Citizen's Alert: Mayor Villaraigosa Pardon These Kittens!
A reader writes the following:How about promoting something really important, like the 40 kittens that are going to be killed at 8pm tonight at the East Valley Shelter. Subject: EMERGENCY - 40 Kittens at East Valley- DEAD by 8pm!! EAST VALLEY SHELTER HAS 40 PLUS KITTENS WHO WILL DIE IF NO FOSTERS ARE FOUND. These kittens have till this evening at 8pm or they will have to be put down. If you can help contact Valerie immediately 213 305 9006 or 818 756 9323/24
If you can help give them a call. In the meantime I humbly request Mayor V to issue a temporary stay for the kitties until homes can be found next week.
And PS to the animal wackos: We have comment moderation now so don't even try your usual. You'll be wasting your time.
Labels: animal shelters, kittens, mayor antonio villaraigosa
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 5/16/2008 04:37:00 PM
23 Comments:
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I hope they find homes for those kitties.
SAVE THEM MAV! SAVE THEM!
Hey wouldn't Princess Doll like a kitty to go with her puppy? Come on mom!
As the non-whacko who sent this to you, thanks for getting this posted.
I sometimes think that the pettiness on this blog prevents greater good, such as this, from getting done. Hopefully it can save at least a few of them.
I hope princess doll's pup is spayed or neutered, as the law directs. Then microchipped, as common sense directs.
I can think of at least one regular public commenter at city council meetings that would take all of them.
And keep them in her mobile home.
Which of them lives in a mobile home?
Sort of makes you wonder, how any of them get by, if they're always there.
Wet spot when you see those little faces.
May 16, 2008 5:15 PM
I believe the law also says you must microchip.
You can pay to not spay and neuter. It isn't mandatory. Judging from the post, I hope you see the value of spaying and neutering.
Valley Doll, if you do get a kitten, please get two so they can keep each other company. Also, like most areas in the Valley, please keep them inside due to coyotes. Last, if you leave the house, separate the dog and the cats. Even with affectionate play, accidents can happen and the dog can hurt the cats.
Doll, and everyone else, if you want a purebred dog or cat, you can rescue one. Don't buy from the breeders. There are plenty of purebreds in need of homes. If not from the city shelters, go to petfinder dot com. Enter what you are looking for and go from there.
First the mayor said that there will be no lay offs if the phone tax passes. It passed. Then he said lay offs will happen. Then he allows the GMs to get raises that equal two to three ACT positions.
Disgusting.
Isn't this the same mayor that PROMISED to close shut down the zoo's 40 million dollar elephant exhibit on NBC news?
Someone should have warned Rick about where he's going. Gee I wonder how much he'll be making probably over $100,000. Rick is a good guy but to bad he now has to do crisis spin for Huizar. Those developer stories brewing are getting really ugly and soon if David Z doesn't break it will be out.
......I am sad to report that Rick Coca is leaving us (DAily News) to become a press deputy for Councilman Jose Huizar
What's worse is that Mr. Boks has not advised people that bringing their animals to the city's "shelter" will very likely result in their death.
Go and see if you can find a sign at the front door of each shelter that CLEARLY says that tens of thousands of animals are killed therein.
It's called heads being buried in the sand, and I think the city is obligated to let people know this.
And that's why these 40+ kittens are going to lose their lives in about a half hour. And that's just at ONE city shelter on this ONE given night. Horror of horrors.
Then try to imagine how many ADULT animals they kill there.
"Go and see if you can find a sign at the front door of each shelter that CLEARLY says that tens of thousands of animals are killed therein."
That sounds like one more policy voted in by the commission that Boks (AND THE MAYOR) is ignoring.
I read a short time back that one consequence of increase in home foreclosures is that the vacating owners give up their pets since most rental units would not accept them and they have no other options.
If this IS true and it continues, there should be even more animals of all sorts that need homes.
The L.A. Animal Services is not supposed to adopt out dogs or cats that are not neutered but I don't know how old a kitten has to be for that procedure to be done.
