tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18142041256955459202024-02-06T22:39:26.782-08:00THE CAT'S EYE PROJECT"Counties' alliance to sterilize and end yesterday's euthanasia"CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-23117823437342192382012-03-03T11:58:00.000-08:002012-03-03T11:58:46.023-08:00NEWSLETTER March 2012<b>All cats pictured in this newsletter are up for adoption. </b><br />
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<b>ARCTICA’S COLONY</b><br />
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Just one of countless local TNR Success Stories<br />
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Purr-fectly happy” seems the best summing-up of all the many positive comments from Arctica’s<br />
Trap-Neuter-Return Colony’s visitors about the well-being of resident felines there.<br />
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That’s good, because like all good soldiers, the Arctica’s Colony cats have done their duty well.<br />
And now, after a decade of distinguished service in a neighborhood TNR colony, these veterans just want to go home. For most, when that miracle finally happens for them, it will be a matter of “Going Home” for the first time ever!<br />
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<b>Arctica</b><br />
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That is because the majority of these Arctica’s Colony kitties never in their lives so far ever had opportunity to experience a real home life in which he or she was the one-and-only little family “pet” and the center of attention. Sure, their loving colony-keeper held, hugged and lavished luxurious amounts of affection, protection and praise on these babies every day of their colony life. That’s just never quite the same as being the one-and-only sole recipient of that so well deserved adoration.<br />
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These little guys yearn for the gilded life lived in a one-pet family, or maybe a really large human family with lots of animals appreciating family members, all with plenty of leisure time to divide among just two or possibly three pets at the very most and, of course, with economic resources and wisdom to properly provide for pets’ many needs. They know such legendary good human folks really do exist. <br />
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Well, at least, they’ve read that such marvelous creatures do truly exist out there somewhere and that that all the legend-and-lore about them are not just manufactured myths parent cats and dogs make up to amuse their kitties and puppies.<br />
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If you think you qualify as an adopter of and can give a good home to an Arctica’s Colony kitty and would like to schedule a meetand-greet-the-kitties tour of Arctica’s Colony, please contact the Colony caregiver at 1-386-740-0651.<br />
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<b>VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. CAN YOU HELP? CALL 386-740-0651 FOR INFORMATION</b><br />
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<b>SANCTUARY, Please</b><br />
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In January, 2011 the following plea for SANCTUARY ran in this publication. We are asking you<br />
to please read it again now.<br />
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Just a little Volusia County land – just temporary use of it, not ownership – can save thousands of lives and millions of dollars. The numbers of healthy, innocent puppies and dogs, cats and tiny kittens being killed annually by Volusia County and its cities’ local governments are still in the thousands and taxpayers are still stuck with paying the exorbitant cost of these killings we don’t want!<br />
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Yet, these heartless killings are not making even a dent in our out of control pet overpopulation crisis. Obsolete animal control policy is not controlling the problem!<br />
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Citizen volunteers’ alternative solutions – spaying-neutering, trap-neuter-return, fostering and adoption – are succeeding, but cannot complete the transition to a No-Kill animal control-and-care system until sanctuaries are established for relocating sterilized animals that don’t get adopted and cannot be returned to their original outdoor homes. <br />
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Animal activists are begging our county council (working with our city governments) to provide property for sanctuary.<br />
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Council members appear to be listening and considering. Council knows hundreds or thousands of this county’s citizen volunteers who already give time, energy and most of our income to saving cats and dogs by our own means gladly will help care for animals housed in sanctuaries. Readers, please confirm – quickly! --via phone calls, letters and emails to your Council representative that a Volusia sanctuary is needed!<br />
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Pet overpopulation can be contained without killing. San Diego proved it decades ago. Other cities across America copied. Jacksonville-Duval is proving it. Our time is now! Sterilization of all pets – which can cost as little as one-third the million dollar cost of killing – and sanctuary, backed up by<br />
smaller trap-neuter-return colonies, is the solution.<br />
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In a few years, killing our surplus pets will be only a bad memory. Our only concern will be how could we have been so barbaric in the past? There will be peace for our pets and a clear conscience for us humans. Hurry that day.<br />
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Tell County Council we need a sanctuary!<br />
<b><br />
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR DELAND’S SECOND CHANCE SHELTER</b><br />
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Volunteers are needed to assist with the animals. Our trained Animal Control Officer needs to be<br />
free to do his job. Volunteers are needed to do housekeeping, walking and being with the animals.<br />
Petting a scared kitty. Calming a confused dog. They need YOU.<br />
EMAIL thomasg@deland.org<br />
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<b>CAT’S EYE EDITORIAL</b><br />
Hard working Volusia animal activists, please just keep on doing what you’re doing.<br />
Should-be volunteers not yet helping, please sign on soon.<br />
So many helpless animals so greatly need our help!<br />
Happily, we are winning this war we’ve waged against our national tragedy of senseless and barbaric killings of healthy, happy, innocent kittens, puppies, cats and dogs, eight million of these wrongful deaths annually nationwide, with taxpayers forced to fund this atrocity!<br />
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And, we Volusians, are not alone in our war on the misnomer “euthanasia” of healthy animals at equally misnamed shelters that more accurately are kill-sites.<br />
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All over the USA others are choosing the same alternative solutions for replacing “euthanasia” that we are working on here – spay and neuter, TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return), fostering and adoptions, sanctuaries and education programs about those better ways of controlling animal overpopulation, without killing.<br />
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Some places even very successfully operate community thrift shops and other fundraising projects to help finance an end of the killings.<br />
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Whenever one of our lovely animals dies, because we Volusia animal workers could not save it from euthanasia in time, however, the sadness makes us feel we are indeed so very alone and helpless,<br />
Even in painful times like that, Volusia’s animal-work volunteers can at least find some comfort in knowing it is our never-ending efforts that are creating the positive changes happening here.<br />
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Our rescue and care of animals and our adoptive- homes-finding for “surplus” pets with no place to be are already starting to create those essential changes here. We’re even influencing the way uninvolved others in our communities treat our non-human-species animals.<br />
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Volusia’s dedicated animal activist volunteers are indeed saving the lives of great numbers of wonderful, deserving little animals!<br />
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At the same time, however, many of us are paying such a heavy personal price for all those precious saved lives and for the safety of all those animals rescued and tended with such good care.<br />
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Non-stop, never-ending daily rescue-and-care routines for achieving our No-Kill goal are exhausting and never ending. That can be very tough on us.<br />
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After so many years of such endless hard work and monetary and other personal challenges and sacrifices involved in this work, so many of us are just SO TIRED! WE ARE SO VERY, VERY TIRED!!!<br />
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Free time? What’s that? No, no, of course not. No such thing exists in our lives these days.<br />
We will not stop doing whatever it takes to save the animals’ lives, not until our No-Kill goal is reality, not until the animals are safe. Just keep on keeping on, fellow animal activists! We have to, for our animals.<br />
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“It’s all about the animals,” summed up one heavily involved volunteer.<br />
She couldn’t have summed up better for all of us our feelings about that..<br />
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<b> DEATH ROW PETS’ LIVES DEPEND ON YOU!</b><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">BE AN ACTIVIST FOR ANIMALS, JOIN ANIMAL RESCUE TODAY!</span><br />
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The No-Kill War to end official killings of our “surplus” pets as an ineffective and outdated animal control policy IS being won, but too slowly. Meanwhile, too many of our innocent healthy pets are still dying needlessly. There is only way to end the wrongful killings soon.<br />
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More volunteers must join in the work to make this right and just cause reality.<br />
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Please join in today this lives-savings crusade for justice for our pets who so unselfishly give their all to making us humans happy.<br />
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Join and work with any of the many local animal rescue efforts throughout Volusia and neighboring counties.<br />
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In Volusia’s county seat, DeLand, you won’t have to look far to find a vital animal rescue site where the role you play can help save large numbers of animal lives.<br />
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The City of DeLand two years ago courageously and mercifully stepped up and took the lead locally, in switching from the antiquated and merciless killings of a darker era of history to today’s kinder, gentler, more sensible and certainly more economical (to taxpayers who formerly financed the kill-contracts!) way of doing animal population control.<br />
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The secret of DeLand’s Second Chance program ‘s success is all of its hardworking and dedicated volunteers who labor endlessly to find adoptive homes for every cat, dog, kitten, puppy or other lost, abandoned or independently-surviving lost pet picked up by the city’s animal- control-and-care department.<br />
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The city is justifiably very proud to report that not one pet picked-up by its animal control has been killed since its Second Chance program. replaced the earlier system in which the city had to fund huge sums for out-of-town kill contracts for ridding the town of its pet pests.<br />
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Local animal advocates are elated with Second Chance’s success in saving formerly doomed animals’ lives and they are investing in its continued success by giving all the time, energy and hard labor they can to keeping Second Chance alive.<br />
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These Second Chance volunteers’ never-ending hard work has kept Second Chance and great numbers of rescued cats, dogs, kittens, puppies and other animals alive these difficult beginning years. It is time now to give these dedicated humans a break, even just a little rest now and then. It is time, as they say in the old westerns-and-war -movies, for the cavalry to ride in.<br />
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Rescue, in the form of new recruits, is now essential for the weary folks who got all this started years ago and who have been working too hard too long.!<br />
