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She wasn´t there.
She often used to lie on the blanket on the patio but not this morning.
Sometimes she was busy with other things but this time she wasn´t busy at all.
I just buried her, she was just 6 years old hit by a car.
To my cat Gullan and other cats, kittens,dogs..who passed away
[video=youtube_share;kiBWyYZ-vlc]http://youtu.be/kiBWyYZ-vlc[/video]
:rip:
She often used to lie on the blanket on the patio but not this morning.
Sometimes she was busy with other things but this time she wasn´t busy at all.
I just buried her, she was just 6 years old hit by a car.
To my cat Gullan and other cats, kittens,dogs..who passed away
[video=youtube_share;kiBWyYZ-vlc]http://youtu.be/kiBWyYZ-vlc[/video]
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Cuteness overload!
My cats do this all the time. . . :wub:
Cuteness overload!
My cats do this all the time. . . :wub:MIST
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There are alternatives to declawing
[video=youtube_share;zLNqOF603QQ]http://youtu.be/zLNqOF603QQ[/video]
Some of my cats are feral cats from the beginning.
They are friendlier to me now but to try and cut their nails is to much.
But I have scratchposts and some cats like to scratch on the door mat
SheilaMJFan4Ever
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Indeed! When the vet explained to me exactly what the procedure was, I literally gasped in horror! Furniture and curtains have never meant that much to me over my furry babies, so I asked a groomer to show me how to trim my boy's claws, plus I have scratching posts/rugs/trees everywhere.
Vladimir has gotten used to me trimming his claws (I started when he was less than a year old).
Here's a pic of him and Bubba (her human mama is too sickly to care for her, so I took over for her).
Indeed! When the vet explained to me exactly what the procedure was, I literally gasped in horror! Furniture and curtains have never meant that much to me over my furry babies, so I asked a groomer to show me how to trim my boy's claws, plus I have scratching posts/rugs/trees everywhere.
Vladimir has gotten used to me trimming his claws (I started when he was less than a year old).
Here's a pic of him and Bubba (her human mama is too sickly to care for her, so I took over for her).
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I´ve posted about Big Cats Rescue of three tigers before, the oldest KImba was too weak
[video=youtube_share;zFvjkR4HpNQ]http://youtu.be/zFvjkR4HpNQ?list=UUcftblae5aEnraa34d1FPQg[/video]
She was once someones pet and had been declawed. causing her pain
I´ve posted about Big Cats Rescue of three tigers before, the oldest KImba was too weak
[video=youtube_share;zFvjkR4HpNQ]http://youtu.be/zFvjkR4HpNQ?list=UUcftblae5aEnraa34d1FPQg[/video]
She was once someones pet and had been declawed. causing her pain
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Killing is not the mission
It's way past time for county officials to make changes at Animal ServicesBy Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Augusta-Richmond County is needlessly killing animals – dozens a day, hundreds a week, thousands a year.
All because leaders at the county’s Animal Services department refuse to work with volunteer rescue groups who help find homes for the dogs and cats that turn up at the animal shelter.
Apparently, it’s simply easier for Animal Services Director Sharon Broady and her staff to warehouse, kill and dispose of the animals than to process the paperwork needed to get them into caring homes.
Rescue groups citywide – and even representatives of Broady’s own Animal Services advisory board – say her resistance to working with rescue volunteers borders on hostility.
Why?
THAT’S A FAIR QUESTION, considering that Augusta’s reported 70-percent kill rate – which some say may actually be closer to 90 percent at times – far outpaces the national average of 50 percent.
There’s no reason for Augusta to be killing so many animals when well-connected rescue volunteers can help find them homes around the nation – particularly in the animal-underpopulated Northeast, where people line up to wait for van-loads of adoptable Southern dogs.
Georgia law requires public shelters such as Augusta’s to sterilize animals before relinquishing them to rescue groups or private citizens. But it also allows shelters to enter into written contracts with individuals or groups that allow them to spay or neuter the pet within 30 days.
Such contracts would benefit Augusta Animal Services by reducing the number of animals in custody while it waits for its full-time veterinarian position to be filled in January. But Broady has done nothing to facilitate or promote the 30-day provision, citing the lack of a contract as an excuse.
So the Animal Services’ advisory board stepped in and spent months with the county’s legal department to draft an amenable contract over the spring. Yet when Broady was presented with a ready-made agreement, she still refused to work with volunteers.
