Comments on: Spike’s Story

By: feral

feral — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:15:42 +0000

how would the community and the county government who runs the contract like to know that the League has a sick bay area where they put sick cats to be isolated from healthy cats. The 2 problems with there procedure.:
1. the cat sick bay is right next to dog sick bay so dogs that are barking and baying 24/7 are stressing the cats out. Anyone who knows cats knows that stress plays a BIG part in them becoming sick in a shelter enviroment yet they keep dogs in a area not 10 feet away.
2. they let the sick cats run loose and intermingle when sick bays is cleaned. The kennel manager thinking is that they need socializtion even if this means exposing each other to the different illnesses they may have.
3. On a side note they had 5 kittens die in about 3 months from panleuk in the shelter. Would you like to know how they dealt with such a detrimental disease? Esp. one that is extrememly contagious/fatal esp. to kittens. And how many cats were adopted out that were exposed to this disease because normal precautions were not be followed. I pointed out the issues numerous times and was was basically dismissed by management.

By: judy

judy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:51:27 +0000

I so agree with the last paragraph of what was said about Spike, the shelter, its volunteers and employees. I can speak for the employees as I got the shaft unjustly. They tend to get rid of the people that care for the animals, (3 that I know, not including myself) and keep the ones who are only there for a paycheck. It seems they like the ones who don’t invest themselves emotionally. Funny, I thought that was what it was all about.

By: Y T Karashinsky

Y T Karashinsky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:42:36 +0000

Poor Spike!! WHY does a “contract” turn into a death sentence? And why on earth was the AWLA so spiteful?

These are living beings!! When was the last time a foster CHILD was made to die because of a contract?