The Final Days of the Checkerboard Wild Horse Roundup, Part I
It’s Official: Wolves Are Protected In California!
OR7 – dual citizen of California and Oregon (:
October 9, 2014
Even though, officially, there are no known gray wolves in California, the state extended endangered species protection to canis lupus today. This is critically important, since the USFWS plans to rubber stamp a national wolf delisting plan, removing all federal protections for wolves in the lower 48. Without state protections, wolves across the country will face tremendous risk.
Gray wolves are subjected to persecution in Montana,Idaho, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, even Washington and Oregon, where they remain listed. Wyoming wolves, until recently, could be shot on sight in 80% of the state. Last week, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, placed Wyoming wolves back on the Endangered Species List. Her ruling was the result of a lawsuit challenging the state’s faulty “wolf management” plan, specifically the predator zone, where wolves could…
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Butch
Butch came to us from our local Humane society as a one week old kitten, along with his siblings. Two died from intestinal damage brought on by coccidiasis. When Butch was nine months old, this happened..Butch had a brother. Skipp got sick and died in less than 48 hours. No one, the vet, the State Lab..no one knows why Skipp died. Two days later, Butch got sick, his temp soared over 107.This went on for 10 days. Our veterinarian gave us a special drug to inject him with when his temp went over 105, which it did in the middle of the night, every night for those 10 days. I put Butch on my bare chest, slept on my back so I could feel the rise in his temp. When it went up, I would awaken Greg and we would give him the shot to lower his dangerously high temp. He never once wet me or himself. We kept him well hydrated. He always used the litter box, He was SOOO sick with something, that to this day, we do not know what it was. On the 10th day, his skin broke open with huge lesions. The temperatures he had been running fried the fat and muscle under his skin. Thus, we began to debride and treat his wounds with Pink Lady..miracle stuff. There is no-no way to tell any of this happened to him. Except, Butch sustained brain damage from this. At first, he could only crawl on his belly, but, I fixed up a small playroom for him. I have a morning dove who listens to music 24/7 and rocks out all night long. The kitties love this glassed in room right off my front door with a door to each porch and one to the front, they get visits from raccoons, the feral cats, and possums, etc. The animals look in the room…they can be face to face with each other..so so cute. I put a baby gate across the room. Butch cannot climb out, but the other cats can go back and forth to play and visit with Butch, thus, he has learned how to play and walk again. He will never be 100% normal..He is BETTER than normal, he is a survivor! He is adored, he is my hero. He teaches us all how to handle what life throws at you, with love and grace. Butch NEVER once….has stopped purring, or giving kisses. He is ALWAYS sweet and good natured, and, grateful to be ALIVE
Butchie says good night from Redemption For Animals
For Whom the Belle Tolls…a story of a feral cat
For Whom the Belle Tolls…a story of a feral cat
August 1, 2014 at 10:23am
Angelz..I want to tell you the story of Belle, a cat. Belle started her life as a kitten in someone’s home. She was very loved. She was named Belle, because she loved the little bell on her collar. Belle had a lot of attention as a kitten..she was charming, engaging and quite smart.Belle loved to play with her toys and all the humans laughed at her antics and loved playing with her. She grew and she noticed that as she grew, the humans seemed to be busy. She tried to engage them in play, but, they began to ignore her. Sometimes the man and the woman, whom she loved dearly, would fight and it would scare her. She would run and hide under the big chair and she would shake a little because their voices frightened her.
She was supposed to have shots to keep her from getting sick and she did have one, then another. She heard the man in the white coat, after the second shot, tell the nice lady to bring her back for another in three weeks..but, time went on..and she never did see that man in the white coat when those three weeks went by, but she was glad because he hurt her.
