Or, “Not in Our Backyard”
As I explore the intertubez, I sometimes stumble upon things that make me go, “Hmmm.”
On 11/28/2008, this comment appeared on the Pittsburgh City Paper website (as a comment attached to the most recent Tiger Ranch article):
Well, waddya know? It’s been reported that collection canisters are now appearing in Clarion County stores [...]
It’s time to put animal control into the hands of the law.
by Tara Murtha
Philadelphia Weekly
December 3, 2008
Philadelphia’s turned yet another page in our gruesome ongoing struggle for humane animal control.
Late Monday, the Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association (PACCA) lost the contract for animal control when the city awarded it to the Pennsylvania Society for [...]
Source: Philadelphia Daily News
December 2, 2008
By DAFNEY TALES
Philadelphia Daily News
talesd@phillynews.com 215-854-5084
The city’s animals in need of care and shelter will have a new handler come the start of the new year.
Yesterday, the city awarded a $2.89 million contract for the animal care and control services to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to [...]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
December 2, 2008
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been awarded a contract to provide animal care and control services for the city, the Department of Public Health announced yesterday.
The contract, which has an annual cost of $2.89 million, is effective from Jan. 1 through June 30, the Health Department [...]
From www.nbc10.com (video at link)
PACCA Loses Contract to Shelter Philly’s Lost and Abandoned Animals
Lund: “Mr. Nelson’s performance thus far is egregious evidence of mismanagement in the extreme, be it motivated financially or for any other reason.”
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June 18, 2007
Executive Board-attn Richard Sperry
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
c/o PSPCA Headquarters
350 E. Erie Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19134-1090
Dear Gentlepersons,
I write to you today to express my professional concern and condemnation [...]
(Follow-up to this post.)
Well, huh… looky here. Seems the panleuk came back to the PSPCA branch in Monroe County in May 2008…
Monroe SPCA has quarantined cats
By ADAM McNAUGHTON
Pocono Record Writer
May 22, 2008
STROUDSBURG — Cats at the Monroe County SPCA are once again quarantined after a second outbreak of a contagious virus at the shelter in [...]
