Sunday, January 12, 2014

Why Does Portland Oregon Allow Animal Control To Get Away With This?

This is the Facebook page from which this action alert is posted: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=194992030695088&id=140041316190160
 
 
UPDATE
January 10, 2014
 
 
Mozart continued incarceration at the MCAS facility is causing him severe emotional and psychological l distress.  If continued, this stress will begin to destroy his physical health as well. Every day he remains in the MCAS facility, his chances of recovery become diminished because of agency imposed conditions. The words "cruel and unusual" come to mind when describing his current situation. 
 
 
 
Weeks have gone by. Multnomah County Animal Services serving Portland and Multnomah County Oregon continues to delay, responding with silence or with a request for one more free evaluation, not even acknowledging long standing offers of rescue for Mozart  that meet every mark and every condition. 
 
Day after day Mozart, once a family dog, remains in solitary confinement without exercise, social interaction, or freedom, and his every behavior scrutinized and documented for evidence of stress. Animal control imposed stress generates harm and inevitably will generate deterioration.  MCAS has a long history of rejecting humane options. Animals are held hostage to their arbitrary authority.
 
On Monday afternoon, January 06, 2014, James Herbold’s attorney, Robert Babcock, filed a lawsuit charging MCAS and animal control director Michael Oswald with unlawfully holding the property of another.
 
Please contact the Multnomah County Commissioners asking that Mozart be freed. His life depends upon it.
 
Thank you for acting on behalf of compassion and the humanity we share with all animals.
 
 
Gail O’Connell-Babcock
 

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