The question bears repeating: Why?
WHAT POSSIBLE REASON would one have to be dismissive of unpaid volunteers whose only agenda is to unite unwanted animals with loving owners? One doesn’t need to be an animal lover to run an animal services department – Broady was deputy warden at the Richmond County Correctional Institution before taking the job in 2010 – but shouldn’t anyone in that position want to reduce the number of animals that have to be put down?
Why is Broady’s default setting on “kill”?
She told The Augusta Chronicle via email interview that she is open to exploring options of lowering euthanasia rates. We suggest she consult a dictionary if her idea of “open” is to refuse to cooperate with rescue volunteers and blindly adhere to a policy that sends dozens of animals to the county landfill each day.
About 6,500 dogs and cats were killed last year.
Broady says lowering the kill rate would require “a new facility, additional staff, to include another veterinarian, vet techs and a much larger budget.”
She needs more resources? We don’t buy that facile argument for a split second. Broady has volunteers practically kicking her door in, begging to take these animals off her hands.
There are likely plenty of policy changes she can make to cut the kill rate that don’t require a bigger budget. Social media blasts are about the cheapest way to get the word out about animals available to be adopted. Hint: The volunteers Broady doesn’t want to work with are already doing it.
It’s not that Broady can’t do anything. She won’t do anything. For a city official whose job it is to do right by these animals, that’s unforgivable.
If new protocols and a battalion of volunteers still can’t save more animals, then by all means she should make the case to city administrators and let them determine just how much, if any, additional resources are needed.
But don’t try to sell the story that a new facility and a fat budget is the only solution to Animal Services’ kill problem.
LOOK AT THE Georgia cities of Columbus and Macon, both of which lowered their kill rates by more closely working with volunteer groups.
Look at operations in Columbia County, whose kill rate is half of Augusta’s, despite also not having a full-time vet on staff.
Look at Kansas City, Mo., which flipped its animal control operations from a mostly taxpayer-funded government model to a mostly nonprofit volunteer one that drastically lowered the kill rate.
Look long and hard at all these other agencies that are correctly and humanely executing their duties without executing tons of animals. Start doing what they do. Check your pride at the door. The animals whose life or death depends on us deserve that much.
Augusta Animal Services’ problem isn’t financial. It’s about attitude. And this agency has precisely the wrong attitude to fulfill a successful mission of caring for and adopting out Augusta’s most vulnerable animals.
No one – including the most die-hard animal lovers – expects Augusta to have a 0-percent kill rate. That’s simply not possible. But it’s not too much to ask the county to meet rescue volunteers halfway so that more animals are saved instead of killed.
ONE OF THE LISTED primary responsibilities of Animal Services is the “humane euthanization” of animals – but only ones that are “sick, injured, diseased and unadoptable” (emphasis added).
If Broady is trying to tell the entire CSRA that fully 70 percent – and possibly more – of the animals that enter her shelter are flat-out unadoptable, we’ll be the first to stand up and say it: It’s simply not true.
“We need a public outcry.” Augusta Animal Services’ advisory board member Aimee Murphy said. “This is urgent. There are literally places up North clamoring for them, and we’re killing them.”
Augusta Commissioners have ultimate authority for this slaughter. They have the responsibility to put an end to it. Commissioners, a compassionate and caring community is looking to you now. Do your jobs, and either make Ms. Broady do hers, or find someone else who will.
Calling Animal Services’ facility a “shelter” is painfully inaccurate. A “shelter” implies a place where precious objects can be kept safe.
What’s so safe about the city’s shelter? It’s nothing less than a sick, sad death house. And most of the condemned animals are guilty of nothing more than falling into the hands of an Animal Services department staffed by people who can’t summon up enough creative thinking – or even simple humanity – to work meaningfully to save these poor creatures’ lives.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2014-06-25/killing-not-mission
It's way past time for county officials to make changes at Animal ServicesBy Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Augusta-Richmond County is needlessly killing animals – dozens a day, hundreds a week, thousands a year.
All because leaders at the county’s Animal Services department refuse to work with volunteer rescue groups who help find homes for the dogs and cats that turn up at the animal shelter.
Apparently, it’s simply easier for Animal Services Director Sharon Broady and her staff to warehouse, kill and dispose of the animals than to process the paperwork needed to get them into caring homes.
