No More Tiger Ranches
Target:
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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END WANTON ANIMAL CRUELTY IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN COMMONWEALTH!
Pet-Abuse.com Case: http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/13365/PA/US
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In March 2008, Allegheny Sheriff's Deputies, accompanied by American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) humane enforcement officers, executed search warrants that revealed a nightmare of cruelty at the Tarentum, Pennsylvania, "Tiger Ranch" cattery. (See Tiger Ranch Investigative Video: http://tinyurl.com/2o3wzg.)
Suffering, disease-ridden survivors were filmed as they staggered among the stiff corpses of their companions, unable to eat or drink with their ulcerated mouths, or breath through their mucus-choked airways. (Sources: "Tiger Ranch Stuns Vet; 'Never Saw Conditions Like This,'" WTAE TV-4 (ABC), http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/16031945/detail.html; "Tiger Ranch Supplemental Video," http://tinyurl.com/4qx9pg.)
Those cats and kittens beyond suffering were found jammed in freezers, bulldozed into shallow graves, or laying where they fell, dead, in their food, litter boxes, trailers, or beneath the open sky.
Hundreds of animals were imported from distant states; fine, adoptable cats who arrived in excellent health, only to deteriorate, suffer, and die in the frigid Pennsylvanian Piedmont. (Source: "Sick Cats Came To Tiger Ranch From Several States," WPXI TV-11 (NBC), http://tinyurl.com/6z3jqx.)
The Tiger Ranch proprietor was arrested, and faces 593 charges of animal cruelty at a criminal arraignment scheduled for July 2008.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the County of Allegheny, must take measures to ensure such grievous atrocities are never again perpetrated against blameless domestic animals or livestock within their borders.
Be It Therefore RESOLVED, that the Pennsylvanian Commonwealth and Allegheny County must affirm and reinforce existing cruelty statutes, and propose such new criminal statutes that will enable felony animal cruelty charges against any party that perpetrates grave harm against harmless domestic animals or livestock; and
Be it Further RESOLVED, that the law enforcement authorities of the Pennsylvanian Commonwealth, Allegheny County, independent authorities of the ASPCA, the PSPCA, and all relevant animal cruelty law enforcement authorities, should be granted the fullest and broadest authorities to search, investigate, and terminate grave and intolerable instances of animal cruelty, neglect, and epidemic disease; and
Be it Further RESOLVED, that legitimate, not-for-profit, "No-Kill" organizations and rescue entities be accorded the support and recognition they deserve, and be in no way tainted by association with the Catastrophe in Tarentum.
As District Judge Susan Blaschak aptly observed, "In the absence of duty, care, food, water and helping the animals get to it ... this rises to the level of torturous conduct." (Source: "Cat Shelter Operator Ordered to Stand Trial," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08128/879634-54.stm.)
END WANTON ANIMAL CRUELTY! NO MORE TIGER RANCHES!
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END WANTON ANIMAL CRUELTY IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN COMMONWEALTH!
Pet-Abuse.com Case: http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/13365/PA/US
Pet-Abuse.com Photo Gallery: http://www.pet-abuse.com/case_images/13365
In March 2008, Allegheny Sheriff's Deputies, accompanied by American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) humane enforcement officers, executed search warrants that revealed a nightmare of cruelty at the Tarentum, Pennsylvania, "Tiger Ranch" cattery. (See Tiger Ranch Investigative Video: http://tinyurl.com/2o3wzg.)
Suffering, disease-ridden survivors were filmed as they staggered among the stiff corpses of their companions, unable to eat or drink with their ulcerated mouths, or breath through their mucus-choked airways. (Sources: "Tiger Ranch Stuns Vet; 'Never Saw Conditions Like This,'" WTAE TV-4 (ABC), http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/16031945/detail.html; "Tiger Ranch Supplemental Video," http://tinyurl.com/4qx9pg.)
Those cats and kittens beyond suffering were found jammed in freezers, bulldozed into shallow graves, or laying where they fell, dead, in their food, litter boxes, trailers, or beneath the open sky.
Hundreds of animals were imported from distant states; fine, adoptable cats who arrived in excellent health, only to deteriorate, suffer, and die in the frigid Pennsylvanian Piedmont. (Source: "Sick Cats Came To Tiger Ranch From Several States," WPXI TV-11 (NBC), http://tinyurl.com/6z3jqx.)
The Tiger Ranch proprietor was arrested, and faces 593 charges of animal cruelty at a criminal arraignment scheduled for July 2008.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the County of Allegheny, must take measures to ensure such grievous atrocities are never again perpetrated against blameless domestic animals or livestock within their borders.
Be It Therefore RESOLVED, that the Pennsylvanian Commonwealth and Allegheny County must affirm and reinforce existing cruelty statutes, and propose such new criminal statutes that will enable felony animal cruelty charges against any party that perpetrates grave harm against harmless domestic animals or livestock; and
Be it Further RESOLVED, that the law enforcement authorities of the Pennsylvanian Commonwealth, Allegheny County, independent authorities of the ASPCA, the PSPCA, and all relevant animal cruelty law enforcement authorities, should be granted the fullest and broadest authorities to search, investigate, and terminate grave and intolerable instances of animal cruelty, neglect, and epidemic disease; and
Be it Further RESOLVED, that legitimate, not-for-profit, "No-Kill" organizations and rescue entities be accorded the support and recognition they deserve, and be in no way tainted by association with the Catastrophe in Tarentum.
