Thursday 11 September 2014

Create a humane non-killing San Francisco animal shelter

Create a humane non-killing San Francisco animal shelter

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For 20 years, San Francisco has been killing pit bulls and other animals with terrible temperament tests. San Francisco Pit Bull Watcher documents the city's Pet Harbor website impounds with photos and ID #'s to try and keep up with the thousands of pit bulls and other animals being killed at the city's shelter.

Last Friday on July 25, 2014, director Rebecca Katz was fired and escorted out of the building. The city has not yet appointed a new director and longtime high kill kennel manager Eric Zuercher is acting interim director. Zuercher has been the henchman for Katz and her predecessor Carl Friedman, both of which had input into the city's antiquated breed specific legislation SB861.

No local media has given a reason for Katz's firing. The SF Examiner cut off commentary after the hate group with ties to Katz and SFACC volunteers took over the commentary and used their numbers to discredit and attack former SFACC employees and others with questions and opinions which differed with their agenda.

Fix San Francisco has documented the inhumane acts and off the charts salaries Katz, Kat Brown, Carl Friedman and their appointees such as Vicki Guldbech, Eric Zuercher and Deb Campbell have enjoyed. Fix San Francisco seeks a thinking, humane new director and has the published facts and statistics to back up the argument for change.

Katz became notorious during the high profile Charlie case in which the city took away David Gizzarelli's dog Charlie after an incident in which a mounted policeman galloped onto an off leash dog park where Charlie was playing with other dogs. The case is fraught with holes and obstructions including the stipulation that Gizzarelli is to receive quarterly reports and was to imput suggestions for sanctuary.

Charlie has disappeared under Katz's tenure at SFACC and Gizzarelli has never had calls or communications returned from her office. Katz has ties to a Facebook hate group in which she and volunteers at the city's pound lambasted Gizzarelli and Reunion Rescue.

Current officials at SFACC including Captain Vicki Guldbech and Media liason Deb Campbell, who's fabricated propaganda to discredit and ruin local rescue are still on the SFACC's bloated payroll.

This petition seeks to clean house at SFACC and hire solutions oriented director and staff interested in creating a pinnacle shelter which would set the bar for other communities to follow.

Please sign this petition and let San Francisco know the world is watching and waiting for a change. There is much aftermath to clean up and many are still dying.

To:
Supervisor Norman Yee
Supervisor Malia Cohen
Supervisor Jane Kim
Supervisor David Campos
Supervisor David Chiu
City of San Francisco, California, Mayor Edwin Lee
SF Board of Supervisors, Supervisor London Breed
SF City Administrator Naomi Kelly
Supervisor Eric L. Mar
Supervisor Scott Wiener 
Create a humane non-killing shelter
Sincerely,
[Your name]

Four pit bulls murdered at SFACC

These four dogs failed the Eric Zuercher pit bull hater temp test:
Eric Zuercher is the interim director at SFACC and does not like pit bulls ... thousands and thousands of pit bulls and other animals fail his faulty cruel temperament test daily.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE this petition BEGGING San Francisco to hire a humane rescue oriented director and replace the animal killing staff at SFACC

  1. SFACC hate group has blocked Facebook account for 30 days

    The TRD group has been stalking Cindy Marabito for nearly two years and has obstructed Reunion Rescue and Cindy Marabito from posting animals and using Facebook. The TRD group is affiliated with Rebecca Katz and SFACC. The TRD leader is using Facebook connections to obstruct Facebook accounts.
    This group does not want SFACC to become no kill.
    Please continue to share this petition. We will keep fighting to stop the killing at SFACC.
    1. My speech at Animal Welfare Commission 8/21/14

