LB Press Telegram Falls for the Spin -- AGAIN

Reporter Wendy Thomas spent a good block of time on the phone with us yesterday. While we worked to address many of the questions and challenges she had, she ultimately reported the same old version of the story from the City. http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4443534

Please feel free to phone Wendy (her email and phone are listed at the bottom of the article) and voice your concern about reporting misinformation. (There are nice photos of the vigil though!!!)

Especially fetching was the notion from Lt. Quigley that the animals are being released today because they are finally healthy enough. In truth, the animals are being released today because LBAC has driven the impound fees to over $100,000 and since Noah's Ark cannot pay this fee, the animals are now considered "abandoned property" which the city can now dispose of as they deem fit. (We all know what that means!)

The document Gary DeLong's office is demanding on our behalf gives us a full "inventory" of our "property" and requires that no animal be euthanized UNLESS an animal is suffering needlessly in which case a third party vet who has worked with Noah's Ark must be consulted, see the animal and be given final say. Of course the City Attorney and LBAC have not produced this document yet!

By the way, the impound fees are considered the cost of housing and caring for the animals -- $100/day/animal. Wouldn't every dog and cat boarding facility love to charge that?! Shouldn't these animals be being kept in the lap of luxury? You can see from the photos in a post below taken just last week -- this is not a lap of luxury facility. It could be....but as it is being run -- it is far from it!

Please consider a donation to the animal's defense fund. We continue to defend the right every last one of them has to life. If you can adopt an animal today, please do so. And let us know that you were able to save one of our dear animals! We will need to account for all of them since some have been disappeared already!

If you are denied -- please notify us of this as well and notify the press telegram. This is especially true if you are a rescue 501 C-3 -- as the Hayden Law says you must be able to have animals released to you.