Briarwood Mobile Home Park in Port Orange, Florida

Out-Of-Control Home Owner’s Association Killing Pets & Wildlife!!

I have a small cat rescue in Port Orange, Florida. We have been here for three and a half years. During that time no one has ever complained about our animals. Our adoptions were done from other businesses and no one was ever allowed to come to this premise to do business of any kind.

In fact, 99% of my neighbors have ever seen the cats, heard the cats or smelled the cats here. But all of a sudden there has been a complaint. I have to send all but four of these beautiful, intelligent, affectionate animals to be slaughtered by our local kill (humane) Shelter. Who by-the-way receives $80.00 dollars for every animal they kill. Since when is killing physically healthy animals that have homes humane? It is, most definitely, lucrative! Humane Societies were invented to protect animals, not kill them. Couldn’t that $80.00 be better spent on something like our dismal educational system? Maybe it’s time for this humane society to get up off their derriers and start working for a living. Money for stray animals is just too easy to come by. And that reminds me…whatever happened o the spay/neuter bus the taxpayers spent several hundred thousand dollars for, several years ago? It hasn’t been put in service to this day.

We are killing 5 million animals a year, do you suppose the law makers we suffer from could allow a few extra animals into the homes of those who want and can afford them so we could kill a few less? Gosh no, that makes too much sense! And, might I add, fewer of those $80.00 dead pet carcass fees. I wonder if they turn around and make more money selling those dead pet carcasses to the pet food companies?

I hear the latest “thing’ with the big humane societies is to recruit even more foster parents, in the (secret) hopes that those foster parents will fall in love with the animals they foster and adopt them. Please don’t fall for that or Mr. Animal Control guy will be knocking on your door to. Perhaps if the Humane Societies would put more energy into better adoption programs..they wouldn’t need to “use” their foster parents.May Insanity reign in the minds of lawmakers, management and politicians for ever and ever..Amen

When Animal Control came to check out the complaint he had received on me, the first thing he said was “Your animals are in good shape, and the place is clean”. He was quick to catch on to the fact that he was here because I had made an enemy, not because my animals were abused. Still, I am not in compliance with the four pet law, so die they must.

Next Thursday Animal Control will return to take all but four of these animals to be “put down” (slaughtered). The adoption rate in this God forsaken place is less than 20%. Probably even less, now that all the people that are losing their homes are turning in their animals or worse yet abandoning them. We kill 5 million homeless pets every year in this country! My animals have a home….there is something horribly wrong with this picture.

These Animals Need Your Help To Survive

1. We need more time to find a new place. Call Animal Control and respectfully request that we be given a reasonable time to relocate out of this county.(See number below)

2. Call the Briarwood Homeowner’s Association and tell them not to kill my animals just because the President’s sister does’nt like their owner. (See numbers below)

3. Tell them to stop trapping the pet cats here in the neighborhood and dumping them in other peoples neighborhoods. That’s irresponsible. Tell them about TNR.

4. Tell them to stop trapping the wildlife on the pond and sending them to slaughter, especially the ducks.

5. Tell them we need a dog park where the dogs can get some real exercise.
6. Tell these bored old people they need more constructive things to do, like volunteer at the humane society. They wouldn’t be so quick to call Animal Control if they had to watch all those animals dying day in and day out 365 days a year.
7. And tell them their prejudice against cats is old-fashioned, unfounded and ignorant.
   

If anyone knows of any available housing in any Rural Central Florida area that is zoned for multiple animals and that could be rented or rent to own or donated, please contact me ASAP. Other buildings on the property that could be fixed up would be a bonus as we’d like to start a wildlife sanctuary as well. And of course we need money…. anything you can afford to give will help keep these animals alive!

Port Orange Animal Control

386-756-7400

Homeowners Association

1. Joane Northrop Pres. 386-767-8712

2. Dan Theodore, VP 386-322-8983

3. Steve Manfredi, Sec. 386-589-9040

4. Lita Williams 386-761-3248

My Name is Carol Kacey, 106 Jackson Circle, Port Orange,Florida 32127. 386-761-2036. I also have a blog called MizzHizzyFitz.com and one called PetFancyNews.com. I have a brand new digital camera still in the box, I will try to put pictures of the cats up tomorrow.

Thank You and God Bless

PS I just want to take this opportunity to thank Kevin (the park manager) He is one of the hardest working managers I’ve ever met and he has to put up with all this whining and crap on the side. I hope they pay him well.

cc: www.mizhizzyfitz.com

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