Crawling over the Internet trying to put the pieces together, it seems like the dynamic trio are joined at the hip. It was an exciting piece on the Fix Austin.org site indicating that Austin is looking for a new animal services manager ; they even have hired a headhunter. This blog would like to step up to the plate and offer to give them Mitch Snyder and Bonney Brown. That would solve two problems, it would allow Reno to get back to the business of animal control and having a well-run facility, and it would let Austin Texas know how bad a facility can get.
When Winograd. admits on his blog that the Nevada Humane Society is seriously overpopulated by design standards for the building, but it's okay because the animals are healthy you know he's feeling the pressure. They always talk about their cats now, never mention a dog. $14 million building has become a cat sanctuary and not a very tidy facility at that. I have heard people say that it's kept clean, but clean compared to what. ? How can you clean up after 700 cats, stacked floor to ceiling. Using common shelter methodology, if each of the 700 cats get one half hour a day of handling, cleaning & what have you. That would be 350 hours a day just on the cats. Now, if you have the volunteer there eight hours a day that makes them an employee. A volunteer doing the duties of an employee should be covered by insurance, with full benefits the same as any other employee. Go ahead, divide 350 hours by eight hours per day, and see how many volunteers you would need on duty to handle the workload. It is a physical impossibility for them to get adequate care to the animals in their custody. And giving animals away at no charge is irresponsible at best.
Business takes me to Reno once a week, so I will be able to continue my monitoring the situation. God's Army has no patience for the abuse of any living creature
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Volunteers vs Employees
Per the insurance (and I believe the NEA--NV Employer's Assoc) company, if it walks like a duck
and talks like a duck; it is a duck. In other words, you cannot have volunteers doing the same work
that employees do. Doing so sets the company/agency up for investigation and possible legal action
of non-payment of wages through wage and labor or the Federal Department of Commerce.
This information came to me through Chris Fletcher who was the Asst. Director and Personnel Director
under Susan and Dr. Williams. It is for this reason that NHS restricted what volunteers could do and the
length of time every day that they could work unless it was a special event. Where NHS made the mistake
in handling the volunteers is that it should have been up front with the volunteers and explained this. Had
they have done so, NHS possibly could have fended off the take-over years ago since this was a big issue
with the "volunteers" and others who were No Kill supporters.
Hope that helps. You have my permission to use it.
Good article by Patricia J. Ruland BEFORE Austin fell. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=696455
Seems Patty had some help in forming the questions she asked of Winograd and when she asked them, Winograd got highly ticked off. He wrote a letter to the Editor of her paper BEFORE the story was printed, ticking off the Editor too. Winograd knew from the questions Patty asked what was about to come. In this article Patty refers to all this.
"However, his pre-emptive reaction to a story that hadn't even been published didn't end with me. According to a subsequent blog posting, Winograd claimed to have identified a Chronicle source and purported to "out" one of his former contacts in the animal-welfare community. At great length, he vilified her reputation, accused her of misinforming reporters about his record, and more specifically accused her of being the source for material for this story – a story that hadn't even been fully reported or drafted yet, let alone published. (For the record, Winograd's putative enemy was not a source for this story."
Winograd says build it and they will come, speaking of volunteers. Rancho Cucamonga found out differently. Before Winograd's program, Rancho had a volunteer who was recognized for her work by the City Council and the Red Cross. She was there 40 hours a week. She lasted 6 months after being with the Rancho shelter for over 5 years. And according to the Rancho city web site, Rancho averaged 10 volunteer hours a day. This resulted in the shelter having to ask for more employees in their budget. Rancho handles about 5000 animals a year so divide the volunteer time and see how much interaction the animals got - little to none.
Austin hasn't fallen, they are talking like it has, but if it was wrapped up they wouldn't be down there pitching. Nothing is concrete, one of my sources at TLAC told me the doubts are there in the government. Did everybody read about the no kill shelter that had to put down 200 innocent animals for disease ? Two more back east have been hit hard by parvo,overcrowding is not conducive to healthy pet populations.
Living in a temperate climate the cats could survive the winter, I don't think tnr would work in a cold climate. There would be frozen cats everywhere, we have thr listed on our animal services page, but of course the government wants the citizen to foot the bill. Nobody takes it seriously.
I also go to Reno a couple of times a month, Chaplain. I would like to meet you and perhaps we could work together on some issues affecting California. I always go to the shelters when I am up there, check out the competion, you know. Our shelter is small and we serve a fairly large population, I haven't visited the Sac shelters but I'll make a point of it. The situation in Reno is appalling, so maybe we could stroll it together and take notes?
There were several of us who met on a blog in Seattle, and we have stayed in touch. The Seattle blog closed after Winograd's sluts took charge of things. He is a walking human tragedy, a travesty of nature. He hates women but he hides behind them. I too followed Gret's blog, and was sad to see it go.There are still several good ones out there, you just have to know where to look.
I am Brent from Sacramento, there is another one in Reno. On the argument of whether or not a City approves of TNR, Sacramento does show it on it's web page, but there is no government support. I have asked them why it's up there since there is no public mandate, and right now it's because they haven't had to deal with the consequences. This is a trial balloon effort. Wait til the rabies start showing up.
Brent, you might want to mention the lawsuit in LA over TNR. The City of LA did have a formal program for TNR, or informal depending on who you talk to, and when they were sued, they stopped issuing spay/neuter vouchers, traps, etc. I expect these lawsuits to start happening everywhere before long. Also you can't have a TNR program without an environmental study. Sacramento needs to be informed about all this because having it on their website is opening the city up for such a lawsuit.
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