Rescue groups citywide – and even representatives of Broady’s own Animal Services advisory board – say her resistance to working with rescue volunteers borders on hostility.
Why?
THAT’S A FAIR QUESTION, considering that Augusta’s reported 70-percent kill rate – which some say may actually be closer to 90 percent at times – far outpaces the national average of 50 percent.
There’s no reason for Augusta to be killing so many animals when well-connected rescue volunteers can help find them homes around the nation – particularly in the animal-underpopulated Northeast, where people line up to wait for van-loads of adoptable Southern dogs.
Georgia law requires public shelters such as Augusta’s to sterilize animals before relinquishing them to rescue groups or private citizens. But it also allows shelters to enter into written contracts with individuals or groups that allow them to spay or neuter the pet within 30 days.
Such contracts would benefit Augusta Animal Services by reducing the number of animals in custody while it waits for its full-time veterinarian position to be filled in January. But Broady has done nothing to facilitate or promote the 30-day provision, citing the lack of a contract as an excuse.
So the Animal Services’ advisory board stepped in and spent months with the county’s legal department to draft an amenable contract over the spring. Yet when Broady was presented with a ready-made agreement, she still refused to work with volunteers.
The question bears repeating: Why?
WHAT POSSIBLE REASON would one have to be dismissive of unpaid volunteers whose only agenda is to unite unwanted animals with loving owners? One doesn’t need to be an animal lover to run an animal services department – Broady was deputy warden at the Richmond County Correctional Institution before taking the job in 2010 – but shouldn’t anyone in that position want to reduce the number of animals that have to be put down?
Why is Broady’s default setting on “kill”?
She told The Augusta Chronicle via email interview that she is open to exploring options of lowering euthanasia rates. We suggest she consult a dictionary if her idea of “open” is to refuse to cooperate with rescue volunteers and blindly adhere to a policy that sends dozens of animals to the county landfill each day.
About 6,500 dogs and cats were killed last year.
Broady says lowering the kill rate would require “a new facility, additional staff, to include another veterinarian, vet techs and a much larger budget.”
She needs more resources? We don’t buy that facile argument for a split second. Broady has volunteers practically kicking her door in, begging to take these animals off her hands.
There are likely plenty of policy changes she can make to cut the kill rate that don’t require a bigger budget. Social media blasts are about the cheapest way to get the word out about animals available to be adopted. Hint: The volunteers Broady doesn’t want to work with are already doing it.
It’s not that Broady can’t do anything. She won’t do anything. For a city official whose job it is to do right by these animals, that’s unforgivable.
If new protocols and a battalion of volunteers still can’t save more animals, then by all means she should make the case to city administrators and let them determine just how much, if any, additional resources are needed.
But don’t try to sell the story that a new facility and a fat budget is the only solution to Animal Services’ kill problem.
LOOK AT THE Georgia cities of Columbus and Macon, both of which lowered their kill rates by more closely working with volunteer groups.
Look at operations in Columbia County, whose kill rate is half of Augusta’s, despite also not having a full-time vet on staff.
Look at Kansas City, Mo., which flipped its animal control operations from a mostly taxpayer-funded government model to a mostly nonprofit volunteer one that drastically lowered the kill rate.
Look long and hard at all these other agencies that are correctly and humanely executing their duties without executing tons of animals. Start doing what they do. Check your pride at the door. The animals whose life or death depends on us deserve that much.
Augusta Animal Services’ problem isn’t financial. It’s about attitude. And this agency has precisely the wrong attitude to fulfill a successful mission of caring for and adopting out Augusta’s most vulnerable animals.
No one – including the most die-hard animal lovers – expects Augusta to have a 0-percent kill rate. That’s simply not possible. But it’s not too much to ask the county to meet rescue volunteers halfway so that more animals are saved instead of killed.
ONE OF THE LISTED primary responsibilities of Animal Services is the “humane euthanization” of animals – but only ones that are “sick, injured, diseased and unadoptable” (emphasis added).
If Broady is trying to tell the entire CSRA that fully 70 percent – and possibly more – of the animals that enter her shelter are flat-out unadoptable, we’ll be the first to stand up and say it: It’s simply not true.
“We need a public outcry.” Augusta Animal Services’ advisory board member Aimee Murphy said. “This is urgent. There are literally places up North clamoring for them, and we’re killing them.”
