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| Call to Action: Companion Animal Slaughter in Jersey City
Email people listed below to try to stop the killing!!
Call to Action: Companion Animal Slaughter in Jersey City
Matt here. I am SO angry I am shaking. We were used. Lied to. I knew it too. I knew something was fishy and there was a piece of the puzzle missing.
We have all heard the story of Liberty Humane. Those who don’t believe in No-Kill are saying that their attempt to be No-Kill was what caused the horrible conditions the animals are enduring. Uh. No. The idiots that RAN the shelter, regardless of their intentions are the ones who caused the suffering. Philosophies don’t kill — people do.
So now Liberty Humane has an “interim board,” the members of this board they refuse to identify. I am curious about who appointed or elected these board members, as if everyone on the old board resigned who can elect them? Hmmm. That could make their actions at best unauthorized and at worst illegal. But more about that later.
So I spoke to one member of this anonymous board. She said there was overcrowding. I offered some temporary housing from the Connecticut SPCA to alleviate that issue. She said they would talk about it. I also offered to send a team down there to help get the animals identified and out to rescues. They made it clear that they weren’t interested in our help. They were friendly but firm.
I got wind that they were calling in the ASPCA and St. Huberts to start doing behavior testing on the dogs. This is code for finding excuses to tag dogs for killing. It’s clear that the “interim board” wants to alleviate the overcrowding by killing the animals in their care.
So the basic tenets of Oreo’s Law keep echoing in my head:
Is it right to kill an animal when there is another alternative?
So Nikki Dawson, who may or may not be on the board, is probably illegally making decisions on which dogs get killed. And her answer is all of them. Here is an email I got from one of the volunteers there:
Important shit is getting deleted from the lhs facebook page. it’s imperative people know what’s going on, but all the “moderators” drank the koolaid.
They tried to euthanize chase. they brought him to the room, he dropped to the floor, and wouldn’t budge. they couldn’t physically pull him into the room to do it. so he spared himself, maybe for only a day or two, but he needs help NOW.
There is another dog fuller. i evaluated him with andy the first time. i can vouch for this dog myself, this is not hearsay. he has a couple that wants to adopt him since thursday. they have been coming in every day since then. he passed our eval with flying colors. niki “re-evaluated” him and made him fail. we made a big stink about it and he was re-evaluated again, twice. st huberts failed him, but barely, and then ASPCA came in and did the proper evaluation and he passed. the people were told to come back today. niki did the evaluation again…IN THE SHELTER LOBBY…and failed him. it’s supposed to be done outside to be fair to the dog, she doesn’t care.
There were 5 or 6 other people/couples that wanted to adopt dogs on thursday before friday’s inspection. THEY WERE TURNED DOWN! because niki has her own agenda and wanted to “re-evaluate” all the dogs. andy and other people have been doing evaluations there for how long? and they have had how many successful adoptions? this woman’s magic number is 40…and she won’t stop until it’s reached.
Niki told an employee she doesn’t care what they (ASPCA) say, because she’s going to put dogs down anyway.
There is much more going on that you know, or than anyone will admit to you. they have been euthanizing a lot of dogs, most of which are adoptable.
THIS IS NOT RIGHT! please, we need your help.
there is no transparency with the board, they just threw that word out to give people a sense of false hope, and get them off their backs.
these are not rumors. this is the shit that’s happening at our shelter.
I have had it folks. Loyal supporters and animal activists. I am done. I want an example made of Nikki, the rest of the so-called Board, and everyone else responsible for killing these animals when they could have gone to rescue.
We are looking into lawsuits against the organization, the people on the board, the towns who contract with the shelter and allow this to happen, and anyone else we can come up with. We have a great legal team that specializes in animal law and we are going to set things right.
Nikki and her team have anonymously decided to kill these animals while putting up a public front of trying to get them adopted in hopes that that will be a defense in court. It’s not going to be. I want Nikki Dawson out of the animal welfare business and I want the people hiding behind the anonimity of this board crap to pay with their own money for the illegal and immoral things they have done.