One day…the man and the woman started putting all the things in Belle’s house in cardboard boxes. Belle tried to get into the boxes too, but, they threw her out and yelled at her. Soon the big chair that she hid under when she heard their loud voices was gone and there was nothing left in the house. Then, the man took Belle and threw her outside. This was a new and strange world. There was nothing to eat, nothing to drink and Belle was really frightened. She saw them drive off in a big truck. The man and the woman..never came back for her. Belle was hungry and cold. She learned to eat trash in trash cans. She was so frightened of the other cats. They growled at her and swatted her. One even jumped on her and bit her neck so hard she bled. One day, she saw a can of something that smelled really good. It was inside a box. She went in to eat that wonderful smelling thing and there was a loud click. She was trapped!! A man with a box that talked in human voices finally came along and put Belle and the box onto a truck, like the one that left with the man and woman. She thought, maybe, he is taking me to them. She arrived at the Intake of a big city animal shelter. They put Belle into a cage. She was SOOOOO SCARED! She was trapped. The lights were too bright. There was so much noise everywhere. There was a smell of death. She started having a stomach ache in the middle of the night and felt pressure on her bottom, so she licked it. Belle gave birth to 5 kittens..5 perfect kittens. Belle was so in love with her babies and now she was so frightened that something or someone would hurt her babies. She hid as many as she could with her body from the view of the humans. Whenever a human came to clean her cage..she swatted and hissed to keep them away from her babies. 30 days went by and her babies were old enough to eat. Belle never stopped protecting them. She was frightened and angry. She was not going to let those humans harm her babies.
There was a kind volunteer there that loved cats. She always spoke to Belle in a soft voice and it made Belle remember when she was a kitten and the woman spoke to her in that soothing manner. Belle was sick. Her eyes itched and she had a hard time breathing. She could not taste the food, so, she really did not want to eat. The worse Belle felt, the more ferocious she became toward the humans to protect her babies from what Belle understood was death. The volunteer was a mother, herself. She understood Belle. She understood Belle was trying to protect her babies. The day came, when it was Belle’s turn to die. Belle was so aggressive, she had all the shelter workers scared of her..Belle’s babies were sick too. The decision was made to put her and her babies to death. An Angel rescuer walked into the busy shelter to pick up all the cats that were to be killed that day. The ones they would allow out. Belle was not one of those. The volunteer got the boss to agree that if she could get someone to take Belle’s babies, they would allow them to leave. Belle would never be allowed to leave because she was so ferocious in her attempts to protect her babies. The volunteer ran up to the rescuer. She told her Belle’s story. The rescuer wanted not only the kittens, but, she wanted Belle too. She was told no. The rescuer BEGGED for Belle’s life. Pleading over and over that she was not afraid of Belle..that all Belle was trying to do was to protect her babies. The rescuer was told that the only way was to take Belle’s babies or all would die. Belle would not leave alive. The rescuer finally exhausted all her means and agreed to take Belle’s sick little babies. Belle was taken to a room. She was SOOOO scared. She was not with her babies. She did not know what happened to them. The man in the white coat was there. He put that sharp thing into Belle’s arm. It was only took moments….Belle died. Belle had been labelled an aggressive feral.
Belle’s babies were taken in a car by the rescuer. They came to a beautiful place with trees and birds on a river. They were so frightened without their Mom. They were so hungry. The were so sick. Their littlest brother was very sick. He could not breathe very well. The rescuer and another lady with a soft voice took them out and looked at their mouths and put something sharp that hurt them. They took their little brother away. They said he would not make it. They were put into a box that had something in it flowing into the box. It made it easier to breathe. Then they were put into a warm bed with a soft blanket. Their little sickest brother went into the box. At one point, the rescuer asked the lady at the sanctuary if she had something to give the baby so she could go and live with Belle. Belle was with him. His name became Rio. Rio was dying, but, Belle would not leave him even in death. The sanctuary lady said let’s give this baby a lot of medicines that might help, since Rio was dying, this was his only chance, and that was slim. It is all we can do! He was poked and prodded. Fluids flowed under his skin making a big bump on his skin. Rio was placed in a box with air that was heavy for him to breathe, but, somehow breathing this…with every breath it became easier to take the next one. Hours later, Rio was still alive. Rio continues to live and the sanctuary lady and the rescuer pray and hover over him every day. The babies have to learn to eat something other than their Moms milk, but, they are old enough to learn and eat on their own. Belle continues to hover over her babies. Only now…she has to speak to the hearts of the sanctuary lady and the rescuer. And….they listen. Because, even on the Other Side, Belle continues to fight for her babies.
