r/rescuecats • u/Monkittyruccia22 • Sep 20 '24
COMMUNITY ALERT/ AWARENESS ⚠️ 🆘🔊DEMANDING REFORM AT APPLE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER So California‼️PLEASE read below. RC Community we need to act!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02texBt2YCMVoaBG68xKSQeoPBNT7aibWBKUY2gHiDbgrxRVh2fQ8c5hkqmx7Vou4Nl&id=100076021291999 link to Facebook post above.
‼️🔊Regarding reinstating access to kennel cards at AVAS ‼️Denying access to kennel cards means no information on cats is available except a photo and an intake ID number. This makes rescue work next to impossible. We have no idea of age, sex, condition or status of the cats health is. They block dates of intake and euthanasia time frame. Urgent will be unknown.
For those without Facebook text reads as below
Hi everyone. As promised, here is a draft email regarding the kennel card public access revocation.
Let’s make some noise.
Send to:
animalservices@applevalley.org avasrescues@applevalley.org aatteberry@applevalley.org acotton@applevalley.org khall@applevalley.org snassif@applevalley.org abishop@applevalley.org kleon@applevalley.org lcusack@applevalley.org cemick@applevalley.org applevalley@applevalley.org oacevedo@applevalley.org thomas.rice@bbklaw.com georgehardingiv@dph.county.gov bcronin@dph.sbcounty.gov joshua.dugas@dph.sbcounty.gov jennifer.osorio@dph.sbcounty.gov supervisor.cook@bos.sbcounty.gov supervisor.armendarez@bos.sbcounty.gov supervisor.rowe@bos.sbcounty.gov supervisor.hagman@bos.sbcounty.gov supervisor.baca@bos.sbcounty.gov
Subject line:
RESTORE PUBLIC KENNEL CARD ACCESS ON TOAV WEBSITE
Text:
To Whom It May Concern:
It has come to my attention that on the evening of September 19, 2024, public kennel card access on the Town of Apple Valley Animal Services "Adoptable Animals" website was deactivated. I respectfully request that public kennel card access be immediately restored, for the following reasons.
- Kennel cards were the only way to obtain animal status in real time
As you are aware, AVAS staunchly refuses to provide a euthanasia list to their rescue partners or to shelter dog and cat networkers. Consequently, the only way for rescue partners, networkers, and the general public to know which animals are scheduled for euthanasia, is to access kennel cards which, up until the evening of September 19, 2024, were available for anyone to view on the TOAV website. With the kennel cards removed, the identity of animals pending euthanasia at AVAS is now completely secret. Rescue partners, networkers, and the public must now guess at who is pending euthanasia.
The kennel cards were updated as the status of shelter animals changed, and were the only way to obtain animals' status in real time. The "AVAS Rescue Team" and "Networking Apple Valley Animal Shelter Dogs - The Real Volunteer Page" - are AVAS-run pages that actively conceal the identities of animals that are scheduled for euthanasia. AVAS employees refuse to provide status for more than one animal at a time over the phone. Rescue partners, networkers, and the public must email the AVAS Rescue Coordinators, Brandie Lee Garcia and Autumn Cotton, to obtain status, and responses are often delayed, sometimes coming a day or even days later. When a facility kills as quickly as AVAS does, a delayed update can quite literally and in fact, does cost animals their lives.
- Public kennel card access was revoked so AVAS can conceal euthanasia
The foregoing facts being well known to AVAS employees and the TOAV, the only conclusion I can reach about why public kennel card access was removed, is that it was done to hide the staggering number of animals being killed at AVAS. Recently, the administrator of the "Save Every Single Dog" page, which networks AVAS dogs, developed a software program that was designed to disseminate information gleaned from the kennel cards to the public via email. The program compiled kennel card data from the TOAV's public website into an easily readable, user-friendly format - it essentially created a euthanasia list by categorizing animals into those pending euthanasia, pending adoption, pending rescue, or no longer at the facility. The program or "tracker" was recently soft-launched, and was supposed to be ready for email subscribers on September 19, 2024. There is no doubt in my mind that AVAS and the TOAV deactivated public kennel cards to thwart the operation of the tracker. The Chief Security Officer of the company that hosts the TOAV's website confirmed that the "Save Every Single Dog" administrator was doing absolutely nothing wrong and no cybersecurity issues were implicated. I can conceive of no other reason why AVAS would want the tracker to fail.