Augusta Commissioners have ultimate authority for this slaughter. They have the responsibility to put an end to it. Commissioners, a compassionate and caring community is looking to you now. Do your jobs, and either make Ms. Broady do hers, or find someone else who will.
Calling Animal Services’ facility a “shelter” is painfully inaccurate. A “shelter” implies a place where precious objects can be kept safe.
What’s so safe about the city’s shelter? It’s nothing less than a sick, sad death house. And most of the condemned animals are guilty of nothing more than falling into the hands of an Animal Services department staffed by people who can’t summon up enough creative thinking – or even simple humanity – to work meaningfully to save these poor creatures’ lives.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2014-06-25/killing-not-mission
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Needlessly delivering death
Animal Services stubbornly refuses to save the lives of innocent animals -- and the office's director must go
By Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
How long will it take to stop the needless killing of innocent animals?
A week?
By then, dozens of adoptable dogs and cats will be dead by lethal injection and disposed of at the county landfill.
A month?
Then the body count would be in the hundreds.
Six months?
Now you’re looking at thousands – thousands of dogs’, cats’, puppies’ and kittens’ lives snuffed out because a lone civil servant apparently finds killing easier than helping local rescue organizations and volunteers pair these poor animals with loving homes.
Animal groups and members of Broady’s own citizen advisory board say she has stonewalled efforts to reduce the department’s reported 70-percent kill rate – a rate that is nearly double that of similar animal agencies.
Georgia law generously allows Broady the ability to release nonsterilized animals to rescue groups and other animal volunteer organizations under a contract that guarantees the animals’ adopters will spay or neuter the pets within 30 days. Instead, she dogmatically adheres to a policy of refusing to release any unaltered animal – contract or no contract.
Chillingly, she finds lethal injections preferable to filling out paperwork.
More than a year ago, this page provided the city with ways to sharply reduce its shelter’s kill rate using a wildly successful program from Columbus, Ga. We repeatedly implored officials to enact these plans. Nothing happened.
After nearly a full year of Broady’s defiance, animal activists took their well-documented case to Augusta commissioners last month. But nothing has changed at the shelter. Animals come in, rescue groups are shooed away and carcasses are carted out the back door.
This “shelter” is anything but. It’s a death house. It’s an execution chamber.
The profound shame of this slipshod shelter is beginning to attract national attention. Meanwhile, the city goes through the sluggish motions of its sleepy-time bureaucratic response.
The co-founder of New Jersey’s Home for Good Dog Rescue, which has helped place 400 dogs from the Augusta area into Northeastern homes, said this week that Broady has barred his group from the shelter since the loss of its part-time veterinarian in March.
Richard Errico said he hasn’t been allowed to rescue any animals, including a diseased Labrador-mix puppy that needlessly died after too much time in county custody. Broady refused to allow Errico to take the puppy, named Nicholas, to a veterinarian at Errico’s own expense.
“That dog would have stood a very, very good chance to survive if (Broady) had cooperated,” Errico said. “Instead she chose to prove a point.”
The New Jersey testimony leaves no doubt that Broady – whose prior work experience was 36 years at the county’s correctional facility – is
bizarrely hostile to volunteers whose only agenda is to help keep adoptable pets from an early grave.
Broady is being served simple, nonlethal solutions on a silver platter – yet she coldly does nothing. What could be more humane than uniting affectionate animals with families eager to
shower them with love and security?
Broady clearly is unfit for this job and needs to be removed – now. Unless the city takes swift, bold and comprehensive action, we call on all animal lovers to rise up in protest against the atrocities being committed against innocent lives at the Augusta animal shelter.Call city officials and demand to know what is being done. Call Mayor Deke Copenhaver. Call your commissioners. Their numbers are right here on this page.
If there isn’t a radical change very soon, we call on the community to rise up in actual and unrelenting protests at city hall.
This community’s patience has run out.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2014-07-10/needlessly-delivering-death
Animal Services stubbornly refuses to save the lives of innocent animals -- and the office's director must go
By Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
How long will it take to stop the needless killing of innocent animals?
A week?
By then, dozens of adoptable dogs and cats will be dead by lethal injection and disposed of at the county landfill.
A month?
Then the body count would be in the hundreds.
Six months?
Now you’re looking at thousands – thousands of dogs’, cats’, puppies’ and kittens’ lives snuffed out because a lone civil servant apparently finds killing easier than helping local rescue organizations and volunteers pair these poor animals with loving homes.