      I started Reunion Rescue in 1999 after volunteering at SFACC and watching room after room filled with pit bulls killed. Reunion Rescue has pulled hundreds of pit bulls from SFACC, every single one placed on the euthanasia list by SFACC and turned down by SFSPCA so they could abide by the faulty 1994 adoption pact. I’ve written a book Pit Bull Nation about SFACC pit bull problem and write American Pit Bull Examiner column. Over the years Reunion Rescue has paid the city of San Francisco thousands of dollars to save pit bulls and other animals from death row.
      I was illegally banned by Carl Friedman and Kat Brown in 2003 over a dog who was nearly killed at SFACC in an effort to cover up the shelter's complicity.
      Since 2003 Reunion has helped the public with countless found dogs under the radar in efforts to help the animals in San Francisco. The interim director, Eric Zuercher, has a long history of killing all pit bull puppy litters under 6 weeks and a terrible track record of temperament tests. Reunion Rescue has pulled many dogs and puppies under the radar with help from the general public and other rescues who've failed his tests yet have gone on to live long healthy happy lives as canine good citizens.
      When the Charlie incident occurred in 2012, my column wrote a series on Charlie which has turned into a motivated organized effort to ruin my reputation and that of Reunion Rescue. Rebecca Katz recently fired from SFACC was a part of this effort which includes members of her entourage and volunteers at SFACC. Ms. Katz and her group made public accusations on the group's Facebook page with much name calling and untrue slurs.
      A lie filled memo written by SFACC employee Deb Campbell was issued to the leader of this group in a very sketchy FOIA and published on his blog accusing me of killing dogs, abusing animals and abandoning dogs, criminal and felonious activity. I have requested an FOIA on myself and in over a year have not had a reply. The published FOIA only had the lie filled memo and a couple of emails from Carl Friedman with no documentation from the four years of work and pulled animals which would show up on a genuine freedom of information request.
      The hate group posted the published blog on Reunion Rescue Facebook pages, our Cause page, on my articles and even Mayor Lee's Facebook page in an effort to intimidate, embarrass and ruin Reunion Rescue which resulted in a lawsuit settled in my favor out of court. However, the motivated organized movement to ruin my reputation and that of Reunion Rescue has tripled their effort most recently in the newspaper articles about Katz's firing in which the attacks and language were so volatile the commentary had to be suspended.
      Normal animal shelters with conscientious humane solutions oriented directors and staff do not engage in these nefarious activities.
      The longtime local rescues Reunion Rescue, Rocket Dog Rescue, Big Dawgs Rescue and others which rescue pit bulls do not pull from SFACC any longer.
      Those of us who're longtime animal activists grounded in the San Francisco bay area care deeply about the animals in San Francisco and would like to see a humane, rescue friendly, solutions oriented director and staff put in place at SFACC. This shelter in a city named for St. Francis should be a beacon animal shelter for other communities to follow, not a source of ridicule, embarrassment and needless death...a sad black spot on the map instead of the world class institution SFACC is capable of becoming.
      San Francisco, you’ve hired a cab driver and a lawyer to run things and look at the bloodshed..why not hire an animal person with no kill ideals for a change?
    2. Reached 1,000 signatures
    3. How many animals have to die before San Francisco hires humane director?

      Please share and sign the petition begging San Francisco to hire a humane non killing director with humane temperament tests and a humane staff!
    4. Faris deemed Vicious and Dangerous by ERIC ZUERCHER at SFACC

      Here is Faris in his mom's art studio:
      Faris pulled under the radar at San Francisco Animal Control for Reunion Rescue banned in 2003 by Carl Friedman from saving pit bulls..all these years we've still been saving dogs deemed horribly aggressive by the Eric Zuercher pit bull temperament test:
      "He likes to paint too.. with his tail he dipped his tail in red paint and my parents thought he was bleeding but he was just painting"
      Faris first snow day where he viciously attacks a snowball:
      Pease sign the petition asking the city of San Francisco to hire a humane director and non-killing staff at SFACC.
    5. Reached 750 signatures
    6. Busted AGAIN! Another SFACC impound with double computer ID numbers!

      More evidence of SFACC padding the numbers..here is another impound with two A#'s at the city shelter..that way if the dog is adopted, it appears they had two statistics to add to their much promoted live release statistics.
      How many animals over the years have had two ID numbers or even more at this facility?
      Back to the rabies statistics which prove SFACC is high kill and kills 1/3 intake.
      More evidence of SFACC padding the numbers..here is another impound with two A#'s at the city shelter..that way if the dog is adopted, it appears they had two statistics to add to their much promoted live release statistics.
      How many animals over the years have had two ID numbers or even more at this facility?
      Back to the rabies statistics which prove SFACC is high kill and kills 1/3 intake.
      In 2010 according to state rabies control stats, SFACC processed 2205 dogs of which 907 were reclaimed. 329 were adopted and 508 were euthanized.
      That number for those who can't add and keep quoting false tweaked numbers, is 1/4 of the total intake killed and nearly or 1/2 the dogs left were killed.
      For people making a ton of money to run one of the country's most affluent shelters, these numbers are unacceptable.
      Please sign our petition asking the city to hire a humane rescue oriented non-killing director and replace the staff which spends company time trying to ruin rescue efforts.
    7. Today's pit bulls at SFACC..please sign so they live one more day!

      These are today's pit bulls at SFACC....we are watching and hoping none of them fail Eric Zuercher's temperament test that killed two puppies this week.
      Please share and sign in hopes of the city hiring a humane rescue oriented director and staff:

      Cindy Marabito - These are today's pit bulls at... | Facebook
      These are today's pit bulls at SFACC....we are watching and hoping none of them fail Eric Zuercher's temperament test that killed two puppies this week....
    8. Two young pups fail Eric Zuercher's temp test and die

      These two dogs failed the Eric Zuercher SFACC temp test.
      Sandy was only 8 months old, a puppy. The smily white dog was only a year and his name was #359047 pit bull and we know what they think about pit bulls at SFACC.
      Euthanasia fluid has the ability to remove a big silly grin from a dog's face like the smile on #359047.
      Stop the killing and let the city know we want to see a humane solutions oriented director and staff in place at SFACC.
      Please sign and share the petition asking for a non killing director and staff at SFACC. Why not un-ban the only pit bull rescue in town and save a few animals for a change?
    9. SFACC is baiting and switching ID numbers to tweek the live release stats

