Rebecca,
I will write a letter to the DA when he is charged if you will tell
me where you are. I'll bet others on the list will too.
Bonnie
At 08:34 PM 9/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>All,
>
>Not that this has much to do with the conversation at hand, but the former
>code enforcement office in one of my neighboring cities just resigned
>because it was discovered he had a 55-gallon barrel at the city animal
>shelter (which he was in charge of) and he was drowning kittens, cats,
>puppies and small dogs in it instead of euthanizing them (cheaper that way.
>I could have gone berserk). This apparently went on for at least a year.
>Someone who recently got a job there got shown 'the barrel' and quit
>immediately, and told the mayor and everyone else who would listen. If the
>mayor hadn't ordered an immediate investigation by the city's police
>department, I was going to scream to ASPCA, the HSUS, PETA, and anyone else
>I could think of. I was SO FREAKED OUT AND TORMENTED by that. I just could
>not BELIEVE this guy would do that. And to "TOP" it, he was dumping their
>carcasses at an old landfill site in the city. People have been "cleaning it
>up," but it's still a total graveyard ... I pray that all of those poor
>babies have made it to the bridge and will someday love people again, even
>though they had to suffer so much at the hands of someone like him.
>
>To make a long story short, any kind of mutilation, testing, or torment of
>the earth's most precious gifts to us makes me sick and I will be happy if
>it can completely stop. Animals are the best people, but sometimes, people
>are the worst animals.
>
>--Rebecca
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"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also
in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart
of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant
