[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Hoarding
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:19:15 -0400
Dawn,
You really should write a book! I think I pulled a muscle laughing, LOL!
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
My Blog
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away
from themselves. ~Author Unknown
-----Original Message-----
On Aug 12, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Dawn Restuccia wrote:
We had someone contact us offering to be a foster for a GSD. We
referred them to a Rescue in the Northeast (remain nameless) who in
turn contacted the offering person.
Because she had 5 dogs of her own (all vetted, excellent references,
fenced yard, all altered) the Rescue would not allow her to foster and
called her a hoarder! I felt HORRIBLE as I had been the connecting
party, only to have her insulted.
I had 5 dogs at one point...all are clean, well fed, vetted, and
spoiled rotten. I have more people in absolute SHOCK when I tell them
this, yet if I had said I had 5 kids, I would have gotten smiles and
"oh, wow...you are so brave!"...
I can put my dogs in a crate...or a kennel...and hire a sitter...and
they do NOT ask for my car keys, or keep me up at night waiting for
lights from their car in the driveway....
I remember when I DID have SIX kids...no crates...no kennels...(coulda
used them too! We learned the benefit of dutch doors)and NO one wanted
to watch them! It was pandemonium! Their rooms would have rivaled the
homes of the worst hoarder. A potato took root and grew under one of
the beds, sending out tentacles that resembled a LARGE
spider...sending one Princess
screaming into the street. The 5 feet to the closet was too far for
anyone to walk, so the corner chair began to grow a clothing tree of
Ralph Lauren jeans, Willi Smith shirts, Victoria secret bras....trying
to locate the errant clothing item was akin to a Safari...without
benefit of a gun.
Someone would always forget to feed the rat, and when anyone offered
to walk our Lhasa, I became VERY suspicious....one kid wanted a
tarantula to add to her menagerie. We had Chatty Cathy dolls that had
Metallica music coming out of their stomachs, school artwork depicting
crime scenes with chalk lines of bodies and headlines that read "Santa
wont be coming to EVERYONES house this year...please donate to the
School Santa"..(THAT one got a call from the principal asking me what
the heck was wrong with my kid..)an 18 year old blindfolded niece
holding up a sign that read simply "HELP"...
If those people from Animal Planet want to see a REAL hoarding
situation...they shoulda visited our house....
Dawn
--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Stormy Hope <stormy435@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Stormy Hope <stormy435@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Hoarding
To: "Show GSD List" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 6:29 PM
6 part series from ANimal Planet on
Hoarding. The reason I was
surprised was 1) Animal Planet is becoming more and more
the AR's
voice to the world. 2) The mantra in the past few
months from ARs,
mainly HSUS, is that Hoarding, their new catch
phrase, consists of
anywhere from 5 animals up.
The group legislation lists for months
have been chronicling seizure
after seizure of "hoarding' situation. Many of these
seizures have
been found to be without merit. HSUS and others have
been priming the
pump for legislation about Hoarding.
Now I know, as does any sensible person,
that people who take in
animals and do not care for them or live in filth,
surrounding by
animals, is a sick person. Certainly that person
should have the
animals in a safe place and the person cared for
humanely. But this
is not what is happening. Yes, the animals are
seized, but the person
is treated as a criminal, handcuffed, jailed, and charged
with a crime
of neglect and abuse.
And the person who is NOT hoarding, but
merely has a lot of animals?
The animals are cared for and vetted, and while the house
may not be
meticulously clean, it isn't filthy? That person also
has the animals
seized, some never to be seen again, and the person is also
charged as
a criminal and has to defend him/herself in court. If
found innocent,
that person doesn't have the animals, has lost a great deal
of money,
neighborhood respect and much more.
Believe me, this is the NEXT place that
HSUS is going, and while I'm
not going to drag out the quotes now, I've read about some
people with
FIVE animals called a hoarder. It's the new buzz
word. Your friendly
exhibitor isn't a Puppy Mill any longer, now she/he is a
HOARDER.
I probably wrote this too fast after I
promised myself for years that
I would put emails in the Draft box until I cooled down,
but nope, I'm
going to let it go this time. And yes, with
Showgsd-1's Admin's
permission, you can cross post to other lists. (I'm taking
myself out
of that vote:-)
Stormy Hope
www.carpoc.org
UPDATED EVENTS/LINKS!
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