No More Tiger Ranches

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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

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!

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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.

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8:17 pm PDT, Oct 5, Rhandalee North, New York

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12:29 pm PDT, Oct 2, Stephanie B, Nevada

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2:16 am PDT, Oct 2, Vesna R, Slovenia

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12:15 pm PDT, Sep 30, Mary Hockett, Alabama

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9:56 am PDT, Sep 30, Angela Yearian, Illinois

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9:53 am PDT, Sep 30, Patricia Brown, South Africa
This is horrific especially in a country that is supposed to set an example to the rest of the world.

Employ staff to follow up on calls from the public to look into such shelters for animals. Encoourage, through advertising, the public to report such shelters

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8:52 am PDT, Sep 30, Judith Jaehn, California
NO MORE TIGER RANCHES!!!!!

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8:22 am PDT, Sep 30, Franca danicla Irato, Italy

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7:15 am PDT, Sep 30, Blair Niewoehner, Missouri

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5:34 am PDT, Sep 30, FreeSpirit Running, Florida
I feel sick to my stomach when I hear about this ranch full of dead animal carcasses. To think that humans can allow innocent animals to suffer and be tortured in such a manner before they actually die is beyond comprehensible thinking. It disgusts me to know how these poor creatures of nature are dying such a terrible death.

Please prosecute this place to the fullest extent of the law, leaving no stone unturned. This is totally WRONG for such things to be happening to innocent animals and this people getting away with it! JUSTICE FOR ALL LIFE on the planet!!!

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3:58 am PDT, Sep 30, Rachel Sepp, Michigan

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12:59 am PDT, Sep 30, Tony Thomas, India

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11:20 pm PDT, Sep 29, Helena Dworeck, Finland

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10:58 pm PDT, Sep 29, Dana Fillion, Connecticut

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8:58 pm PDT, Sep 29, Diane Malaznik, Michigan

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5:49 pm PDT, Sep 29, Susan Marden, Maine
THIS IS NOT RIGHT SPREAD THE WORD OF CRUELTY .ANIMALL ABUSE LEADS TO CHILD ABUSE, LEADS TO DOMESTIC ABUSE LEADS TO COMMUNITIY ABUSE.

SPREAD THE WORD ANIMAL

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4:17 pm PDT, Sep 29, Matsi Yasei, Texas

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3:37 pm PDT, Sep 29, Anne Dillon, United Kingdom

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3:03 pm PDT, Sep 29, Rhonda Floyd, Texas
Rhonda Floyd

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2:58 pm PDT, Sep 29, Amber Flounders, Colorado

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2:11 pm PDT, Sep 29, Lee Roessler, Pennsylvania

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1:38 pm PDT, Sep 29, ELAINE ROBINSON, United Kingdom
This is HORRIFIC. What gets me is that she kept denying she did them any harm and that she had them for 14 years surely someone would of said something long before now

More inspections are needed safeguard animal welfare

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12:14 pm PDT, Sep 29, Ismail Shabana, Egypt

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11:54 am PDT, Sep 29, JOSSIE ROSS, Canada
I AM 2,141TH. TO SIGN......JOSSIE

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11:08 am PDT, Sep 29, David Northam, California

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10:32 am PDT, Sep 29, Valeria Buenrostro, Spain

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10:14 am PDT, Sep 29, Susan Wildes, California

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10:03 am PDT, Sep 29, Rose Bellamy, United Kingdom

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10:01 am PDT, Sep 29, Andrea Lahouze, Minnesota
Please do EVERYTHING to help these innocent creatures by imposing stricter penalties for animal abuse and neglect!

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8:18 pm PDT, Sep 28, Samia Lalani, Georgia
This is sick. I really hope the owner of the Ranch is put away for as long as is possible under animal cruelty laws.

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8:38 am PDT, Sep 28, Suzanne Newman, New Jersey
My god are you people human? You should all be put in jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SICKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk

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5:40 am PDT, Sep 28, Barbara Tatti, Italy

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1:08 pm PDT, Sep 25, Yvonne Brown, New Zealand

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3:26 pm PDT, Sep 24, Karin Cartwood, Nevada
This is unacceptable and since someone was astute enough to discover and put an end to this, it must be prevented from happening again.

Your community needs to step up it's inspection and licensing requirements for potential hoarders, and invite help from other agencies (HSUS, etc.) when your local resources are overwhelmed.

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12:02 pm PDT, Sep 16, Marjorie Hoareau, France

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4:34 pm PDT, Sep 15, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
No More Tiger Ranches. Linda is letting animals die, worse than anyone could amagian!

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9:49 pm PDT, Sep 14, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
Linda doesnt feel that it was a crime for what she did to all the cats.... Would it be a crime if we let her live that way?

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2:55 pm PDT, Sep 14, Laura Rodrigues, Portugal

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