The Assessments....

I have been formulating a letter to anyone out there who may give a damn about the loss of our shelter as an AC provider.....

To whom it may be relevant………
I completed my 8th reading of the AHA assessment on WCRAS and the 11th reading of the No Kill Solutions assessment on our public intake facility, NHS.
The thoroughness of the AHA report was impressive, while as usual in his
“ shelter assessments”, Mr. Winograd rambled on about nothing offering little substance for his opinions. His report was hearsay and not documented in any professional sense of the word.
At first glance on the AHA report Mr. St. John and Mitchell Schneider steal the show bemoaning the problems with the “ former Director”. It seems there was something terribly wrong with her, and now that she is gone, the world is once again a soft rosy place to live
. It was a nice snow job on the staffers from AHA who could not or would not realize that, since the WCRAS was in stunning condition, with excellent protocol and “ The Interim Manager” had only had the helm 4 weeks, he had inherited a well-managed agency. WCRAS was still on autopilot from Sabatoni. The current “ Management Team “ all asserted it was so much better with Sabatoni gone and things were much improved…My search was on for areas of improvement which affected the taxpayers or the animals, there was none, as a matter of fact reading the reports shows both lost ground. Management at WCRAS consists of Dan, Mitch and possibly Karen Stark. And the repeatedly mentioned “ issues with the former manager” were at best ambiguous.. The clouding of “issues” was necessary because Sabatoni had maintained a sucessful working relationship with her staff as evidenced in the retention stats. Karen has always exhibited a little rebellious streak; and would clash with Sabatoni from time to time, but she also gossiped madly about NHS so I take Karen Stark with a grain of salt.
Dan and Mitch, however have been on a deliberate mission to malign and replace Sabatoni with Mitch .Schneider. Policy is changing at WCRAS to allow them to be an overflow unit for NHS when they are full. I will be providing annotated copies of the assessments .
This started when NHS began the No Kill rhetoric. I have nothing personal against either Dan or Mitch, as a matter of fact, I had always been attracted to immature, deceptive, manipulative & self absorbed men. Prior to outgrowing my Maternal instincts, anytime some loser would wander out of the shallow end of the gene pool, I would want to drag them to therapy. I don’t want to hurt or help them anymore, just try to stay as far away as possible from the destructive path. AHA is incorporating language to allow NHS to interview prospective WCRAS employees. Since all NHS hiring practices require a commitment to the No Kill philosophy this could seriously tie up hiring practice from the county view point.
I am working on the final annotated draft and will show the areas of concern, I wouldn’t waste my time trying to debunk Dan’s misleading statements to AHA. The condition of the agency and the general state of the employees affirm that it had been set up and managed with professionalism.
Bonney Brown worked with Kris Field of AHA and has started a relationship with her that may bear bitter fruit. The shelter and taxpayer confidence is in grave danger. Mitch traded his loyalty to the county to become a NO KILL star and we need to get this back on track very quickly.
Pictured is Burley Dog waiting for his walk, he understands duty comes first......

Embacing The Lie...

We have heard and read " embrace" so many times lately, the local media looks like a dime novel. All the nut jobs embracing one another makes one a tad ill about the gill.. We are up to our ears in this lovefest between down at the heels cat saviors and up to no good " managers" Mitch wants to " embrace " lifesaving, amazing, wonderful, caring BB; local shelter director gone to seed in a big way. I don't mean in a sexual way, I think they are to far gone for any of that foolishness, but they want to " merge" You know in the South in the summer time, slow river and the leeches want to
" merge " with your calf ? Similar, very similar; sometimes it's hard to tell who is sucking off whom...... Now we have all the rescues on the county page, even though the stats say they aren't pulling. Dog Town was on their stats last month nearly lost my cookies on that one, Lyon county sent out requests to not let her pull, so she moves to Churchhill and fires up the band again. If you have a moment to follow the yellow brick road, known as FB .......
Our sweet BB is "friends" with both Ed Muzika & Ed Boks; now you know that is hard to pull off. Does that mean that since they all network Tom J is now friends with Boks and Muzika ? How about Becky at Pet Network ? She is friends with Tom and BB who is a friend of Dog Town, do we have a coalition there ? Maybe BB could hire Ed Boks as her new assistant director, whoops, Nate would not like that !! Where is Nate by the way ? He is muttering away on his blog and repeating himself and King County is still under the lash of the crazies on KCACCExposed. A must read for those who enjoy tortured minds, trying to appear sane. My word, Oreo sounds like Catmom....

A Day At The Beach..

If only all rescues could be this happy.....I am looking for a bright spot in a gloomy situation. As I whipped through all the local shelter / rescues on Petfinder.Com for our Zip Code, I was stunned by the sheer number NOT in rescue. Our valley shows 284 dogs, with 185 of them being at NHS, WARF shows 83, but they're not a shelter and not subject to accurate tail counts. The SPCA had 14 dogs on Petfinder, but the truth is if a rescue pulls from a brick & mortar shelter, the dog still ends up on Petfinder.com. The best way to count tails is Petfinder for your zip and go 50 miles radius. I fear the economy is the villain here, as people struggle to stay afloat donations drop, and the ability to take in extra animals is diminished.
Here at Oreo's we had a vet trip the other day for a " wellness check" $150.00 later...... Animals require care, we sure consider ourselves responsible pet folks. Good job, no credit cards, even the damn computer is on dial-up, we consider our pets a responsibility & a first priority, yet here we are, broke. I do believe there are people who have planned well and yet, who could ever anitcipate the depth of decline in the economy. I see less people adopting for the same reason I see less fosters, can't afford it........very sad, Oreo whimpers with sadness.
Pictured are two rescues in the same family, meeting up at a get together