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Please join one or more of the several area rescue groups working with Second Chance or just call Second Chance and ask what you can do to help there.<br />
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There are so many ways, from the essential chores involved in keeping the Second Chance haven clean to walking the dogs and calming scared kittens.<br />
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The saving of precious lives depends so much on the decision of those reading this to take on a vital lives-saving role in this citizens’ effort to stop the killing!<br />
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<b>Just VOLUNTEER!</b> The rest will fall in place.<br />
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TO VOLUNTEER, CALL: Respect for Pets 386-985-1100 ARK 386-738-2771 CAT’S EYE 386-740.0651CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-25192241485842805322011-06-14T08:28:00.000-07:002011-06-14T08:28:24.277-07:00EUTHANASIA LEADS TO OTHER ABUSEAnimal abuse links to human abuse and other crimes. Why it is so important to STOP ANIMAL ABUSE!<br />
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This includes indifference to unwarented animal euthanasia.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.html</a>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-60487453231298748362011-04-11T08:53:00.000-07:002011-04-11T10:07:05.692-07:00THE CAT'S EYE PROJECT NEWSLETTER<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SANCTUARY, Please!</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just a little Volusia County land – just temporary use of it, not ownership – can save thousands of lives and<br />
millions of dollars.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
The numbers of healthy, innocent puppies and dogs, cats and tiny kittens being killed annually by Volusia County and its cities’ local governments are still in the thousands and taxpayers are still stuck with paying the exorbitant cost of these killings we don’t want!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Yet, these heartless killings are not making even a dent in our out of control pet overpopulation crisis. Obsolete animal control policy is not controlling the problem!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Citizen volunteers’ alternative solutions – spaying-neutering, trap-neuter-return, fostering and adoption – are succeeding, but cannot complete the transition to a No-Kill animal control-and-care system until sanctuaries are established for relocating sterilized animals that don’t get adopted and cannot be returned to their original<br />
outdoor homes.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Animal activists are begging our county council (working with our city governments) to provide property for sanctuary. Council members appear to be listening and considering. Council knows hundreds or thousands of this county’s citizen volunteers who already give time, energy and most of our income to saving cats and dogs by our own means gladly will help care for animals housed in sanctuaries. Readers, please confirm – quickly! --via phone calls, letters and emails to your Council representative that a Volusia sanctuary is needed!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Pet overpopulation can be contained without killing. San Diego proved it decades ago. Other cities across America copied. Jacksonville-Duval is proving it. Our time is now!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Sterilization of all pets – which can cost as little as one-third the million dollar cost of killing – and sanctuary, backed up by smaller trap-neuter-return colonies, is the solution. In a few years, killing our surplus pets will be only a bad memory. Our only concern will be how could we have been so barbaric in the past? There will be peace for our pets and a clear conscience for us humans. Hurry that day. Tell County Council we need a<br />
sanctuary!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlflKsP0UjCB5p9zBnmtl2T2fSe0hALJj9yxDZbhzfcSwWJhn0tyd_mndFoBwbzVrIGwUU9R1rVj62qSb7jPZB_q_NgiBFvJ7hMNxIM8xPy6Flz-gH2bvyvhRQ7vlqAsLQP-BsHyiiS0m/s1600/baxterthecat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlflKsP0UjCB5p9zBnmtl2T2fSe0hALJj9yxDZbhzfcSwWJhn0tyd_mndFoBwbzVrIGwUU9R1rVj62qSb7jPZB_q_NgiBFvJ7hMNxIM8xPy6Flz-gH2bvyvhRQ7vlqAsLQP-BsHyiiS0m/s200/baxterthecat.jpg" width="149" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RESCUE ME!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b> </span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is <b>BAXTER.</b> He and his family were used for target practice and were full of beebees when they were rescued. His mom and siblings now have forever homes. Baxter is friendly and playful. He is about 11 weeks old, is neutered and has had his first set of shots. Please call (386) 740-0651 if you have space in your heart and home for him. </span></div></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TRIBUTE TO LOST LOVES</span></b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>IN LOVING MEMORY OF WESLEY 2000-2011 </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><b>IN LOVING MEMORY OF BUDDY 1999-2010 </b>Buddy is the dog in the story of how he was abandoned with a whole litter and survived while being abused until I stopped my car, lifted him into the back seat and took him to his forever home. The whole story of Buddy is on this blog. </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Buddy died last summer while being treated for severe diabetes and other health problems. The last time I saw him, he did not know me and his time was very short. He was being lovingly treated by Dr. Evers. We all miss Buddy and think of him every day.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgexbw0xWMplukpkOCA0uDfb9lJc343clCfpTIIEFBQGx-tURbqe3HKUvyAvmDaBFK-pKfJ0w0KvHIv5NeUhw0eqdlkrYCxQWHp-hEwQPPvOutUn8EgndwYp3ryZ-FbwYTi3Dk-RmHlrgSL/s1600/st+francis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgexbw0xWMplukpkOCA0uDfb9lJc343clCfpTIIEFBQGx-tURbqe3HKUvyAvmDaBFK-pKfJ0w0KvHIv5NeUhw0eqdlkrYCxQWHp-hEwQPPvOutUn8EgndwYp3ryZ-FbwYTi3Dk-RmHlrgSL/s1600/st+francis.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The Legacy of St. Francis! <br />
Did You Inherit It?</b></i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">America’s historic 20th century battle for human rights, we keep our eyes on the prize, knowing it’s been a long time coming, but “change is gonna come” again, and this time it will be for animal’s rights that the times, they are a-changin’! From Ponce Inlet to Deltona to DeLand, here’s what’s happened today to St. Francis’ legacy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>SAVING BUCK -- A DELAND STORY WITH A VERY HAPPY ENDING.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Buck” is alive and well, because a Good Samaritan intervened in a split.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">A handsome life-loving young brindle pit dog, Buck spent much of his life chained in his back yard. By day, it was a heartbreaking sight. At night, his loud barking brought neighborhood threats of shooting him. His family knew they couldn’t keep him. Sadly, they arranged for a family friend to pick him up and take him to a “shelter” to be killed. Why? Like 20,000 Volusia animals annually, Buck was going to be killed only because there was nowhere for him to go.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Buck had different ideas. An hour before the scheduled pick-up time, the family unchained him for a final few minutes of freedom. Buck seized his chance to live. Literally running for his life and with all the family’s small children in pursuit, Buck ran toward busy Amelia Avenue.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somewhere along his escape route a car driving by stopped and the driver asked the children what was going on. “Buck’s going to be killed, because we can’t keep him,” the children explained, repeating by rote the words they had told everyone they met that sad day. “Then, I’ll take Buck home with me, if you want me to,” the man told the kids.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The relief in their happy eyes celebrated their joy that their good dog Buck was not going to die after all. The impromptu dog rescuer was a member of the family that owns the popular long-time store on the corner of Amelia and Voorhis in the No-Kill City of DeLand, a town with a big heart where people care about animals and if one needs rescuing, somebody will step up and do it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: blue; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The Legacy of St. Francis Did You Inherit It?</b></i></span></div><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><b>THE BROKEN CAT -- ANOTHER DELAND STORY, ONE TO BREAK YOUR HEART.</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">She was just another restaurant parking lot cat, one of the multitude of overpopulation-caused starving homeless cats struggling for survival on food scraps found in nightly foraging. She lived with other cats in the woods behind a popular drive-through fast food enterprise.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The animal activist heard about the unfortunate cat from a friend who saw her at the restaurant, dragging her back legs. Deeply touched by the description of the cat’s severe injuries, probably from being run over by a car, the activist hurried to the site, determined to catch the suffering cat and get her to a veterinarian for treatment.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Time after time, for weeks, the would-be rescuer fought her way through dense woods thickets in search of the broken cat, sometimes sighting but never able to get her, grievously saddened each time she had to leave without the hurt cat. After a while, she never saw the cat again.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">She later learned that a month earlier – the last day she saw the cat -- animal control had been called, had trapped the cat and taken her to a veterinarian where a broken back spinal injury and two broken legs was the diagnosis, with no hope of recovery, and a decision was made to euthanize.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">She had not been contacted and informed of the cat’s demise during that long month she continued to search desperately for the cat almost daily, because the animal control officer she was working with was hospitalized that day and his substitute was unaware of her efforts.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The activist’s terrible grief was doubled by the fact she had earlier succeeded in persuading a well-know local animal refuge to take the cat in and give her a home, if caught.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">“It haunts me,” the grieving would-be rescuer said later, “but at least I know I tried. She is in heaven now.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><b>PONCE INLET: LEADING THE WAY FOR TRAP-NEUTER-RETURN SOLUTION!</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Based on the very successful TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) procedures established by Animal Control Officer Suzanne Holy in Ormond Beach, Ponce Inlet has a well managed community TNR program that provides indisputable proof that the TNR solution works as an alternative to yesteryear’s obsolete animal control policy of killing animals.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">And, Ponce Animal Welfare, Inc.Welfare, Inc. (PAW) president Jo Ellen Basile is doing a great job of spreading the word that well managed TNR colonies like Ponce Inlets’ are the only solution to the problem of free-roaming cats that has the support of the public.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Most people,” she stated, “would agree that preserving the life of innocent creatures instead of routinely killing them when they multiply out of control is the right thing to do. Tax dollars are saved through donations and through a reduction in animal control needs and humane society fees. Google ‘TNR success’ and you will be overwhelmed by the countless reports and studies showing the success of TNR.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Halifax Humane Society just took a giant step forward toward Volusia County animal advocates’ goal of “No More Euthanasia 2014” by providing 400 free spays or neuters during eight days in early February. What a wonderful surprise gift that was for animal rescuers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Especially to be praised was Halifax’s inclusion of not just household pets but free roaming (feral) neighborhood cats as well in these free-spay days. Halifax’s generosity was a huge help to the county’s hundreds of financially overburdened citizen volunteers who maintain TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return and Trap- Neuter-Relocate) colonies at our own expense and we are grateful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Those four hundred sterilized cats will add up to inestimable generations of homeless kittens not born just to be killed, not slaughtered victims of the surplus pet overpopulation crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We mourn the too many innocents who have already died – like The CAT’S EYE Project’s logo cat Que Sera – but we celebrate an end in sight now, the day when no more innocent healthy kittens, puppies, cats and dogs will be killed just because till now there was no place for them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thanks, Halifax, for this splendid reinforcement of hope and faith in the No-Kill Revolution!