The Sanctuary is Redemption for Animals, a NO KILL rescue/sanctuary. The sanctuary lady is Connee Robertson Osh and the rescuer is Crystal Dawn. This is just ONE of the stories of the animals that come here on a daily basis. Please…pray for our kittens, Moms and cats here. They need your prayers and support. Last night we just completed an EPIC rescue of 39 cats, 5 shelters and one family going into the shelter. It involved two legs, several fosters, and our sanctuary. The total drive time was 40 hours. The cost was enormous, but, the cost to the cats can not be measured. We cannot do these rescues without your love and support. Please contribute to our rescue efforts. We are all versed with medical knowledge of cats. We all love them so much, we give our entire lives to them. We continue to work with the small rural towns and are seeing our efforts pay off. We are bringing a mayor who wants to save his ferals in his town to see Nathan Winograd and his new screening of the movie Redemption. We named our rescue for the book Redemption, the no kill movement. We believe all life is precious and blessed. We believe these…are LIVING SOULS..precious to the Other Side. The Eyes of God!! I do what I do, in the name of my Angelz, Stephen, my son and our Angel Anna Bellin! If you want to contribute to our efforts to save these precious lives and keep them well, spay, neuter and vaccinate them. And see them to their new loving homes, please send anything..food, blankets, toys, pads, or money to Paypal address: conneerobertsonagent@hotmail.com
ANOTHER PARK SLAUGHTER!! We Need Goose Angels!!
If you haven’t heard about the most recent plan to round-up and gas over 200 geese in the Mill Creek Metroparks reservation. This is a sickening attack on our waterfowl. We must all help to stop this mass killing. Please take 1 minute and sign petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/988/023/072/sickening-attack-on-our-waterfowl/
Remember….if WS are not killing animals they are not being paid! They continually look for new species to target.
Published: Thu, June 26, 2014 @ 12:03 a.m.
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Several Mill Creek Park roads were closed to motor vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians at 12:01 a.m. today and will remain closed until noon today for euthanasia of geese, a park official said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture “will be humanely euthanizing some of the geese,” with the project to be overseen by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said Samantha Villella, Mill Creek MetroParks community engagement director.
The closed roads are Memorial Hill, East Glacier, Lily Pond, Robinson Hill, West and West Glacier drives, according to a park news release.
In the past, park officials have used predator decoys and noisemakers to scare off geese, Villella said.
As an additional geese population-control measure, park officials continue to addle the eggs of geese under an ODNR permit, Villella said.
In that process, they make the eggs of geese non-viable by puncturing them with 3-inch nails.
“They have a nuisance issue with geese in the park,” said Laura Graber, the Akron-based ODNR wildlife research technician who issued the permit for the early morning roundup and euthanasia of geese and goslings.
This is the first time for this activity in Mill Creek Park, but such roundups have been done elsewhere in Ohio, she said.
John Paul Seman, a Poland-based assistant USDA district supervisor, said the geese and goslings were to be be captured, placed in a chamber and euthanized with carbon dioxide gas, according to American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines.
Karen Stamper is THE numero uno angel for Geese and Mute Swans. She has been fighting diligently and for a long time to save these birds from brutality from the DNR and USDA Wildllife Services. If you can help out with the below request please do. Please also pass this message on to other kind humans.
Additional Help is appreciated,
Dear fellow geese lovers:If any of you are able to help Karen Stamper with some donations to defray
the costs of feeding, rescuing and transporting geese to sanctuaries, please
send a check to:Karen Stamper 4796 Half Penny CT, Commerce Twp MI 48382
the costs of feeding, rescuing and transporting geese to sanctuaries, please
send a check to:Karen Stamper 4796 Half Penny CT, Commerce Twp MI 48382
Karen goes above and beyond the call of duty to care for geese.
Thank you.
We are in serious need of donations
to help with feed, straw, transports, lettuce, aviary netting, fencing, and
meds. We have been receiving 2 to 3 calls some days on abandoned babies and
injured birds. Some need medical attention, some are fine, They just eat
like little piggies. If anyone is able to help monetarily, or can pick up
some cheap, clean straw, or Romaine lettuce. turnip greens, mixedB greens,
spring mixes, please let me know. There are only 4 of us who get these calls
and take care of the birds. We travel all over the state, So as some of you
know, it can be very exhausting and financially draining. I hate to ask, but
we are starting to feel overwhelmed.
