Archive for the 'Citizens for A No-Kill Philadelphia' Category

20 May

CNKP: Petition Drive Update

May 2009
No-Kill Petition
The “No-Kill” petition drive’s first weekend was a great success! Five teams of volunteers were all over Philadelphia gathering support from other pet lovers and taxpayers. CNKP volunteers attended the Trenton Arts Festival, the Olde City Sidewalk Sale, a Yoga Unites Event at the Art Museum and the Italian Market Festival! [...]

18 May

PSPCA: “Animal Control? Meh… never mind”

From the Philadelphia Daily News at this link:

Stu Bykofsky: Gimme shelter: Is PSPCA prepared to bail out?
May 18, 2009
By Stu Bykofsky
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Columnist
AFTER FIVE MONTHS of running animal care and control in Philadelphia, and running into a buzz saw of criticism, the Pennsylvania SPCA is trying to mend its ways, but has serious [...]

16 May

No-Kill News from Philadelphia

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Things have been pretty quiet on the surface in Philly, but Citizens for a No Kill Philadelphia and City Council members Jack Kelly and William Greenlee have been hard at work behind the scenes.
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City Council Resolution

May 7, 2009
Resolution
Authorizing the Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold public hearings to examine and investigate the [...]

21 Apr

Philadelphia Weekly: The (Scary) Truth About Cats and Dogs

The (Scary) Truth About Cats and Dogs
It’s been four months since the PSPCA took over the city’s animal shelter system. It’s failing.
By Tara Murtha
Posted Apr. 21, 2009
Every year, roughly 31,000 animals funnel into the city’s Animal Care and Control Center (ACCT) shelter on West Hunting Park Avenue in North Philadelphia.
This animal shelter is the primary [...]

19 Mar

CNKP: The Chaos Continues

March 2009
Greetings!
It is becoming increasingly more difficult to mask my anger and frustration at the unwillingness of the Philadelphia Health Department to admit failures on the part of the PSPCA. As partners in engineering the animal control contract takeover, they are complicit in all the mistakes and missteps of the PSPCA Board of Directors, [...]

09 Mar

CNKP: Chaos at PSPCA

March 2009
Greetings!
In September of 2007 the PSPCA submitted an unsolicited bid for the Animal Control Contract. A year and a half later, after actively perusing this contract, waging war against PACCA and promising the city higher standards, they have failed to even live up to the standards of the organization they replaced! A mere six [...]

04 Mar

PSPCA - please listen to us

Philadelphia Dog Advocate Examiner:  PSPCA - please listen to us
by Megan Drake
Listen up Philadelphians; forget the politics, forget the personalities and for that matter forget the popularity contests. When it comes to saving voiceless animals we ALL need to put our collective skills, abilities, efforts, money, time, blood, sweet and tears into a cohesive attempt [...]

16 Feb

Open Letter to the PSPCA Board of Directors

[Received via email on February 16, 2009]
Open Letter to the PSPCA Board of Directors
We have failed in our responsibility to care for the animals of our city - well over ten-thousand animals are killed every year in Philadelphia, and I can’t understand how anyone can feel anything but absolute outrage.
I have never experienced an environment [...]

13 Feb

Citizens for A No-Kill Philadelphia February Newsletter

2009 Reorganization
February 2009
Greetings!
We will be scheduling a leadership meeting very soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share a little about what the future holds for the Citizens for a No-Kill Philadelphia. Now more than ever, we must pressure our elected officials to make saving the lives of Philadelphia’s animals a priority as [...]


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