As District Judge Susan Blaschak aptly observed, "In the absence of duty, care, food, water and helping the animals get to it ... this rises to the level of torturous conduct." (Source: "Cat Shelter Operator Ordered to Stand Trial," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08128/879634-54.stm.)
END WANTON ANIMAL CRUELTY! NO MORE TIGER RANCHES!
We urgently request that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and all legally empowered animal cruelty investigators and law enforcement agents, do the utmost to ensure that the horrific instances of animal cruelty, neglect, epidemic disease, and painful death uncovered in the Tiger Ranch cat sanctuary, in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, never again occur in the commonwealth, or anywhere else; and that
The alleged perpetrators of the Tiger Ranch horrors are prosecuted and, if convicted, punished to the full extent of the state, local, and municipal, criminal statutes.
The Members of Care2
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10:51 pm PDT, May 26,
Name not displayed, Colorado
# 2,384:
2:05 am PDT, May 25,
Katrin Finsterbusch, Germany
# 2,383:
9:29 am PDT, May 13,
Michelle Guillemeteaud, Morocco
NO MORE TIGER RANCHES please!!!
NO MORE TIGER RANCHES please!!!
# 2,382:
10:36 pm PDT, May 10,
Rose Griffin, New York
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3:25 pm PDT, May 9,
Elizabeth Spawn, Minnesota
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10:42 am PDT, May 9,
Carolina Martinez, Spain
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7:43 pm PDT, May 8,
Patricia Pattrell, Arkansas
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5:20 am PDT, May 7,
Armine Simonyan, Armenia
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2:43 am PDT, May 4,
Rebecca Vaughan, United Kingdom
# 2,376:
5:38 am PDT, Apr 29,
Angie Whiteman, United Kingdom
# 2,375:
2:42 am PDT, Apr 29,
Elaine Robinson, United Kingdom
CLOSE ALL TIGER RANCHES DOWN - TIGERS BELONG IN THE WILD - DO NOT GIVE LICENSES TO OPERATE - CLOSE DOWN ALL ZOO'S SHELTERS ANIMAL ENTRAPEMENTS
CLOSE ALL TIGER RANCHES DOWN - TIGERS BELONG IN THE WILD - DO NOT GIVE LICENSES TO OPERATE - CLOSE DOWN ALL ZOO'S SHELTERS ANIMAL ENTRAPEMENTS
BRING IN STIFF LAWS HEAVY HEAVY FINES AND VERY LONG STRETCHES
# 2,374:
1:38 pm PDT, Apr 28,
Margaret Sweeny, United Kingdom
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4:31 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Stacy Cox, Iowa
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4:01 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Sandra Martinho, Portugal
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7:52 pm PDT, Apr 26,
Paula LaRue, Arizona
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1:38 pm PDT, Apr 25,
Charlene McCann, New York
# 2,369:
5:15 pm PDT, Apr 24,
Lucy Chetcuti, Australia
Given the similarities I can't help but think that they're recreating a holocaust, except this time Cats are the helpless victims.
Given the similarities I can't help but think that they're recreating a holocaust, except this time Cats are the helpless victims.
# 2,368:
3:28 pm PDT, Apr 24,
Nyack Clancy, New York
# 2,367:
2:46 pm PDT, Apr 24,
Tamra Herman, South Dakota
Tigers are not pets and should never have been brought into this country to be raised in the first place. They should have been left in the wild where they belong! The owners of the tiger ranch deserve to be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law for the inhumane way they treated these majestic animals!
Tigers are not pets and should never have been brought into this country to be raised in the first place. They should have been left in the wild where they belong! The owners of the tiger ranch deserve to be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law for the inhumane way they treated these majestic animals!
# 2,366:
12:56 pm PDT, Apr 24,
Cherry Marrone, Arizona
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11:52 am PDT, Apr 24,
Jennifer Hall, Tennessee
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11:41 am PDT, Apr 24,
Janis Ciofalo, Pennsylvania
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10:11 am PDT, Apr 24,
Lilith Graves, Florida
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7:33 pm PDT, Apr 22,
Elise Bunn, Canada
# 2,361:
11:11 am PDT, Apr 16,
Nichole Tockey, Tennessee
# 2,360:
5:27 pm PDT, Apr 7,
Tessa Milner, Canada
# 2,359:
11:23 am PDT, Apr 5,
Morgan Petitpas, Massachusetts
This is cruel!
This is cruel!
# 2,358:
6:12 am PDT, Apr 3,
Mary Brooks, Kentucky
# 2,357:
11:33 am PDT, Apr 2,
Ivona Parkaceva, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
# 2,356:
9:22 pm PDT, Apr 1,
Rebecca Alexander, Georgia
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6:34 pm PDT, Apr 1,
Trish Ihlenfeld, Pennsylvania
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7:40 am PDT, Apr 1,
Bernadettte Przybyl, New York
