No More Tiger Ranches
Target:
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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END WANTON ANIMAL CRUELTY IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN COMMONWEALTH!
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THE CATASTROPHE IN TARENTUM
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.) A stone's throw from prosperous Pittsburgh suburban tracts, and right beside the Interstate, thousands of neglected cats slowly declined and died in filthy, unfurnished trailers.
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.)
GUILTY: MULTIPLE COUNTS OF ANIMAL CRUELTY
On July 13, 2009, Linda Marie Bruno, a/k/a Lin Marie, pleaded guilty to 12 criminal counts of Cruelty to Animals, and two counts of Evidence Tampering.
The Valley News Dispatch reports: "Marie is facing up to two years in state prison and a $5,000 fine for each of the 12 cruelty counts as well as up to two years in prison and $5,000 fine for each of the two tampering charges.
"That means she could be sentenced up to 28 years in prison and fined $70,000 if the maximum sentence is imposed." (Source: "Ex-Tiger Ranch Owner Pleads Guilty to Animal Cruelty Charges," Valley News Dispatch, July 14, 2009, http://tinyurl.com/valleynewsdispatch633575).
TIGER RANCH: A 14-YEAR HISTORY OF TORMENT AND DESPAIR
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 faced 593 charges of animal cruelty at a criminal arraignment in July 2008.
NEVER AGAIN!
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 Tiger Ranch, the "death camp for cats," should remain forever closed, and convicted animal abuser Linda Marie Bruno, a/k/a Lin Marie, should be barred from all contact with domestic animals; 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
THE CATASTROPHE IN TARENTUM
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.) A stone's throw from prosperous Pittsburgh suburban tracts, and right beside the Interstate, thousands of neglected cats slowly declined and died in filthy, unfurnished trailers.
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.)
GUILTY: MULTIPLE COUNTS OF ANIMAL CRUELTY
On July 13, 2009, Linda Marie Bruno, a/k/a Lin Marie, pleaded guilty to 12 criminal counts of Cruelty to Animals, and two counts of Evidence Tampering.
The Valley News Dispatch reports: "Marie is facing up to two years in state prison and a $5,000 fine for each of the 12 cruelty counts as well as up to two years in prison and $5,000 fine for each of the two tampering charges.
"That means she could be sentenced up to 28 years in prison and fined $70,000 if the maximum sentence is imposed." (Source: "Ex-Tiger Ranch Owner Pleads Guilty to Animal Cruelty Charges," Valley News Dispatch, July 14, 2009, http://tinyurl.com/valleynewsdispatch633575).
TIGER RANCH: A 14-YEAR HISTORY OF TORMENT AND DESPAIR
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 faced 593 charges of animal cruelty at a criminal arraignment in July 2008.
NEVER AGAIN!
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 Tiger Ranch, the "death camp for cats," should remain forever closed, and convicted animal abuser Linda Marie Bruno, a/k/a Lin Marie, should be barred from all contact with domestic animals; 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
We signed the "No More Tiger Ranches" petition!
# 2,530:
12:40 am PST, Feb 9,
Yrna Miryana, Indonesia
# 2,529:
9:52 am PST, Jan 28,
Laura Azul Retondo, Argentina
# 2,528:
11:55 pm PST, Jan 19,
Cameron G., Massachusetts
Please Save Tigers. Becuz God Know Animals Are Innocent. We Love Them. I Beg You And Stop Hurt Animals. ------------- Listen, Please Get A This Printer And Get Your Paper For Signature With Envelope Before Send To Governor. Please Pass Your Friends and Your Family. Please Do Not Need To Wait. Go Now!! That's Website From Selena. http://www.islanddog.org/writetogovernor.html
Please Save Tigers. Becuz God Know Animals Are Innocent. We Love Them. I Beg You And Stop Hurt Animals. ------------- Listen, Please Get A This Printer And Get Your Paper For Signature With Envelope Before Send To Governor. Please Pass Your Friends and Your Family. Please Do Not Need To Wait. Go Now!! That's Website From Selena. http://www.islanddog.org/writetogovernor.html
# 2,527:
1:44 pm PST, Jan 11,
Sandra Heglund, New York
This must not happen again. This is unforgivable abuse that must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
This must not happen again. This is unforgivable abuse that must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
# 2,526:
3:46 pm PST, Jan 10,
Wang Candice, Georgia
# 2,525:
1:06 pm PST, Jan 9,
Debra Lieberman, Pennsylvania
We trusted you, believed in you, and handed over stray cat's we had rescued only to have them die horrid deaths. You will never know how much damage you have done. Where are the cats we intrusted to you. And why aren't the humane officers who recommended you fired. What was it in that bible you read each time I visited you, were you looking for redemption. You will not find it. You are fated to burn in hell.
