The following press release from Predator Defense, Western Watersheds Project and International Fund for Animal Welfare details an upcoming memorial for Kasey, a yellow lab who was killed last year from an unmarked M-44.
The statement says:
POCATELLO — The public is invited to watch the award-winning film, “EXPOSED: USDA’s Secret War on Wildlife,” at a special screening in memory of Kasey, the yellow lab from Pocatello who was killed in March 2017 by an unmarked M-44 “cyanide bomb.”
Fourteen-year-old Canyon Mansfield accidentally set off the device while walking his dog Kasey on a hill behind his house. Canyon was covered in cyanide, but he was upwind. His dog was not. And so Canyon watched his best friend die an agonizing death from cyanide poisoning. Canyon himself has suffered terrible side effects from the poisoning. He and his family headed to D.C. in 2017 to urge Congress to prevent other families from suffering similar tragedies by passing legislation to ban M-44 “cyanide bombs.” Their work is ongoing.
In the film “EXPOSED” three former federal agents and a Congressman take on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s taxpayer-funded “Wildlife Services” program, which has killed, maimed, and poisoned millions of wild animals with M-44 “cyanide bombs” and other deadly devices. The agency’s traps and poisons also harm humans and have killed countless pets. “EXPOSED” is a film Jane Goodall said she wants millions to see. It also won Best Short Film in the 2015 Animal Film Festival and Best Wildlife Activism Film at the 2014 Wildlife Conservation Film Festival New York.
The free memorial screening will be held: Thursday, March 15, 7 p.m. Bengal Theater 14 E. Humboldt St., Pocatello, ID
The screening will be followed by a question and answer session featuring prominent voices in the movement to ban wildlife poisons, including the Mansfield family, who are Pocatello residents and M-44 victims; Brooks Fahy, filmmaker and executive director of the national wildlife advocacy group Predator Defense; along with a former government wildlife trapper and key representatives from sponsor organizations. Event sponsors include Predator Defense, Western Watersheds Project, Advocates for the West, International Fund for Animal Welfare, and Friends of the Clearwater.
