San Francisco Says No To No Kill Yet Again.

Staying current on other cities is part of the job, and Oreo is not one to shirk her duties. There is a huge rant on the Wino's place about San Francisco declining him AGAIN people.....This guy is so stuck in Reno, I hope our BCC has the balls other regions have shown and stick to their guns. They brought in HSUS and Ed Sayres of the ASPCA. The big guns are coming out in clear force now, and I wish we had called them in Reno, but we didn't, so here's hoping ( as I've always said ) that Oreo is enough. He hasn't mentioned Reno other than the attack on Ardena, which was really quite enough. Desperate people do desperation driven blunders. The assessment from AHA was given to staff on the 20th of June and Dan has not entered it. into a format for public record request yet. Nothing has been said about Wino's assessment. Who cares ? I am sure there were some issues on the AHA paper and I am just as certain the gutless wonders tried to blame them on Sabatoni. We are working on getting a copy now so we can see what the problems were and who determined them to be problems....... Wanna bet there is a BB in the barrel ? Oreo is wondering if she should retire when we put this baby to bed, or just go back to normal fun stuff. We've assembled a wonderful group of people and the friendships that have grown from this are deeply appreciated. I know many people are in the direct line of fire and can't post, but it's good to know you are here looking, and learning......

Pictured is Oreo just yesterday, looking sharp and anticipating a ball toss..

Who Is Oreo ?

The cruel people are trolling again, and it makes me sad to think it spite of every chance to learn and grow; they stay in their sickness. Oreo received a group of concerned emails and the truth is, the commission needs to focus on the consultant not the one bringing the light. This is not a populist movement, if everybody got a wish list some would wish for better roads to bring jobs. Many would say keep the Library staffed and open, some would say save the golf courses. The truth is there is no wish list for luxury items. We don't have enough money to keep the necessary services available. Building a bigger shelter will allow us to store more animals, we found out 2 years ago the bigger the shelter the more animals get dumped. We need a better plan for saving lives, the one being used by NHS only prolongs misery. The hoarders will fill to capacity and then some.

Who anybody is doesn't matter, it's a diversion, nothing more. A shoot the messenger, don't look at the " models" track record...... spin, spin, spin.

Pictured is a victim of naive owner who surrendered a blind dog that couldn't walk, and thought somebody in some shelter would fix it....Didn't happen; dog was adopted out twice untreated for her blindness and structure problems, and extreme anxiety disorder.

Medical Dumping & Hardtimes

Oreo, on patrol checking abandoned houses for abandoned pets. I spoke with an aquaintance on the frontlines the other day and there was a comparison to the late seventies/early eighties. During that period many animals were turned into local shelters with undisclosed medical conditions. That is currently going on at a couple of local shelters now. Oreo wants to educate the public on the realities of life in the shelter. It is not one big vet visit. They don't run tests on everydog for every little thing. It is not possible to give the kind of treatment some of the animals need on such a large scale. If you have an animal with health problems, without your honesty, that animal can suffer in silence, alone unvisited in a kennel. A shelter is not a diaognostic center. Unless there is blood, most animals wait until they are adopted for extensive health checks.

The adopter may not have any more money than the person surrendering the animal. There is not a list of rich people waiting to pour money into a new pet. Leaving an animal alone is a house that has been vacated is a crime. Dumping a sick animal on a shelter without the truth, ought to be.

Often Oreo will smell something a human could miss, this house was empty. Praise God.

Private Thoughts, Again..

The statistics are in..
There is a changing of terms and a new form of calculating who died from what, but pretty much the same old numbers. In May, perhaps in anticipation of going " No Kill" time & space were removed from the stats as a cause of death on one set of figures, but left on another. Under Reasons for Euthanasia there is a time and space number. Skip over to Intake and Release stats and it's broken down into 3 categories; there are bite dogs, owner requested euth's and 18 unclaimed dogs and 50 unclaimed cats. Is that a polite implication of Time & Space euthanasia ? In April there was a long list of reasons replete with animal id numbers, another tidbit that Chameleon could give out if not supervised. I am not sure those were supposed to be shared with me, but they sure as hell are on the server...The question remains of how the stats are being read and put forth as an accurate reflection of life on Longley. I won't post the stats because they carry a disclaimer on the bottom and say clearly not to be decimated to the public and I don't want to fall into any legal cracks here. Got some emails about what a pain this private thing is. Yep, we are all on the same page. I got a hit from Wino country, and none of our regulars were traveling there and the reader gave hearty scrutiny to 8 pages before resting their weary eyes. It was interesting because it was a direct link, not a search. That must have come from one of Bonney's earlier fishing trips. We stay on topic here and don't do what any reasonable person would consider slander, but we're not dealing with reasonable here. I was not so naive as to think they would go quietly into the night. We are their last hope, Washoe County, last of the golden opportunities to take a good shelter down. It sucks to be the only lifeboat left.
Today was spent comparing last year's numbers under Cindy, with 2009 under Mitch. The only difference is the coding, the rescues are backing off and local sources say the shelters are not embracing them. Not sure what is meant by embracing..... Pet Network and WARF haven't taken dogs to speak of for a couple of months, but they get advertising on the County page.
Pictured is Burley Dog and Miss Priss, sleeping in a puddle is their favorite style....