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><b>AND YET, LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS PUTTING OUT MORE KILL CONTRACTS!</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the West Volusia Beacon: “Disposing of strays, Deltona has allocated as much as $10,000 for the Southeast Volusia Humane Society and as much as $80,000 for Halifax Humane Society to impound and possibly euthanize the dogs, cats and other living things caught within the city limits by animal control officers.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Volusia County has allocated $300,000 for animal confinement and euthanasia during 2011.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">This adds up to a $390,000 kill-contract price tag for taxpayers! Just visualize how great a sanctuary program nearly $400,000 could buy for our doomed beloved animals with no place to go now but to<b> </b></span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;"><b>Death Rows</b> </span><span style="font-size: small;">and the killing chambers. A combination of sanctuaries and TNR can save thousands of cats’ and kittens’ lives and, indirectly, dogs and puppies as well!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The only way that can happen is for citizens to tell County Council and City Commission elected representatives you don’t want to kill again!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tell them to stop killing our healthy innocent animals and to start sending those homeless pets to a sanctuary with overpopulation-ending sterilizations at only half the current cost of killing!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: medium medium 1px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in;"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tell them today!</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><b>WE’RE KILLING KITTENS, PUPPIES, DOGS AND CATS…</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #2323dc; font-size: large;"><b>Only YOU can save them. PLEASE VOLUNTEER!</b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dedicated animal activists are winning the “No-Kill” war to end misnamed and unnecessary “euthanasias” of healthy, harmless, lost or abandoned pets whose only crime is homelessness.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Victory, however, requires quick arrival of new reinforcement troops, because veteran animal rescuers, fosterS and adoptions workers are too weary to keep carrying our heavy loads alone. We’ve been fighting this battle too long without rest, some for decades, and we are worn out! Energetic fresh volunteers are desperately needed! </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">YOU are needed, if you care enough about innocent animals doomed to premature deaths to volunteer a bit of your time and energy to rescuing them and helping find homes for them or providing back-up support in many ways, from fundraising projects to telephone work at home.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please call (1-386) 740-0651 today and let us put you in touch with field workers desperately needing the assistance of new volunteers with the very skills you possess. Call back if no reply, because the volunteer manning the phone for recruiting new volunteers is busy with overseeing a cat colony requiring time and attention and is frequently out in the field. Evening calls are best.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Halifax Humane Society just took a giant step forward toward Volusia County animal advocates’ goal of “No More Euthanasia 2014” by providing 400 free spays or neuters during eight days in early February. What a wonderful surprise gift that was for animal rescuers!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Especially to be praised was Halifax’s inclusion of not just household pets but free roaming (feral) neighborhood cats as well in these free-spay days. Halifax’s generosity was a huge help to the county’s hundreds of financially overburdened citizen volunteers who maintain TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return and Trap-Neuter-Relocate) colonies at our own expense and we are grateful!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those four hundred sterilized cats will add up to inestimable generations of homeless kittens not born just to be killed, not slaughtered victims of the surplus pet overpopulation crisis.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">We mourn the too many innocents who have already died – like The CAT’S EYE Project’s logo cat Que Sera – but we celebrate an end in sight now, the day when no more innocent healthy kittens, puppies, cats and dogs will be killed just because till now there was no place for them all.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks, Halifax, for this splendid reinforcement of hope and faith in the No-Kill Revolution!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Editor................................................................Jami Baker-Nebeker</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Deleon springs, FL 32130 </span></div>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-2827820693107582022011-03-31T11:30:00.000-07:002011-03-31T11:51:02.428-07:00COUNTY COUNCIL MULLS CAT SANCTUARY<b>Just a little Volusia County land – just temporary use of it, not ownership – can save thousands of lives and millions of dollars.</b><br />
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The numbers of healthy, innocent puppies and dogs, cats and tiny kittens being killed annually by Volusia County and its cities’ local governments are still in the thousands and taxpayers are still stuck with paying the<br />
exorbitant cost of these killings we don’t want!<br />
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Yet, these heartless killings are not making even a dent in our out of control pet overpopulation crisis.<br />
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<b>Obsolete animal control policy is not controlling the problem!</b><br />
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Citizen volunteers’ alternative solutions – spaying-neutering, trap-neuter-return, fostering and adoption – are succeeding, but cannot complete the transition to a No-Kill animal control-and-care system until sanctuaries are established for relocating sterilized animals that don’t get adopted and cannot be returned to their original outdoor homes.<br />
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<div style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Animal activists are begging our county council (working with our city governments) to provide property for sanctuary. </b></div><br />
<b>Council members appear to be listening and considering. </b>Council knows hundreds or thousands of this county’s citizen volunteers who already give time, energy and most of our income to saving cats and dogs by our own means gladly will help care for animals housed in sanctuaries. Readers, please confirm – quickly! -- via phone calls, letters and emails to your Council representative that a Volusia sanctuary is needed!<br />
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Pet overpopulation can be contained without killing. San Diego proved it decades ago. Other cities across America copied. Jacksonville-Duval is proving it.<br />
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<div style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Our time is now!</b></div><br />
Sterilization of all pets – which can cost as little as one-third the million dollar cost of killing – and sanctuary, backed up by smaller trap-neuter-return colonies, is the solution.<br />
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In a few years, killing our surplus pets will be only a bad memory. Our only concern will be how could we have been so barbaric in the past? There will be peace for our pets and a clear conscience for us humans. Hurry that day. <b style="color: #cc0000;">Tell County Council we need a sanctuary!</b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwpCQujkQsHhuSCOc2vgWXNq0c-3KfxvvXv5-X2TA_B1mYR71G4alveOEF6smfGRUOgSJCc7QXiZnplzMxcpWbIHUc2JlM3dLRuZrHywrwnuLo4_vD-oJcHv_oXrqYdL0RbY2HAKFhkGz/s1600/baxterthecat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwpCQujkQsHhuSCOc2vgWXNq0c-3KfxvvXv5-X2TA_B1mYR71G4alveOEF6smfGRUOgSJCc7QXiZnplzMxcpWbIHUc2JlM3dLRuZrHywrwnuLo4_vD-oJcHv_oXrqYdL0RbY2HAKFhkGz/s1600/baxterthecat.jpg" /></a></div>This is <b>BAXTER</b>. He and his family were used for target practice and were full of BB's when they were rescued. His mom and siblings now have forever homes. Baxter is friendly and playful. He is about 11 weeks old, is neutered and has had his first set of shots. Please call (386) 740-0651 if you have space in your heart and home for him.CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-33628638657698634752011-03-02T06:28:00.000-08:002011-03-02T06:32:03.068-08:00LETTERS TO COUNTY COUNCIL<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">In a message dated 2/3/2011 11:46:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,<br />
<a href="mailto:janice.potter@zurichna.com" target="_blank">janice.potter@zurichna.com</a> writes:<br />
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To the Volusia County Council:<br />
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I have been doing some research and talking with several very knowledgeable people since I have heard back from Pat Northey and Carl Persis back in December. Then in January heard from Pat that in February you all should be hearing from the Animal Committee. Please see the information I have gathered for all of you. If you could pass on to your committee - that would be wonderful. Thank you. I am extremely curious to see what your committee thinks should be done about our feral crisis in Volusia County.<br />
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<i>Found out there is a discussion coming up this evening on the following channel - sharing with everyone on your council..... Feral Cat Discussion on WDSC-TV ch 15 Feb 3 @ 7:oo pm Tune In - sure to<br />
be informative...</i><br />
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There are many good examples of TNR programs happening in our state very close by. How about if we invite some of these folks to speak to their successes with TNR programs and feral sanctuaries. Lets get educated and make educated decisions! These groups are leaders in the feral initiative and should be heard<i>. First Coast No More Homeless Pets</i> in Jax has reduced euthanasia from 23,000 to less than 9,000 last year - this was a two year result! They are celebrating their 2 year anniversary this year!! If you think about what Volusia pays Halifax for every cat to be killed - that represents a savings of about 1.3 million! That is quite a bit of money!<br />
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1. Melissa Cranis who is leader/speaker for <i>CARE </i>program in Orlando, which is a TNR program is a great speaker. I bet if someone contacted her (CARE Feline TNR Message Center at (407) 522-2617.) she would come and speak at a council meeting. They have had a very successful program in Orlando.<br />
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2. <i>No More Homeless Pets</i> in Jax has been a great leader and we should take notice of their amazing results. Their contact info is: First Coast No More Homeless Pets, Inc. in the Joseph A. Strasser Animal Health & Welfare Building 6817 Norwood Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32208 WELLSS CLINIC HOURS: 904.425.0005 <br />
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3. The <i>Flagler County Shelter</i> has been very successful with TNR and their own feral sanctuary. The director's name is Jeff Hale and his phone number is (386) 445-1814 Ext 305.<br />
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4. I received a summary of a seminar that occurred recently by Nathan Winograd. He is a TRUE expert in the NO KILL movement and it would be very beneficial if we could incorporate his ideas into our Volusia County plan. He speaks all over the country and was recently in Melbourne. One of the participants of that seminar wrote a summary of his speech and I have included them into this email for your review. It is enlightening - please read when you have a few minutes - it includes accurate percentages and statistics of what this program do to help. Also, if you have time, you can go to You Tube and watch and listen to portions of his seminars. He also has a website at <a href="http://www.nathanwinograd.com/" target="_blank">www.nathanwinograd.com</a>.<br />
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<b>Highlights from the Nathan Winograd No-Kill Seminar</b><br />