Think I’m overreacting? Here’s an email received by an organization with which we work closely:
I’m a volunteer at Liberty Humane Society in Jersey City and I’m trying to save dogs life who suppose to be euthanized this week. They are the victims of our new board members who decide who goes and who stay. It is not fare because we know this dogs better then them and we dint have anything to say about it. In past 2 weeks they put to sleep over 20 dogs from which most of them were adoptable…Why you might ask because they did not pass the evaluation which was not handle properly. When they were evaluating them they wanted them to fall so they did everything they could to push these dogs buttons. Right now we have 17 dogs who are on the list to be put to sleep which includes few who will be allowed to go to the rescues:
Krugman is an older gentleman. He has had a very rough life and does not get along well with other dogs. He was probably taught this behavior. He has no aggression towards people. He is a shelter favorite and has been walked by many people over the last few months. THE SHELTER WANTS TO PUT HIM DOWN. The are no long…er allowing him to be taken out of his cage which will make him go “CAGE CRAZY”. This dog does not need more abuse in his life.
Or Fendi a 6 moths old puppy who failed the evaluation because she was not social ( meaning she was more interested in everything around her then in peopel) noone ever though her manners and this can be fixed
Also another puppy Mouse why she failed we volounteers dont really know. But just like Fendi she just need to be discipline and it will help to solve their issues.
fuller is a sweet energetic mush that wants to have constant body contact with you. he has had adopters fighting for him since thursday, august 19th (the day before what was supposed to be a state inspection). his adopters have been given the run around because of his resource guarding, even though proper training can alleviate the problem. His evaluation stated social with people and enjoys handling, easily aroused during play (concerning given his size), social with dogs, bit Assess-a-Hand over food and chew.
I know that we dont suppose to have our favourites in the shelter so we will not get attach to them but you just can not help yourself. His name is Chase and he is a boxer mix…when he came to the shelter he was urinating poore blood so right now he is ona special diet. He passed the evaluaion when the old board did it right after he came in the shelter. two weeks ago when i was in the sheter with another volounteer who wanted to foster him they evaliuated him and he failed with food aggresion. we were both there watching and he did not failed normal food, when they gave him a tasty pig ear that is when he growled. he did not snap!!!
and of course he will be protected of ear pig because he never gets this thinkgs because of his diet. That same day when they were taking him to Put him to sleep he colapsed on the floor, he did not want to go there so their spared his life. He is still in the shelter marked as red( staff only) so we can not take him out anymore he is just looking at us with his eyes and you can see the sadnes in his face, he knows whats awaiting him. They did not put him to sleep becasue we are fighting for him but his days are numbered. We need to find a rescue quick who can take him out and give him a chance. he is a great dog who will lay on the floor all day long for you to pet him.
Please help us…..take one of them if you can..if not repost it everywhere you can… if you know someone who can take one of them please help save our babies from being murdered.
MURDER. That’s exactly what it is. The blood of these animals is on Nikki Dawson’s hands and the hands of the cowards on the “board” that will let this happen. The mayors of Jersey City and Hoboken have blood on their hands too.
Go ahead supporters of the killing — I dare you. Say “what has Pets Alive done to help?” We are willing to help. We are willing to rope Best Friends into helping us go down there and show them how to make No-Kill work. It works. We can prove it all over the country. But that’s for later.
Help us stop the murdering of these animals.
Contacts:
Liberty Humane Society
board@libertyhumane.org
(201) 547-4147
lhs@libertyhumane.org
Mayor’s Office Jersey City:
Jerramiah Healy
MayorHealy@jcnj.org
Tel: (201) 547-5200
Fax: (201) 547-4288/5442
Mayor’s Office Hoboken:
Dawn Zimmer
dzimmer@hobokennj.org
Tel: (201) 420-2013 / 2018
Fax: (201) 420-2096
Office of The Attorney General
Paula T. Dow
609-292-4925
Email form: http://www.nj.gov/lps/formmail.htm
NJ Governor Chris Christie
609-292-6000
Email form: http://www.nj.gov/governor/contact/
NJ Assembly Members:
District 31
Charles Mainor
Phone: (201) 536-7851
Page for email: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=322
District 32
Joan Quigley
Phone: (201) 217-4614
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=97
District 33
Reuben J. Ramos
(201) 714-4960
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=293
Let’s do something about this! Call and email.
Liberty has been sanitizing their Facebook pages of the truth. Here is a special page set up for people who want to tell the REAL story.
Jersey people especially. These animals don’t have to die.
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Update:
Just got this from the Mayor of Hoboken:
Mr. DeAngelis,
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am a dog owner myself, and your email raises serious concerns.
My Administration is inquiring about this issue with Liberty Humane, and will work to address it.
