I know many of you have read my previous threads on our Centre County SPCA and our efforts to have the manager removed from his position. He has committed numerous summery offenses of Animal Cruelty however we have a hard time proving it because it is always one person's word against another. So Carol Nevin's came up with the idea of a petition. It is through the petition that we have learned how really desperate and awful the situation really is. We knew it was bad just not how bad. We gave the Board of Directors until May 2nd to respond to our petition of almost 600 signitures. This is their response.
Dear Carol:
First, I want to thank you and everyone else who cares so much about the animals of Centre County, PA; it is with the help of volunteers that the animals stand a much better chance of having a good quality of life.
The issues raised in your petition have been thoroughly investigated by the PASPCA and we have and will continue to work with all of our staff, statewide, to improve and ensure the quality of care of the animals entrusted to us.
At this time, no action has been taken to remove any of these staff.
I hope that you and some, if not all of those concerned, will stay involved. Help is desperately needed to raise Spay/Neuter funds; find good adoptive and foster homes; and raise consciousness of pet owners, in general, about these issues.
Again, than you for your concern and best wishes, Mary Aull
So in other words...gee...thanks for the interest but we think all is fine...now give us more money and go away.
Well we are not going to go away. It is time for the cruelty that goes on there to STOP! It is time for this to NO LONGER BE CENTRE COUNTY'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET.
I am asking for several things from you good people here at PetTalk.
First I am asking that you first sign the petition. Let them know that people from all over the country and around the world will NOT put up with this.
Secondly I am asking for you to write letters to the Board of Directors. Once again tell them that going to the shelter for a couple of hours is NOT fully investigating over a decade of abuse.
Thirdly I am asking for all of you that go to other websites to please cross post this. I want this information to go as far as we can get it to go.
There are several websites that I am going to post here. The first is the petiton website again.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takea...ltl=1115150654
The second website is listed because you can only view the last 25 signitures therefore a website was created where you can read all of them. The names have been omitted for privacy reasons. But this information also needs to get out. The atrocities that have occured at the Centre County SPCA are horrible. They range from kittens left to die in their cages from blood loss and infection after having their toes chewed off by the dog below them to a horse that was left tied to an electric fence and shocked for hours. He was covered in cuts from trying to get away and his lower lip now hangs probably from brain damage but who knows.
http://www.petscomefirst.com/
you can also access the petition from the above site. The above stories were witnessed by former volunteers and employees of the Centre County SPCA
Below is a list of Board Members and the address of the PSPCA Headquarters in Philly:
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
350 E. Erie Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19134
(215) 426-6300
Mary L. Aull, President of the Board
Erik Hendricks, Secretary and Executive Director
Additional Board Members:
Shauna Binswanger,
Claudia Casavecchia,
Richard H. Elliot,
William N.Hawkins, Vice President
Dr. Dean R. Hodges
Paula M. Kielich,
Rita Landis,
Lynn C. Lehocky,
Cynthia L. Loffel,
Amy Metz
Amy Norr, Assist. Treasurer
Mark O’Brien, Treasurer
Valerie O. Phillips,
Richard Sperry,
Suzanne Super,
Harisse Yaron,
Marcia J.Yoselson
Thank you very much for all your efforts in helping us. We have had some media attention from the local newspaper and 2 local tv stations. However, for the most part the local media has sided more with the SPCA. Centre County here is also known as Happy Valley. The local news likes to keep this image of a happy little place where life is ideal and nothing truly ugly or bad happens. Well it isn't. There is a big ugly blotch here that needs to be removed and we are going to do what we can to remove it.
Denyce
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