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Nathan took his "No Kill" equation to cities all over the US to shelters with extremely high kill rates. Within one year of implementing his program, the shelters were at 96-100% NO KILL! No healthy dogs/cats were killed and NO treatable cats/dogs were killed. They even adopted out dogs and cats with all sorts of handicaps & terminal illnesses. His NO Kill model worked in rural areas, suburban areas, areas who had the highest unemployment rates and highest foreclosures, progressive areas and conservative areas alike, rich and poor areas. National Data records PROVE that the NO KILL equation works! We can save 90% of animals in our shelters!<br />
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<b>There are currently 4 million dogs and cats killed yearly in the US. If every community embraced the NO KILL model, we would have 3,600,000 still alive today.</b><br />
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Tougher spay/neuter laws DO NOT WORK! They cause MORE deaths- because when this was put into place in one of his communities, animal control officers would go door to door to give citations to those pet owners not in compliance. Instead of paying the fines, the people turned their animals over to the shelter- which ended up killing them. <b>FREE spay and neuter is the way to go! </b>He instituted a program called "Greenbacks for Gonads"- they actually gave people $5.00 to bring their pets in to get spayed and neutered for free. IT WORKED! And ended up saving them a TON of money in the long run... Intakes to the shelter were cut IN HALF, cat deaths declined by 73%, dog deaths declined by 66% and 0% healthy animals were killed.<br />
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Here is the "NO-KILL equation" for the shelter to follow (which has been proven to be 100% successful in EVERY city who implemented into their shelters). </span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Need foster homes Conduct off site adoptions </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Thorough cleaning standards </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Willingness to work with rescue groups </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">TNR (trap neuter release) programs for feral cats - </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Behavioral help for pets - <i> </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>help </i>phone line in order to deter animals abandoned at shelter - </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Proactive efforts to help reunite lost pets (not just holding them in a kennel- getting out and going door to door where the animal was found) - </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Effective adoption campaigns- use EVERY holiday, every celebration to adopt out animals! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Socialization & training programs (actually work w/ dogs in kennels- not leaving them in day after day to go cage crazy)</span></li>
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<b>Shelter Leaders MUST be held accountable.</b></span><br />
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Most animals are dying for 1 reason- FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS THAT WORK! There are rresponsible people in the community, however, there are MANY in our community that care! Do good things for the animals, tell people about their needs, turn challenges into opportunities! It all comes down to leadership! Individual leaders make or break lifesaving efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">IT IS NOT THE SIZE OF THE BUDGET, it is the SIZE OF THE DIRECTORS HEART ! The difference in lifesaving rates is determined by the leaders running the shelter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Recipe for NO KILL:</b></span></span><br />
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<b>Passionate director<br />
Implement the NO KILL Equation<br />
Believe in the community<br />
Trust in compassion of community</b></span><br />
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<b>"THE POWER OF ONE LEADS TO AN ARMY OF COMPASSION!"</b><br />
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<b style="color: red;">It is NOT PET OVERPOPULATION that is killing the animlas. That is a myth! It is a LACK of foster programs, LACK of outreach in the community, LACK of cleanliness, LACK of TNR programs which is KILLING the animals!</b><br />
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The following problems are literally STEALING THE LIVES OF ANIMALS:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Poor customer service (rude staff, not answering phones)<br />
Dirtiness<br />
unavailable hours for public<br />
lack of staff<br />
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<b>*The shelter MUST take responsibility for the animals and save them!</b><br />
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<b>REGIME CHANGE:</b><br />
Must have a turnover of managers and staff to become NO KILL <br />
Get the right people on board<br />
Fight to get rid of uncaring and lazy staff<br />
People are the HEART & SOUL of ANY organization!!!<br />
Need people who LIKE PEOPLE as well as animals!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">"BETTER TO FIRE ONE BAD STAFF MEMBER THAN TO KILL A GOOD ANIMAL!"</span><br />
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At the closing of the seminar- he told us to imagine we are dying in the hospital. The doctor comes in and says we have two courses of action: We can implement the procedure we have done for years that is proven not<br />
to work -- or we can implement the procedure which has a proven 100% success rate- which would you choose.... it is a no brainer!<br />
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PLEASE PASS this info along to others you know would benefit from this and truly care about the animals needlessly dying in shelters all over our communities! <b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>THE KILLING HAS TO STOP!!!!</b></span><br />
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Thank you for your time and when the animal control committee comes to the council and provides their recommendations - I would be VERY interested to hear the plan. Thank you !! Jan</span>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-78877253335015717742010-11-05T10:07:00.000-07:002010-11-05T10:10:46.970-07:00CATS EYE NEWSLETTER<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; clear: left; float: left; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="left" height="120" hspace="3" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=e5d341f986&view=att&th=12c168f586e6110d&attid=0.3&disp=emb&zw" vspace="4" width="92" /><u><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">Wear Orange Ribbon To Alert Unaware </span></span></u><u><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Public To Feral Cats' Needs</span></span></u></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">THE CATS EYE PROJECT</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-left: 1in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">"<u>Watching over All Animals and Being Their Voice"</u></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-left: 1in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">CAT'S EYE: Counties' Alliance to Sterilize and End Yesteryear's Euthanasia</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">OCTOBER 16 IS NATIONAL FERAL CATS DAY </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; margin-right: 134.4pt; text-indent: 10.55pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;">As nationally celebrated October 16 Feral Cats Day nears, all animal <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">advocates everywhere are preparing to spread the word on that day to the unaware public that feral cats are being caught in a deadly overpopulation </span>crisis and these endangered cats need and deserve our help.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-left: 0.5pt; text-indent: 0.1in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">About eighty per cent of Volusia County's approximately 20,000 kittens, puppies, dogs and cats </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">taken by animal control to "shelters" to be quickly and routinely killed every year are feral cats and </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;">kittens, and other feral kittens are left to starve after their moms are caught and killed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; text-indent: 10.55pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Feral cats are just normal felines whose once pampered housecat ancestors two or three or more generations ago became lost or abandoned.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-left: 0.5pt; text-indent: 0.15in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;">Homeless cats and their two or three litters of kittens born every year in the wild survive by joining a feral colony, adapting to living outdoors and learning to fend for themselves. (Many <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">included in the count of feral cats killed are not in truth feral, but are someone's lost pet now living </span>in the feral community.) If former owners failed to spay, colony cats rampantly reproduce.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-left: 0.5pt; text-indent: 10.55pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;">Determined to reduce the numbers of our endangered feral cat communities, local dedicated <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">volunteer feral cat and kitten rescuers are out in the field every day working hard to trap, neuter and </span>return feral cats or to trap-neuter-and relocate them via foster-and-adoption programs.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; margin-right: 19.45pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.15in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Jacksonville-Duval County government and its animal loving citizenry, along with the City of DeLand in Volusia, have set the standard locally for achieving a No-Kill status that includes our </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">feral cats.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-top: 0.5pt; text-indent: 0.15in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt;">Volusia and other counties and cities' governing councils need to copy Jacksonville-Duval and <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">DeLand hastily, because the atrocity of unnecessary killing innocent healthy kittens, puppies, cats </span>and dogs at taxpayers' expense cannot be allowed to continue. Caring citizens WILL stop the <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">killing!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-top: 0.5pt; text-indent: 0.15in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">______________________________<wbr></wbr>______________________________<wbr></wbr>________________</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Read on pages 2 and 3 of this CAT'S EYE publication the story of how the combined efforts of a <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">few people who decided to become involved and DO SOMETHING saved a family of kittens.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; 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font-size: 2pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">—</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Courier New; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 2pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">. ____</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 12.95pt; margin-top: 5.3pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">And, be sure to take the back page of this publication to Applebee's Restaurant at 2599 Enterprise Road, Orange City on October 14 to earn funds for local animal rescue!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 11.05pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">SEE <a href="http://thecatseyeproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://thecatseyeproject.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/</a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-left: 0.5pt;"><u><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Page 2</span></span></u><u><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15.5pt;">_____________ <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The CAT'S EYE PROJECT</span>_________ <span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;">October 2010</span></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; margin-right: 0in;"><b><u><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Addressing the feral cats overpopulation problem without killing..</span></span></u></b></div></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 99.6pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">ONE CAT AT A TIME!