This concerns the Hillsborough County Animal Shelter in Tampa, Florida. I trust one of my cat advocate friends out there will know who to get this information to in order to help the cats. Immediate action is needed to save the shelter cats.
From what I understand, the 300+ cats coming in from the hoarding case I wrote about here has allegedly stretched the shelter beyond what they’re physically able to care for.
This is a summary of the messages I’m getting in about the situation. Those who reported it asked it be kept confidential.
“Have a huge problem here xx hoarding case added 300 to shelters 200 -500 cat overload, just received a message the boarding cats are dying in their cages with no treatment, one of the women got her phone yanked away as they were trying to take photos, contact news and post.TAMPA Hillsborough county.”
Hillsborough County Council needs to be pressured to appoint more manpower because they simply don’t have enough people to care for these cats. Local government should be held accountable to the cats in the care of any animal facility because if this were happening to an individual, that person would be charged with animal cruelty and neglect.
If everyone will do their part in not only sharing but in contacting news media as well as Hillsborough County Council members, perhaps we can get the cats the care they need to save them. The website listing the council members can be found here.
Please post this article to social media. I know many of you can’t help, but you may know people who know other people who can demand action.
By your description you give the impression that this is mass cat abandonment. It is not. It’s a version of TNR. You distort the reality. I guess your mind is distorted and twisted. It sounds like it.
You are referring to TNR or a version of it. The way you describe it you’d think they were abandoning cats by the million. You distort everything. Fowl person.
And don’t forget that local governments have been approached by animal advocates about the dumping of cats aren’t doing anything about it. The cat dumping issue and the dogs on chains 24/7 are being brought to the attention of city and county councils and not a thing is being done. From what I’ve heard, people have also contacted Maddie’s Fund about how the money is being used to TND (trap, neuter, dump) just to improve shelter numbers.
Here you go, right from ASPCA’s own mouth.
http://www.aspcapro.org/blog/2017/04/07/lets-make-1-million-modest-ambition
Here’s another from the multimillion-dollar 100-Million Rescue-Cats Challenge
http://chewonthis.maddiesfund.org/2017/04/new-partnership-making-1-million-a-modest-ambition-for-shelter-cats/
“Maddies Fund” is a well-known multimillion-dollar cat-rescue organization who promotes and preaches their methods to anyone.
Even Becky Robinson of “Alley Cat Allies”, the primary (and wealthiest) TNR promoter in the USA, promotes RTF as part & parcel of all their TNR programs.
https://www.facebook.com/AlleyCatAllies/posts/10156210237882088
Is that “top quality evidence” and “firm immutable evidence” enough for you? Since you seem so familiar with and promote all these organizations and their values and methods, I’m truly surprised that you are even unaware of and questioning RTF as one of the many “humane” methods everyone in the USA uses to “save” cats’ lives. It’s either that (RTF) or a humane kill-shelter. What’s your choice? Are you going to side with all these organizations that claim dumping cats out in the field to fend for themselves and die excruciating and inhumane deaths is the more “humane” option just to “save” their lives? You would have to, wouldn’t you?
When any no-kill shelter (or even kill-shelter) is full-up, then rescues “pull” cats from them and dump them back out into the fields and woods to “save” their lives. Common practice of any no-kill shelter.
Why are you pretending to just now learn about this? When searching your own website you even did an article about people who were convicted of an animal-abuse crime for practicing RTF.