Animal groups and members of Broady’s own citizen advisory board say she has stonewalled efforts to reduce the department’s reported 70-percent kill rate – a rate that is nearly double that of similar animal agencies.
Georgia law generously allows Broady the ability to release nonsterilized animals to rescue groups and other animal volunteer organizations under a contract that guarantees the animals’ adopters will spay or neuter the pets within 30 days. Instead, she dogmatically adheres to a policy of refusing to release any unaltered animal – contract or no contract.
Chillingly, she finds lethal injections preferable to filling out paperwork.
More than a year ago, this page provided the city with ways to sharply reduce its shelter’s kill rate using a wildly successful program from Columbus, Ga. We repeatedly implored officials to enact these plans. Nothing happened.
After nearly a full year of Broady’s defiance, animal activists took their well-documented case to Augusta commissioners last month. But nothing has changed at the shelter. Animals come in, rescue groups are shooed away and carcasses are carted out the back door.
This “shelter” is anything but. It’s a death house. It’s an execution chamber.
The profound shame of this slipshod shelter is beginning to attract national attention. Meanwhile, the city goes through the sluggish motions of its sleepy-time bureaucratic response.
The co-founder of New Jersey’s Home for Good Dog Rescue, which has helped place 400 dogs from the Augusta area into Northeastern homes, said this week that Broady has barred his group from the shelter since the loss of its part-time veterinarian in March.
Richard Errico said he hasn’t been allowed to rescue any animals, including a diseased Labrador-mix puppy that needlessly died after too much time in county custody. Broady refused to allow Errico to take the puppy, named Nicholas, to a veterinarian at Errico’s own expense.
“That dog would have stood a very, very good chance to survive if (Broady) had cooperated,” Errico said. “Instead she chose to prove a point.”
The New Jersey testimony leaves no doubt that Broady – whose prior work experience was 36 years at the county’s correctional facility – is
bizarrely hostile to volunteers whose only agenda is to help keep adoptable pets from an early grave.
Broady is being served simple, nonlethal solutions on a silver platter – yet she coldly does nothing. What could be more humane than uniting affectionate animals with families eager to
shower them with love and security?
Broady clearly is unfit for this job and needs to be removed – now. Unless the city takes swift, bold and comprehensive action, we call on all animal lovers to rise up in protest against the atrocities being committed against innocent lives at the Augusta animal shelter.Call city officials and demand to know what is being done. Call Mayor Deke Copenhaver. Call your commissioners. Their numbers are right here on this page.
If there isn’t a radical change very soon, we call on the community to rise up in actual and unrelenting protests at city hall.
This community’s patience has run out.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2014-07-10/needlessly-delivering-death
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Halt to killing ordered at Augusta shelter
In response to a flood of phone calls and e-mails, Augusta Animal Services has temporarily stopped euthanizing all but sick and vicious animals at its Mack Lane shelter, and is working with a rescue group and clinic to get spayed and neutered animals into loving homes, interim Administrator Tameka Allen said at a Thursday news conference.
We just wanted to make sure that we address this issue,” Allen said, “to let the public know that we hear their cries and appreciate the passion that they feel.”
Allen said Animal Services Director Sharon Broady will be working with a rescue group – Dog Networking Agents – to transport animals to a spay and neuter clinic before they are released to the group. By Tuesday’s Augusta Commission meeting, there will be new policies and options regarding animal sterilization and other rescue groups to present to commissioners, she said.
Area animal rescue groups have been upset over the city’s 70 percent kill rate - resulting in the deaths of more than 6,500 dogs, cats and other animals each of the last two years at the high-volume shelter - and with Director Broady’s unwillingness to work with rescue groups determined to find the animals homes.
Commissioner Grady Smith said his cell phone had been ringing all day since The Augusta Chronicle ran his number Thursday next to an editorial urging action, and it rang again during the news conference.
“I’ve had to change batteries on my cell phone,” Smith said. “They’re upset and there is passion involved, around the county especially. How many pickup trucks do you see with a (dog) in the back?”
It wasn’t clear Thursday whether the announced changes were enough to satisfy animal activists. Dennis Briatico, who led a Dec. 7 march against Georgia Regents University testing of dental implants on dogs, said a Friday protest at Augusta Animal Services was still on from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“It’s good to hear that they agreed that’s way too high a kill rate,” Briatico said.
