Looks like Lackawanna has a Mike Vick on it's hands.
Animal Control Officer Accused of Killing Animals
Updated: June 13, 2008 11:21 PM EDT
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -- A Lackawanna animal control officer is accused of killing at least three animals.
The SPCA's Executive Director makes it her mission to help protect helpless animals. So she finds it appalling that anyone would abuse or kill an animal.
Barbara Carr, SPCA: "I don't ever want to have to arrest another animal control officer. It is disgusting."
Barbara Carr tells us an animal cruelty investigator began looking into the actions of Fred Grasso after receiving anonymous tips from people who live in this Lackawanna neighborhood.
Tricia Cruz: "The animal control officer in this case was apparently responding to a complaint from the landlord at the apartment complex. Cats were getting into the basement."
One woman who lives in the complex tells us a cat had recently given birth to seven kittens. She urged the landlord to call animal control services so someone could help find them a home. Some of them were relocated. But the mother cat and two of her kittens were shot and killed instead.
Barbara Carr, SPCA: "This is the second animal control officer we've had to arrest in six months. Is really a sad state of affairs."
Looks like Lackawanna has a Mike Vick on it's hands.
I don't see anything wrong with what the animal control officer did, if in fact he did kill the cats.
How come it's cruel to shoot a cat, but not cruel to poison mice or strangle them in a traditional mouse trap? Is it just because the widdle kitty is sooo cute?
It's kind of hypocritical for anyone from the SPCA to make animal cruelty allegations against anyone for killing animals when the SPCA itself kills thousands of animals each year. Sounds to me like Ms. Carr is really just looking to protect her job and snuff out the competition.
I'm sure someone will argue that the SPCA kills animals humanely. But I'm not sure if chemical sedation and suffocation is anymore humane than a bullet to the brain.
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If you have ever seen a slaughterhouse, then I would venture to guess that the good 'ol shot to the head seems pretty tame.
Not for nothing, but everyone knows that cats love to, ahem, you know...
Now, I don't know really anything about this story other than what I just read, but why isn't anyone saying anything about the woman who allowed the cat to have kittens? If she allowed the cat out (which I'm not saying is a bad thing), only to want to bring in the SPCA to take the kittens, then shouldn't some criticism be placed there as well?
I'll never forget being at the SPCA to pick up our puppy - at least 25 to 30 people came in while we were waiting to drop off cats and kittens.
When I had cats, if I knew that one of them was going to have kittens, part of my responsibility as a pet owner would be to then assume the responsibility of their placement or else I would be stuck with them. Knowing that I didn't want that burden, I had the cats SPAYED.
The officer was outside his scope (no pun intended) when he did what he did. But, it really makes no sense to defer the responsibility of your animals, or their offspring, to an animal shelter - unless the situation was really warranted. It's hard to say in this case.....But....come on....If you have an unspayed animal, it will find a mate. Especially cats.
Most people don't look at it as thier responsibility to spay/neuter thier pets yet they let them roam outside. A nieghbor I know has cats that roam. I think they are on the 3rd set of kittens in the last few years.
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Originally Posted by WNYresident
If they let them roam, that's fine. Did they call the SPCA to take the kittens when they were born? If not, then they assumed that responsibility.
All I was suggesting is that this pet owner appears (again, I don't know the whole story) to have deferred all responsibility for her kittens to the SPCA rather than taking measures to handle it on her own.
Hmmm.....defer to another agency....Sounds like it may be a councilwoman????
Originally Posted by GG716
According to Bauerle last words on today's show this guy is flooded with phone calls because Bauerle gave out his office phone number lol.
Erie County has no business doing Animal Control this Department ought to be placed under the SPCA Control they are the experts. Erie county gives these Animal Control people no training at all its another dumb a** political job to Erie County and the Mayors office.
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How about if everyone e-mails the Mayor to express their displeasure with his decision!
mayor@ci.lackawanna.ny.us
What's the animal control officer's name? I want to contribute to his defense fund.
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Originally Posted by Eat My Gun
Hey you like to hurt helpless animals? Get back to us with that answere
who said i liked to hurt helpless animals? i mean, sometimes i actually do, but i never said it and i dont think anyone else did either. i like setting things on fire too...Originally Posted by Cgoodsp466
anyway, back to the point at hand. how is shooting a cat to death any more criminal than killing it with chemicals as the SPCA does thousands of times each year? if he put a bullet in the cats' brains, where's the cruelty?
the SPCA is a joke. killing an animal and animal cruelty are not one in the same.
What's next, are they going to charge me with cruelty for using a mousetrap?
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Ok what are they? So its ok to take a helpless animal and kill it. Oh the cruelty to putting a gun to thats cats brain is that I wasnt there to put my hand through his windpipe. I ever meet the SOB I will punch him right in the face. I am going to pray every night that the bastard has one stiff heart attack. You want to get on the fighting side of me hurt an animal.Mice and Rats excluded.Originally Posted by Eat My Gun
The SPCA is actually one of the best not-for-profit organizations we have in WNY. Run completely by donations, the SPCA of Erie County has received 4 out of 4 stars on Charity Navigator.org. http://www.charitynavigator.org/inde...ary&orgid=5033Originally Posted by Eat My Gun
They provide a huge service that enhances the quality of life in WNY. They really do try to exhaust every available option before euthanizing an animal.
If other not-for-profits were run as well in WNY (i.e. without politician interference or with their hands in the pot) WNY may actually be a better place!
Spare me the internet chat machismo. You know the ACO's name and where he works. What's stopping you from meeting him and punching him right in the face?Originally Posted by Cgoodsp466
My point was and remains that the concept of animal cruelty is completely arbitrary. You'll never convince me that putting a bullet in a cat's head is any more cruel than using drugs to suffocate it. And while we're on that subject, let's talk about slaughterhouses. Go on youtube sometime and check out how they string up cows by their ankles and cut their throats. Let's start charging meat industry workers. We can charge hunters with cruelty too.
Why is it that a locally appointed animal control officer can't make the decision to euthanize an animal but the SPCA can? It's absolute BS that this guy is being charged with anything. This guy's politically incorrect method of killing the cats is reallly the issue.
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