We trusted you, believed in you, and handed over stray cat's we had rescued only to have them die horrid deaths. You will never know how much damage you have done. Where are the cats we intrusted to you. And why aren't the humane officers who recommended you fired. What was it in that bible you read each time I visited you, were you looking for redemption. You will not find it. You are fated to burn in hell.
# 2,524:
4:50 pm PST, Jan 8,
Amanda Olsen, California
# 2,523:
6:56 am PST, Dec 15,
Angiolina DePierro, Massachusetts
I'm absolutely disgusted and I can't believe people actually support her.
I'm absolutely disgusted and I can't believe people actually support her.
# 2,522:
10:55 pm PST, Dec 14,
Pamala Mitchell, Pennsylvania
# 2,521:
8:31 pm PST, Nov 12,
Mark Sousa, California
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12:21 pm PST, Nov 3,
MAUVE Alexandra, France
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5:27 pm PST, Nov 2,
Daphna Yanez, Mexico
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5:36 am PDT, Oct 30,
Jim Treacy, Australia
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7:22 pm PDT, Oct 29,
Sharla Stone, California
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1:51 am PDT, Oct 29,
Karmen Auguštin, Croatia
# 2,515:
9:25 pm PDT, Oct 28,
Gina Stull, Ohio
I think it's sooo wrong to do that to cats!!!!
I think it's sooo wrong to do that to cats!!!!
# 2,514:
10:31 am PDT, Oct 28,
Kimberly Tilley, Idaho
# 2,513:
9:10 am PDT, Oct 28,
Caitlin Schmedlin, Connecticut
# 2,512:
12:01 pm PDT, Oct 26,
Rita Simoes, Portugal
# 2,511:
10:45 am PDT, Oct 26,
Lisa White, Massachusetts
This is an appalling case and it's right next door to me in MA. HSUS is raiding these mills all across the country. Alot of people don't relaize there is all so cat mills that pump out thousands of cats. They keep them unspayed and unneutered, don't care for them and use them for greed. Disgusting!We need much harsher punishments for animal abuse or it will only get worse for the beautiful creatures of this earth.
This is an appalling case and it's right next door to me in MA. HSUS is raiding these mills all across the country. Alot of people don't relaize there is all so cat mills that pump out thousands of cats. They keep them unspayed and unneutered, don't care for them and use them for greed. Disgusting!We need much harsher punishments for animal abuse or it will only get worse for the beautiful creatures of this earth.
Prosicute,prosicute,prosicute!
# 2,510:
11:53 pm PDT, Oct 14,
Francesca Concetta, Italy
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5:18 pm PDT, Oct 13,
Wes Keith, Missouri
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6:47 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Tina Cole, Oregon
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9:19 am PDT, Sep 9,
AZIZ Pascale, France
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Alexis Johnston, Texas
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6:50 am PDT, Sep 4,
Kari Tompkins, Oklahoma
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12:33 am PDT, Sep 4,
Pam Montgomery, Georgia
How do you feel about the Tiger Ranch Cat Sanctuary, in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where hundreds of sick, starving, and dying domestic cats, and the skeletal remains of hundreds of more cats bulldozed into shallow graves, were discovered in March 2008?
How do you feel about the Tiger Ranch Cat Sanctuary, in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where hundreds of sick, starving, and dying domestic cats, and the skeletal remains of hundreds of more cats bulldozed into shallow graves, were discovered in March 2008?
How can the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and all duly constituted law enforcement and humane care organizations, ensure that rampant cruelty and neglect are never again perpetrated?
