The latest twist and turn in this case has resulted in a temporary court order of 9th August 2012. I don’t have the full history of this court proceedings but the current and latest order is pretty clear.
At clause one the court makes an order (an injunction in effect) forbidding Caboodle Ranch from encouraging its followers to contact the court to petition or put pressure on the court to make a decision on the matter of a bond (and perhaps on other matters too). In fact the court orders Caboodle Ranch to actively discourage its followers from such action by making a post on their Facebook page(s).
It appears that Caboodle Ranch on its website and Facebook pages have been encouraging third parties (to the proceedings – people not concerned with the action) to make contact withe court to help fight their cause.
This has displeased the judge! Not surprising. It indicates how Craig Grant tends to ignore the law.
The order was made after an application and a three way telephone conference – judge, applicant and respondent. It seems the judge made the application himself having been informed of what was going on.
The other clauses of the order include orders that:
- ASPCA only place cats with individual people not another shelter without a further court order.
- ***A person who has an association with Caboodle Ranch (CR) or who has opinions in favour of CR cannot be refused adoption of a cat or cats by ASPCA solely on the grounds that they are or were connected or associated with CR and/or hold those opinions.*** This is an important order and is a reference I think to what I posted on this page and the subsequent comments. It seems that Elise Perkins petitioned the court informally (or the court has taken note of her intentions) and this is the result. Perkins does not want anyone who supports CR to be able to adopt a cat that was formerly at CR. “To CR fans wanting to adopt cats. You are out of luck…”
- People who have voiced opinions in favour of CR and who are adjudged by ASPCA to be unable to provide inadequate care and so are not allowed by ASPCA to adopt a cat can have a hearing at court on the matter and the cats concerned should be reserved for them. Phew…! This is complicated. The maximum number of cats that can be reserved is 3.
The above orders are the main ones. You can see the entire order (take a drink first!) below:
Thank you Michael for being fair in running this comments section. I can’t believe someone has thought to call me out for passing word from one site to another. Both Caboodle Ranch Inc. and Caboodle Ranch Fanpage have several people that can log on as admin and use the respective handles it is not unheard of that one may not have seen the post of the other. I had seen the post about the interview on the fanpage site and checked the Inc. site to see if there was any more information on it there. When I did not see it mentioned I posted about it so that those on the Inc. site would know about it too. Since the post on the Fanpage was just minutes old the admin on Inc hadn’t heard yet and questioned me about it. I then copied and pasted what had been said by Fanpage admin.
About the was done so comment, I was typing fast and was not exactly calm. Wasn’t paying proper attention to grammar. Sorry about that Pamela I didn’t mean to upset the grammar police. What I posted about the young lady that was turned away was what had been told to me both on the CRI site and also in PM from her. They were letting people in six at a time and checking names against the list as they came up. She was not allowed inside. The paperwork for those that were allowed to adopt was done after they had selected their cats and were ready to leave not before they entered.
Pamela,do go get a lobotomy,ye are in dire need of one and ye others keep blowing hot air out of ye arses,Michael,thankye lad for posting this,of course it has been shared on the CR sites and of course ye have the sods and twits posting their opinions,ye people are underhanded and sneaky,posting on ye haters page saying I’m a fake and saying I’m from California is a hoot,aye my daughter is since that was where she was born,but I digress,the ASPCA will be held in contempt of court,this is far from being over and BTW,Craigs next court dates is NOT months from now.
Fauxrish is back! Terrific – this discussion needed another walking b*****t.
Some day you and the other CR supporters need to learn to read. The judge’s order was NOT violated this weekend. The ASPCA will NOT face contempt charges. The anonymous supporters (fantasy!) over whose treatment you have been beating your breasts were NOT wronged, and you have no case.
But let’s let the story play out… 🙂
Michael, could you explain why “shit” is an acceptable conversational term on this blog, but “brain fart” needs to be censored??
I don’t get time to read all the comments so just grab the ones I can and censor them! Sh*t should be censored. It is unnecessary. I don’t mind swear words but some visitors who are more gentle than me don’t like them and I am sensitive to their requests so try and remove them. I miss some. A lot of comments occur when I am asleep at night so I can miss them in the morning. Hope that answers your question.
