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There was a lot of attention, blame and heated sentiments exchanged last week over the little-dog-that-almost-could, Oreo. The pit bull mix survived being thrown off a six-story building in Red Hook last summer only to be euthanized last week. The abused dog was deemed to be too dangerous to live out her life in the company of other animals or humans by ASPCA, the organization that helped the dog recuperate after the fall.
Even so, ASPCA was inundated with last minute pleas by animal rights groups and sanctuaries, including rescue organization Pets Alive, who even tried sending someone to the ASPCA's building to pick up the dog in person. According to City Room a new bill, Oreo's Law, has been proposed that would allow such rescue organizations to take custody of an animal scheduled to be euthanized by a shelter; it "aims to save animals before they are euthanized because of aggressive tendencies or lack of shelter space" and "would exempt animals that are near death or rabid."
Assemblyman Micah Kellner said, "Hopefully we’ll never have another situation like Oreo" and noted he was upset that the ASPCA "refused to even interact" with Pets Alive. However, ASPCA vice president and chief legal counsel Stacy Wolf said that while the bill seemed well-meaning, NY State has lower standards for and oversight of shelter and rescue groups.
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Sanctuary's? Anyway, I was hoping to read that the new law would ensure that those who commit such cruelty that results in the animal's death would be handed a minimum 20 year prison sentence. On a side note, I drove past the Red Hook projects yesterday and am not at all surprised that Fabian Henderson hails from that hellhole. What a dump. Finally, keep writing those letters to the judge overseeing Henderson's case (I don't have the address handy, but hopefully someone else can post the details).
Case Details
PLEASE write to the judge to give Fabian Henderson case #06995-2009 the maximum!!!!! PLEASE for OREO
Hon. Cassandra M. Mullen
Kings County Supreme Court
320 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(347) 296-1436
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Felix-As fracking annoying as you can be with all your prattling on and on I have to say that I admire you for your good heart.
thanks.
ASPCA did the right thing. Leading the critics is Camille Hankins, the Director of Win Animal Rights who was convicted of cruelty to animal. Many of her animals found there were dying from contagious illness and many were literally scratching themselves to death and had bloody, seeping wounds. http://www.pet-abuse.com/case_images/4612/
Pets Alive, the so called Sanctuary that put on it website not to donate to ASPCA but to them was a situation of institutionalized hoarding.
http://news.bestfriends.org/index.cfm?page=news&mode=entry&entry=2D1299AE-BDB9-396E-93307A371F47F219
These critics of ASPCA are crazy. Instead of doing demos in front of the dog abusers or court house, they are protesting the ASPCA.
I'm not sure how you got "institutionalized hoarding" from that old Best Friends article but Pets Alive in its current state is a terrific place where Oreo would have had a great life. Have you ever been there to look yourself? If you have not, perhaps making such strong statements is ill-advised.
Pets Alive offered to take the dog and save her. That should have been the end of it and Oreo should have been surrendered. The issue with the NY SPCA is one of arrogance in the face of millions of dollars of donations. Many people who donated in the past will no longer give their money to an organization which chooses to kill a dog when a viable rescue group offered to take the dog.
California has a comparable law which keeps animals from being needlessly destroyed. Surely New York can do as much as California to protect the innocent.
The Law should focus on penalties for dog fighting. If I had a choice, I rather be put down than use as bait in a fight. Damn people, get your priorities straight.
Oreo's Law?
Will a legislator vote for a bill with a name like that?
This is a dangerous law. If a highly trained group of behaviorists say that an animal cannot be trusted, you need to believe them. There's no motive here for the ASPCA to put down Oreo sans cause. It's bad PR for an organization that depends on donations in order to exist. Rescue groups are amazing but are often staffed by highly emotional idealists who are more akin to faith healers than anything else.
Agreed completely. Rescue groups already take healthy animals from overcrowded shelters on a regular basis, so there is no need for a special law allowing it. The second part of the bill is, as said above, dangerous. Releasing these animals into the care of untrained volunteers, and overriding the professionals' evaluation, is just going to endanger other animals and people.
The State Assembly is welcome to pass this law on one condition. If someone is mauled by such a dog that professionals rather than politicians have deemed incorrigible, the assemblymen who voted for the law must be willing to go to the home of the victim and explain why the dog wasn't put down.
i propose that we call it "Felix's Law" in honor of our boy