If you would like to help us out in any way, please contact me through
e-mail or feel free to call me 248-912-5042. B If you would like. you can
make checks payable to: Karen Stamper 4796 Half Penny CT, Commerce Twp MI
48382. We truly do appreciate your help.
Ginger Kathrens’ Update on Cloud
by Ginger Kathrens, Exec. Director of The Cloud Foundation
The Courage of Cloud and Encore
Late May in the Pryor Mountains, 2014
When RT Fitch offered to join me in my search for Cloud, I think we both feared the worst. Were we going to be looking for a body or a live Cloud? My friend had offered to come so I would not be searching alone. The day before he was to leave his home near Houston, Texas, I called to let him know that Nancy Cerroni had spotted Cloud alive! And she said, “It gets better.” Cloud had somehow won back his mares, Feldspar and Ingrid! And she said, “Wait, it gets better still.” He and Feldspar have a beautiful new son! Our journey morphs into a joyous search for Cloud and his family.
RT and I, with our loyal companion, Quinn, spend four days together, three…
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Burros, and their friends, make us feel good this Sunday
SOURCE: sfgate.com
Formerly wild burros find loving home on Arizona ranch
Eileen Mitchell
Jo Di Gennaro with her two oldest males Mighele and Papa. Photo: Jo Di Gennaro
Friendships develop for a variety of reasons: over work, hobbies, sports. In the case of Arizona residents Kathie Shotts and Jo Di Gennaro, their friendship was deepened by a love of animals. Burros, to be exact.
Jo and I met when we were teaching at Donaldson Elementary in Tucson. When Jo retired, she started volunteering for Equine Voices, a horse rescue sanctuary in Green Valley, 30 miles south of Tucson. The sanctuary needed volunteers to brush, walk, wash and clean up after horses that had been found abandoned in the desert by either drug dealers or former owners that had tired of their pets. Jo’s heart melted at the thought of these poor, neglected animals, and over school vacations and holidays, she…
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Speak for Wolves – Schedule of Events…
Alaska governor allowing the “kill-on-site” policy
by Nicole Rivard, Friends of Animals Correspondent
Please tell Alaska governor Sean Parnell what you think for allowing the “kill-on-site” policy for wolf pups and bear cubs orphaned by state predator control to continue. http://gov.alaska.gov/parnell/contact/email-the-governor.html Friends of Animals has learned from Rick Steiner, professor and conservation biologist, that despite the wildly popular rescue of wolf pups abandoned in the Kenai fire last week, which was covered on national television news, the State of Alaska announced June 2 that it would not alter its “kill-on-site” policy for newborn wildlife orphaned by the state’s predator control programs across western and northern Alaska.
Please tell Gov.
These pups escaped death because they were rescued by firefighters before the Alaska Department of Fish & Game could get their hands on them, and have been adopted by the Minnesota Zoo instead of being killed.
But the future is bleak for future pups orphaned after the State of Alaska kills their parents.
After killing all of the adult wolves from two wolf packs on the South Alaska Peninsula in their spring 2008 predator control effort, ADFG biologists pulled 14 newborn wolf pups from the two dens, and shot each in the head. Subsequent public outrage led to the adoption of the state’s wolf pup protocol in Nov. 2008, which called for the live collection and placement of orphaned wolf pups in zoos and other facilities.
Then in May 2009, with no public notice, prior to the continuation of the Alaska Peninsula wolf control program, the state adopted a new wolf pup protocol that called for the lethal gassing of wolf pups orphaned by predator control efforts in western and northern Alaska. Although there has never been a reported case of rabies in wolf pups, the rationale the state gave for adopting its new lethal protocol in western and northern Alaska was a purported risk of rabies in wolf pups.
by Nicole Rivard, Friends of Animals Correspondent
Shame on Alaska governor Sean Parnell for allowing the “kill-on-site” policy for wolf pups and bear cubs orphaned by state predator control to continue. Friends of Animals has learned from Rick Steiner, professor and conservation biologist, that despite the wildly popular rescue of wolf pups abandoned in the Kenai fire last week, which was covered on national television news, the State of Alaska announced June 2 that it would not alter its “kill-on-site” policy for newborn wildlife orphaned by the state’s predator control programs across western and northern Alaska.
These pups escaped death because they were rescued by firefighters before the Alaska Department of Fish & Game could get their hands on them, and have been adopted by the Minnesota Zoo instead of being killed.
