Release Newborn Babies and Mom to Rescue
The Issue
Haralson Co AC Mom and Babies update: According to their webpage, CARES Cedartown Animal Rescue, Education & Sterilization is rescuing. I am excited to see Freedom Pictures. While we rejoice this mom and babies were saved, let's not forget this is a broken policy that will cost lives. We have to keep the pressure up to change it. A shelter holding newborn kittens and puppies until they reach adoptable age (8 weeks) is not acceptable when rescue may be an option. This is a victory but we still have countless lives to fight for. I am meeting with the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Friday. Please continue to call and express concern about the policy. (Remember the family is safe. Now our outrage is aimed at the policy). 770-646-2002
FAMILY is safe now but we must change this policy to save future lives!!!
In a rural shelter, a mom and her five newborn babies sit not on a warm blanket, but on a pile of newspaper shreds. Not because rescue never came, but because rescue came and was not allowed to pull them. Their freedom ride was denied, and so they wait in a steel cage.
A transporter arrived on March 16th to pull for a highly respected rescue in this area. When denied, she offered to get the biggest feline rescue in the state to send over the pull authorization. That is when she was told, per the shelter's policy, all kittens remain in the shelter until the public has ample time for "first dibs".
The issue? The babies are one week old. They will sit in the shelter for at least 6-7 weeks before they are old enough to adopt out to the public. We all know what happens to babies this young. Their immune systems cannot handle the onslaught of germs and illnesses in a shelter system.
In other words, this family, one by one will get sick and die. The mom will be forced to watch her babies slip away.
If by some miracle any make it, they will be raised in a steel cage. No room to play and jump and chase balls and be kittens. What a heart-breaking thought. They could be in a foster tonight. Sleeping in a cat bed not a pile of newspaper shreds. Thriving in a quiet place and not a stressful place for mom, but the shelter has chosen to force them to remain so that the public can have "first dibs".
Please sign the petition to allow this family a chance. And to change the current policy so that newborn kittens will not be forced to grow-up in tiny steel boxes when there are rescue options. We are only asking they get a chance. Please help.
The Issue
Haralson Co AC Mom and Babies update: According to their webpage, CARES Cedartown Animal Rescue, Education & Sterilization is rescuing. I am excited to see Freedom Pictures. While we rejoice this mom and babies were saved, let's not forget this is a broken policy that will cost lives. We have to keep the pressure up to change it. A shelter holding newborn kittens and puppies until they reach adoptable age (8 weeks) is not acceptable when rescue may be an option. This is a victory but we still have countless lives to fight for. I am meeting with the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Friday. Please continue to call and express concern about the policy. (Remember the family is safe. Now our outrage is aimed at the policy). 770-646-2002
FAMILY is safe now but we must change this policy to save future lives!!!
In a rural shelter, a mom and her five newborn babies sit not on a warm blanket, but on a pile of newspaper shreds. Not because rescue never came, but because rescue came and was not allowed to pull them. Their freedom ride was denied, and so they wait in a steel cage.
A transporter arrived on March 16th to pull for a highly respected rescue in this area. When denied, she offered to get the biggest feline rescue in the state to send over the pull authorization. That is when she was told, per the shelter's policy, all kittens remain in the shelter until the public has ample time for "first dibs".
The issue? The babies are one week old. They will sit in the shelter for at least 6-7 weeks before they are old enough to adopt out to the public. We all know what happens to babies this young. Their immune systems cannot handle the onslaught of germs and illnesses in a shelter system.
In other words, this family, one by one will get sick and die. The mom will be forced to watch her babies slip away.
If by some miracle any make it, they will be raised in a steel cage. No room to play and jump and chase balls and be kittens. What a heart-breaking thought. They could be in a foster tonight. Sleeping in a cat bed not a pile of newspaper shreds. Thriving in a quiet place and not a stressful place for mom, but the shelter has chosen to force them to remain so that the public can have "first dibs".
Please sign the petition to allow this family a chance. And to change the current policy so that newborn kittens will not be forced to grow-up in tiny steel boxes when there are rescue options. We are only asking they get a chance. Please help.
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Petition created on March 16, 2015