SPAY, NEUTER ETC.

Please let the school hear your concerns.
For the kittens,
Ulla

Ulla Pedersen
kindredspiritsnm@earthlink.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: Catherine Sloan Cunningham
To: Ulla Pedersen
Sent: 7/25/2006 2:47:01 PM
Subject: SHAMEFUL: oppose the death penalty, spay and neuter your cats and dogs


To the editor:
From their website: "Character counts at Gonzales Elementary - expectation is that all staff and students model and practice the six pillars of character; respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, citizenship, caring and fairness."
Posted on their West Alameda school marquee today: FREE KITTENS 690-3595. When we found out the five kittens were all given away, we said we hoped they would now alter the responsible cat/s. He said he thought his wife had done it and she thought he had done it.
While it may seem better to given them away than flush the litter down the toilet or let them go free, some people use giveaway pets as bait to train fighting dogs, sacrifice for satanic rituals, malicious pranks, a free kitten to set on fire or insert a firecracker into, to breed indiscriminately. Please, don't offer your pets FREE, unless you just don't care what happens to them.
My opinion is it is more important to teach children responsibility to animals than to bring more surplus pets into the world. According to the American Humane Association, within seven years, one female cat (and her offspring) can produce 420,000 cats.
Staff and volunteers of shelters. humane societies, animal control, and rescue groups work never-ending hours to save pets from the horrors of abuse and homelessness. Be a role-model for your children. Spaying or neutering is the single most important thing you can do to prevent animal cruelty. You personally can make a difference. Educate your children.
I submit offering free kittens from the Gonzales Elementary School marquee is not only using gross poor judgement, but a shameful misuse of school district property. Five kittens have gone to homes unaltered - you do the math.

I respectfully suggest a proper conviction for the guilty would be to organize an all school, mandatory gathering for students and their parents and invite the Humane Education volunteers from the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society who will be able to talk about overpopulation and the ramifications to the community and environment. Wouldn't it be a responsible, caring citizen to contact the people given the kittens and get them altered now.
Nettie Wilson
Santa Fe NM USA
505-501-3721
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Mea Culpa: An Open Letter

so here it is........... our first entry into the blog....... converse away everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I recognize the dogs. They're mine. I'm so embarrassed. There's no arguing with Video Justice.

The big one, who is the star of the movie, has had the run of the Montoya Ranch for over seven years (nearly her entire life). The smaller one is only a year old -- one of our two Navajo rescues -- and she's in training to take over the alpha role in this dangerous, marauding pack. The film is hard evidence of these dogs menacing innocent homeowners.

No matter how many times I've told them, my dogs just won't understand the importance of civilization and progress here in Santa Fe County. I've tried to explain to them that their "ancestral" hunting grounds are now a gated community, but the stupid animals just won't change their ways. Please assure all of my neighbors that these bad creatures will be severely punished. They'll be imprisoned for life.

The fence is being constructed now.

I've been noticing by the evolving tenor of your newsletter that we are being overrun by these domestic pests. Seems nearly everybody has lost control of the animals they have chosen to import into our neighborhoods. Why so many lost animals? Easy. Not enough fences. Not enough control!

I want to apologize to the entire community for my irresponsible behavior up to this point: not fencing my dogs and not keeping them on a leash at all times when they are outside the fence. Lord! They have probably even been defecating on lawns! What in the world was I thinking when I moved here to 21 acres on Goldmine Road? This is certainly no way to run an upscale community!

I'm mending my ways. We recently visited Los Alamos: what a wholesome and clean little town, young couples with lots of little scrubbed children, all wearing athletic shoes, a green grass park and a little pond... why it was like... well, Pleasantville! I'm rounding up all my cowboy boots for a trip to the second-hand store. I'm reconsidering my position on gun ownership. Maybe we all should just demand a Sheriff's substation at the foot of Goldmine Road so we can have some law enforcement here. And that reference in the road name to mining... is that really good for our property values? Maybe we should take a cue from the renaming of Cyanide Loop to Wagon Wheel Trail?

Annie, I saw the piece in your letter this morning on getting new signs out on the Turquoise Trail. I'm so glad that the effective political activism of our community is getting us official recognition as being a residential area from here to our beloved home, Santa Fe. I look forward to those new 30 MPH signs and, finally, civilized traffic. Do you think we could get our mailing addresses changed to Santa Fe? That would improve our property values, and we'd be able to take advantage of those wonderful city services! If we can't be annexed to Santa Fe, we surely should get incorporated here, and organize ourselves, so we can get some control. We need strict zoning that forbids manufactured homes and trailers in our fine neighborhood; actually, all of those "alternative" structures. We certainly need animal control enforcement (why, I constantly find HORSE APPLES by my fence!). Actually, I'd like to run for Dog Catcher.

We're not children anymore. We're going to have to learn to live responsibly. After all, there are certain obligations that go with the privilege of being Santa Feans (even if, for now, we are only Santa Fe Countians).

Yours for a better community,


Doug Wesley

PS Do you think it might be possible to get an ordinance that requires all horses off their own property to wear those bags under their tails, so I don't have to clean up after them all the time? And, in any case, we should restrict all horse riding to public roads and only when guided by a licensed, insured, bonded equestrian operator, who can be punished if rules aren't followed!

By the way, I saw a bumper sticker down at the post office that said, "Bad Roads Make Good Neighbors." What do you think that means?

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