Exposing the killing horrors to the public is the best way to call attention to it; as the saying goes, if shelters had to kill animals in glass houses in town squares, they would stop doing it - if it's out of sight, out of mind, and easily swept under the rug., it will continue! People must become aware of it, mandatory spay/neuter laws must be passed, and legislators must stop taking money and be continually influenced by lobbyists who want nothing more than to stop it - breeders, many veterinarians, and hunting groups (YES, would you believe?) and many more you would never suspect, are against any spay/neuter legislation! But it's the ONLY answer!
Natalie =^..^= P.S. Maybe all of the rescuers in this group who have ideas, should take this offline..let's put our heads together! It can be done! From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Kat Parker Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 2:07 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: [Felvtalk] Section 1983 Hiya Kathryn and everyone. The federal statute you were referring to, Kathryn, is Section 1983, and my step-brother, Sheldon Eisenberg, is the one who wrote the "Section 1983 to the rescue", on Nathan's site you found, and Sheldon used it in court representing Cathy Nguyen and Nathan against Los Angeles County Dept of Animal Care and Control, which he won a stipulated order from the judge in that lawsuit. (Not that it does any good at all, now, but ... whatever. lol) I did not intend to correct any person in particular, just wanted to mention the name of the law, which is really easy to forget, actually, but really wonderful to be able to use for all being a FEDERAL STATUTE, and there are a lot of rescuers in here. ~Kat~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kathryn Hargreaves <khargrea...@gmail.com> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Cc: Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 18:21:00 -0800 Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Fwd: Cat shelters What do you mean by ``rules''? Laws? If they are not in compliance with laws, then turn them in. (Of course, if you're a rescuer pulling from these pounds, then you have to protect yourself using the federal law Section 1982: http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=728 As for the citizens, put ads in the papers, and maybe even send out informative flyers (ask for the money to do so via a Chipin). You can also try to get social media attention via the various animal blogs that push shelter reform, e.g., YesBiscuit!. Who holds the contract with the pound? Don't give up. It may take years, and we're seeing progress even in TX. Probably the moderator would like us to take this offline by now. . . On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: The problem here is that I'm in Texas. Killing is the State Sport. Unfortunately, most of the Animal Control Officers don't even know the new rules, which include acceptance of TNR as a way to control outside cats. They are still terrorizing people who have a small batch of backyard cats who are spayed/neutered and have their rabies shots. They are counting these cats in the 8 cat limit when the new code states specifically that they are NOT included in the cat limit rule. They recently reduced the number of cats/dogs allowed to 8 from 10. This makes no sense except when you realize that they will now charge for an "excess animal permit". Then it makes sense to reduce the legal limit so that a number of people are now over the limit and have to purchase the permit. Nasty little tricks. People who have received a citation in the past for having over the permissible limit of cats/dogs are prohibited from purchasing the permit. More nonsense. It would help if all the ACO's were required to read the new codes and then be tested on whether or not they understand them. The citizens of this city don't know the rules either. Cat haters are terrorizing cat caring neighbors, threatening them with reporting them when there's nothing to report because the cat caregivers are actually in compliance. I think that ignorance is our worst enemy. Even when we get good ordinances, they don't work because no one knows about them.
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