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B-J Posts: 27Location: Join Date: December 21, 2008 8:15 AMSend Message |  #1 April 21, 2009 3:51 PM
From: Laurie Bleier <info@brooklynanimalfosternetwork.org> Subject: ACC Protest and Press Conference at City Hall this Sunday. Council Member Tony Avella to speak To: ", " <kmweiser@yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 1:48 PM Having trouble viewing this e-mail? please use this link.| | PLEASE CROSS POST! NYC area animal loving citizens, New Hope Partners and Mayor’s Alliance Groups,
Please join us as we voice our opposition to continuing the City contract with Animal Care & Control (ACC) unless the disinterested and inexperienced Board of Directors including Executive Director, Charlene Pedrolie are replaced with forward thinking, humane shelter professionals and animal rights advocates!
Sunday, April 26
On the Steps of City Hall
Noon to 2pm
Council Member Tony Avella will hold a press conference at that time. Please bring your rescued dog with you if possible. New York City Hall is located at the center of City Hall Park of Lower Manhattan between Broadway, Park Row and Chambers Street.
In October of 07, the Board of Directors of ACC hired Charlene Pedrolie, a business woman with not a shred of shelter or medical experience to run ACC. The Board has inexplicitly stood by and watched as mass resignations of key personnel and firings of long term, dedicated employees and volunteers have decimated the ACC into the nearly unrecognizable entity it is today. Despite recent ACC press releases claiming that euthanasia is down, the fact is, the ACC is contracted to kill animals and is also responsible for finding homes for them. This conflict of interest has resulted in the dishonest reclassification of countless thousands of animals from adoptable to unadoptable for reasons of sickness and temperament. More often then not sickness overtakes the animals in a matter of days and sometimes hours (Strep Zoo Oubreak) as they wait in unsanitary conditions. Witnesses have watched as Temper Tests are deliberately set up to fail terrified animals.
Inexperienced, uncaring and untrained ACC staff bungling has resulted in an avalanche of documentation to the office of Council Member Tony Avella. E-mails and phone calls have outlined the worst cases of accidental death, negligence and abuse. Just last week Mr. Avella announced his office is seeking to obtain all records regarding euthanizations, length of stay for animals brought into ACC, physical examination, as well as records concerning owner notification. This was in response to the case of Angel the Collie who was illegally euthanized a mere 4 hours after admittance into the system despite a 72 hour stray hold mandated by New York City law.
Laurie Bleier
Director
Brooklyn Animal Foster Network
Who to call and email:
Thomas Frieden, M.D.Commissioner NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygene who runs ACC. tfrieden@health.nyc.gov
Work: 212-788-5261 Work fax: 212-964-0472 From the Board of Directors of NYCACC Dr. Jay Kuhlman
sjkuhlman@aol.comVeterinarian 37 E 19th St New York, NY 10003 (212) 477-4080
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| B-JPosts: 27Location: Join Date: December 21, 2008 8:15 AMSend Message | #1 April 26, 2009 9:11 PM Hello
I want to thank those who are sponsoring me as well as give you all an an update but spreading the word will help also. I have managed to raise $190.00 so far for Bobbi and the Strays.
I know the economy is bad so believe me every little bit helps. Rescues are suffering also. Thanks to the support from people like you, Bobbi and the Strays has been able to rescue animals that need it most. Also many of you are sponsoring other walkers.
My three girls are all seniors and with the weather change if it's hot next week I will have to leave them home They are good walkers and can do the mile and a half but not in the heat of the day. So I will take one of the shelter dogs instead.
I am looking forward to this event. Bobbi and the strays works really hard at saving lives. I can't think of a better reason than that to sponsor a walker so they can continue to do so. I worked for Bobbi for a time and have volunteered as well as fostered a few cats and pulled 5 dogs out of the Brooklyn ACC. Brownie is my permanent foster pulled last year. She just turned 15.
I am adding a few others we the Valley Stream crew have pulled to my photos. Also some photos of saved and adopted out to their forever homes through Bobbi and the Strays. The video on my page shows how dedicated to training and socializing the dogs Bobbi and the Strays staff are.
http://www.firstgiving.com/barbarajeanlandsperg
Looking forward to seeing everyone next week. It should be a bast.
