We are the voice for the voiceless and need to stop Officer David Aycock from abusing his power and killing animals that have options to live. He killed Rambo a rescue dog. He forcefully removed him from his foster family by threatening them with felony charges and a $500 fine. He had no documentation or legal right to do so. Apparently this isn't the first time he found it to be a good idea to kill animals instead of humane options. Please see below the story of Rambo and previous story of his desire to kill. I'm the president of It Takes A Village Pet Rescue in Pompano Beach. I also work for Second Chance Dog Rescue in Miami. We save dogs from the Miami Dade Kill Shelter. Due to the BSL in Dade County we had to re-home our foster dog Rambo here in Broward. Two Weeks ago, our foster dog Rambo was out in his yard when the neighbors Lawn Man was weed whacking. Rambo has history of trauma with motorized equipment. He was tormented with chainsaws & things of loud nature to make him "Mean". Needless to say Rambo was provoked by this man & he attacked him. The victim did NOT press charges. The police made a report & Animal Control responded the next day. Rambo was put on a 10 day Quarantine inside his home. The foster family agreed to do everything Animal Control asked. They were given a paper to file for an appeal with 7 days, on June 8th. They Were not told that Rambo was in any danger whatsoever. Myself (The Rescue), was not notified by Animal Control at ALL. They gave them a fine & stated he was to be deemed "Dangerous" if Appeal was not filed in 7 days. Today June 15th is the 7th day. Appeal was filed by myself personally! I STILL was not notified of ANYTHING, although Rambo is under my rescue. Legally my property! I received a phone call from the foster family today that Animal Control was at their door demanding Rambo & stating they were going to charge them with a Felony! & a reoccurring $500 fine until the dog was in their possession. They also threatened the foster family that they were going to contact CPS & have the children removed from the home because Rambo was inside with the children. They have no right AND There's no laws for this! Unfortunately everything that was asked to be done was done but too late.They picked up Rambo today at 6pm & we have no idea if he's even still alive. Even though i Filed the appeal & had the city sign, stamp & date the appeal. Rambo is NOT Dangerous! He was a member of this family & that has 2 small children. He reacted out of fear just like any dog would! They labeled him a "PitBull" on the Animal Control paperwork which is wrong. He is an American Bulldog. These Animal Control Officers David Aycock & Jason Soldini are terrorist! They are irresponsible & they are out for blood. After numerous attempts to contact these "Officers" they have not once returned my call. They make empty threats to people with no legal back up. They are Bully's! They need to be exposed. They have terrible reputations here in Pompano Beach & I'm uncomfortable paying my tax money to "terrorist". They need to be stopped! Please HELP US Help Rambo.... If he's still alive. Sincerely, Kelley Roberts -- Kelley Roberts It Takes a Village Pet Rescue 2101 NW 33rd Street Suite #2800A Pompano Beach, FL. 33069 Cell: (954)-696-1253 Please help us Save a life. Be the voice for the voiceless. THEY KILLED RAMBO! Officer David Aycock just called me and his exact words were, "The dog was removed from the property and euthanized, leave it alone"! Then hung up on me without allowing a response!!!!!! I'm crying hysterically!!! I'm going for a MAJOR LAWSUIT! Mayors, City Commissioner and other City Officials WILL KNOW WHO RAMBO WAS! I'm sick to my stomach.... MURDERS! PLEASE WRITE LETTERS, SEND EMAILS! These people need to pay the price! And they then just threw the dogs lifeless body in her trunk like he was garbage. Please see below he doesn't discriminate he kills poor cats that could be saved as well. David Aycock says he loves cats. Which is why he sends them—as many as he can—to the Broward County (Florida) animal shelters to be killed. Having trouble following Aycock’s “logic”? Me too. So are the folks at Broward County Animal Care and Adoption, according to a story in Friday’s South Florida Sun Sentinel. “Broward County two months ago officially embraced a no-kill goal for its shelters, a move Miami-Dade County made just last week. But Broward officials and cat lovers concede the goal won’t be met as long as the shelters continue to fill up with feral cats, and for now, the cats continue to be put down.” [1] Which is where Aycock, chief animal control officer for Pompano Beach, comes in. “While [Broward officials] try to achieve a no-kill shelter, he’s continuing his aggressive approach, sending scores of feral cats from Pompano Beach to their shelters.” [1] Since last October, Broward has killed 5,790 cats. (The Sentinel-Sun insists on using the euphemism put to sleep, as if its readership skews heavily toward grade school children.) Not surprisingly, Aycock is not a proponent of TNR. According to the paper, he says TNR “won’t work, because it’s impossible to catch them all.” [1] “‘The simple fact is the public wants to believe that you can do it without killing them, and I wish in my heart that were the case,’ he said, ‘but the fact is, there’s no way.’” [1] But lethal control methods will do the trick? Mark Kumpf, former president of the National Animal Control Association, doesn’t think so. He compares the traditional trap-and-kill approach to “bailing the ocean with a thimble.” “There’s no department that I’m aware of that has enough money in their budget to simply practice the old capture-and-euthanize policy; nature just keeps having more kittens.” [2] Aycock’s not interested in laws of nature, though; his approach is to impose laws on nature. “Pompano’s law, which he said he wrote years ago, requires cats to be contained on a person’s property, taken care of, vaccinated, neutered or spayed. Free-roaming cats aren’t allowed. Community cats aren’t legally condoned.” [1] It hasn’t worked in Akron, Ohio; why would it work in Pompano Beach? It won’t, of course. But Aycock is undeterred. “Why are cats so expendable?” he asks rhetorically. “Why do we allow people to go out and feed cats, let them multiply, and then watch them die from disease, from cars, pellet rifles, poison?” [1] Sound familiar? It’s the Travis Longcore approach to elevating the status of cats: wide-scale killing. And, like Longcore, Aycock has, when all is said and done, no feasible plan (humane or otherwise) for managing the population of stray, abandoned, and feral cats. According to the Pompano Beach Public Works Department website, Aycock’s put in 25 years as the city’s animal control officer. More than enough time, I’d say. His old-school approach runs counter to both science and public opinion—Pompano Beach and Broward County deserve better. Thanks to Dorian Wagner, of Your Daily Cute, for bringing this story to my attention. Literature Cited 1. Wallman, B. (2012, July 6). Cats face death sentence at county shelter. South Florida Sun-Sentinel, from http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-cats-overrun-broward-20120702,0,7715072,full.story Lets show him this is not going to be tolerated any longer.