Un-neutered dogs and cats are not from the L.A. Animal Services. The adoption fees include the neutering and microchipping for dogs and cats, according to the website, but microchipping a rabbit costs another $15. Hmm.
To the last poster, THAT is the problem: Mr. Boks has completely failed to advise the public about your very valid question, and many others.
That's why these kittens are probably being killed right now. Thrown into a shitty dumpster afterward after a week or two of life. They even squandered a great chance to find volunteers to help raise them until they find homes.
The mayor in that town has blood stains on his hands!
The breeder of those kitten has bloodstains on his heart.
Fix your pets to avoid this kind of heartbreak.
The reason the shelter was pleading for "fosters" to take care of those kittens is that they were what are called "neonates." That is, they were separated by some human from their mother and dumped at the shelter at such a young age that they couldn't survive without another human taking on the role of foster parent.
Taking care of a neonate kitten requires intensive 24/7 care, and usually one person can't take care of more than one litter at a time because they have to be kept separate from other litters to prevent disease and contamination.
Also, most people have actual lives and don't have the ability to spend ALL their time tending to neonatal kittens, feeding them special formula food with an eyedropper every three hours until they reach 8 weeks in age and then become the cute, fuzzy little kittens we're all more familiar with.
In the best of circumstances, about half of fostered neonates die anyway, because that's just how it is. And the reason the shelters put them to sleep if people don't volunteer to be fosters is that there's no way they'll survive in a shelter environment - with hundreds of people and animals coming and going - for more than a few days. Knowing this, many shelter staffers volunteer to be fosters for kittens, but when the spring season brings hundreds of these neonates into each shelter, it simply overwhelms the system.
So, all you bleeding hearts out there, if you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you don't have much call for blaming the mayor or Animal Services for a situation that is a lot more complex than your simplistic minds can grapple with.
The only poster with a clue is 8:39 a.m. Spay and neuter is the answer, not the political blame game trap the animal nuts and MAV-bashers fall into over and over again. There are heroic cat volunteers around the region trying to round up stray cats and get them sterilized before they produce more and more litters of these hard-to-save kittens, but obviously there are some irresponsible cat owners who are part of the problem, and that's where at least some of the motherless neonates come from.
When I was in Jr. High our cat bore a litter of kittens she didn't want to take care of, which is fairly common. Panicked, I called a vet whose asst told me to feed them with eyedroppers of warm whole milk, keep them warm; that's it, we kept them in a box in a spare bathroom, and I fed them as often as I could, and they survived. I definiely didn't get up every 3 hrs.
There are lots of people who could act as "foster parents" this way, incl. older people still mobile, and above all students whose moms agree to feed them while they're in school. There are lots of people who can do this for 8 weeks, and the rewards are amazing. Watching them grow from what look like mice to furry little kittens.
HOW young were the ones in this thread? They look older than 8 wks. when they're viable.
I just did what everyone did in those days back east, take them to a grocery store or other popular shopping lot, and they were adopted in an afternoon. Almost always by a kid who fell in love with one. Nice homes.
Should publicize these programs at schools, churches, community and senior centers. (A center could adopt a litter, too.)
People who don't want to adopt a cat would often be foster parents for 8 weeks; very little litter to change, either, with kittens that tiny. Just change the box twice daily, lined with newspapers.
Because the kittens are neonates, you must agree to foster them or work with a New Hope partner. The public can't adopt them because it's illegal to adopt out a kitten under the age of 8 weeks. Thanks Higby for posting this. Thanks also for moderating the posts.
It's mandatory for all animals adopted from shelters to be neutered spayed first. That's the law.
It is indeed the law that no one can adopt cats under 8 weeks old, and that all animals coming out of shelters must be spay or neutered. But there are lots of cats (and dogs) out there that didn't come from shelters and weren't ever sterilized. That's where the unwanted litters come from.
The cats in the photo aren't the ones in the shelter. They wouldn't be asking for fosters for cats that old, just adopters.
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