Thank you again.
Best regards.
Mayor Zimmer
If you talk to the Mayor’s office, thank her. This is the mayor of HOBOKEN remember. And tell her where she can find the truth.
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| ****Cross Post Freely, Widely & Quickly****
URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE
JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED NOW
ACTIVIST ARRESTED TODAY
IN NEW YORK CITY
Late this afternoon, Sunday January 24, 2010, an activist attending a peaceful, quiet demonstration at the ASPCA was arrested for no reason at all. The demonstration was over, bags were packed and NYPD officers led by a Sergeant descended on the group which was in process of returning to the subway.
Camille Hankins, organizer of the protest was told that she was being arrested for violating a restraining order. After violating her rights to privacy and dissatisfied that they were unable to make an arrest, they turned their attention on a nearby activist, who expressed in a calm quiet tone of voice that he was disappointed in the manner in which New York City police were handling demonstrations. The activist, Isaac Peter, is a visitor to New York City and he was merely expressing his opinion. He was subsequently arrested for standing quietly on a New York City sidewalk.
When a jail support team followed the arrested activist to the precinct, they were lied to by the desk officer who told them that he would be released later that evening. The activists who were sitting quietly in the station reception area, were ordered to leave the building under the implicit threat of arrest. Now we hear that Isaac is being transported to The Tombs, New York's legendary and disgusting holding facility to be arraigned in court tomorrow morning.
Please contact the police precinct where he is being unjustly held. Tell them:
- you are concerned about the safety and disposition of prisoner Isaac Peter
- ask that he be provided with vegan food (he has not eaten all day)
- ask them what the charges are and why he was arrested at a peaceful, legal demonstration?
- ask when he is going to be released?
- ask where he is being held right now?
Please help send a message that they cannot use the arrest of peaceful law abisding demonstrators just because they want to break up a demonstration. Call now, Call often.Contact information:
Inspector James W Murtagh
153 East 67th Street,
New York, NY, 10065
Precinct: (212) 452-0600
Community Affairs: (212) 452-0613
Please keep in touch with us and let us know if you find out anything.
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| I haven't been getting along too well with my family lately and if they were just my friends and not my family, I feel like I would just stop calling them/hanging out with them. I hate to sound cliche but I feel like a lot of people don't understand me and how I think. At the same time, there are many people who understand me. There are many things that didn't use to bother me, or at least I was able to deal with it, that bother me a lot now and that's part of the problem. Certain things I just can't tolerate anymore. I realized that I've changed a lot (and if people don't like it that's too damn bad!) and some of my friends have influenced me and introduced me into different ways of thinking, and I'm grateful for that. I'm really relating to this song right now "Bad Reputation
(Jett-Laguna-Cordell-Kupersmith)
I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
You're living in the past it's a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do and that's
What I'm gonna do
An' I don't give a damn ' bout my bad reputation
Oh no not me
An' I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
Never said I wanted to improve my station
An' I'm only doin' good
When I'm havin' fun
An' I don't have to please no one
An' I don't give a damn
'Bout my bad reputation
Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me
I don't give a damn
'Bout my reputation
I've never been afraid of any deviation
An' I don't really care
If ya think I'm strange
I ain't gonna change
An' I'm never gonna care
'Bout my bad reputation
Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me
Pedal boys!
An' I don't give a damn
'Bout my reputation
The world's in trouble
There's no communication
An' everyone can say
What they want to say
It never gets better anyway
So why should I care
'Bout a bad reputation anyway
Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me
I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation
You're living in the past
It's a new generation
An' I only feel good
When I got no pain
An' that's how I'm gonna stay
An' I don't give a damn
'Bout my bad reputation
Oh no, not me
Oh no, not
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| o my I have been gone for so long!!! let me start with saying listen to my radio show!! "With a pinch of rock and a dose of roll", The Queens of Noise (Danielle and Steph) will be hosting Activity Grrrls' Radio Revolution on WHCS. If you're free tomorrow, Tuesday November 3, from 2-3pm, tune in to our show to hear some great rock n roll! You can hear it in both cafeterias at Hunter, online at whcs.hunter.cuny.edu, or in the TH 105 lounge. If you type in whcs.hunter.cuny.edu it will re-direct you to http://whcs.tumblr.com/ Click play on the rectangular box. Thanks! WHCS-Where Hunter College Speaks! | | |
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