Thank you
Barbara-Jean aka B-J My girls and I will be participating in the Walk 4 Paws fund raiser for Bobbi And The Strays on May 2, 2009 at Forest Park. Please join us for this worthy cause. Bobbi And The Strays does so much to help animals get off the streets, death row and out of bad situations so they get their second chance in life and placed in loving forever homes. Please donate what you can to help the "B-Js Girls" with our fundraising for Bobbi And The Strays. Looking forward to meeting you all on May 2nd 10 AM Thank You B-J. Chillie, Maureen and Brownie |
| B-JPosts: 27Location: Join Date: December 21, 2008 8:15 AMSend Message | #1 April 26, 2009 9:11 PM Hello
I want to thank those who are sponsoring me as well as give you all an an update but spreading the word will help also. I have managed to raise $190.00 so far for Bobbi and the Strays.
I know the economy is bad so believe me every little bit helps. Rescues are suffering also. Thanks to the support from people like you, Bobbi and the Strays has been able to rescue animals that need it most. Also many of you are sponsoring other walkers.
My three girls are all seniors and with the weather change if it's hot next week I will have to leave them home They are good walkers and can do the mile and a half but not in the heat of the day. So I will take one of the shelter dogs instead.
I am looking forward to this event. Bobbi and the strays works really hard at saving lives. I can't think of a better reason than that to sponsor a walker so they can continue to do so. I worked for Bobbi for a time and have volunteered as well as fostered a few cats and pulled 5 dogs out of the Brooklyn ACC. Brownie is my permanent foster pulled last year. She just turned 15.
I am adding a few others we the Valley Stream crew have pulled to my photos. Also some photos of saved and adopted out to their forever homes through Bobbi and the Strays. The video on my page shows how dedicated to training and socializing the dogs Bobbi and the Strays staff are.
http://www.firstgiving.com/barbarajeanlandsperg
Looking forward to seeing everyone next week. It should be a bast.
Thank you
Barbara-Jean aka B-J My girls and I will be participating in the Walk 4 Paws fund raiser for Bobbi And The Strays on May 2, 2009 at Forest Park. Please join us for this worthy cause. Bobbi And The Strays does so much to help animals get off the streets, death row and out of bad situations so they get their second chance in life and placed in loving forever homes. Please donate what you can to help the "B-Js Girls" with our fundraising for Bobbi And The Strays. Looking forward to meeting you all on May 2nd 10 AM Thank You B-J. Chillie, Maureen and Brownie |
| Pam-MNPosts: 7Location: Join Date: December 23, 2008 4:48 PMSend Message | #1 May 13, 2009 5:22 PM Hi B-J! How did your fundraiser go the beginning of May. Does anyone still check this site? I've been neglectful, too. I guess I was wondering if anyone still hangs around on here. I do miss those old days when there was constant chatter all the time but as the old saying goes "Time Moves On." |
| MilaLBPosts: 6Location: Join Date: January 11, 2009 10:04 AMSend Message | #1 May 14, 2009 4:34 AM Hi Pam and B-J!! I check this site and if you look at the views, a lot of others do, too! We are all still hoping and praying for some word on Vivi. How did the walk for Bobbi and the Strays turn out, B-J? |
| B-JPosts: 27Location: Join Date: December 21, 2008 8:15 AMSend Message | #1 May 14, 2009 9:56 AM Hello Pam and Mila I called and the walk went well with no rain. I have to call Bobbi today to see how things went. It was supposedly raining the whole time. Unfortunately at 1 am the day of the walk I was in critical care for an asthma attack. They weere doing a lot of tarring the past week in the neighborhood and coal tar derivitives is one of my more minor triggers. Had an attack the saturday before and was on nebula treatments at home but I guess there was just too much expoxure. Was in 10 days; got home monday afternoon. So I have been trying to put something on my update but I am so sorry to let people down. On the upside I am still here. At least I got to use the pop machine rather than intubation. Each time it gets closer th that. |
| MilaLBPosts: 6Location: Join Date: January 11, 2009 10:04 AMSend Message | #1 October 4, 2009 3:38 PM Hi All, Well, the old Animal House Blog has been disabled. I had not been there in a couple of weeks or so and was saddened to see that today it is gone.... So many memories, so much hope, tears and smiles written and followed....gone....no going back but I know that the contents of the site had been copied/saved by some of TeamVivi...thank doG for that! We will never forget the correspondence, the challenges and the emotion of the Animal House Blog and and we thank Denise F for allowing all of us to hijack her site.... for Vivi. For the animals needing us. But it was for Vivi. And all because of that beautiful whippet girl who still eludes us. Someday.... I hope we can continue to meet here from time to time. Would be good to say hello to some old friends. VivaLaVivi |
