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SCHENECTADY COUNTY
APF backs proposal for regional shelter
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter

    The Animal Protective Foundation in Glenville is solidly backing the mayor’s idea of a regional animal shelter.
    Mayor Gary McCarthy has just begun discussing the idea with local leaders and possible benefactors, but APF officials said they will help him every step of the way — so long as they don’t have to run the shelter.
    “We are completely willing to play a major role,” APF spokesman Marguerite Pearson said. “There does definitely need to be another facility.”
    She said a small shelter for dogs could “wean” the city off its need to contract with Montgomery County’s SPCA shelter. APF would be willing to take in cats if a municipal shelter could handle dogs, she said.
    The shelter would likely have to euthanize many animals. Pearson said many of the city’s dogs are used in illegal dog fi ghting rings and end up so badly mistreated that they are not adoptable.
    “There really is a problem here,” she said.
    But some dogs are simply abandoned because a tenant can’t take them to a new apartment or doesn’t want them anymore. Pearson said APF would be willing to focus on adoptions for those animals.
    “I think we could rally support around adopting the family-friendly dogs,” she said.
    APF officials also have many ideas for fundraising, since the city clearly can’t afford to run a shelter with its current revenue.
    “There’s things that can be done,” Pearson said. “There’s a huge number of animals that go unlicensed.”
    A push to find and license those dogs could boost the city’s revenue. The city could also require cat owners to register or license their cats, she said.
    “I think responsible pet owners would register their cat if they understood it was all to go toward the shelter,” she added. .........................>>>>..................>>>>.......................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01402&AppName=1

LOVE IT!

APF is on board "As long as they don't have to run"...fund...but will play a role? Like what? They'll make sure all dogs go to a regional location instead of the APF location?

Here's an idea, STOP SPENDING THE TAXPAYERS MONEY CITY OF SCHENECTADY!!!

EVERY problem the City has, they throw millions of taxpayers money to solve it. Millions the City no longer has. Why don't you place a moritorium, FINE LANDLORDS who allow pit bulls, and stop allowing the dogs here in the first place with a little thing called City ordinances.

Chumps!!!!!!!



  

so EUTHANIZE THEM....we are at the top of the food chain...

$$$ for dogs/cats????? really??? seriously????

More ordinances to regulate dogs - while they may be needed - would just add to the demand for additional space to house or "deal with" dogs owned by residents who refuse to obey the ordinances.  If you think that just passing a law to ban certain dogs will by itself cause these unwanted dogs to magically disappear than you are greatly mistaken.

The regional shelter approach is at least worth looking into.  I applaud Mayor McCarthy for seeking intergovernmental/regional solutions to the problems that all area municipalities have to deal with.

The first approach the Mayor should take is that with the LEAST taxpayer expense.

I'll never understand why it is so hard for McCheesy to close the taxpayer expense account before he does his job...you know...the job he has to protect the taxpayers, not send them into further debt.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

More ordinances to regulate dogs - while they may be needed - would just add to the demand for additional space to house or "deal with" dogs owned by residents who refuse to obey the ordinances.  If you think that just passing a law to ban certain dogs will by itself cause these unwanted dogs to magically disappear than you are greatly mistaken.

The regional shelter approach is at least worth looking into.  I applaud Mayor McCarthy for seeking intergovernmental/regional solutions to the problems that all area municipalities have to deal with.

DV, there is NO NEED for yet another shelter when Schenectady already a shelter!!!!!!!!   So what if it's your communist government facility.   There are many many PRIVATE facilities that pets can be taken to.  We do NOT need to have a shelter at taxpayer expense---and since you are NOT a taxpayer and you hare entirely supported by your two highly paid mommies, you have no idea what it's like for the taxpayers.

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The first approach the Mayor should take is that with the LEAST taxpayer expense.

I'll never understand why it is so hard for McCheesy to close the taxpayer expense account before he does his job...you know...the job he has to protect the taxpayers, not send them into further debt.

Provide proof that a regional animal shelter would be more expensive than the current system?  You are just assuming it will be more expensive with nothing to base that assumption on.

BUILDING ANOTHER SHELTER WILL COST THE TAXPAYERS!! How hard of a concept is that for you DV?

Seriously, are you that dense. You must have an IV full of kool aide.

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BUILDING ANOTHER SHELTER WILL COST THE TAXPAYERS!! How hard of a concept is that for you DV?

Seriously, are you that dense. You must have an IV full of kool aide.

We taxpayers are already spending money on costs associated with boarding the stray or problem dogs and cats at shelters.  And there are fewer and fewer kennels willing to take on the responsibility of boarding these stray or problem dogs and cats.   Since you do not know how much a regional animal shelter would actually cost -- you don't know if it would be more or less expensive than the current arrangement.

Therefore, it makes great sense to at least look into the option/proposal to see what it would cost and if there are enough municipalities willing to "buy into" the project.  

You know, maybe this will take care of another issue that's been on the back burner.  Maybe Ronnie can get the Mayor and all his little people to build the facility in Rotterdam, and as an addendum to it, they can add the underwater dog park that he can scoop all the dog $hit at.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

We taxpayers

Therefore, it makes great sense to at least look into the option/proposal to see what it would cost and if there are enough municipalities willing to "buy into" the project.  

YOU are NOT a taxpayers!!!!!!!!!!!!    

WE taxpayers have been drained, we have no more money left!!!!!

So DV, you want more homeowners to lose their homes?????

Tell us DV, TELL US WHERE IS THE MONEY TO COME FROM????????????????????    Come on, be an adult and answer the question!!!!!!!!

Cluck cluck cluck

Rotterdam already has an animal shelter.

As a taxpayer, I think that at studying the proposal is a reasonable and appropriate thing to do.  None of the local municipalities owns its own animal shelter.  They contract out that service to private entities or organizations that run shelters or kennels.   In recent years, FEWER and FEWER privately owned kennels are willing to even bid to take on the task.   So even though the municipalities are legally mandated to put these stray or problem dogs someplace, it is possible at some point in the future they may not have any privately-owned kennels willing to take on the responsibility.   Then at that point, the municipalities would have to find some other way to house these animals.  Therefore, the mayor's proposal is worth looking into.

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As a taxpayer, I think that at studying the proposal is a reasonable and appropriate thing to do.  None of the local municipalities owns its own animal shelter.  

The Mayor's proposal can't happen because the City IS IN A BLACK FINANCIAL HOLE !!!

Get another City to plan a shelter...oh...that's right...other areas don't allow free roaming pit bulls from other States do they? Other towns don't have pit bull shops open on Broadway. Other towns have decent animal control officers, ensure that animal owners are responsible and don't let their City go to sh*t before they plan a million dollar animal shelter.

If only Vince Riggi ran the City. He could show McCheesy how to wear big boy pants.