’t support the circus and inhumane Zoos. How would we like to live in a Zoo? If we commit a crime we’ll find out.

Thank you so much for any help and also for your support of one of the favorite roles I have ever played on the coolest show ever! You make all that possible.

Love,
Pam

For an autograph send a SASE to:
Kristin Bauer
c/o The Kohner Agency
9300 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 555
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

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What do you say, TB fans? Can we rally around Billy and help Kristin free him? There’s power in numbers!