In short, removing public kennel card access will get animals killed. Unless that is AVAS' objective - to kill more shelter pets - public kennel card access should be restored immediately.
I appreciate your prompt attention to this serious matter.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
‼️Apple Valley blocking access to all information and shutting down on rescue operations. ‼️🆘We urge the worldwide RC community to protest the unprecedented evil and corruption at Apple Valley Animal Shelter. The murder of innocent animals cannot go on. Please help us fight against these cruel practices. Contact the members above that are responsible for this situation. Demand change reform and replacement of this abhorrent shelter staff now! Thank you everyone!
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u/oldcatsarecute Sep 20 '24
My years of trapping and working at shelters I've never seen this kind of injuries, what could they have done, maybe strapped some kind of tight muzzle on her? This doesn't make any sense, if she was stressed and rubbing on cage bars cats will calm down if they cover the cage door with a blanket. What did they do to her?!?
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u/Monkittyruccia22 Sep 20 '24
Right? I have not either. They rub their noses and forehead on traps not their cheeks This is some kind of burn or something it looks like. It’s not right! She was obviously mistreated!
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u/MamaSmAsh5 APPROVED AMAZON WISHLIST Sep 20 '24
Boost. Let’s shut this shit hole down! No one should PROFIT from dead animals!!! Send all the emails! Ask other to send some too. Come on RC we are going to take these places down one day, I know it!!!
BOOST FOR SUPPORT!! Let’s take em down!!!
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Sep 20 '24
So sad ☹️ was she stressed and scratched her skin on a cage/carrier? Sometimes that happens with feral cats when you trap them and they want to get out
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u/Monkittyruccia22 Sep 20 '24 edited Sep 20 '24
Why would she be in a crate or trap in the shelter? She came in with a perfect face as seen above. This happened in the care of AVAS staff Something was done to her. This is abuse.
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u/Sincamour Sep 20 '24
They are so evil. I’m out right now but RemindMe! 3 hours
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u/MagicStar77 Sep 21 '24
I really despise how the cats and dogs aren’t given more chances to be adopted
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u/bastetandisis9 Sep 21 '24
BOOOOOOST!!!! 🤬🤬🤬
What if a national organization was contacted about this- say Humane Society of the US, ASPCA, National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition… get a large entity made aware of this blatant cruelty?
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u/EUGsk8rBoi42p Sep 21 '24
What's the makeup on Dem and GOP standing for these politicians?
It helps to tailor the message to each partys potential constituent culture.
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u/Monkittyruccia22 Sep 21 '24
I honestly don’t the time for all that lol I wish I did. They are there to investigate through. 🙏🏻
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u/atomsforkubrick Sep 21 '24
Will work on sending an email. Do you have a sample letter? RemindMe! 24 hours
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u/Monkittyruccia22 Sep 21 '24
I think it’s best that be personal. Form letters tend to lose the emotional impact imo
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u/notmyprofile23 Sep 21 '24
BOOST BOOST BOOST for this campaign… please everybody step up and make a difference if you can. Upvote, boost, share and email! ❤️❤️❤️
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u/Solarride5 Sep 21 '24
Just sent an email 😡 Boost for more people to send an email to these b******s!
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u/Mithandriel APPROVED FOR DONATION REQUESTS Sep 22 '24
Sent the email today. My daughter and son will send an email today as well.
I condensed the "send to" emails and they're separated by semi-colons if anyone wants to copy paste this:
animalservices@applevalley.org;avasrescues@applevalley.org;aatteberry@applevalley.org;acotton@applevalley.org;khall@applevalley.org;snassif@applevalley.org;abishop@applevalley.org;kleon@applevalley.org;lcusack@applevalley.org;cemick@applevalley.org;applevalley@applevalley.org;oacevedo@applevalley.org;thomas.rice@bbklaw.com;georgehardingiv@dph.county.gov;bcronin@dph.sbcounty.gov;joshua.dugas@dphsbcounty.gov;jennifer.osorio@dph.sbcounty.gov;supervisor.cook@bos.sbcounty.gov;supervisor.armendarez@bos.sbcounty.gov;supervisor.rowe@bos.sbcounty.gov;supervisor.hagman@bos.sbcounty.gov;supervisor.baca@bos.sbcounty.gov
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u/Monkittyruccia22 Sep 20 '24
Due to an error in the photo gallery I had to delete and repost. Please comment again if you can. Thank you 🙏🏻