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NYC area animal loving citizens, New Hope Partners and Mayor’s Alliance Groups,

 

Please join us as we voice our opposition to continuing the City contract with Animal Care & Control (ACC) unless the disinterested and inexperienced Board of Directors including Executive Director, Charlene Pedrolie are replaced with forward thinking, humane shelter professionals and animal rights advocates!

 

Sunday, April 26

On the Steps of City Hall

Noon to 2pm

 

Council Member Tony Avella will hold a press conference at that time.

 

Please bring your rescued dog with you if possible.

New York City Hall is located at the center of City Hall Park of Lower Manhattan between Broadway, Park Row and Chambers Street.

 

In October of 07, the Board of Directors of ACC hired Charlene Pedrolie <http://www.google.com/#hl=en & amp;q=charlene+pedrolie & amp;btnG=Google+Search & amp;aq=0 & amp;oq=charlene+pedr & amp;fp=A3F9ILbIhpM> , a business woman with not a shred of shelter or medical experience to run ACC. The Board has inexplicitly stood by and watched as mass resignations of key personnel and firings of long term, dedicated employees and volunteers have decimated the ACC into the nearly unrecognizable entity it is today.

 

Despite recent ACC press releases claiming that euthanasia is down, the fact is, the ACC is contracted to kill animals and is also responsible for finding homes for them. This conflict of interest has resulted in the dishonest reclassification of countless thousands of animals from adoptable to unadoptable for reasons of sickness and temperament. More often then not sickness overtakes the animals in a matter of days and sometimes hours (Strep Zoo Oubreak) <http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/01/07/2009-01-07_new_york_city_animal_shelters_scramble_a.html>  as they wait in unsanitary conditions. Witnesses have watched as Temper Tests are deliberately set up to fail terrified animals.

 

Inexperienced, uncaring and untrained ACC staff bungling has resulted in an avalanche of documentation to the office of Council Member Tony Avella <http://council.nyc.gov/d19/html/members/home.shtml> . E-mails and phone calls have outlined the worst cases of accidental death, negligence and abuse.  Just last week Mr. Avella announced his office is seeking to obtain all records regarding euthanizations, length of stay for animals brought into ACC, physical examination, as well as records concerning owner notification. This was in response to the case of Angel the Collie <http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/04/14/2009-04-14_family_devastated_after_animal_care_and_control_euthanizes_beloved_dog.html#community>  who was illegally euthanized a mere 4 hours after admittance into the system despite a 72 hour stray hold mandated by New York City law.

 

A number of ways exist to improve New York City's animal control system. Read more from the NYC Bar Association Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals. <http://brooklynanimalfosternetwork.org/BarAssn.html>

 

The AC & C contract is up on June 30, 2009. We believe this leaves plenty of time to search for people who are fit for the job.  

 

 

Laurie Bleier

Brooklyn Animal Foster Network