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.45pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: 5.3pt;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Editor's note: Every year five to eight million kittens and puppies, dogs and cats — mostly feral cats — </span></span></i><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">are killed in America, due to pet overpopulation. Trap-Neuter-Return and Trap-Neuter-Relocate </span></span></i><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">volunteers are working to end that tragedy. Just one, two or a few dedicated people stepping up and </span></span></i><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">doing something to start solving this crisis can change everything!</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 146.9pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">By Janice Potter</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: 9.1pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">One day this past July I was at Dunkin' Donuts in DeLand and happened to look next door at a </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Rodeo Whip Ice Cream shop. There was a litter of kittens and a very young mama kitty at the rear of the building. I took one of my bags of cat food that I carry with me in my car trunk and walked over there, where I was told by an employee that the owners feed the kittens. I saw bowls outside </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">for food and water, so I left the bag of food.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: 8.65pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">A couple of days later, I stopped by and spoke with the ice cream shop owner's daughter, Paula </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Dumas. I asked if they had any plans to try to spay or neuter the cat and kittens. She said she hadn't thought about it, but that she would be willing to help do that.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">I contacted my vet, Dr. Bailey at Woodland Animal Clinic. His clinic manager, Sherica Egan, gave </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">me contact info for two local animal activists. I contacted them to see what we could do and one of <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">them, Charlotte Jones, met with the ice cream shop owner's daughter and me. She trained us in how to operate a humane trap. Then, she lent us the trap.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Three of the kittens were trapped the next day and were brought out to the ice cream shop owner's daughter's house. Paula has some land and it would be safer there for the kittens than at </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">the ice cream business fronting right on Highway 17-92.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.5pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">The other two kittens stayed clear of us. At that point, we had no place to put them anyway, so <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">they had to be left with their mama at that location, though maybe they could be moved out to </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Paula's house after they were trapped and spayed or neutered.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-indent: 9.1pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">The next day the mama cat was trapped and brought to Woodland Animal Clinic for spaying and </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">her shots. I purchased a reduced-cost spay-neuter certificate at the Halifax Humane Society on </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">LPGA Boulevard. Dr. Bailey is one of the veterinarians who honor those certificates.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">The City of DeLand sponsored a spay-neuter fee reimbursement program until this past </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">September 30 for the city's residents, so I would be reimbursed for the spaying. I returned to the ice cream shop a couple of times soon after we brought mama kitty back to the business location. She </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">looked great and seemed to be doing fine.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-top: 0.25pt; text-indent: 9.35pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.5pt;">We discovered, while I was going back and forth so many times checking on mama kitty and the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">two ice cream shop kittens, that there was also a whole other litter of kittens there, about a month old. I contacted Teresa of Candy's Cats in Orlando and she told us that if we could socialize these </span>younger little feral kittens, she would be able to get them adopted out as soon as they were ready to eat kitten food. We decided we would go try to catch them and be their fosterers until Teresa could <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">take them.</span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
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</tbody></table></div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Paula and I agreed that we would like also to get that second </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">mama cat spayed. I hoped that all five older kittens from the earlier litter and this new mama could be spayed or neutered before the reimbursement deadline. (Reimbursement </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">requirements specified a veterinarian's itemized bill, a rabies shot and the typical notched ear signifying cat or kitten has been sterilized. To stay informed on DeLand's reimbursement </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">program and whether it might be repeated in the future, </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt;">contact Antoinette Montanez at the City of DeLand, 386-626-<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">7023 and request a reimbursement form.)</span></span></span> </div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
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<tr> <td align="left" height="75" style="padding: 2.9pt 1.9pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 23.05pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 4.1pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">ANIMAL </span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">CLINIC</span></span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.45pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.7pt; margin-right: 1.6in; text-indent: 9.1pt;"><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">I am thankful for Paula Dumas' dedication in addressing </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">the spaying-neutering issue with the cats that were living behind her mother's business and for her socializing the ones </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">she took to her house, enabling adoption And, I'm thankful </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt;">for her mother, Joyce Doolittle, owner of the Rodeo Whip ice <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">cream shop at 1250 Woodland Avenue for her love of the cats </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">and her dedication in feeding them every morning. They both </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">are awesome! I'm thankful, too, for Dr. Bailey and his </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">wonderful staff, especially for their flexibility and help with this big project of spaying and neutering this feral colony.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.45pt; margin-top: 0.25pt; text-indent: 9.85pt;"><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Since that first experience, Paula has become quite an expert in trapping feral cats! The ice cream shop owner </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">purchased a trap, and they have trapped the second young </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">mama cat and another female and one of the male cats. All have been brought to Dr. Bailey for spaying or neutering and </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">shots. The ice cream shop family purchased many reduced-</span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">cost spay-neuter certificates provided by Halifax Humane </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Society. Paula tells me she will continue to trap and neuter feral cats until the entire colony has been sterilized. She told me another of the kittens from the original litter now has joined its siblings at her home.</span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.45pt; margin-top: 13.7pt; text-indent: 9.85pt;"><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt;">This whole process was kind of stressful, since it was our first time, but we just wanted to get the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">job done and make sure those kittens were all safe.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.45pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5pt; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: 9.35pt;"><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">I know this is just a drop in the bucket in addressing the feral cats crisis, but we can address this </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">one-cat-at-a-time. It is a terrific thing these ladies are doing. They are fantastic examples of what </span></span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">happens when people act to make a difference.</span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-top: 0.5pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #484848; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The CAT'S EYE PROJECT</span></span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><br clear="all" /> </span></span> <br />
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<div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-top: 17.75pt;"><u><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #484848; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">REST FOR WEARY HARDWORKING ANIMAL ACTIVISTS:</span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #484848; font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY AT APPLEBEE'S!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 134.4pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #484848; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">CAT'S EYE EDITORIAL</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; margin-right: 0in; text-indent: 12.25pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">On Thursday night October 14 - that's just two days before nationwide Feral Cats Day activities -- a <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">brief but reinvigorating respite for animal activists (and anyone else who loves and wants to help </span>animals!) is being provided by our local Applebee's Restaurant in Orange City.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 9.1pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The address is 2599 Enterprise Road in Orange City and the time is from 5 p.m. till 9 p.m.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">During that time, ten per cent of your food bill will be donated by Applebee's to a local animal rescue organization for saving and helping animals.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; text-indent: 12.25pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">This is a great opportunity to earn much needed community monetary aid for all our animal activists' </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">animal rescues, fostering, adoptions and Trap-Neuter-Retum and it advances our cause of ending Volusia </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">County's and its cities' annual misnamed "euthanasias" of around 20,000 healthy, happy, harmless </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">kittens, puppies, cats and dogs by the year 2014.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; text-indent: 9.35pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">All you have to do to contribute to this lifesaving project is to go eat dinner at the Applebee's <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Restaurant in Orange City between 5 and 9 p.m. on October 14 and hand this page to your server along with your bill.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-indent: 8.9pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Please make many copies of this page, give them to everyone you meet, and encourage them all to go eat at Applebee's that evening to save animals' lives!!! Be very sure to remind them they <u>must give their </u></span></span><u><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">servers' this page in</span></span></u><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> order to get the Applebee's contribution for animals.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-indent: 9.1pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Get all your animal welfare friends to join you at Applebee's on October 14 for this rare "R and R" (rest </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">and recuperation) brief getaway from our seemingly endless animals-saving daily sessions. Come meet, <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">greet and get to know your fellow troops in this battle for saving animals!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; text-indent: 9.1pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">While there, talk with Applebee's management and schedule your own group's Applebee's evening very soon. This Applebee's project is succeeding in saving animals all around America!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 13.7pt; margin-left: 221.75pt;"><br />