Dog Networking Agency, or DNA, was formed last year by Hayley Zielinski and Ali Williams to connect unwanted animals with new owners, using a network of transporters, breed-specific and other rescue groups and low-cost spay and neuter clinics. The non-profit group has already “networked” some 200 Augusta animals over the last year, according to Zielinski.
Broady, who did not attend the news conference, angered some animal rescue groups in Augusta and nationwide when she refused to meet their demands to remove animals from the shelter, sparing them from near-certain death, citing Georgia laws requiring they be spayed or neutered first.
Commissioner Donnie Smith, a professed animal lover, said the city is doing as much as it can to address a complicated issue.
“We have heard the public loud and clear,” Donnie Smith said.
He and several other commissioners met previously with Augusta’s animal advisory board, rescue groups, staff and members of Macon-Bibb County Animal Welfare to explore options for reducing Augusta’s kill rate. Donnie Smith said that mandatory animal licensing in Macon creates a revenue stream the government uses for operations.
A Chronicle reporter tried to interview Broady at the shelter Thursday, but staff said she was examining a fence, speaking with city attorneys or otherwise unavailable to comment on how the department will begin working with rescue groups.
Allen called Broady’s job status “a personnel issue” but denied, as did the commissioners present at the press conference, that the city had plans to terminate the veteran staffer.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2014-07-10/halt-killing-ordered-augusta-shelter
You can see here it´s possible to make a change together
In response to a flood of phone calls and e-mails, Augusta Animal Services has temporarily stopped euthanizing all but sick and vicious animals at its Mack Lane shelter, and is working with a rescue group and clinic to get spayed and neutered animals into loving homes, interim Administrator Tameka Allen said at a Thursday news conference.
We just wanted to make sure that we address this issue,” Allen said, “to let the public know that we hear their cries and appreciate the passion that they feel.”
Allen said Animal Services Director Sharon Broady will be working with a rescue group – Dog Networking Agents – to transport animals to a spay and neuter clinic before they are released to the group. By Tuesday’s Augusta Commission meeting, there will be new policies and options regarding animal sterilization and other rescue groups to present to commissioners, she said.
Area animal rescue groups have been upset over the city’s 70 percent kill rate - resulting in the deaths of more than 6,500 dogs, cats and other animals each of the last two years at the high-volume shelter - and with Director Broady’s unwillingness to work with rescue groups determined to find the animals homes.
Commissioner Grady Smith said his cell phone had been ringing all day since The Augusta Chronicle ran his number Thursday next to an editorial urging action, and it rang again during the news conference.
“I’ve had to change batteries on my cell phone,” Smith said. “They’re upset and there is passion involved, around the county especially. How many pickup trucks do you see with a (dog) in the back?”
It wasn’t clear Thursday whether the announced changes were enough to satisfy animal activists. Dennis Briatico, who led a Dec. 7 march against Georgia Regents University testing of dental implants on dogs, said a Friday protest at Augusta Animal Services was still on from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“It’s good to hear that they agreed that’s way too high a kill rate,” Briatico said.
Dog Networking Agency, or DNA, was formed last year by Hayley Zielinski and Ali Williams to connect unwanted animals with new owners, using a network of transporters, breed-specific and other rescue groups and low-cost spay and neuter clinics. The non-profit group has already “networked” some 200 Augusta animals over the last year, according to Zielinski.
Broady, who did not attend the news conference, angered some animal rescue groups in Augusta and nationwide when she refused to meet their demands to remove animals from the shelter, sparing them from near-certain death, citing Georgia laws requiring they be spayed or neutered first.
Commissioner Donnie Smith, a professed animal lover, said the city is doing as much as it can to address a complicated issue.
“We have heard the public loud and clear,” Donnie Smith said.
He and several other commissioners met previously with Augusta’s animal advisory board, rescue groups, staff and members of Macon-Bibb County Animal Welfare to explore options for reducing Augusta’s kill rate. Donnie Smith said that mandatory animal licensing in Macon creates a revenue stream the government uses for operations.
A Chronicle reporter tried to interview Broady at the shelter Thursday, but staff said she was examining a fence, speaking with city attorneys or otherwise unavailable to comment on how the department will begin working with rescue groups.
