Here is the Jersey Shore Animal Center in Brick, New Jersey:
Looks like a nice place.
They kill innocent animals that other reputable organizations ask them for.
We’re all familiar with the story now…it’s the same one that 70% of the rescue groups surveyed are familiar with. Same thing the ASPCA did. Same thing that happens day after day after day in this business. In this case a mother cat and her 5 kittens are going to be killed when they could be here at Pets Alive lounging in a cat room or living comfortably in someone’s home.
Same old story. Ignorance and indifference on the part of the people who have a moral responsibility to those animals and were trusted by the people who brought them there. Here’s the full story:
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Animal Testing by kerry on Jul 19, 2010. There are comments.
It has been called the Great Beagle Escape. BeagleMania. Beagleopogus. Beaglearama. BeFreegles. …and many more names that were both tender, funny, or sweet.
In reality it was very simple.
It was about telling 120 beings that their lives were worth something.
That we are sorry for our species.
That we apologize for what some of us have done.
That we aren’t ALL like that and those of us that aren’t – want to make a difference.
To help.
To embrace those lives, whisper in their ears that it is over now, that we’ll not let anything bad happen to them ever again.
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Animal Rescue by kerry on Jul 17, 2010. There are comments.
The first Beagle went home a few days ago. Isn’t that amazing? Watching him through the window of the car as his caretakers took him to his forever home was incredibly heartwarming.
Shortly after the Beagles arrived here I surfed the highways and byways of the Internet and found some blogs where we were being discussed. Pets Alive has enemies and detractors online who seek to tear us down. They also seek to harm me as well. Shrug. Whatever. We all know what PA does and that while I can be a jerk I do the best I can and let my moral compass lead me. That’s really all anyone can ask of me or anyone else.
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Sanctuary animal updates:
Since the last update on May th, the following animals have been adopted: Truman, Stuart Noble, Piper, Larry, Brennan, Humphrey, Kasey, Paris,Reynolds, freckles, junior, kiki, Tyler, kit, gable, jilly, paulie, Freddy, Stuart(again), Bubba, Little Pearl, Johnny, akasha, Kendra, Princess, Celeste, Chewy, rayder, reba, Koda, Wilson, mayola, jet, iris, Zena, jed, Coley, Brutus, fuzzy, duke, Roy, Luke, Jake, boo, Lily, Max, dodger, Walt, Mufasa, McGruff, Scotty, Kenneth, Chewey (again), Nugget, Katie, Charity, Dixie, Rebel, Levi, Earnhardt, Bubba, Walker, Boudicca, Hartford, Angel, Surar, Remy,
Grace, Winston, Kenneth, Baxter, Gideon, Bella Mia, BoDiddley, Rommie, Lola, Chance, Rocky (shihtzu), Rocky (shep mix), Sweetheart, Aspen, Marley, Hobbles, Lacey, Bailey, Grover, Jack, Mystic, Teddy, Mek, Draco, Ellie Mae, Bono, Smokey. I really think I have missed some since it has been such a long time since my last update but that’s pretty close!
Seven cats also went home! Charlie, Star, Snuggle, Puff, Alice, Mack and Duffy!
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Updates by kerry on Jul 05, 2010. There are comments.
Independence Day is a day of great celebration at my house. In fact, it is the only party that I host all year. The party is today, and I’m expecting 50 to 60 people this evening.
Unlike certain people and Presidents, I do not apologize for being American. This is the day I celebrate with my friends and family the fact that this is the greatest country ever created. On July 2, 1776 (yes, it wasn’t actually July 4) the Second Continental Congress approved a resolution of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. On July 4 they approved the formal Declaration we all know.
This was the document marking the birth of this nation. My den has many pictures and photos on the wall, but the one that hangs over the desk where I work and write and think has a large painting of George Washington addressing that Congress so that I always remember the toil and sacrifice those great men made so that we can enjoy the freedoms we have today.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Those words have been called the most potent and consequential words in American History.
Freedom. Freedom is the ability to make choices without constraint.
Liberty. Liberty is the right to behave according to one’s own personal responsibility and free will.
Have you ever considered that the root word of liberate is liberty? A few weeks ago we got a call from our friends at Best Friends. They had been contacted by Win Animal Rights (WAR), a New York City based organization that had gotten wind of an animal testing lab in New Jersey that had gone bankrupt. There were 120 Beagles and 55 monkeys that had been left there to die.
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Let me preface this blog with a disclaimer. I am technically NOT a New Yawka. I was born in Connecticut, New York’s bedroom state. I have worked in New York, owned businesses in New York, paid taxes in New York, and spent a lot of time here. I truly LOVE New York. I would live here if the taxes weren’t so high and the government wasn’t so
insane.
