A very nice lady in Rainsville, AL (northeast Alabama) has been taking in strays for the county as they do not have a shelter. Now because some mean people have been complaining, one of these mean people even burnt her house down killing 50 animals (you can read about it here, thanks for the link Jan's Funny Farm), the county is telling her she can only keep 3 animals and the rest will be killed!!!!! She needs to find homes for 100 dogs as soon as possible. Visit petfinder here to learn more.
The mayor has been recorded in court papers saying, "We knew what was going on but we had no where else to take the animals." Now, he wants her shelter abolished. Keep in mind there is no ordinance as to how many pets a person can have and there is no leash law. The city has taken her to court and won. The judge has ruled Carrol can have no more than 3 pets. She has appealed his ruling and the higher court has recently upheld the local judge's decision.
The Nov. 17 fire destroyed a house on property owned by Carol Crocker, who takes in abandoned animals in what she called the Green Acres Animal Shelter. Crocker said Wednesday that 12 disabled dogs on the house's porches were killed in the fire, while 10 more had to be euthanized because of injuries received in the fire. She said 38 cats were also killed.
Crocker, a retired flight attendant, said she is now living in a trailer and has 10 cats that survived the fire and nearly 60 dogs in fenced pens on her roughly five-acre property.
We are going to call the people in Rainsville and let them know nicely how wrong we think they are. Here is the contact information if you want to call too.
Rainsville City Hall
Located on McCurdy Avenue (Alabama Hwy 75) South, city hall is home to the mayor's office, the city clerk, the court clerk, and the revenue clerk. The city council meets there on the first and third Mondays of each month.
Phone: (256)638-6331
Here are pictures of some of the doggies that are losing their homes, she has kitties to and you can see some of their pictures at the petfinder website.
Thank you for letting us know about this JFF.
9 comments:
Actually, we did not provide the link, we just told Jan we googled the story and read about the finding of arson. It is just awful.
We fixed it to show the link came from Jan. We posted on Daily Kos too, so more people would be reached.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/13/11438/0091/624/597366
Wow dat iz soo sad i hates dis. See wat happens when yoo iz all nice and take care of odders? Sum mean old bean will try to interfere. I hopes da woman does not gif up an still finds ways ta halps dem aminals.
We are very sad about this. We hope that IF enough people call the mayor the city will realize how wrong they are and that they should be helping Carol Crocker take care of all these animals. ~S,S & C
Thanks for letting us know about this. Some humans are so AWFUL we just want to bite them. My maid says she hopes that all these evil humans will be reincarnated as laboratory mice.
We posted the winning Dare and I Dare You to accept the challenge!
Karl
My mom has seen this happen several times. It's always horrible and mean and shows the worst of humans--and the best of the people who step into help. We pray that she and the animals will find good homes.
love & wags,
River
We can't understand why people would try to stop someone from doing good things. What a terrible, terrible situation.
Your buddy, Jimmy Joe
We just wish we could do more to help. We wouldn't have even know about this if it had not been for Jan telling us about it. Jan's Funny Farm has let us know about so many important issues we would be lost without them.
Karl, we are with the maid. We are working on the Dare promise. ~S,S & C
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