Allen called Broady’s job status “a personnel issue” but denied, as did the commissioners present at the press conference, that the city had plans to terminate the veteran staffer.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2014-07-10/halt-killing-ordered-augusta-shelter
You can see here it´s possible to make a change together
SheilaMJFan4Ever
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Speaking of non-stop rain, it's been raining here going on the 3rd day straight and my Vladimir is going nuts wanting to go outside. Cabin fever big time!
He's pouting after he whined at the door and I didn't let him out :
Still "Mad VLAD". . .
Poor baby! Hopefully we'll catch a break from the rain and see some sunlight.
Speaking of non-stop rain, it's been raining here going on the 3rd day straight and my Vladimir is going nuts wanting to go outside.
Cabin fever big time!He's pouting after he whined at the door and I didn't let him out :
Still "Mad VLAD". . .
Poor baby! Hopefully we'll catch a break from the rain and see some sunlight.
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Welcome home TimmyBob
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Two of the cats I have came from a hoarder.
I tried to find a new home for them and I did for the youngest cat , she was about a year old.
She didn´t eat and drink much in her new home and hid behind the couch.
That was not at all the way she behaved with me so we decided I should bring her back home to me.
When we came home she was so happy to see her friends again and I realised she decided my home is her forever home
[video=youtube_share;2XJl-wTi8CU]http://youtu.be/2XJl-wTi8CU?list=UUAmLJi2YBZC1Iz0hfy7NNHw[/video]
Two of the cats I have came from a hoarder.
I tried to find a new home for them and I did for the youngest cat , she was about a year old.
She didn´t eat and drink much in her new home and hid behind the couch.
That was not at all the way she behaved with me so we decided I should bring her back home to me.
When we came home she was so happy to see her friends again and I realised she decided my home is her forever home
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I´ve posted about the terrible situation for cats and dogs at the Suan Kaew Temple before.
Cat had to live in small cages for their own safety
[video=youtube_share;gFI6z5sxYhI]http://youtu.be/gFI6z5sxYhI[/video]
It´s better now
I hope they have been spayed or neutered and have those who need have gotten veterinarian care.Maybe they are working on it
Cat had to live in small cages for their own safety
[video=youtube_share;gFI6z5sxYhI]http://youtu.be/gFI6z5sxYhI[/video]
It´s better now
I hope they have been spayed or neutered and have those who need have gotten veterinarian care.Maybe they are working on it
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Mist, you are great what you do, hats off.
I personally cannot read half of the reports that you post because I just cannot take the animal suffering, abuse or mistreating. I try to read as much as possible, but sometimes the content is too much to me and heart breaks in pieces:-(
I'm glad that there are people like you in this world as all animals needs a people like you to speak and act on their behalf.
Mist, you are great what you do, hats off.
I personally cannot read half of the reports that you post because I just cannot take the animal suffering, abuse or mistreating. I try to read as much as possible, but sometimes the content is too much to me and heart breaks in pieces:-(
I'm glad that there are people like you in this world as all animals needs a people like you to speak and act on their behalf.
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I haven´t seen Earthlings and some undercover videos I got but I imagine I probably have seen most of the abuse before.
But i can try to work against it by signing letters, petitions and I have become vegan.
If you eat meat, eggs etc you can buy organic so you at least don´t support factory farms.
When i post the bad videos here I wish if someone here wants to have a cat, dog that they adopt it, don´t let the cats have kittens because it´s fun,don´t support exhibitions with tigercubs,lioncubs, don´t buy anything for your pet in shops that sells puppies and kittens, there are many things you can do to help
I also wish people learn cats suffer if they are declawed
I have actually learned a lot myself, I´ve posted videos with staff crying because they have to kill animals because the owners are so irresponsible.
There are irresponsible and I still want people to fix their pets but I´ve learned from the no kill movement that there are actually other solutions that works.
I want to show bad things happens but we can change it and sometimes there are good things
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:wub: I love rescue stories, especially one like this! Thanks for sharing
:wub: I love rescue stories, especially one like this! Thanks for sharing
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My sweet Vladimir turned 5 years old yesterday and he had a pretty mellow day! I don't go all out and have a party for him, but I do buy him new toys and a special treat.
Here he is, enjoying a break in the shade during out walk. . . :wub:
My sweet Vladimir turned 5 years old yesterday and he had a pretty mellow day!
