Archive for April, 2008

30 Apr

Illness rife at cat sanctuary, veterinarians say

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Valley News Dispatch
by Celanie Polanick
April 30, 2008
Prosecutors presented a five-hour slide show Tuesday featuring dozens of diseased, sickly and dead cats that were found during a raid on the Tiger Ranch cat sanctuary in Frazer.
The slides, which were accompanied by testimony from two veterinarians, were presented during the second day of a preliminary hearing for [...]

30 Apr

Vet ’shocked’ by cat sanctuary conditions

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 30, 2008
More than a dozen cats were euthanized by veterinarians while sheriff’s deputies and humane agents seized nearly 400 cats during a March 13 raid on the Tiger Ranch cat sanctuary in Frazer. A total of 126 cats were euthanized or died on their own that night and in the days following the [...]

30 Apr

UC Davis FCV Information Sheet

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When is a virulent systemic feline calicivirus really a virulent systemic calicivirus?
Recognition, management and prevention options for feline calicivirus, virulent and otherwise.
With the release of the first vaccine billed as a “virulent calicivirus vaccine”, there’s been a lot of buzz lately about feline calicivirus (FCV). While I’m happy to see increased awareness of this problematic [...]

29 Apr

Officer arrested woman after viewing sick cats

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 29, 2008
by Linda Wilson Fuoco
The police officer who arrested Linda Bruno during a March 13 raid on her Tiger Ranch cat sanctuary testified in court yesterday that he saw 13 cats “in awful condition” in one room, including one lying dead in a litter box.
Richard Manning, an Allegheny County sheriff’s deputy for nine [...]

28 Apr

Disturbing testimony opens Frazer’s Tiger Ranch shelter hearing

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Valley News Dispatch
April 28, 2008
by Francine Garrone
An Allegheny County detective painted a bleak picture of hundreds of sick, dying and dead cats amid squalid conditions, at the Tiger Ranch in Frazer as he testified Monday at a preliminary hearing for the owner of the property.
Linda Bruno, owner of the 29-acre, no-kill shelter, is facing 574 [...]

28 Apr

Raid on Tiger Ranch animal shelter sparks debate

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 28, 2008
by Linda Wilson Fuoco
Is Tiger Ranch a rustic, rural, “no-kill” cat sanctuary where hundreds of cats, many of them ferals and terminally ill, were given love, treatment and a second chance at life?
Or is the 27-acre Frazer facility a “slow-kill” hellhole that warehoused cats without proper shelter, food and veterinary care, leaving [...]

26 Apr

LCA Action Alert: Support Lin Marie and Tiger Ranch

COME OUT AND SUPPORT LIN MARIE AND THE TIGER RANCH CAT SANCTUARY AT PRELIMINARY HEARING!
Monday, April 28th & Tuesday, April 29th – 9:00 AM
Allegheny County Courthouse
436 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Note: [...]

26 Apr

Butler Eagle: “Cat ranch secrecy needed”

This letter to the editor appeared in the Butler Eagle on April 26, 2008:
Cat ranch secrecy needed
As two of the four citizens who worked on researching the Tiger Ranch case, we would like to respond to two April 15 letters on that subject (“Return cats to Tiger Ranch” and “Help solve cat problem”).
Some individuals are [...]

24 Apr

Butler Eagle: “Widen Tiger Ranch probe”

This letter to the editor appeared in the Butler Eagle on April 24, 2008:
Widen Tiger Ranch Probe
I just want Tiger Ranch operator Linda Bruno’s friends to know that the April 28 and 29 preliminary hearing for Bruno at the district judge’s office in Gibsonia has been moved to the Allegheny County Courthouse. The times will [...]

17 Apr

Hearing postponed in animal cruelty case

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 17, 2008
A hearing scheduled for today for Tiger Ranch animal sanctuary owner Linda Bruno was postponed until April 28 and 29, and moved from a West Deer district judge’s office to the Allegheny County Courthouse.
Ms. Bruno is charged with 574 counts of animal cruelty.
Common Pleas Judge Joseph James yesterday approved moving the hearing [...]


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