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</span></span><span><span style="color: #777777; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">BEACON STAFF WRITER</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"></span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span><span style="color: #777777; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">posted Jun 23, 2010 - 4:49:34pm</span></span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">In one month this spring, 1,024 stray cats and kittens were taken in by <a href="http://www.halifaxhumanesociety.org/" target="_blank">Halifax Humane Society</a> in Daytona Beach. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Of those, 883 were euthanized. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">The tragedy, along with the cost of dealing with cat overpopulation, has the attention of the <a href="http://volusia.org/" target="_blank">Volusia County</a> Council.</span></span></div><br />
<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Upon the recommendation of Animal Services Director Becky Wilson, the County Council on June 17 directed the Animal Control Board to study the stray-cat problem and propose solutions. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">The council was told free-roaming cats account for 75 percent of the animal impoundments countywide, and 80 percent of the animals euthanized at shelters. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">"Cats reproduce a lot. They actually can produce three or four litters per year," Wilson told the County Council. "The number continues to increase, and so does the cost." </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Council Member Carl Persis said statistics show one male cat and one female cat are capable of producing 427,000 descendants over seven years. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">"It really would help if people would keep their cats indoors," Persis said. "Unless they are neutered or spayed, they will do what animals do." </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Wilson</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">'s plan for a study of the problem includes asking veterinarians, nonprofit organizations and other local governments to share ideas and advice. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Council Member Jack Hayman emphasized involving Volusia's 16 cities, because the problem of stray cats is not confined to the unincorporated area. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">"Somebody, somewhere had better get the message to our colleagues in the cities," Hayman said. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"></span></span></div></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Wilson</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> discussed the possibility of a partnership of local governments and private animal-welfare groups to head off cat overpopulation. She said governmental or private grants may be available. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Residents attending the meeting offered possible solutions, including broader use of the Pet Vet Cruiser, a mobile spay-and-neuter clinic for low-income residents of the unincorporated area. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">"Open your Pet Cruiser to all residents of Volusia County. That's critical," urged Donna G. Flood, a DeLand resident. "Eliminate the billing issue between the cities and the county." </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Flood also suggested the county do more to protect cats. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">"Build a shelter at Barkley Square, a sanctuary," she told the County Council. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Barkley Square</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">, near the old Plymouth Avenue Landfill northwest of DeLand, is a county park for dogs and their owners. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">"You build dog parks; build a cat park," agreed Bob Baird, another DeLand animal-welfare advocate. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Baird said he has personally paid to have about 500 strays sterilized. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Kevin Hancock, a spokesman for the Halifax Humane Society, agreed spaying and neutering is part of the solution to the problem of large numbers of unwanted animals. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">He said Halifax offers low-cost sterilization, and invited residents to call 386-274-4703 for more information. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Halifax</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> has temporarily reduced the cost of cat adoptions, to encourage people to give homes to the hundreds of cats flooding the shelter. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Flood said cat overpopulation has been aggravated by a surge in home foreclosures, as hard-pressed families have been forced to dispose of pets. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">For local governments, the cost of dealing with the problem is rising. The county and many of the cities in Volusia County contract with Halifax Humane Society to shelter and dispose of animals picked up within their jurisdictions. </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Recently, Halifax Humane Society raised its charge to $87.37 — up from $80 — to keep an animal for three days. If the pet is not reclaimed by its owner or adopted within three days, the Humane Society may euthanize it.</span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">— <a href="mailto:al@beacononlinenews.com" target="_blank">al@beacononlinenews.com</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />
</span></span></div>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-44852129894542681382010-06-21T11:19:00.000-07:002010-06-21T11:31:10.429-07:00ANIMAL ACTIVISTS CONVENEJune 19th about 60 people representing themselves and animal rescue and anti-abuse groups met at the Volusia County Fairgrounds as guests of County Councilman Andy Kelly, his wife Cissy, and his family. During the first hour attendees were invited to introduce themselves and give a brief description of the scope of each group.<br />
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Represented were: Sophie's Circle, Rescued Hearts, Angels Have Whiskers, Halifax Humane Society, Dale Arrington, Prison Pups and Pals, The Cat's Eye Project, Bob Baird, Jeanine Colletti, Volusia County Veterinary Medicine Association, West Volusia Humane Society, We Help Animals, Inc., DeLand, Animal Hospital, Becky Wilson, West Volusia Friends of Felines, West Volusia Kennel Club, Tomoka Correctional Institution, DeLand Animal Hospital, A.R.K., Volusia County Spay-Neuter Bus, Concerned Citizens For Animal Welfare, Lake County Animal Control, and others. Many in the crowd were individuals who spend all their extra time and money feeding and caring for abandoned or abused animals of all species, or maintaining a feral colony. Several young people and children helped greet and seat animal lovers when they entered the meeting room.<br />
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Mr. Kelly began the program stating that there is no email list for the combined groups and the movement needs a web site and a Facebook page. He suggested that someone might be responsible for keeping the dialogue open between the groups and that public awareness and advertising might bring recognition to the problems facing the county concerning animal control. A representative of West Volusia Friends of Felines offered information provided by an authority on feral cats (Dr. Julie Levy of University of Florida) estimating there may be 4000 to 4500 ferals in the West Volusia area.<br />
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The first speaker, Becky Wilson -- officer with Volusia County Animal Control, told the group about the challenges that animal control faces and their many accomplishments in the past.<br />
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Dale Arrington also spoke as did several others. We will provide a more elaborate description of the remainder of the meeting when we have double-checked our information.<br />
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A second meeting was scheduled for 10 A.M. July 17 at the same location in building 2 behind the Agricultural Center at the Volusia County Fairgrounds. For more information email<br />
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</tbody></table>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-39984941633916210872010-06-04T09:26:00.001-07:002010-06-04T09:27:26.633-07:00PROGRAM PRISON PUPS AND PALS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrj6t7rH_LoXB8W4x8dv-Eg2agnUx2nVa3M0RsOKUg6e3g8z1KmUyL7J3laEmGGWJywTIijXBqk4sKMDvXlvIOtN_938TJLsE3lku6Wzk7v5xyYtYooTFRuFu1UfyHsZ-kzaUKKzruZcn/s1600/prisonpups+and+pals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrj6t7rH_LoXB8W4x8dv-Eg2agnUx2nVa3M0RsOKUg6e3g8z1KmUyL7J3laEmGGWJywTIijXBqk4sKMDvXlvIOtN_938TJLsE3lku6Wzk7v5xyYtYooTFRuFu1UfyHsZ-kzaUKKzruZcn/s400/prisonpups+and+pals.jpg" width="331" /></a></div>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-11238064051431805972010-05-28T11:58:00.000-07:002010-06-05T07:09:07.673-07:00IT'S NOT EUTHANASIA<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">IT’S </span><u><span style="font-size: large;">NOT</span></u><span style="font-size: large;"> EUTHANASIA</span><span style="font-size: large;">!</span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"><span style="font-size: normal;"> <span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;">W</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">hat’s wrong with </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">this </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;">sentence:</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> “</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">Six million beautiful, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;">healthy, happy</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> kitt</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">ens, puppies, dogs and cats are</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;">euthanized </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">each</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> year in</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> our country</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: small;">, thousands of them </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: small;">annually </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;">in </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"><i>your</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">county</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">, killed by </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"><i>your</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> taxes!</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">” </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">Clue</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> to answer</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">: See </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">the </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">dictionary</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;">’s</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'; font-size: normal;"> definition of euthanasia.</span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: small;"> Answer: <b> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IT’S </span></b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><u><span style="font-size: small;">NOT</span></u></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> EUTHANASIA!</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BeRTniB5hZeuJo_YmSvTeLh_Q9QCBXdzJ61Otk36L3cRmYUI2L4ExvnpZg3qIv-pXKJywB5bVjpDkFARxk6m8Sh7pJn_-aKPxuvg8eVZnxlDdGnOQKLRhyphenhyphenzbyNO4r16UIGQjqzZHlqSg/s1600/bellyrina1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BeRTniB5hZeuJo_YmSvTeLh_Q9QCBXdzJ61Otk36L3cRmYUI2L4ExvnpZg3qIv-pXKJywB5bVjpDkFARxk6m8Sh7pJn_-aKPxuvg8eVZnxlDdGnOQKLRhyphenhyphenzbyNO4r16UIGQjqzZHlqSg/s200/bellyrina1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Euthanasia</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> is derived from a Greek word </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">that means </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">easy death</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> If you</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">think “euthanasia</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> is the correct term</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> for governmental kill contracts </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">taken out </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">on dogs and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">cats,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> go</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> see</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">how “easy” these </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">life-loving victim’s </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">deaths are. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Choose a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> Kill-Si</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">te</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> and go watch</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> sweet-eyed dogs </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">b</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">ecome dogs with terror-filled </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">eyes as</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">one </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">after </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">other</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> they are</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> led</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> from their cages to</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> Death Row </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">and</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">assembly line</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> killing</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">s</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">. Watch</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> doomed dogs drag</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">their </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">feet</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">all the way to the executioners</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i>because</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i> they know</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> they are going to die</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> “</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i>Easy”?</i></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Observe life flow </span><span style="font-size: small;">from the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> innocents</span><span style="font-size: small;"> when the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> official </span><span style="font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-size: small;">euthanizers</span><span style="font-size: small;">” </span><span style="font-size: small;">suddenly </span><span style="font-size: small;">press a </span><span style="font-size: small;">deadly, often</span><span style="font-size: small;"> painful</span><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><span style="font-size: small;">heart</span><span style="font-size: small;">-</span><span style="font-size: small;">stick needle </span><span style="font-size: small;">on the trusting, surprised animals’</span><span style="font-size: small;"> hearts.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Witness</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the executions of</span><span style="font-size: small;"> tiny, squirming</span><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><span style="font-size: small;">adorable little </span><span style="font-size: small;">kittens</span><span style="font-size: small;"> mewing in protest of their just-starting-out lives being stolen </span><span style="font-size: small;">away </span><span style="font-size: small;">from them</span><span style="font-size: small;">. </span><span style="font-size: small;">See and understand </span><span style="font-size: small;">why gentle grown cats are mistakenly identified by <i>euthanizers</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> as </span><span style="font-size: small;">feral or </span><span style="font-size: small;">“wild”</span><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><span style="font-size: small;">only </span><span style="font-size: small;">because they </span><span style="font-size: small;">fought </span><span style="font-size: small;">so ferociously to defend </span><span style="font-size: small;">their lives from murder.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Go witness</span> <span style="font-size: small;">the</span><span style="font-size: small;">se</span><span style="font-size: small;"> killings </span><span style="font-size: small;">for </span><span style="font-size: small;">y</span><span style="font-size: small;">ourself</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (if you’re allowed</span><span style="font-size: small;">,</span> <span style="font-size: small;">or can find a way </span><span style="font-size: small;">to)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><span style="font-size: small;">that </span><span style="font-size: small;">horrible firsthand experience </span><span style="font-size: small;">will</span><span style="font-size: small;"> change </span><span style="font-size: small;">y</span><span style="font-size: small;">our attitude toward </span><span style="font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-size: small;">euthanasia”</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">If you have a heart, you will immediately be turned into an animal advo</span><span style="font-size: small;">cate and animal activist.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">You’ll </span><span style="font-size: small;">join the nationwide No Kill movement</span><span style="font-size: small;">, like the growing masses of </span><span style="font-size: small;">other concerned citizens</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Unlike the victims of erroneously labeled “euthanasia”, y</span><span style="font-size: small;">ou don’t </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">have </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">to</span> <span style="font-size: small;">go </span><span style="font-size: small;">through all that,</span> <span style="font-size: small;">not if you can</span><span style="font-size: small;"> see </span><span style="font-size: small;">the truth and comprehend the in</span><span style="font-size: small;">justice of this situation </span><span style="font-size: small;">just by</span><span style="font-size: small;"> r</span><span style="font-size: small;">eading this article</span><span style="font-size: small;"> intended to educate about</span> <span style="font-size: small;">the cruel inaccuracy </span><span style="font-size: small;">of the word eutha</span><span style="font-size: small;">nasia.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> “Euthanasia,” </span><span style="font-size: small;">by dictionary definition </span><span style="font-size: small;">is <b>“the act or practice of killing</b></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"> persons or domestic animals that are hopelessly</span> <i><span style="font-size: small;">sick or injured</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">,</span></i> <span style="font-size: small;">for reasons of </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">mercy</span></i><span style="font-size: small;">.”</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> How, in anyone’</span><span style="font-size: small;">s misguided mind</span><span style="font-size: small;">, can killing </span><span style="font-size: small;">a </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">healthy</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> animal possibly be defended as a “mercy killing”?</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGb-rKJo1b8B1vrIIP-IxztK7iB5EMwcGM1mUYJHUEahPUxwD_rDiM1YdKs85Ks1FpK0zOSOcHiUC0-aa4QuyMTez1HkMkKm8XYfUqopmxp_rL1dhBrDV8coymZGCk-eJ7v4TbI97pJ411/s1600/chocolate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGb-rKJo1b8B1vrIIP-IxztK7iB5EMwcGM1mUYJHUEahPUxwD_rDiM1YdKs85Ks1FpK0zOSOcHiUC0-aa4QuyMTez1HkMkKm8XYfUqopmxp_rL1dhBrDV8coymZGCk-eJ7v4TbI97pJ411/s200/chocolate.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"> It is</span><span style="font-size: small;"> time to stop the killing</span><span style="font-size: small;">! You, the citizens, working with your local government, have the power to demand</span><span style="font-size: small;"> reform</span><span style="font-size: small;"> in</span><span style="font-size: small;"> national and local animal control policies, choosing life for the animals</span><span style="font-size: small;">, not the erroneously </span><span style="font-size: small;">l</span><span style="font-size: small;">abeled</span><span style="font-size: small;"> “euthanasia</span><span style="font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;">”</span><span style="font-size: small;"> which</span><span style="font-size: small;"> is </span><u><span style="font-size: small;">not</span></u><span style="font-size: small;"> euthanasia at all!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Sim</span><span style="font-size: small;">ple sterilization of pets is the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> effecti</span><span style="font-size: small;">ve, economical and humane</span><span style="font-size: small;"> alternative solution for</span><span style="font-size: small;"> getting our pet overp</span><span style="font-size: small;">opulation problem under control</span><span style="font-size: small;"> without killing!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Please </span><span style="font-size: small;">help </span><span style="font-size: small;">us </span><span style="font-size: small;">hurry the day when no </span><span style="font-size: small;">more </span><span style="font-size: small;">innocent healthy cats and dogs will die by humans’ hands</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and humans’ stupidity</span><span style="font-size: small;">. Please do</span><span style="font-size: small;"> your part to </span><span style="font-size: small;">help us take a first step toward creating </span><span style="font-size: small;">ositive </span><span style="font-size: small;">change by making it a point </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">always </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">to</span><span style="font-size: small;"> correct </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">anyone </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">you</span><span style="font-size: small;"> hear or read </span><span style="font-size: small;">who uses</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the word “euthanasia”</span><span style="font-size: small;"> when</span><span style="font-size: small;"> referring to </span><span style="font-size: small;">the </span><span style="font-size: small;">killing of a healthy dog or cat.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Please </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">step in unapologetically and adequately </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">educate <i>anyone </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">and<i> everyone </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">you hear call it </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">“euthanasia”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">, anytime,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> anywhere</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> you hear that grievous error</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">, no matter <i>who</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> it was who made that tragic mistake</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> Make everyone understand</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“IT’S NOT EUTHANASIA!”</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">We must all </span><span style="font-size: small;">effectively </span><span style="font-size: small;">repeat the</span><span style="font-size: small;">se </span><span style="font-size: small;">three </span><span style="font-size: small;">little </span><span style="font-size: small;">words</span><span style="font-size: small;"> over</span><span style="font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and over, </span><span style="font-size: small;">and over, </span><span style="font-size: small;">loud and clear</span><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><span style="font-size: small;">wherever we</span><span style="font-size: small;"> go, until our</span><span style="font-size: small;"> message is heard and understood and the killing stops</span><span style="font-size: small;">! </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"nGeorgia",serif;"> Letting it</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"> continue being called</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"> euthanasia is </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">no mere </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif;">matter of semantics.