Showing posts with label North Carolina General Statutes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Carolina General Statutes. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

PetSmart donated $10,000.00 to a North Carolina Gas Chamber Shelter, what?

 
See Mimi Cooper pictured above with her PetSmart Inc, check in hand
 

PetSmart Inc supports killing homeless animals via the Randolph NC Gas Chamber. Do you want the facts that this reporter left out? Do you care about how the media spins just about anything and everything these days?

When you go to check out at PetsMart register the screen will ask if you would like to donate money towards their PetsMart Charity group, which one would reasonably think has been checked out thoroughly esp. those they choose to donate money to, if you were under this impression you would be wrong, dead gas chamber wrong that is. Is the Prison program a great program that's up and running in many animal shelters, YES. However you have to better understand the history of the Randolph Animal Shelter located in Asheboro NC.

 

 1/ They are a double Gas Chamber facility. Not one but two, wow is all I can say here.

2/ They were offered in 2010 from a private citizen a sum of over $10,000.00 for the County to do with as they wished for any dept. if they would just dismantle the Gas Chambers and move to EBI, a more humane option when dealing with euthanasia of an animal.  Mimi Cooper, with the County Health Dept. refused this donation.  As she prefers to kill animals via a Gas Chambers than a more humane and cost effective way. ( That tells the story within itself.)

3/ HSUS of NC and ASPCA then donates $6,000.00 to the same shelter for a fresh coat of paint. And never addresses the animals are being killed via a barbaric Gas Chamber, that volunteers are refused time and time by Mimi Copper and her staff, animals are not pictured at intake and posted immediately for owners to recover their lost animals or to jump start the adoption process for those in need.

Could I list about 8 other infractions and heartbreaking items, yes I could but what is the need. The only item I feel anyone needs to take away here is PetsMart Inc, supports killing animals via a  Gas Chamber and that’s how cut and dry this needs to be.

Will I ever walk in a PetsMart again NO. And with as many animals as I have both personally and in my rescue, this was not a wise move for them.

Goodbye PetsMart and shame on your Corporation of Charities for not taking the time to better understand the situation at the Randolph County Animal Shelter and to write a $10,000.00 check off the backs of your daily donators who now see what little education and knowledge your employees have before they write out any checks. If we were to dig deeper, would we find even worse with some of the checks they have written die to their sloppy protocol, I bet we would.

But this ends now for me, I will never shop one of their stores again.
 
 

Double Gas Chambers at the Randolph County Animal Shelter  right beside the first kennels of dogs to not only see their pals drug and shoved into these chambers, but also in a direct ear shot to hear them scream, fight and claw their way to death.
 
Yes, Petsmart Charities this is what you just paid for and now many of us will never shop your stores again.
 
Shame on anyone who feels this is a humane way of death for any creature. 


Saturday, January 26, 2013

Disappointment with some of our NC County Animal Shelters

I don't know of another business that would be allowed to operate in North Carolina for over 8 years, still need to educated by State Inspectors about the accountability of their job and not be accessed heavy civil penalty fines other than our County Animal Shelter System.

In 1977 the North Carolina General Assembly enacted an "Animal Welfare Act" to ensure that animals, as items of commerce, are provided humane care and treatment by regulating the transportation, sale, purchase, housing, care, handling and treatment of animals by persons or organizations engaged in transporting, buying or selling them. This Act is intended to protect animals confined in pet shops, kennels, public and private animal shelters, and auction markets. For the purposes of this Act, "animal," as defined by General Statute 19A-23, includes only domestic dogs and cats. This should not be confused with county-operated animal shelters that are regulated by county governments and their officials. State issued certificates or licenses are required for animal shelters, pet shops, boarding kennels and dealers. Criminal penalties are provided for the operation of a pet shop, kennel, animal shelter, etc., without a license.


In 2005 the North Carolina Animal Welfare Section was created and placed under the jurisdiction of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. This new NC AWS is to over see our County Animal Shelters, Pet Shops, Boarding facilities and Kennels. State Inspectors were hired, and the State of North Carolina was divided up by counties between these new Inspectors. The job of these State Inspectors is to make sure these facilities are following the NC Animal Welfare Act along with better understanding how to care for the animals in all those cages. This would include a cleaning protocol, feeding of caged animals, the enclosures in which hold these animals, ambient temperature, intake, adoption, euthanasia and more.

Going on 8 years now why would these State Inspectors still need to explain to these County Animal Shelters that you must remove mold from the food bins, that you must feed adult animals once a day and if they are puppies and kittens they must be feed 2 times a day, that all animals must have access to fresh clean water 24-7, that dead animals must be removed from the kennels, to sanitize to help stop the spread of disease, to maintain an ambient temperature for these animals while in their care, to not hose down the kennels/cages with the animals still in their kennels/cages, to give each animal a resting platform and more?

If you can not follow the standards of the NC AWA and NC AWS after 8 years then the County and State needs to cut their losses and employee someone who can. It's inexcusable that after Inspection after Inspection we still find  many North Carolina County Animal Shelters not preforming the basic needs for the live animals that find their way into their care. And we wont even speak of the animals that find their way into the euthanasia room of these same Shelters.

Why is this still acceptable in 2013? Not feeding an animal, denying them access to fresh clean water let alone not keeping their area clean is listed as animal cruelty by the NC General Statues and it punishable by law and with heavy civil penalties to be accessed, so why are these same County Animal Shelters getting a free pass after 8 years and not being accessed the civil penalties either?

Example pictured below is of Rowan County Animal Shelter, but this is not just about Rowan as if you look you can find this same neglect care being given to the animals in just about any other County in NC.