Hello list:
I am on girlings home health care system and have been on it for a number of
years.
Over the course of 20 years I have learned that it is against the home health
care system to help a blind person get replacement clothing and to Abandoned
that person because of indecent exposure when the remaining clothing wears out.
It is also against the home health laws to let a person save money for a septic
system because when over $2000 has been saved up the person has too much money
to be on the program while a septic system costs $6000 and the contractor will
not take a payout, so it’s back to the old honey bucket which the contents of
is buried in the back yard. It is also against the law for the home health care
worker to take a person’s washed and clean trash (tin cans, glass, and plastic
etc.) back to the recycling center in their home town because that would be
hauling garbage.
I have seen in the people’s court about 75 percent of dog bite cases was due to
the pit bull and one other breed. These laws are put on the books for good
reasons and if we are not going to obey them than we become a nation of
lawbreakers. What is needed is some kind of Authority that can make a judgment
call on a Specific Situation where the laws don’t seem to apply.
Kenneth Atkins
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From: Linda Gehres
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 6:14 PM
Subject: [ourplace] Re: Patrick Stewart Is In Love With This Pit Bull But
Can’t Take Her Home Due To BSL
Thanks, Christine, for sharing this lovely article. I had no idea Patrick
Stewart was such an animal lover, but then I only knew Captain Picard on Star
Trek, not Patrick! Neat that he’s advocating in the U.K. for dogs like pit
bulls to be accepted there.
Linda G.
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Subject: [ourplace] Patrick Stewart Is In Love With This Pit Bull But Can’t
Take Her Home Due To BSL
Patrick Stewart Is In Love With This Pit Bull But Can’t Take Her Home Due To
BSL
By Matthew Russell
Sir Patrick Stewart has boldly gone where no man has gone before. He’s honed
the skills of the world’s most elite mutants into humanity’s greatest defense.
He’s haunted Elsinore, hunted the white whale, heated the Cold War, and sparked
up a giddy friendship with Gandalf that the world can’t get enough of.
At 76 years old, Stewart holds multiple Laurence Olivier awards, a Grammy,
and even a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for a role in a Mel Gibson film most
people have already forgotten about. He’s that good; even his bad days are
applauded.
He’s advocated for and helped bring support to organizations like Amnesty
International, BeatBullying, Dignity in Dying, and Precious Paws.
It seems there’s little the modern world wouldn’t want to let this
in-between-jobs starship captain have full creative control of, so long as it’s
captured on video. All except one thing. And perhaps the greatest of all.
Despite all his love and compassionate intention, Stewart is prohibited from
adopting Ginger, the pit bull he’s been fostering in the United States, due to
breed-specific legislation.
The Dangerous Dogs Act, introduced in 1991 in the UK, makes it illegal for
Stewart to bring Ginger back to his home. Stewart had no problem caring for the
dog, who was formerly a breeding dog for a pit bull fighting ring, in his
stateside home while filming X-Menfranchise features, but in England, dogs like
Ginger can be seized and destroyed.
When Stewart first brought Ginger home, the actor could hardly contain his
excitement, having waited 50 years to own a dog of his own.
“She only arrived a few hours ago at our house, and I’ve longed for this
moment to come,” he told Conan O’Brien on March 9.
It was the intention of Stewart and his wife, Sunny Ozell, to foster Ginger
in New York until they could find a permanent home for her, but it didn’t take
long for Jean Luc Picard and his pup to become fast friends.
The actor’s connection to Ginger is one he admits did not come naturally at
first. Stewart, like many others, was apprehensive about taking in a pit bull,
due in part to the stigma connected to the breed.
“I had a reaction to that, which I am now significantly ashamed of, because
pit bulls to me meant only one thing: aggression, hostility, violence,” he told
People. “I was uncomfortable with the idea of meeting this dog,”
But comfort took little time in setting in. Stewart later attributed a great
amount of personal development to his relationship with Ginger.
“I find that my relationship to the world and to the news every day in the
papers and on the television has been changed by Ginger, because she has
brought such a quality of patience and tolerance and fun into our lives, that
it has, in a very short space of time, shifted my sense of where our world
might be going,” Stewart told People. “I literally find myself more optimistic
than I was, and there is only Ginger to account for this. It is the impact of
sharing my life for only seven or eight days with Ginger.”
Sadly, Stewart and Ozell had to part ways with Ginger in late March, as they
returned home to England.
Patrick and I said good-bye to Ginger last week. We had fallen madly in
love, and had explored every possibility of getting her to the U.K. (where we’d
be able to give her the kind of life she deserves), but alas, the breed
specific legislation in place there really made it ultimately impossible. We
could not bear to take a risk with her life, knowing she has a bright future
ahead of her even if she’s not “ours.” She will forever be a light of my life,
and we’ll be keeping in touch with her as much as possible. Fostering is a
remarkable experience, and I would absolutely encourage anyone considering it
to take the plunge. Thank you again to the beautiful at ASPCA and the brave at
Wagsandwalks for giving us such a profound opportunity.
“We had fallen madly in love, and had explored every possibility of getting
her to the U.K. (where we’d be able to give her the kind of life she deserves),
but alas the Breed Specific Legislation in place there really made it
ultimately impossible,” Ozell wrote. “We could not bear to take a risk with her
life, knowing that she has a bright future ahead of her even if she’s not
‘ours.’ She will forever be a light of my life, and we’ll be keeping in touch
with her as much as possible. Fostering is a remarkable experience, and I would
absolutely encourage anyone considering it to take the plunge.”
Stewart has never regretted a single moment of fostering Ginger, and
continues to fight and speak out against breed-specific legislation like the
Dangerous Dogs Act in the UK.
And the captain is not alone. Along with many other Britons, the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has sought to end the ban on
pit bulls in the UK.
“It is not effective at protecting public safety and seriously impacts the
welfare of hundreds of innocent dogs every year,” Samantha Gaines, of the
RSPCA, told Today. “It’s so sad that a rescue dog is missing out on a
wonderful, loving new home due to an outdated piece of legislation. Her story
shows just how unfair and unjust this law is.”
Ginger has been moved into a new foster home now that Stewart and Ozell have
returned to England. Her former guardians, while sad they couldn’t spend more
time with her, are happy she will no doubt find a loving forever home, as
requests to adopt her flood the mailboxes of Wags and Walks, the organization
that first connected the Stewarts with Ginger.
“They were wonderful fosters, and got her ready for her deserving forever
home,” Wags and Walks founder Lesley Brog told Today.
Breed-specific legislation can split families apart, and when one of those
family members relies on the other for mental and physical support, the results
can be nothing short of life-threatening. Thousands of service members live on
military bases across the world and deal with this tough situation every day.
Not all of their family is welcome on base with them, namely their dogs.
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The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto
thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. —
Numbers 6:24-26
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