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Miami-Dade animal shelter receive poor marks
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...al/9725876.htm • Feral cats ''poled'' out of traps and carriers ``thrashed around so violently that they could have easily been injured. The cats were then lifted by the control poles around their necks without any body support . . . This was all done . . . with loudly barking dogs in adjacent cages. The cats . . . appeared terrified.'' Totally pathetic. -mhd |
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enlightened us with... http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...al/9725876.htm ? Feral cats ''poled'' out of traps and carriers ``thrashed around so violently that they could have easily been injured. The cats were then lifted by the control poles around their necks without any body support . . . This was all done . . . with loudly barking dogs in adjacent cages. The cats . . . appeared terrified.'' Totally pathetic. -mhd I see this on Miami Animal Cops (or whatever it's called) on Animal Planet all the time. It always makes me sick to my stomach. Then I try and think about how else to hold and move a screeching, clawing, VERY ****ed off animal with teeth and claws... I wouldn't want to try to support their bodies. I know what damage a really ****ed off cat can do to flesh. I know how much they can squirm and wriggle out of contraptions meant to help hold them. I have no solution. The poles, AFAIK, are the only way to keep everyone relatively safe. They move, so that when the cat spins, the pole spins to keep it from strangling the cat. The end of the pole is coated in a material that won't hurt their teeth if they bite it. Animal workers don't deserve to be in excessive danger for helping animals. Realize that most of the cats who thrash about violently and such are feral and wouldn't tolerate handling without months of work. These animal workers need to move them now, not tomorrow or a month from now. You want pressure? Go work for animal control. IIRC, New York has a team of like 10 people for the entire city, which has millions of pets. If anyone has a more humane solution that will allow the workers, who are massively overworked and in need of 50 hour days to get everything done, to move the cats in an efficient and timely manner, without harming themselves in the process, please be very vocal. Maybe you can effect change in the system and help these animals and the workers. Maybe you can invent something and make money, too!! Or maybe you'll just educate stupid ol' me. /didn't RTFA, but has seen it on TV -- -- ~kaeli~ In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
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