Animal Cruelty Exposed Memphis Animal Services: Will the killing ever end? Memphis, Tenn. -- Memphis Animal Services has been plagued with controversy for years. Several years ago the MAS vet was accused of animal cruelty and the animal shelter was found to be starving animals. Last year two former animal shelter workers pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. Earlier this week a trial started for a third animal shelter worker also accused of animal cruelty: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=616217445054967&set=a.363847493625298.95183.363725540304160&type=1&theater ... The evidence, provided by an undercover police officer, seems damning! In addition to animal cruelty, MAS has also “accidentally” misplaced or killed animals before. Animals like Kapone, who was picked up by Animal Control with another dog but never made it into the shelter. Kapone was later found and reunited with his family. Other animals haven’t been so lucky; they have been killed before the mandatory hold period is over, never giving their owners a chance to reclaim them. Has Memphis Animal Services learned anything from these heinous mistakes? Has it at least stopped accidentally killing people’s pets? The answer is a resounding NO. Earlier this week News 3 reported that two dogs which were supposed to be on a 10-day quarantine hold were instead killed at MAS after three days. The dogs, Shanta and Prince, escaped their yard and bit another dog. The police told the owner, James Brown, that they needed to go to the animal shelter for a 10-day quarantine period to check for rabies. Unfortunately after only three days, the usual hold period for stray dogs, Shanta and Prince were killed. Mr. Brown wasn’t even notified of this mistake. He didn’t find out until he called and was told “Your dogs are dead” by an MAS employee. Shanta and Prince were not strays. They were forced to go to MAS for quarantine. Not only did MAS kill two dogs that had a home, they also did not finish the quarantine period for these dogs. MAS acknowledges that both dogs were in its facility but typical of a dysfunctional organization, it said in a statement that “it doesn’t know yet what went wrong and why the dogs weren’t held for Brown.” Change needs to happen in MAS for things to get better. Real change, not just appointing a new director that will maintain the status quo. While MAS kills 77% of the animals under its dubious care, across the nation there are now over 150 communities with open admission shelters that save 90% or more of their shelter pets. These shelters, where only the irredeemably sick, suffering or vicious animals are killed, are called No Kill shelters. Source: Examiner/ VANIA MALDONADO/ June 7 Working in Unity to put an end to these horrors! Keep speaking out and sharing this page: facebook/pages/Animal-Cruelty-Exposed/363725540304160Visa mer
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:46:20 +0000
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