Case update: *Following an investigation of*what appears to be a botched do-it-yourself cat neuter at the Lee Co pound in SC, the solicitor*s office declined to press charges against the pound director, Doris Winstead, citing lack of evidence. *Winstead reportedly resigned from her job last month. *(Thank you Clarice for the link.)
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Case update: *After a video showing starving dogs eating another dog at the Idabel pound in Oklahoma went viral, a rescuer from Tulsa went to the pound to pull 7 dogs. *Despite learning that the pound has no cleaning protocols in place, the rescuer told the local news that the place just needs a new paint job and the dead dog wasn*t being so much “eaten” as he was being “licked”. *Aw. *Enablers, so soft and fuzzy. *There are still dogs at the Idabel pound and the police chief says the sole ACO will keep his job.* (Thanks Clarice.)
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Jerry Strong, an ACO at the Memphis pound, has been charged with rape. *After the charges were reported by local media, more women came forward to accuse Strong*of rape and the city of Memphis with covering up their complaints. *Strong has worked in past as a Memphis police officer and a security guard for the public school system. *Allegations of sexual misconduct have followed him everywhere as the city has passed him from department to department. *Strong is still working at MAS, on desk duty. *(Thanks to everyone who sent me this story.)
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If you volunteer at a public shelter and have been forced to sign an agreement that you won*t speak out about what you see there on threat*of being banned, you should know that the agreement has all the legal value of toilet paper and you might like to use it accordingly. *The latest judge to say so was in a Maryland case:
Any questions? *(Thank you Jan.)
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Local animal advocates call Putnam Co Animal Control in Florida a “death camp” where more than a third of the animals are killed by heartstick. *The county says nobody wants to kill animals and blah. *(Thanks Clarice.)
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Inconceivable: *Three million years ago, South America had rodents of unusual size who used their front teeth teeth like an elephant uses his tusks.
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Case update: *After a video showing starving dogs eating another dog at the Idabel pound in Oklahoma went viral, a rescuer from Tulsa went to the pound to pull 7 dogs. *Despite learning that the pound has no cleaning protocols in place, the rescuer told the local news that the place just needs a new paint job and the dead dog wasn*t being so much “eaten” as he was being “licked”. *Aw. *Enablers, so soft and fuzzy. *There are still dogs at the Idabel pound and the police chief says the sole ACO will keep his job.* (Thanks Clarice.)
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Jerry Strong, an ACO at the Memphis pound, has been charged with rape. *After the charges were reported by local media, more women came forward to accuse Strong*of rape and the city of Memphis with covering up their complaints. *Strong has worked in past as a Memphis police officer and a security guard for the public school system. *Allegations of sexual misconduct have followed him everywhere as the city has passed him from department to department. *Strong is still working at MAS, on desk duty. *(Thanks to everyone who sent me this story.)
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If you volunteer at a public shelter and have been forced to sign an agreement that you won*t speak out about what you see there on threat*of being banned, you should know that the agreement has all the legal value of toilet paper and you might like to use it accordingly. *The latest judge to say so was in a Maryland case:
[T]he “opportunity to serve as a volunteer or partner with a government organization” as a rescuer is a constitutionally protected benefit and that volunteers and rescuers have “the right to exercise constitutionally protected free speech, free of a state actor*s retaliatory adverse act.”
Any questions? *(Thank you Jan.)
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Local animal advocates call Putnam Co Animal Control in Florida a “death camp” where more than a third of the animals are killed by heartstick. *The county says nobody wants to kill animals and blah. *(Thanks Clarice.)
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Inconceivable: *Three million years ago, South America had rodents of unusual size who used their front teeth teeth like an elephant uses his tusks.
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