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">It’s a matter of life and death!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif;">Please help us make </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">heard </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">our battle cry for the innocent animals</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"> who cannot speak for themselves. </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">Shout it out</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">, over and over</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">:</span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> “</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"><u>IT”S NOT EUTHANASIA!!!</u></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">”</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Georgia",serif; margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><b> </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia';"><b> </b></span></div>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-47492785794463654622010-04-21T06:46:00.000-07:002010-04-28T05:32:15.477-07:00STAMPS TO THE RESCUE<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijiZfjsKcJynSDdMLsPkD1P2iP5LnamIJkmxrNJZV3fcEexPHoocminn6URElnoBjxMmJ9LjXJADJINyXnatchs1DvOMeuIPDxBnYTcMGohYMj0I4FxNA1AqIZIwtcrXv-ycshgcWurMmG/s1600/stampstotherescue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijiZfjsKcJynSDdMLsPkD1P2iP5LnamIJkmxrNJZV3fcEexPHoocminn6URElnoBjxMmJ9LjXJADJINyXnatchs1DvOMeuIPDxBnYTcMGohYMj0I4FxNA1AqIZIwtcrXv-ycshgcWurMmG/s320/stampstotherescue.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">You can now order US postage stamps and help shelter animals.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>This is a pane of 20 44–cent <i>Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet</i> special stamps.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">On April 30, 2010, in North Hollywood, California, the Postal Service™ will issue a 44–cent, <b>Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet</b> special stamp in ten designs, designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">With these 10 stamp designs, the U.S. Postal Service hopes to raise awareness of the need to adopt shelter pets. Go to any USPO web site or search Adopt a Shelter Pet Stamps on Google.</div></div>CAT'S EYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14665420909848754633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814204125695545920.post-41895397468762347232010-04-20T08:49:00.000-07:002010-04-28T05:16:18.204-07:00RAMONA RELATES THE BEGINNING OF THE CAT'S EYE<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two things inspired this new <i>The CAT’S EYE Project </i>blog.<o:p></o:p> One is Que Sera. Once she was my precious lively, feisty and sweetly-semi-ferocious little gray tiger-stripe kitty. Now she is dead, killed by obsolete and senseless animal control policy.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p>The other is our blissfully unaware human citizenry that, year after year enables with its taxes funding for the barbaric killing of five to eight million other cats, kittens, puppies and dogs in the USA alone.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6jCdhZsn55FznTGxZcC_pXiPewP6Oaaanqled6Lx_Z8dUXdsCAT30zg2whwHE0OANxcdWL4LV8e2rNr4oF4RFYnFL-wwal8hKAyxLIGHCmJ-HfLbJy_f2zB-x1NdJv727BXo66KyeRoR/s1600/queseraweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6jCdhZsn55FznTGxZcC_pXiPewP6Oaaanqled6Lx_Z8dUXdsCAT30zg2whwHE0OANxcdWL4LV8e2rNr4oF4RFYnFL-wwal8hKAyxLIGHCmJ-HfLbJy_f2zB-x1NdJv727BXo66KyeRoR/s200/queseraweb.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p>My Que Sera came into my life as a tiny, terrified kitten clinging to a palm frond being battered by blustery winds from a passing off-shore hurricane.<o:p></o:p> Her deafening, demanding-rescue MEOW screams called me out into the dark night. She landed in my hands. There she was safe forever more, or so we both thought.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This blog is because of a promise I made to my now-dead Que Sera that her tragedy would not be in vain, because her dying would create this blog remembering and honoring her and all the billions or trillions of other dogs and cats who suffered her same fate of needless deaths over too many dark decades of ignorance.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;">This blog’s goal is to stop that killing!</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Primary purpose of the blog -- and its sister <i>The Cat’s Eye Project </i>publication (via traditional paper medium) --<i> </i>is to stop the wrongful killing via education.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Specifically, this blog’s purpose is to bring a new depth of understanding to all the blithely unaware mainstream masses of humans who are ignorant about the horrible truth ... that when dogs and cats are taken to humane societies and most other “shelters,” eighty to ninety per cent of those dogs and cats not are going to be not adopted as is commonly believed. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tragically, all those healthy, beautiful, innocents will be dead in days! And, unaware citizens paid with their taxes for that hiring of contracted killers, probably never realizing that hard truth.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shelters are desperately needed, but they need to be No-Kill Shelters. A fast-growing national No-Kill Movement is making progress in making that happen! It’s already happening in DeLand, thanks to wise and progressive governmental leadership willing to work with local animal advocates. Other cities and counties need to copy DeLand! </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p>This blog also is for the vast growing numbers of hands-on animal activists who work endlessly and exhaustedly to save the life of every individual doomed dog, cat, kitten and puppy they encounter via our far-reaching animal rescue networks and on their own streets. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dedicating their lives, as they do, to stopping the senseless killings of innocents is as physically exhausting as it is their personal-budgets depleting.<o:p></o:p> For those tired hands-on rescuers, this blog intends to create a refuge, a restful place where they can retreat for a few essentially needed moments of solace when they come home late in the night to try to relax at last.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We hope this blog will become the activists’ and rescuers’ personal sanctuary, providing encouragement, gratitude, and hope and most of all a few minutes of rare rest and unwinding.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We hope they will find all that in the blog’s planned stories about successful rescues, essays on <i>why they do what they do </i>for the animals, poetry, art and photos about their experiences and the animals they have saved, and other pleasant animal-related literary relaxations, all dedicated to the multitude of wonderful non-human species who share our planet!</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Too Late for Mayflower</b>…</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A local independent rescuer of lost and abandoned cats shared this story with The CAT’S EYE Project in hope of broadening public awareness about the work being done by thousands of animal activist volunteers across </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">.</span></span></span></i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Before Mayflower came into my life, I had already taken in a neighborhood cat to get her fixed. She always came to eat at my house, and I got tired of seeing her knocked up time after time. I wondered who she belonged to. They did not seem to take good care of her, as she was a bit dirty. Her tail was long and had a yellow stain on it. She was white,</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">with one green eye and one blue eye.</span><o:p style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I named her Mama Mia. When I caught her I thought she was going to be a wild one, since she was so stand-offish compared to my small colony of cats I take care of. She was just the opposite. I was quickly able to hold her and she let me know she loved being held. I kept her in for one week. Then I let her back outside. I am pregnant and cannot be changing the litter of a cat that has been outside (because of infection risk. Mama Mia kept coming around for about two weeks. Then, I didn’t see her anymore. Had her owners moved and taken her away? Had Animal Control picked her up? Or, had something else happened?</span><o:p></o:p> </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%;">I looked up a local shelter’s website and saw on it a white cat with one blue eye and one green eye. The shelter listed her by the name of Mayflower. Since I was sick with flu or a bad cold and home in bed, my husband went to the shelter for me to see if it was my Mama Mia. He called me from there. Even though Mayflower looked like Mama Mia and was fixed like Mama Mia, all details didn’t match. Her location of pick up was not in my neighborhood. Mama Mia’s eye that was green was in Mayflower blue, and Mama Mia’s blue eye was green in Mayflower, totally opposite from each other. Mayflower was </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">not my Mama Mia. </span> <o:p></o:p> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was fostering another cat and I knew it could take months to find a home for a cat. I do not get paid for my animal rescue work. Like all animal rescuers, I am a volunteer. I use my own money to neuter, feed and care for my rescues. I am a registered nurse and in graduate school. I had too much going on to think clearly about Mayflower’s fate without intervention. I let my husband leave Mayflower at the shelter. I was so sick. I was so worried about Mama Mia. </span><o:p></o:p> </span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I had been reading about, what to me and other animal rescuers are, mass murders taking place at our local -- too trusted animal shelters. My husband said that Mayflower, whom he said seemed like a real nice cat, was in the back ready to be put down. This was a Friday. With a weekend ahead, I thought I could assume she would be safe until Monday.<o:p></o:p> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I have online connections with other independent rescuers that I have never met. I sent out an e-mail request for advice and help. Right away one of these rescuers volunteered to contact a local rescue organization to see if it could take her. On hearing that good news, my first thought was, “I better check to see if she is even still alive.” I called the shelter. The lady who answered the phone said, with a perky voice, “No, that cat is no longer with us!” I knew then that they had killed her. That back room she was in the day was a death row. They had let my husband back there only because he was looking for our cat.<o:p></o:p> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I felt so guilty, like I had given the OK to pull the trigger. My husband tried to ease my guilt by saying, “This happens all the time. You should have seen it. There were so many of them there, in different rooms. Some had towels over their cages. There were a lot of kittens too!” <o:p></o:p> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This did not comfort me. I felt responsible for Mayflower’s death. The next day made me feel even worse, as more e-mails filled with possibilities and hope for Mayflower poured in. One e-mail said she could have gone to a well-kept colony. Another local rescuer said she would have taken Mayflower. </span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Had Mayflower not been scheduled to be killed on November 26<sup>th. </sup>she could still be with us now. If they had not been so quick to murder this sweet, innocent, beautiful cat she would now be cuddled in a happy home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mayflower, your legacy lives forever in my heart. I hope your death will not be in vain and that readers will learn from your story and with this lesson be inspired to fight for the right of innocent cats to live out their lives. All the beautiful dead animals, like the <b>No Kill</b> animal rights issue itself, are out of sight/out of mind for the majority of Americans. Let your story shine light on the truth for those who read Mayflower’s Story and set the multitude of other doomed cats and dogs free.</span></span></span><br />
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