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To: Clemenza
A woman who founded a "no-kill" animal shelter was charged with health code and animal welfare violations after 200 dead cats were discovered rotting in garbage bags in her backyard.

Doesn't look like a "no-kill" shelter to me....

3 posted on 05/23/2005 3:40:12 PM PDT by zlala (I used to have a handle on life but it broke.)
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To: zlala
>Doesn't look like a "no-kill" shelter to me....

If they starved to death,
then she technically didn't
really "kill" the cats . . .

7 posted on 05/23/2005 3:46:27 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: zlala
>> Doesn't look like a "no-kill" shelter to me...

In fact, "no kill" shelters get feral or old house cats, many of them diseased. They are segregated, evaluated and dealt with in whatever manner necessary; none are put down, all eventually see a vet (paid through Strays In Need}. Usually the healthy young ones are put out by their original owners and retrieved years later in traps as aging feral. I have trapped cats for years with my mother.

I have seen this my whole life, every year I bury several kittens, several old feral that just die, and several extremely old house cats that are put down as a last resort (when their kidneys fail usu.). It is a sad business, and I can see how this woman in such a congested urban area ended up in this situation.

There is no excuse for hundreds of dead anything in any residential area, regardless of the motivation or intention behind the fact.
33 posted on 05/23/2005 4:18:11 PM PDT by mmercier (the king in yellow)
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