tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post2636673788535464498..comments2024-03-16T04:40:25.964-07:00Comments on LA Animal Watch: Too Bad No One Cares But UsEd Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-36371664164460050522008-01-29T21:04:00.000-08:002008-01-29T21:04:00.000-08:00It's all a bunch of bull. You take in a stray unn...It's all a bunch of bull. You take in a stray unneutered male and a stray unaltered female into the shelter, hoping that someone will rescue them and provide them with a good home. <BR/><BR/>Good news: They get adopted. <BR/><BR/>Problem: The guy or lady who's been feeding the cats discovered that their cats aren't showing up to eat so they look for them at the shelter. <BR/><BR/>The feeder has no medical records or proof of spay neuter because the feeder has never provided the cats with as much as even vaccinations during the whole time they've been feeding the strays...and allowing them to roam the neighborhood breeding for years. <BR/><BR/>In the meantime, the feeder goes to the shelter, locates his/her missing cat, and now the cat has a URI. <BR/><BR/>The feeder wants the cat back, so he/she "adopts" the cat formally and leaves the shelter w/ a microchipped cat. But, because the cat has NOW contracted a URI after being in the shelter for a week, the shelter gives the "new owner" a 30-day defferment for spay and neuter. <BR/><BR/>The ninkumpoop irresponsible feeder/now new owner of the cat pays the fees, takes the cat and puts it right back outside.<BR/><BR/>It's kitten season, and the cat gets 30 whole days to spread his URI among the neighborhood cats, and continue his breeding cycle. <BR/><BR/>Now the four-month-old females not only get pregnant by the roaming URI infected male and has kittens 60 days later, but the cat becomes a nursing mom with a set of feral kittens, all with URI's. <BR/><BR/>The same thing happens with the females who are released to their feeders who never bothered to alter their cats. They're allowed to spread their Upper Respiratory infections among the rest of the cats the "new owner" has been feeding, and in the meantime, they're out making kittens for the entire 30 days of spay/neuter "deferrment." <BR/><BR/>Supposedly the Spay/Netuer task force gets out to the "new owner's residence to make sure the adopted cat is altered after 30 days, but isn't it a horrible shame that they rarely find the cat at home, and there the newly adopted cat had never been altered, because he's now "disappeared" and nowhere to be found. <BR/><BR/>At best, the newly adopted cat with the defferment for spay and neuter has had 30 whole days to become a kitten machine, and the "new owner" doesn't give a crap whether he's allowing his/her cat to spread a URI among his own colony of cats, and among the rest of the cats in the neighborhood.<BR/><BR/>LAAS has got to change it's policy allowing the adoption of unaltered and sick animals. Many adopters/feeders don't have a clue about not letting their cats out when they're sick and unaltered. <BR/>They don't even take them to the vet to get meds even when the first medical exam is free w/ adoption from the shelter. <BR/><BR/>But everything looks fine and dandy on paper because the adoption statistics have gone up by allowing sick and unaltered cats to be "adopted" by the original feeders looking for their (unaltered) cats, and it doesn't matter because the numbers look good. The cats have not been euthanized. Just put back onto the street to reproduce and spread their upper respiratory infections among other altered cats other responsible caregivers are actually caring for. <BR/><BR/>Sick beyond belief. The numbers are more important than actual population control and the health and well-being of the cats. <BR/><BR/> A pandemic illness among cat colonies doesn't mean a thing to the people at the top. Those numbers are all that matters. <BR/><BR/>This has got to change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-23959948282170353152008-01-29T01:37:00.000-08:002008-01-29T01:37:00.000-08:00It's true. Feral cats are refused at the door and...It's true. Feral cats are refused at the door and turned away. They won't accept the cats in a trap; the ACT's call the officers on duty if the cat is in a box or a carrier, and, they won't issue trapping permits if you beg and plead for the sake of the cats in danger. <BR/><BR/>Kittens are also refused at the door, and send you back w/ formula (maybe); make you responsible for their raising them; providing them with medical care, and tell you to bring them back when they're 8 weeks old, so that they've got competition w/ the rest of the other kittens at the shelter, until they get sick and have to be put to sleep. <BR/><BR/>If you take the kittens home, then you undergo the risk of getting threatened and raided for having too many cats, or sick cats and kittens---who have been refused at the shelter in the first place. <BR/><BR/>Cyclical w/ catch 22, until you get caught and go to jail for crimminal animal neglect. <BR/><BR/>What's wrong with this picture?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-46771080313198883932008-01-24T19:46:00.000-08:002008-01-24T19:46:00.000-08:00Why isn't this information hitting the LA TIMES an...Why isn't this information hitting the LA TIMES and other large news? I'm sure that even the Sacramento Bee should print this!! <BR/><BR/>It is sickeningf that Boks can get away with all he's gotten away with. I'm sure hundreds more animals will die before the city fires him.... <BR/><BR/>Too bad New York wasn't truthful about him and what a screw-up he was. Maybe LA would not have hired him! <BR/><BR/>It's time that Villaragosa listens to his constituents and does something about the whole mess. Is he losing any sleep over all the animals killed needlessly and those that died because they didn't get proper care??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-15116326068696888912008-01-24T16:33:00.000-08:002008-01-24T16:33:00.000-08:00How does this guy keep getting away with the same ...How does this guy keep getting away with the same bullshit in each City? He must be a good con man or else the politicians who hire him just don't give a shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-89615397434140788462008-01-24T15:34:00.000-08:002008-01-24T15:34:00.000-08:00Poster number two, you are right. Villaraigosa doe...Poster number two, you are right. Villaraigosa doesn't care about doing a good job. That's not his goal. So why would he care if his directors did a good job or not. He just cares about positive press for himself, real or imagined.<BR/><BR/>He is just like Boks, using his job to try to get laid, going out and getting drunk in public, lying to everyone including his wife and kids, just doing whatever the heck he wants. <BR/><BR/>Please, everyone. Don't vote for him ever again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-35185928471714176282008-01-24T14:51:00.000-08:002008-01-24T14:51:00.000-08:00The Mayor doesn't give a shit. He wouldn't care if...The Mayor doesn't give a shit. He wouldn't care if every animal in LA just dropped dead. He only cares about his next gig. Politicians are all the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-48996755336901071972008-01-24T14:08:00.000-08:002008-01-24T14:08:00.000-08:00The reason Antonio Villaraigosa supports Boks is b...The reason Antonio Villaraigosa supports Boks is because old Antonio can't for the life of him see what's wrong with not doing the job taxpayers pay you for; using that job to get laid by whoever's available; evading the truth; evading people who try to tell you the truth; and blatantly angling for bigger, better-paying gigs instead of doing your actual job.<BR/><BR/>Of course. if Antonio Villaraigosa had ever paid attention to his job we would never have had to deal with Boks in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Say goodbye to the governor's job, Antonio...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-6526744331602751102008-01-24T14:02:00.000-08:002008-01-24T14:02:00.000-08:00....Talk about eye opening. How can the City not s.....<BR/>..<BR/>Talk about eye opening. How can the City not see the problem here? There is an elephant in the room and he is called Ed Boks. New York realized that he faked the numbers and fired him. How much more will Los Angeles take? How many more lives will be lost?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com