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Posted by YesBiscuit on October 24, 2015
https://yesbiscuit.com/2015/10/24/open-thread-184/
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Susan Taney
/ October 24, 2015Cook County’s Animal Control agency came under harsh criticism during budget hearings Thursday, with one commissioner saying its system for dealing with lost pets “borders on an embarrassment.”
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151022/downtown/cook-county-system-for-stray-pets-embarrassment-commissioner-says
If you agree please sign our petition: https://www.change.org/p/toni-preckwinkle-and-the-cook-county-board-of-comissioners-reform-the-department-of-cook-county-animal-and-rabies-control?recruiter=2246242&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default
Arlene
/ October 24, 2015Please sign this petition and turn things around at the Carson Animal Care and Control. Too many dogs are being killed daily and inhumane practices of killing pregnant moms up to labor and aborting puppies up to labor. Also not holding for the mandated time.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/145/714/979/?z00m=26471689&redirectID=1849111163
Lisa B
/ October 25, 2015OK, this bugs me. A trick driver dies, and they are going to kill his healthy, alive dog so he can be cremated and buried with the guy? Just wrong, IMO.http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/30344181/coroner-truck-driver-dies-after-crash-dog-to-be-cremated-buried-with-him
db
/ October 25, 2015The link said the dog has been adopted already by one of the emergency workers.
Lisa B
/ October 25, 2015Oops, truck driver! Not trick driver! Stupid phone!
Clarice
/ October 26, 2015The owner of a dog, killed by police in Salt Lake City, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and five of its officers.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3078402-155/geists-owner-sues-salt-lake-city
Anne Thomas
/ October 27, 2015Here is a link to a petition asking the New York state senate to override Gov. Cuomo’s veto of the TNR bill; he wants to have the cats trapped and killed: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/override-governor-cuomos-6?source=c.em.cp&r_by=14461703
YesBiscuit
/ October 28, 2015House critter: https://twitter.com/YesBiscuit/status/659460202257883137
Clarice
/ October 29, 2015I gave up on trying to master this puzzle.
Anne Thomas
/ October 29, 2015Cute little lizard!