[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Brightstar Press Release
- From: "Ruth Hartridge" <rhartrid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <CHGermanShepherdShowDogsList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 08:53:42 -0400
Somehow this sounds familiar ! AND these decisions are almost always made by
NON-DOG PEOPLE who know nothing about the adquatte care of Dogs (animals)
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Brightstar Press Release
FORWARD - BRIGHTSTAR PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Nancy Knab May 22, 2008
Phone: (585) 334-4493
e-mail: BrightStarInfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Rescue Group Reacts to Seizure of Dogs
Fairport, NY ? An area rescue group is still stunned by the removal, earlier
this week, of a number of its rescued German Shepherd Dogs and the personal
dogs of its founder, Ruth Urban, from her rural home in Newark, NY, just
east of Rochester. Animal Control Officer Josh Muller, from the SPCA at
Lollypop Farms, was reportedly acting on a complaint about the large number
of dogs on the acreage. The site had been undergoing significant
renovations, with the erection of large fenced run areas with kennels as
well as renovations designed to provide improved inside shelter for many of
its older and special-needs dogs. One of the dogs was undergoing
chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer at the time of the seizure.
Brightstar German Shepherd Rescue?s Board of Directors convened an emergency
meeting Wednesday evening to address the unprecedented seizure. Their first
action was to suspend Urban from her position as the organization?s
President. The directors also voted to initiate an internal investigation
into the matter and to review its policies. They also voted to cease taking
in additional dogs temporarily, pending their review of the situation. All
board members affirmed the organization?s mission to help those dogs most in
need, the same dogs normally first euthanized in shelters and dog pounds.
The Board also stressed that its priorities remained the welfare and
protection of its rescued dogs, not its founder.
The sudden removal of the dogs from the founder?s home without consulting
with the larger organization remains unprecedented. Brightstar coordinators
and volunteers could not understand why the dogs could not be moved to other
locations within its foster care network. Instead, the dogs were transferred
to one of two area shelters: Lollypop Farms or the Wayne County Humane
Society.
For now, the Brightstar organization is asking that the public and other
groups with whom it has worked to not jump to conclusions and to give the
organization itself time to conduct its own investigation. The Board
stresses that should there be demonstrable evidence that the conditions
failed to meet acceptable standards of care, the organization would be the
first to act against its founder.
Over the past decade, Brightstar German Shepherd Rescue has rescued and
placed into loving homes hundreds of dogs that would otherwise have died
from treatable medical conditions or were otherwise slated for euthanasia in
shelters. Many adoptable
Brightstar dogs remain in the larger foster care network outside of those
longer-term dogs housed by the organization?s founder. Now, more than ever,
Brightstar urges those looking to adopt a dog to consider one of its many
dogs remaining throughout its larger foster care network. Adoptable dogs can
be viewed on the group?s Petfinder site:
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY357.html.
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Ginger Cleary
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to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil."-- Fredrich v
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