When I used to travel for business people used to ask me where I was from. When I said Connecticut they would say “where’s that?” So I just started saying New York. New Yorkers are different. We are tough, we are driven, and we are brash. We don’t sit on our front porches and sip sweet tea and fan ourselves with shell-shaped fans. We get stuff done. Competition is tough and fierce and if you make a mistake you get eaten alive. New Yorkers are very fair and have the most well defined bulls–t detector I have ever seen. Having spent a lot of time in other parts of the country it became obvious to me that as a New Yorker I could run rings around most of my competition, because truly, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
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No-kill by matt on Jun 29, 2010. There are comments.
So Best Friends said this, in the recent backlash they are getting over Oreo’s Law:
>>In 2007, Best Friends rescued a failed and dilapidated Pets Alive sanctuary by investing over a million dollars and 8 months of a rotating cadre of Best Friends staff to get the organization back on its feet. Best Friends has spent millions of dollars and countless hours of staff and volunteer time in the past few years bailing out or cleaning up after 501c3s and rescues that have gotten in over their head with animals they can’t handle. These include Pets Alive, Gabbs, Nevada, FLOCK in Las Vegas, Oasis Sanctuary in New York….
…In fact, a number of dogs from Pets Alive, to whom the current management did not feel they could do justice, and who had languished there in squalid conditions prior to our intervention in 2007, were taken in at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah.<<
Yes, Best Friends, this is true. Well MOST of it. It wasn’t a million dollars you spent here. We know, because we got the bill from you that your past CEO, Paul Berry eventually waived, when he saw how great we were doing and how we would become a force for animals in this area. That bill, before it was waived, was just under $500,000. A minor point, but please, no need to inflate it. Let’s stick to the facts here. We have not bad mouthed you or beaten you up – in fact when people were saying they were going to withdraw support from you, we said “DON’T DO THAT”! We have stressed how we disagree with your opinion on being neutral about this and how critical we needed your support on this bill. That’s it. Others have run with it and it has gone viral but to attack us isn’t really necessary. We didn’t…we COULD. Remember all the things that happened in those eight months? Ouch. We all know each others secrets, don’t we? Secrets that are better left between us, yes?
WE – Pets Alive – don’t really have any secrets. Our bad history has been all over the web (and we include it on our website). In fact, we make no secret about it at all – I am the one that called you when I saw Pets Alive, and how bad it was. I was the one that personally begged you to come down and save all the animals. WE, the people here now, are NOT the people that were here THEN when the situation was so bad. YOU put us here, YOU trained us, WE are YOU. We follow all your protocols, and all your job descriptions and indeed use YOUR adoption contract, and YOUR surrender forms, and your hiring methods – we are you. We are what you trained us to be. And you trained us to always be on the side of animals and speak out and help where we see wrong.
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No-kill by kerry on Jun 29, 2010. There are comments.
We are still reeling from the trouncing we took in the New York Assembly Agriculture Committee over Oreo’s Law. Now we’re watching Nathan Winograd and the No Kill Advocacy Center take Best Friends Animal Society to task over Best Friend’s “neutrality” (read lack of support) for the bill, and Best Friends’ subsequent trashing of Nathan over it.
Pets Alive has been part of Oreo’s Law since the beginning. As you recall it was us who asked the ASPCA of New York to give us Oreo instead of killing her, and it was the ASPCA and its President Ed Sayres who killed her instead. We have been intimately involved with this process, and we have first hand, behind-the-scenes knowledge of what has transpired. Kerry and/or I have been on many phone calls and in many meetings. Assembly Member Micah Kellner, who with his legislative aide Ilyana worked tirelessly to write Oreo’s Law and try to get it passed, was honored at our Hudson Valley Fur Ball. He sat at my table and we had a great conversation. We regret that we weren’t more personally active in helping to get this law passed, but you can be absolutely certain that come January when we try again we will be much more involved. Hopefully at that time the Agriculture Committee will have a new chairman.
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There are so many forces at work with trying to get Oreo’s Law passed.
The ASPCA and the Mayor’s Alliance, both charged with saving animals and
given millions of dollars to do so, are pouring money and resources into
defeating the bill, ensuring that they continue to control which animals
live and die in New York City and throughout the state.
It’s a classic David versus Goliath proposition, and Goliath is winning.
They’ve convinced the chairman of the Agriculture Committee (Robert
Magee) to table the bill because the “language isn’t clear.” What part
of “if a qualified rescue requests an animal that would otherwise be
euthanized the request must be fulfilled” don’t they understand?
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