XPost: soc.culture.indian, rec.pets.dogs.rescue, rec.pets.dogs.rescue   
   XPost: soc.culture.puerto-rico   
   From: er@politica.com   
      
   Wrong! Employees belong to the annexationist party! Go figure those kind   
   of good old yankee values!   
      
      
   Curious/Observador wrote:   
   > That is obvious, the dogs and the owners support statehood, that is   
   > why the colonialist government of acevedo vila allows this sort of   
   > savegary to take place in puerto rico. perhaps this company   
   > contributed to the corrupt acevedo vila administration by buying one   
   > of the milt-thousand dollar suits the honorable governor wears.   
   >   
   >   
   > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:22:46 -0700, Roberto Todd    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Unfortunately, they support statehood for Puerto Rico. Go Figure!   
   >>   
   >>They are savages!   
   >>   
   >>fruitella wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>bunch of barbarians   
   >>>   
   >>>Pet massacre in Puerto Rico   
   >>>   
   >>>BARCELONETA, Puerto Rico - Elvia Tirado Polanco says she reluctantly   
   >>>handed over her black- and white-spotted mutt to animal control   
   >>>workers after they threatened that she would be evicted from her   
   >>>housing project for keeping a pet there.   
   >>>   
   >>>The workers promised to take the small dog named "Lucero" - or "Star"   
   >>>- to a shelter. Days later, however, Tirado was horrified to learn   
   >>>that dozens of pets seized this week in Barceloneta on Puerto Rico's   
   >>>north coast were instead thrown to their deaths from a bridge.   
   >>>   
   >>>"It was barbaric," said Tirado, 56, who wept Saturday as she described   
   >>>caring for the seven-year-old dog. "This has been a really hard blow   
   >>>for all of us."   
   >>>   
   >>>Several pet owners inside the Antonio Davila Freytes housing project,   
   >>>one of three raided by animal control workers Monday and Wednesday,   
   >>>said they had provided vaccinations and lavished care on the cats and   
   >>>dogs taken from their homes and killed with strays.   
   >>>   
   >>>The government circulated a letter inside housing projects this month   
   >>>warning that violators of a no-pet policy would be evicted. Mayor Sol   
   >>>Luis Fontanez said the town ordered the removal of the pets, but he   
   >>>blamed the massacre on a contractor hired to take the animals to a   
   >>>shelter.   
   >>>   
   >>>Fontanez said he would cancel the city's contract with Puerto Rico-   
   >>>based Animal Control Solutions and that city lawyers were considering   
   >>>a lawsuit.   
   >>>   
   >>>Company owner Julio Diaz said he went to the bridge when he heard of   
   >>>the allegations, but denied that the dead animals were the ones his   
   >>>company collected. He said he would present his records as proof to   
   >>>city authorities on Monday.   
   >>>   
   >>>"I have the dead dogs in my facility," he said Saturday. "I am a   
   >>>certified animal control officer. I have been doing this for nine   
   >>>years."   
   >>>   
   >>>Puerto Rico's housing department has opened an investigation into who   
   >>>is responsible for the deaths, said Doris Gaetan, of the department's   
   >>>office of community relations. She said regulations in the U.S.   
   >>>Caribbean territory allow pets in government-funded housing projects   
   >>>if they are small and do not pose a risk to others.   
   >>>   
   >>>"We do not support the way in which this was done," Gaetan said during   
   >>>a visit to hear the accounts of pet owners at one of the complexes.   
   >>>   
   >>>A local resident, Jose Manuel Rivera, used a backhoe to bury about 50   
   >>>animals Saturday in a mass grave near the bridge where they were   
   >>>dumped.   
   >>>   
   >>>He discovered the animals around dawn Tuesday after hearing barking   
   >>>and whimpers from animals who survived the 50-foot fall. He recovered   
   >>>six injured dogs, who were reunited with their owners after they saw   
   >>>their pets on a television news broadcast.   
   >>>   
   >>>"One had a broken spine, and about all of them had broken legs,"   
   >>>Rivera said.   
   >>>   
   >>>Many of the pets inside the housing project were strays that were   
   >>>adopted by residents after wandering into the low-income neighborhood.   
   >>>Owners said they feel they are now paying the price for the neglect of   
   >>>others on an island with no pet registration law and little spaying or   
   >>>neutering.   
   >>>   
   >>>"It is not our fault that they come here," said Carmen Valle, 56, who   
   >>>said workers seized two of her dogs. "We are humble people, but we   
   >>>have good hearts. Animals should be treated with decency."   
   >>>   
   >>>The scandal has led to problems for Hughesville, Md.-based Animal   
   >>>Control Solutions, a company which is not related to the Puerto Rican   
   >>>firm with the same name. Owner James White told The Associated Press   
   >>>he has received hundreds of threatening e-mail or phone messages since   
   >>>Friday from people upset about the Puerto Rico incident.   
   >>>   
   >>>Tirado said she had cared for Lucero for seven years as if the dog   
   >>>were her child, feeding her from the plastic table in her cramped   
   >>>living room and letting her sleep beside her at night.   
   >>>   
   >>>During the raids, she said workers surrounded the housing complex and   
   >>>prevented anyone from leaving with pets. But she said she wishes she   
   >>>had never let Lucero go.   
   >>>   
   >>>"I have been crying so much I can barely sleep," she said.   
   >>>   
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