I don't go all out and have a party for him, but I do buy him new toys and a special treat. Here he is, enjoying a break in the shade during out walk. . . :wub:
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Congratulations afterwards to Vladimir.:give_flowers:
I don´t know when my cats are born but I buy toys now and then from catshelters and give them.
Things with catnip are usually popular.
It has been a bad day here for Ronja, one of my cats.
She did´nt have a breakfast although she reminded me of it many times and she wasn´t allowed to go out.
The other cats didn´t have breakfast until she was in the car, and i had my breakfast when she was at the veterinarian..
Then we went to the veterinarian to remove plaque.
She were anesthetized then.
She has been much more tired after this then she was when she was spayed, but she´s older now, 11 years.
I remember when she was spayed , she had just been social to me but then she had become upset- I think it had something to do with not having breakfast- and I can say we were high and low before i got her into the cage.
It was really sweaty.
When we came home from the veterinarian after she was spayed she refuse to lie down and was walking all the time.
she got a hernia afterwards but not a big one.
I use to give my cats dry catfood, sometimes they get from cans.
Ronja sould eat soft food for a couple of days now, but she prefer dried food.
And she doesn´t like it if I try to wet the dry food.
At least she´s not a skinny cat.
I don´t know when my cats are born but I buy toys now and then from catshelters and give them.
Things with catnip are usually popular.
It has been a bad day here for Ronja, one of my cats.
She did´nt have a breakfast although she reminded me of it many times and she wasn´t allowed to go out.
The other cats didn´t have breakfast until she was in the car, and i had my breakfast when she was at the veterinarian..
Then we went to the veterinarian to remove plaque.
She were anesthetized then.
She has been much more tired after this then she was when she was spayed, but she´s older now, 11 years.
I remember when she was spayed , she had just been social to me but then she had become upset- I think it had something to do with not having breakfast- and I can say we were high and low before i got her into the cage.
It was really sweaty.
When we came home from the veterinarian after she was spayed she refuse to lie down and was walking all the time.
she got a hernia afterwards but not a big one.
I use to give my cats dry catfood, sometimes they get from cans.
Ronja sould eat soft food for a couple of days now, but she prefer dried food.
And she doesn´t like it if I try to wet the dry food.
At least she´s not a skinny cat.
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aww he is adorable! Looks like he had a full day of laid back fun!My sweet Vladimir turned 5 years old yesterday and he had a pretty mellow day!
Here he is, enjoying a break in the shade during out walk. . . :wub:
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Thanks and yes, he did! Here are some pics I snapped of him today and yesterday.
Today:
Yesterday (Vladimir checks out the ferals I've been caring for):
First face to face with Hulsey (feral):
King of the back yard, lol!
Thanks and yes, he did! Here are some pics I snapped of him today and yesterday.Today:
Yesterday (Vladimir checks out the ferals I've been caring for):
First face to face with Hulsey (feral):
King of the back yard, lol!
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He is so cute!! I see you've trained him to be on a leash! Do you get to walk him?
He is so cute!! I see you've trained him to be on a leash! Do you get to walk him?
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Yep, I started using a harness and leash when he was a kitten, because I lived in an apartment complex that was near a busy intersection (and some of my neighbors had dogs). He took to it pretty quickly, too! I got the idea from his vet and YouTube videos, lol!
Walking a cat isn't as structured as walking a dog. . .Vladimir goes where he WANTS and I just follow, making sure he doesn't get hung up on something or go into a space I can't get him out of. :rollin:
The only thing I don't like about it is he throws a mini cat tantrum when it's time to go back inside (hissing and growling at me, then will get limp and won't move, lol).
Edit He's over 15 lbs and too big for a cat leash and harness, so I have to use a dog leash and harness.
Yep, I started using a harness and leash when he was a kitten, because I lived in an apartment complex that was near a busy intersection (and some of my neighbors had dogs). He took to it pretty quickly, too! I got the idea from his vet and YouTube videos, lol!
Walking a cat isn't as structured as walking a dog. . .Vladimir goes where he WANTS and I just follow, making sure he doesn't get hung up on something or go into a space I can't get him out of. :rollin:
The only thing I don't like about it is he throws a mini cat tantrum when it's time to go back inside (hissing and growling at me, then will get limp and won't move, lol).
Edit He's over 15 lbs and too big for a cat leash and harness, so I have to use a dog leash and harness.