      Here is how SFACC manipulates the numbers so their strong arm hate group can keep claiming SFACC is the best shelter in the world and has incredible live release statistics.
      This dog has two A#'s so when adopted, looks like they saved two dogs when actually only one dog.
      Please share the petition asking for a humane non-killing shelter with staff and direction earning big money to actually save the animals and not pull fast ones like this maneuver.
    10. Reached 500 signatures
    11. Volunteers and friends of SFACC posting false stories online

      The volunteers and hate group from SFACC is posting false stories about Stella and other Reunion Rescue dogs.
      Here is the real story of Stella, Amber and the others we boarded at Spindletop before the raid and confiscation of nearly 300 dogs:
      "Almost $9,000 has been raised and sent to Spindletop for the care and boarding of Stella, Amber and two other dogs. Throughout the past year, Reunion Rescue was informed that Stella and Amber were ‘unadoptable’ and ‘aggressive’."
      The hate mob has taken this story and others and accused Reunion Rescue of raising $9,000 for a dead dog. How horrible is that?
      This longtime volunteer has posted an epic novel about myself and Reunion Rescue and claims that all her libelous and untrue information comes from SFACC. That is what SFACC directors are doing to earn 6 figure salaries?
      We raised over $9,000 for five dogs which were boarded at Spindletop and one (Stella) was murdered there. The leader of this hate group has even aligned with the killers at Spindletop in an effort to attack Reunion Rescue.
      Please sign the petition to remove the high kill staff at SFACC and hire a humane director and staff which will do shelter work not organize hate efforts to ruin rescue groups.

      Mass death at Spindletop Refuge: the story of Stella
      Willis, TX: Stella was a pit bull. She was abandoned last summer with Amber in the hot Houston, Texas heat. Her ears had been butchered off with dried blood running down the sides of her face. Stella and Amber were left noosed to a fenced vacant lot.
    12. 343 people have signed the petition for a NON KILLING San Francisco shelter

      343 people have joined together to sign the petition asking for a non killing animal shelter in San Francisco. Last Friday, director Rebecca Katz was fired and shown the door. However, high kill kennel supervisor Eric Zuercher in which many animals have needlessly died is acting director.
      Please sign the petition and ask five friends to sign and share with five more friends. There are still three high kill employees running SFACC:
      Deb Campbell, Captain Vicki Guldbech and Eric Zuercher..please remove the old high kill standard and hire humane and solutions oriented director and staff to run the city of San Francisco Animal Control.
      The animals deserve better.
    13. Reached 250 signatures
    14. 5 month puppy killed by Eric Zuercher acting head of SFACC

      Five month pit bull puppy Eric Zuercher refused to hold for rescue. Illegal under the Hayden Act. Eric Zuercher is the interim acting directer at SFACC.
      This was the week after I was illegally banned by Carl Friedman when they nearly killed Slappy. Reunion Rescue would have taken this pup.
      Another case of killing dogs after banning the only pit bull rescue in town. This rescue paid SFACC thousands of dollars to save the city's animals.
    15. Acting SFACC director Eric Zuercher has a history needless killing

      This was completely illegal..this Sharpei/Chihuahua was euthanized with a clear C.I.P. for Rocket Dog Rescue. This was under Eric Zuercher while kennel supervisor. This dog had rescue and was killed for no reason.
    16. Acting director Eric Zuercher has a history of needles shelter killing

      This pet cat was killed at SFACC under Eric Zuercher who never called Siamese rescue to save this one little life.
      This was a beloved Siamese cat displaced due to a fire. At SFACC Eric Zuercher never bothered to call Siamese rescue and as noted by vet tech became kennel stressed. Siamese rescue would have taken this cat.
    17. Acting director Eric Zuercher has a history of needles shelter killing

      More on the little 6 month puppy Electra..one of thousands who've failed Eric Zuercher interim SFACC director's temperament tests. Obvious case of kennel stress that a humane tech would have noted.
      This horribly aggressive puppy was brought in by children after playing with her in Glen Park. How aggressive could this puppy have been?
    18. Acting director Eric Zuercher has a history of needles shelter killing

      More on the little 6 month puppy Electra..one of thousands who've failed Eric Zuercher interim SFACC director's temperament tests. Obvious case of kennel stress that a humane tech would have noted.
      This horribly aggressive puppy was brought in by children after playing with her in Glen Park. How aggressive could this puppy have been?
    19. Acting interim director Eric Zuercher has a history needless shelter death

      Example of one of thousands of terrible temperament tests performed by Eric Zuercher interim director at SFACC. This puppy was only 6 months old.

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