THIS IS PAT DUNAWAY CHALLENGING WINOGRAD AGAIN

Hey, short man, where's your evidence about me? Down the tubes it appears. You lying piece of shit, you sent the activists in on Devore. Try as they may, they have failed you. Not once have they been able to produce any evidence of the "cruelty" of Devore, the shelter you associate me with. Just shows how little you know about me because I am not associated with any shelter.


NOW WHAT? WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE? BACK YOURSELF UP. EITHER PRODUCE THE EVIDENCE OR CEASE AND DESIST YOUR BLATANT LIES AGAINST ME. YOU'RE A LOSER, WHINOGRAD, A SHORT, FAT, STUPID LOSER AND THOSE FOLLOWING YOU ARE THE LOSERS OF THE WORLD AS WELL. YOU NEED TO WEAR BLACK, YOUR HEART IS AS BLACK AS YOUR SHIRT. 


PROVE YOURSELF WINOGRAD OR SHUT THE FUCK UP.


http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_20976601/grand-jury-cant-find-animal-cruelty-at-devore


CAN YOU READ WINOGRAD? IT SAYS NO CRUELTY FOUND. AND THIS ISN'T THE ONLY ONE THAT SAYS THAT.

BEND OVER, TURN AROUND - RESCUES IN AUSTIN ARE GETTING SCREWED !!

Does the bad news ever stop coming from Austin? Received this and am posting in it's entirely with compliments of good friend, Delwin Goss, in Austin. Thanks.

I want to start out be saying I'm not the most literate person in Austin. I hope the following email is able to communicate the irony and  and the real costs of our new off site adoption program? I think I raise some very important points that apparently  no one at the City of Austin and it's Animal Commission thought of.

While the City of Austin, it's animal advisory commission and animal services department is busy congratulating themselves for establishing off site adoptions; lets talk about the consequences and costs.

I just got a call from a long time friend who has been doing adoptions at the Brodie Lane location of PetSmart for over 5 years now. If my memory serves me well; she was the first legitimate animal adoption group at this location. ( I don't count Paw Match as a legitimate rescue group).

Her group  has worked very hard for over five years now to get their clientele list built up and has an outstanding reputation in the animal community. They have  always done the legwork behind a legitimate , quality adoption. They  check references.  They do checks with the land lords, checks with the veterinarian and even do a home visit for every animal they  adopts out. They  usually charge anywhere from $75 to $100 rehomeing   fee and I've known her long enough to know they  make no money doing what she is doing.

These  are a couple of very  important points so pay attention and think about this; 

1)  there are no tax dollars going to her. Her rescue efforts are self funded and subsidized by her husbands job and her family. She doesn't cost the City's taxpayers  a single penny. Her stock of animals come from owner surrenders and from the cat trappers who find kittens. She takes them in and tames them herself with no tax paid employees. She has no sick pay, no vacation pay, no retirement and no set weekly salary. Her operation is completely self reliant and she takes in animals that would other wise end in the City Shelter.

2) Now enters the City of Austin's offsite adoptions and where do they set up? At the same location she has been at for years. Off site adoptions are organized by paid City staff. The animals at off site adoptions are vetted with City tax dollars. The City takes approximately a $200 loss on every animal they adopt out and the taxpayers subsidize that loss. And because of all this; the animals the City is adopting out are going for about a $20 adoption fee. The City doesn't check references. The City doesn't check with the veterinarians. The City doesn't check with the landlords. The City doesn't do a home visit . In fact the City Shelter under pressure from the City Council now adopts out animals to homeless people and people who don't have the money to support themselves much less a cat or dog.

The City employees at these events draw a weekly salary. Those employees have vacation pay, sick pay, insurance, retirement pay, all the other benefits that come with a City job and all of it is paid for with our tax dollars.

Now you have an adoption group that has been  doing high quality adoptions at no expense to the tax payers that cannot compete with the City's  tax subsidized adoption program. Where my friend was doing adoptions  at no cost to the taxpayers; her group is being  displaced by a City program that comparatively costs an enormous amount of tax dollars, not only today but will keep on costing when those City employees retire.

Where the animals my friend had in her program, were taken in before reaching the City shelter there by lowering the amount of tax dollars required to operate that shelter ; her group  will no longer be able to take in those animals meaning those animals  will now  wind up at the City shelter and their expenses are being paid for out of tax dollars.

Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong. I grew up in a very poor family and we had to make every dollar count. Maybe I'm failing to realize that the City of Austin  more or less has access to virtually unlimited tax dollars and virtually unlimited resources. If that's true; then by all means; put the pedal to the medal and full steam ahead. I'm just left wondering why I'm always being told the City of Austin  doesn't have additional funding for public safety, the parks, programs for our at risk children, health programs, the arts, our senior citizens and the homeless. For some reason I'm seeing a disconnect between what the City of Austin tells me and the City of Austin's  public policy. It's quite confusing and unbelievably frustrating!

thanks,

del

Delwin Goss President
Montopolis Community Alliance
Austin, Texas 78741

 

When you have the likes of Best Fiends coming into LA and taking a shelter over, what do you think happens to the little "mom/pop" rescues? When Best Fiends is smeared all over each shelter in LA in huge posters, where is the donated dollar going to go? Wake up rescues, these people are scheming to take the donations and put you out of business.

THE WORLD IS GOING TO THE CATS !!!

The saying used to be the world is going to the dogs, well, no longer. The world is going to the cats now.


A well respected shelter director wrote to me last week with a concern. This concern was that "No Kill" is forcing shelters via intimidation and deceitful tactics to stop taking cats. He was referring to this article http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/19/4573240/sutter-county-animal-shelter-to.html Cats are euthanized at a higher rate than dogs. Because of a lack of licensing (and making cat owners more responsible), cats are making up the population of most shelters. Cats aren't adopted as frequently from shelters as other pets and cats usually have an extremely low owner reclaim rate compared to dogs. So where would that leave the cats.


And where is Kate Hurley coming from these days? I do hope she isn't backing down from Natan. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/cats-117165-shelter-hurley.html Telling shelters to not take cats? Where does that leave cats? Doesn't anyone see this as cruelty to cats? 


At some point in time we will have to "bite the bullet" when it comes to this issue of feral cats or cats period. We can't save them all and to try to do so puts the future in jeopardy. We're already seeing things like the rabies outbreak in New Mexico, the possibility of typhus being spread by cats in Santa Ana, CA, the little girl in Northern CA contracting rabies and the list goes on. We can't continue to ignore this health and safety issue any more than we can ignore the pit bull issue.


I recommend that you read the excellent write up by Jake, a fellow blogger that I admire much. Read how cats are fairing or not under Natan's CAPA program in Delaware. I swear the more I learn about Natan, the more I believe he is an animal abuser, not a savior. http://delawarecapa.blogspot.com/2012/06/cats-life-in-delaware.html

BRENDA BARNETTE AND THE CITY OF LA, YOU LEAVE ME SPEECHLESS!!!

I read this and my mouth is still hanging open. The City of LA is a glutton for punishment obviously. All I can say is read this piece by Phyllis Daugherty. I am speechless myself.


http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/la-animal-services-could-adopting-pet-risk-your-identity

"CRAZY BAT LADY" IS GONE, GOOD RIDDANCE, DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT!

Good news to report, Amanda Lollar, "crazy bat lady" has been kicked out of her headquarters, and the building had to be gutted because it was so bad. I can only imagine. Now, this is her wild sanctuary and if you are wondering what happened to the bats, they were in Mexico at the time. Wild bats migrate and they waited until the bats (shades of Elvis) had left the building to close it down. Unfortunately, she is still operating in another building with her unreleasable bats. 


I have reported on this before. http://workingtohelpanimalstodaytomorrow.blogspot.com/2011/05/youve-heard-of-crazy-cat-lady-now-meet.html


Mary Cummins, a well known and well respected wildlife rescuer/advocate, was a whistle blower on this "sanctuary". She has and is still going through hell over doing the right thing. I have to applaud this woman for her persistence and determination to expose this place. Not enough people do what's right. http://www.animaladvocates.us/batWorldLawsuit/sanctuary_gutted.pdf


The entire fiasco is on the Animal Advocates site along with loads of good info otherwise. This is worthwhile effort and I encourage you to support Mary in her work. She also has a great Facebook page, as well as videos of her adorable rescues online. https://www.facebook.com/marycummins


There's still more to the story coming up shortly. Will keep you posted on this. The world has a lot more than just cats and dogs, and the abuse of the others should be of concern to us all.