03/18/2016
OMG.. I cannot beleive this
ASPCA Giving 700 Animals Away Craigs List Style in Sanford NC
MARCH 18, 19, & 20TH - THIS WEEKEND! 2215 Nash Street, Sanford, NC (warehouse)
Feel free to add to, discuss, refute any of the items mentioned in this video The information obtained from sources include advocates from that area and the ASPCA's own website.
Please share like wild to find real animal advocates and fosters and adopters to get those animals safe!
We will have to deal with the recklessness, incompetence and fraud of the ASPCA at a later time. Right now those 700 animals are being given away to the public for one weekend and then apparently dispersed to already slammed animal control facilities in that area. No transports are permitted!(?!)
The address is 2215 Nash Street, Sanford NC - the location of the warehouse of the animals.
POSTSCRIPT ABOUT THE HAVEN:
it seems like the same ole trick of taking photos out of context of situations that are unknown to the viewer. I'm not going to make a judgement on a photo of a bowl without water - was the photo taken when the bowl became empty? Did the person PLANT THAT RAT NEXT TO THAT DOG? This is the kind of thing that an ANTI NO KILL ORGANIZATION WOULD DO - LIKE ASPCA.
REMEMBER EVERYONE:
1) The ASPCA was the organization that KILLED OREO, a dog that deserved a second chance with rescue organizations that would have taken the dog in but the ASPCA murdered instead.
2) The ASPCA killed 13 dogs (pit bull type dogs) that were "rescued" from a dog fighting situation and they CLAIMED that the dogs were not able to be rehabbed - We say that if Michael Vick dogs could be rehabbed, then any dog can be.
3) The ASPCA fought in Albany AGAINST CARA - THE COMPANION ANIMAL ACCESS RESCUE ACT that if that would have passed in the state of New York, we would HAVE NO DEAD DOGS AT THE ACC-NY!! That law would have allowed any 501c3 rescue without violations to pull from ACC NY but they stated that they were "protecting" the animals from bad rescues.
Our contention is that the ASPCA is against True No-Kill. Like it was stated in the video, they could have HELPED THIS RECUE instead of shut the rescue down. Now the ASPCA will abandon that area completely.
POSTSCRIPT #2: REMEMBER EVERYONE:
Individuals that are petapuffs will POSE AS RESCUERS AND ADVOCATES, a petapuff is someone vehemently against True No Kill and will paint the picture that it cannot work. They do not believe that cats and dogs should live and breathe. Petapuffs have invaded the shelter system and work in them and plant photos to make these types of facilities look worse than what they are. Please be vigilant for that type of posting out by people on the thread.
POSTSCRIPT #3 - AN AMAZING AND ELUCIDATING COMMENT BY A **LOCAL** IN THAT AREA INVOLVED with The Haven - I am in tears that this confirms my feeling that these people were victimized by the multi-millionaires of ASPCA and anti-nokill demons:
Comment from Ruth Baldwin
Time February 15, 2016 at 12:45 am
On the day of the raid there were 10 employees and 1 vet tech handcuffed and detained . This was not a case of simple hoarding. Weekly there were adoption fairs — every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday resulting in over 30 adoptions per week, often 50. I have a figure of 30,000-36,000 animals were adopted over the Havens history.. Kittens, puppies, and small dogs were adopted quickly. Deploying soldiers could leave knowing there pets would be re-homed, not killed. Probably 30 animals /week were altered. Now this area will have many more animals in the landfill. ASPCA are masters at their donation campaign. The ASPCA operates just one animal shelter and it is in New York City. They are not above scrutiny for the their aggressive donation campaigns that take money away from local shelters. In 2011 the State Humane Association of California filed a complaint with the California Office of the Attorney General against the ASPCA for deceptive fund-raising practices. According to the ASPCA, it received $116.5 million in revenue in 2009. In 2010, California received only $352,100 from the ASPCA, or 0.3% of its revenue. California represents 13% of the national economy. They do fund projects in other states (like the raid on the Haven) but the money they rake in from donations across the nation far exceeds what they will spend here. I am frustrated that many of my posts on national sites disappear and sometimes only enough remains for me to be shamed for volunteering at the Haven. Even local news about animals results in donation pop-ups for the ASPCA. Also left are the misleading photos and videos and outright lies about the Haven (untreated wounds, lack of veterinary care, no shelter…)and pop-ups to donate to the ASPCA. There were some really nice facilities and perpetual improvements being made and not shown. I bet most of the cats were probably better housed in the little “tiny homes” with caged in front patios at the Haven then they are now being held in by the ASPCA. If the ASPCA’s “ultimate goal” is to get the animals healthy and adopted, they could have assisted without the raid. The ASPCA propaganda and their infirmities had nothing to do with abuse or neglect perpetuated by the Haven. When the money made from this deceptive fund-raising portrayal of the Haven is deposited in the NY bank and if the ASPCA is allowed by the courts, it will deposit the animals in already overcrowded shelters, many will be killed as unadoptable (I have seen a figure of an 85% kill rate for raids), and the area will have nowhere for thousands of animals to go anymore when they are abandoned. The Haven altered all cats and dogs before adoption and did by FAR the most adoptions in this area. The Spears are ruined, property taken, the animals die, the local community loses, and the ASPCA rakes in the cash for themselves. The ASPCA are very clever emotional manipulators with a good videos and music. The are not a cure for what ails the surrounding counties here in NC.
POSTSCRIPT #4: Article written by Sylvana Smith
Seeing the big crowds and long lines at the ASPCA’s mass giveaway event in Sanford, NC, looks like a positive thing on the surface of it, but it also raises concerns. Where were all those people when these very same dogs and cats were available for adoption at The Haven and its adopt-a-thons at multiple area Petsmarts? These people weren’t interested in a Haven pet when it had an adoption fee attached to it, but now they all want one if it's free.
For those of us in animal rescue, giveaways give us the wi***es. The concern is that the value adopters place on their new pets -- and their potential commitment to the pet -- is often about equivalent to what they paid for it: in this case, nothing.
Why didn’t the crowd want these dogs and cats seven weeks ago? They’re the same animals. The Haven had already neutered/spayed, vaccinated and microchipped the animals. It's the same great selection all in one location.
Tim Rickey from the ASPCA claims “many of these animals were dealing with significant medical issues,” but the investigating authorities beg to differ. They only quibbled with the condition of four animals out of 700: one dog, one cat, one bird and one horse. Three of those animals were deposited at The Haven with infirmities and were getting care from the veterinarian who was on site three times a week. The lean horse was a geriatric old-timer, one of Linden Spear's personal horses. None were neglected.
The Haven adopted out 1,800 to 2,000 cats and dogs a year -- 36,000 in its years of operation -- an impressive record that outperforms all the area municipal shelters. Little-known fact: The Haven saved more Hurricane Katrina pets than the wealthy ASPCA did. And unlike the ASPCA, The Haven had the good sense to not give away pets for free to anyone with a driver’s license and a cage.
An adoption fee is the first and often most important screening mechanism to show that the adopter has some commitment to the animal. The ASPCA seems to have forgotten that commonsense requirement in its bid to be shed of this inventory as quickly as possible and move on to other high-profile fundraising opportunities in the name of “rescue.”
It’s great that the event got good turnout and lots of animals will be spared yet another upheaval to "partner rescues" that the ASPCA refuses to name. But hey, where was this crowd of eager adopters two months ago? And what will happen now to the 1,800 to 2,000 animals a year The Haven would have saved, as the largest no-kill shelter in the region? We hope today's animals were winners, but over the long term, central North Carolina's animals will be the big losers in this "rescue" that destroyed a 20-year community resource.
