While all that was going on, someone was killing the Harbourville Cats.
I received a tragic email from Laurie at HART that all the feral cats at Harbourville have been killed.
There is just no way to sugar coat this :
April 7th : Laurie from HART sent out an urgent appeal advising all interested parties of the plight of the Harbourville Cats. At that time they were preparing to do a TNR for the cats.
April 8th: The Nova Scotia SPCA had sent an email to all the Kings County Councillors when they initially became aware that Kings County AC planned to catch and kill the Harbourville Cats.
April 8th: The Kings County Councillors passed the matter on to Gary Smith, who is in charge of Protective Services. Assurance was given that trapping of the cats by AC would cease until all other options had been reviewed.
April 12th: Scott Saunders, the VP of HART sent an email to Gary Smith details that from April 7th to April 11th, the number of cats observed decreased daily
April 13th: There is no sign of any of the cats .... less than five days after all parties concerned were led to believe that no cats would be trapped and killed until " all options were considered"
Five days? How VERY convenient for this to happen on the Easter Holiday weekend, when municipal offices would be shut down and unavailable for a four day stretch.
So while everyone was all comfy in their homes.... while everyone was sure that the Harbourville Cats had enough of a reprieve to be safely TNR'd..... while everyone was trying to decide the best approach to educate the Harbourville residents about TNR and why it is such a success ....... someone was killing the Harbourville Cats.
The questions just roll ...
- starting with where did they get the live traps because it certainly wasn't from any of the TNR folks?
- Did Kings County let the Harbourville residents know that the SPCA had contacted them and that the county Protective Services had agreed not to catch and kill the cats right away?
- Did the county talk to the fishermen who had made the complaints?
If you live in Kings County and would like some answers - Click Here to send a message to all Councillors
If you live anywhere in NS and would like to lend the strength of your voice to the many questions that I am sure that the society has for Kings County Protection Services , the appropriate email is animals@spcans.ca
What time is it? Its time to recognize that animal cruelty to stray and feral cats is still animal cruelty.
3 comments:
i had a feeling this was going to happen..
Such sad news. When I got the email from Laurie it was upsetting to hear.
Hopefully something will come from this. Enough people outraged over this will force them to do something to keep this from happening in the future.
I for one, have never been a big fan of the Kings County Animal Control. Nor their "shelter" AKA barn on a farm.
This stinks in the same way that HRM stank when they cut down the trees on Chebucto Road. They did it early in the morning while people slept (or tried to).
Our municipal governments are sneaky bastards, keep an eye on them!
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