Over the past week we've been giving out flyers all over Columbus- at malls, Wal-marts, grocery stores, and other venues. We've been talking to people and getting the facts out there. Oh yes, and the following letter went out in the mail to board members yesterday.
Dear [board member]
This is an open letter to the board members of the Capital Area Humane Society. A group of independent rescuers in Central Ohio have formed a coalition to speak out against the wasteful practices of director Jodi Lytle Buckman and the board who has permitted her actions for so long. With euthanasia rates of cats at 85% and no goals, plans, or aggressive programs in place to address you horrific kill rate, Capital Area Humane Society is no more than a backwards critter control facility. Your "executive board" has done all it can to alienate volunteers and disenfranchise donors while enjoying their ridiculous bloated salaries.
Rescuers in central Ohio are calling for the immediate dismissal of Buckman and complete reorganization of the Capital Area Humane Society. There are progressive groups right here in Columbus that are willing to step in and help implement aggressive programs with new ideas for reducing euthanasia rates. So many groups around the country with a fraction of the resources are doing twice as much to help their companion cats; can't we say that we're better than killing 85% of cats that enter into the area's largest, most well funded humane society?
Jodi and her executive staff have lied to our faces and yours repeatedly to protect their jobs. It is no doubt that they will do so again, but please, take a look at your empty adoption floor Visit the euthanasia room and stick the next 30 cats in the abdomen to die. Go online and see what other humane societies with the same problems are doing to find solutions. Visit Mingle with our Mutts at the Franklin County Dog Shelter and ask yourself why Capital Area isn't hosting a similar event and does not even participate in the existing one?
If you can not do any of these things please ask yourself why you are on this board in the first place.
Visit our website at www.capitalarea.org and find this letter on our blog at humanechange.blogspot.com.
Coalition for Responsible Shelter Practices of Central Ohio
7 comments:
Applause! Applause! Applause!! This letter is long overdue!
... Even if you do have to euthanize there are more humane ways than to "stomach stick"( supposedly done to save money) these animals. What the slideshow does not show is that it can take a half hour of agonizing pain before these beautiful cats (and dogs) die. Shelter workers have it hard. They are the ones that have to carry out the orders "from above". Jodi Buckman does not set foot in room 238. If she did "the duty" and still collects her $120,000.00 per year salary, how could she sleep at night?
In Franklin County, Rachel Finney, the Humane Society's director of operations, said transporting animals to meet demand created by aggressive spaying and neutering policies elsewhere is an exciting national movement.
While Franklin County usually takes in more animals than it sends out, Finney said it often works with rescue groups and humane societies to place dogs and cats in Union and Delaware counties.
Really?
If you are so convinced of the accuracy of your statements, why don't you post the names of those behind this website? Pretty lame coalition that won't stand and be counted...
Wow! I don't see you publishing your name. I think this website is exposing some very hard issues and doing it in a responsible manner.
Has there been a response from the letter sent to the CAHS Board of Directors? I am anxious to hear if they have anything to say in their defense.
if you check the dosage for euthanasia drugs, administering the drug IP (stomach stick) takes more of the drug.
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