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Canton Oh Health Dept. Threatens Stray Cat Feeder With Arrest
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
By ED BALINT REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER
www.starkhealth.org
Jesus, Buddha, and Isaiah say to feed the hungry while the Canton
Health Dept. threatens people with arrest for this action.
Please give feedback on this story to
starkhealth.org/contactus.htm
Health Dept Director: Wm J Franks
franksb@starkhealth.org
CANTON Margaret Hughes first noticed a gray cat in her 10th Street NW
neighborhood about two years ago.
Tugging at her heartstrings, the feline cried for attention and begged
for something to eat.
Unable to resist, Hughes set a food bowl outside her house. A pillow
and blanket were tucked into a wicker basket for a bed. She named the
cat Ghost, and limited the animal to the outdoors since she had an
indoor cat.
Another cat entered the picture later. She fed that one, too, once in
the morning and once in the late afternoon.
"I was just trying to save the cats from starving to death," Hughes said.
Then the 69-year-old got a notice from the Canton Health Department on
Jan. 6 ordering her to stop feeding the cats and to remove the bed. If
she doesn't comply by Monday, Hughes would be expected to show up for
a hearing, and could face up to a $100 fine and 90 days in jail, said
Law Director Joseph Martuccio.
"They always seek voluntary cooperation," Martuccio said.
Hughes, meanwhile, sees little harm in feeding the cats, saying she's
"trying to do something humane."
"I felt bad for the cats because they're on a porch meowing," she
said. "They're hungry, and I fed them."
Still, Hughes said, she's complying with the order, removing the food
bowl and bed.
(Jackie Godbey of the Humane Society in the following quote sounds more
like a dogcatcher than a humane society official)
Food dishes can attract raccoons, skunks and rats, he said. Food left
for cats also can lead to a colony of the four-legged creatures, said
Jackie Godbey, assistant director of the Stark County Humane Society.
The city and county health departments do not pick up strays. Neither
does the Stark County dog warden's office, which refers inquiries
about stray cats to the Stark County Humane Society.
The Humane Society accepts cats and puts them up for adoption, Godbey
said.
"They are the most important resource we have for cats," Wade said of
the agency.
People who have strays or want to get rid of a cat should not dump
them in rural parts of the county, Godbey said.
"They'll see a barn, a farm and they'll take (cats there), and they
don't think that 800 people have done that (in the same area) over the
years," she said.
Reach Repository writer Ed Balint at (330) 580-8315 or e-mail:
ed.balint@cantonrep.comui8klo
Please give feedback on this story to www.starkhealth.org
parts of this article which reflected the point of view of pharmaceutically
dominated professional executioners (of mammals)
at the health department were removed
(As the Health Dept. violates the 1st amendment in
harrassment of Good Samaritans, it neglects investigation of
national chain and local restaurant incidents of food poisoning,
ecoli sickness, spongiform encephalopathy etc.)
Cats:
www.vegancats.com
www.veggiepets.com/
forums.petfinder-network.com/vie....php veg. cat food
www.romancats.com Italy
www.cats.org.il/ Israel
www.pcrm.org suing Ohio State over treatment of cats
www.thecatsite.com/forums/
www.poetwill.org exposing Ohio State's giving AIDS to cats in vet. school
www.ci.akron.oh.us Akron Ohio Mayor and City Council trapping cats and selling or giving
them to Cleveland Clinic, Ohio State, Battelle, Kent State, Case Weste
www.worldanimalnet.org
www.network54.com/forum/460325
www.petfinder.com
www.notmilk.com
www.meatout.org
www.peta.org/alert
groups.msn.com/ar9/general.msnw
www.christianveg.com
www.jewishveg.com
www.hindu.org
www.plumvillage.org
www.cantonrep.com/new/index...Search=yes
Saturday, January 14, 2006
By ED BALINT REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER
www.starkhealth.org
Jesus, Buddha, and Isaiah say to feed the hungry while the Canton
Health Dept. threatens people with arrest for this action.
Please give feedback on this story to
starkhealth.org/contactus.htm
Health Dept Director: Wm J Franks
franksb@starkhealth.org
CANTON Margaret Hughes first noticed a gray cat in her 10th Street NW
neighborhood about two years ago.
Tugging at her heartstrings, the feline cried for attention and begged
for something to eat.
Unable to resist, Hughes set a food bowl outside her house. A pillow
and blanket were tucked into a wicker basket for a bed. She named the
cat Ghost, and limited the animal to the outdoors since she had an
indoor cat.
Another cat entered the picture later. She fed that one, too, once in
the morning and once in the late afternoon.
"I was just trying to save the cats from starving to death," Hughes said.
Then the 69-year-old got a notice from the Canton Health Department on
Jan. 6 ordering her to stop feeding the cats and to remove the bed. If
she doesn't comply by Monday, Hughes would be expected to show up for
a hearing, and could face up to a $100 fine and 90 days in jail, said
Law Director Joseph Martuccio.
"They always seek voluntary cooperation," Martuccio said.
Hughes, meanwhile, sees little harm in feeding the cats, saying she's
"trying to do something humane."
"I felt bad for the cats because they're on a porch meowing," she
said. "They're hungry, and I fed them."
Still, Hughes said, she's complying with the order, removing the food
bowl and bed.
(Jackie Godbey of the Humane Society in the following quote sounds more
like a dogcatcher than a humane society official)
Food dishes can attract raccoons, skunks and rats, he said. Food left
for cats also can lead to a colony of the four-legged creatures, said
Jackie Godbey, assistant director of the Stark County Humane Society.
The city and county health departments do not pick up strays. Neither
does the Stark County dog warden's office, which refers inquiries
about stray cats to the Stark County Humane Society.
The Humane Society accepts cats and puts them up for adoption, Godbey
said.
"They are the most important resource we have for cats," Wade said of
the agency.
People who have strays or want to get rid of a cat should not dump
them in rural parts of the county, Godbey said.
"They'll see a barn, a farm and they'll take (cats there), and they
don't think that 800 people have done that (in the same area) over the
years," she said.
Reach Repository writer Ed Balint at (330) 580-8315 or e-mail:
ed.balint@cantonrep.comui8klo
Please give feedback on this story to www.starkhealth.org
parts of this article which reflected the point of view of pharmaceutically
dominated professional executioners (of mammals)
at the health department were removed
(As the Health Dept. violates the 1st amendment in
harrassment of Good Samaritans, it neglects investigation of
national chain and local restaurant incidents of food poisoning,
ecoli sickness, spongiform encephalopathy etc.)
Cats:
www.vegancats.com
www.veggiepets.com/
forums.petfinder-network.com/vie....php veg. cat food
www.romancats.com Italy
www.cats.org.il/ Israel
www.pcrm.org suing Ohio State over treatment of cats
www.thecatsite.com/forums/
www.poetwill.org exposing Ohio State's giving AIDS to cats in vet. school
www.ci.akron.oh.us Akron Ohio Mayor and City Council trapping cats and selling or giving
them to Cleveland Clinic, Ohio State, Battelle, Kent State, Case Weste
www.worldanimalnet.org
www.network54.com/forum/460325
www.petfinder.com
www.notmilk.com
www.meatout.org
www.peta.org/alert
groups.msn.com/ar9/general.msnw
www.christianveg.com
www.jewishveg.com
www.hindu.org
www.plumvillage.org
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