I’m totally appalled at the depth of hatred and personal accusations made on this site. Obviously, the cats are the ones who need new homes at this time, but there appears to be some very disturbing vendettas brewing toward others. Did anyone ever internalize that Craig’s original plan was to save cats in lieu of setting up a “torture chamber” as some believe. Yes, it escalated out of control for many reasons, and he is paying the price. Some have lost their cats but should have investigated placement fully before making a choice. Did anyone see that cats resided in open areas that could not be 100% protected from predators? Did anyone know Craig didn’t believe in euthanizing animals and that he accepted all who were dropped off at his site? I’ll stop here because everyone who wanted Caboodle shut down has his/her wish granted. This is very sad, of course, and am concerned this is causing people to lash out…some appear mentally unstable. Lesson that we all should learn: Be constructive with criticism, do your research and make an informed decision about everything and be civil in both verbal and written messages. Otherwise, most, if not all, credibility is lost. My wish is for all the Caboodle survivors to find homes. I’ve visited the ranch several times and have seen the progression. (Yes, I would have made some changes along the way). Please find some peace knowing the surviving cats and kittens are finding loving homes. There is sadness for those who didn’t make it, but what kind of life would they have had otherwise.
Hi Morgan. I agree and I own and manage the site. I deliberately let people through comments show the world the problem that humans have. The cats are often pawns in human conflict of some sort. There are many other examples. The war in Syria. What about the cats? The war between the bird conservationists and the people who want are concerned about feral cats. These are just two examples. I always feel that within the human/cat relationship the human has failed and the cat has been reliable. These comments are a symptom of that failure.
Michael then by your comment you have seen more hoarding/abuse/cruelty to cats…this is the first time with the caboodle ranch nightmare that I have felt I should speak. I truly do not know what craig grants goal was…I know what I saw and I know I was lied to and deceived….and yes he definitely used the cats as pawns…….The biggest lie was that your cat would be taken care of the rest of its’ life…pretty big promise.I have to give them credit their website is very beleivable….filming made them popular,but I am me and I am not impressed by cute little houses….these cats had no proper shelter….I was interested in how he managed this place after 3 days I realized it was a scam and people were coming from all over the country..so it was hard to get the word out. Nanette,Rob were the closest people to him why did they just not stop him…Money? Enablers? that would be another good subject….They were not about the cats.
Morgan I volunteered at the so called ranch……why did he just not stop and take care of the ones he had like at 100? It was about the money and the tv shows…no one in their right mind would want 700 cats. Family,friends,supporters should have stepped in why didn’t they?
As usual the “spin” never stops. Kind of hard to keep your mouth shut week after week when you see it spinning. That order means NOTHING. It was to pacify a moron being represented by a moron lawyer. If anything that order reinforced beautifully just how done cr is. It points out nothing new. I think u would have to be completely insane to read anything into it as this weekend clearly depicts. The adoption happened and is happening. The psycho are being and will be turned away. Frankly, there is nothing left but for somebody who did shoddy work on his shoddy property with his shoddy skills to pay the piper. Maybe who want to “save” animals will properly prepare beforehand and not create lying, fruadulent websites and some lessons will be learned. I know I learned a horrendous one. And side note to the Lee resident skanky Lin…stay the hell out of my business ******. You have to be the only resident in hicksville that wanted thousands of cats roaming into their yards and lives. Disgusting **** probably lives far enough away not to care about the residing neighbors and what it did to their lives the last decade.
This court injunction is frankly an indication of the excessive amount of argument that surrounds CR that has spilled over to the court. That is a point I made in an earlier post.
Judges don’t like this sort of behavior. And someone could end up with a criminal record for having been found guilty of contempt of court.
The punish for contempt of court can be quite high.
Interesting reading on the fan pages – Michael, you’ve made the villagers very angry with this article…
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=456982461000230&set=a.456982457666897.105843.100000654390255&type=1&theater