But the future is bleak for future pups orphaned after the State of Alaska kills their parents.
After killing all of the adult wolves from two wolf packs on the South Alaska Peninsula in their spring 2008 predator control effort, ADFG biologists pulled 14 newborn wolf pups from the two dens, and shot each in the head. Subsequent public outrage led to the adoption of the state’s wolf pup protocol in Nov. 2008, which called for the live collection and placement of orphaned wolf pups in zoos and other facilities.
Then in May 2009, with no public notice, prior to the continuation of the Alaska Peninsula wolf control program, the state adopted a new wolf pup protocol that called for the lethal gassing of wolf pups orphaned by predator control efforts in western and northern Alaska. Although there has never been a reported case of rabies in wolf pups, the rationale the state gave for adopting its new lethal protocol in western and northern Alaska was a purported risk of rabies in wolf pups.
But given the lack of rabies risk, many wildlife advocates feel the new “kill-on-site” protocol was actually adopted for other reasons, including: the current state administration, and its political supporters, harbor an irrational disdain, even hatred, for wolves; in remote areas, without the watchful eye of the news media, the state feels it is more expedient to just kill orphaned pups than to arrange their collection and placement; the state doesn’t want to attract attention to the inhumane consequences of its scientifically unjustified predator control programs by providing an opportunity for news media to cover the live collection and placement of orphaned young; and the state doesn’t want the public to understand that the “hidden” effects of its predator control programs are far greater than just the number of adults killed.
Wolf pups and bear cubs remain dependent on their parents for more than a year, thus parents killed by state predator control or liberalized hunting and trapping regulations also results in the death of dependent cubs and pups, which are not added to the kill count.
A month after the new kill-on-site protocol was adopted, on June 7, 2009, two newborn wolf pups that had been orphaned by the state wolf control effort in the area, were lethally gassed in their dens with carbon monoxide by ADFG biologists. Their carcasses were not collected and tested for rabies, and left to decompose in the den. This was the first, and so far only, time in state history that newborn wildlife has been lethally gassed. This remains state policy today.
In Feb 2014, ADFG was asked to rescind its 2009 (lethal) wolf pup protocol, and revert to its 2008 (non-lethal) protocol, but the agency declined, again citing its concern for rabies in wolf pups. Then, after the rescue of the five Kenai wolf pups last week the state was asked again to apply this non-lethal collect-and-place protocol to the entire state, arguing not only that there has never been a report of rabies in wolf pups, but also that the half dozen reports of rabies in adult wolves in the historical record (the past 70 years) were all from the Arctic. Thus the risk of rabies from wolf pups, or even adult wolves in the rest of Alaska, is exceedingly low.
Despite this argument, ADFG announced yesterday, in a June 1, 2014 email from Division of Wildlife Conservation Director Doug Vincent-Lang, the following: “We stand by our new wolf pup protocol given advice from our vet regarding rabies. Rabies is a serious disease and I trust the advice of my professionals on this issue. It is fortunate that the wolf pups from the Kenai were from a rabies free zone and could be placed.”
The agency did not provide an explanation for why its veterinarians feel rabies in wolf pups presents a risk when there has never been a reported case. Thus, any wolf pups found orphaned by the state’s predator control programs in western and northern Alaska will continue to be lethally gassed. Additionally, in a May 29, 2014 press release, ADFG admitted that its biologists had recently (this spring) killed newborn black bear cubs in its Kuskokwim (GMU 19A) predator control effort. Apparently there was no effort made to collect-and-place the newborn bear cubs.
Many Alaskans feel that the government killing of healthy newborn bear cubs and wolf pups is inhumane, unethical and unacceptable and Friends of Animals couldn’t agree more. “It takes a troubling, cold-hearted detachment from life to rationalize the killing of innocent newborn animals,” said Steiner. “Is this really what Alaska has come to? The state’s predator control program is bad enough, but to kill innocent weeks-old wolf pups and bear cubs whose parents have just been killed by gunners in helicopters, exposes a callous depravity that should concern us all. “Perhaps ADFG officials should go before an elementary school assembly and explain to the kids why, after their biologists gun down the parents of bear cubs and wolf pups from helicopters, they then order the orphaned pups and cubs to be gassed or shot instead of rescuing and placing them in facilities to live out their tragically altered lives.”
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