Activists want Canadian elephant sent away

EDMONTON, Ontario, March 27 (UPI) -- Animal rights activists are raising a stink in Canada over Lucy the elephant at the Valley Zoo in Edmonton, Alberta, demanding she be moved to a warmer climate.

Voice for Animals sent "elephant dung cookies" to City Hall to "remind councilors that Lucy is still sitting down at the zoo, by herself," spokeswoman Tove Reece told the Edmonton Sun. "We've had a really cold winter. She's been locked up most of the winter."

The cookies weren't actually elephant dung. They were chocolate-colored "vegan squares," Reece said.

Lucy suffers from arthritis and some respiratory problems and the activists want her sent to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. However, city spokesman Robert Moyles said moving her "is not in her best interest."