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kurakuda [Benjamin Izzo]. Do me a favor, and take the time to read it. If you had a heart, you would.
In Foster there is a kennel named, the candy cane kennel. At this kennel almost a score of dogs were poisoned, shot, or starved to death. Dianne Izzo heard of these happenings through an old friend of hers. Upon learning of these instances, she set up a wire kennel, purchased two large bags of dog food and took the three animals that survived to her home in Coventry.
Five days later, on the morning of December sixteenth, the Coventry Police and the Department of Environmental Management came onto Dianne’s property without a warrant for search or a warrant for removal of the dogs. When Dianne asked the police if she needed a lawyer, the response was no. The police shooed away the News Channel 10 truck and set up base for the remainder of the day in Dianne’s yard.
The DEM officials and Police threatened Dianne with fines up into five digits because they claimed that the animals she had rescued were wolves, and were illegal to own. About a week later Dianne would send photos of her former pet that had been shot, and was a sister to one of the canines that were removed from Dianne’s property, to a wolf-dog expert in Salt Lake City. He would tell her that the claim that the animals were wolves was outlandish, and that the dogs were a northern breed dog with part malamute in them, not wolves. Unfortunately, Dianne was unaware as to the origins of the animals at the time, and complied willingly with all of the state officials requests.
During the removal of the animals, out of negligence on the DEM officer’s part, the male got out of the fenced in kennel and fled to the woods out of fear. Dianne participated in a flashlight search throughout the surrounding woods with no luck of finding the scared animal. The Police told her that they would shoot to kill if the “wolf” was not tranquilized and captured.
That night, she lay outside in freezing weather on a cot, while the snow fell an inch thick. All in an attempt to lure the male back without him being hurt. She heard nearby footsteps in the woods and howling, but her endeavor was unsuccessful.
The next morning, around eight o’clock, a police car, a DEM utility vehicle, and two animal control vehicles stood in Dianne’s yard. The officer scanned the woods with his eyes searching for the escaped animal, while the Animal Control workers walked around the spacious backyard with one of the prior taken females on leash as bait for the dog. They chained the female dog up to a cage in the near middle of the yard, and in a high window, a marksman waited with a gun for the fugitive dog.
Forty-five minutes later the lost dog, drawn by the cries of his former partner came in from the woods towards the cage. The shooter steadied his gun and waited for the animal to come as close to the cage as he possibly could. The gun went off and a steel dart flew through the air. The dart hit the cage a few feet off and the dog fled in a panicked rush the way that it came. The Animal Control workers and the officer would return fifteen minutes later with the animal unconscious, after successfully hitting their mark. They packed up the animals and left.
A short time later, the head state veterinary came to Dianne’s residence, Dr. Hannafin. He told Dianne that it was he who had ordered the search and removal of the animals without a warrant, and also that he was going to remove the head of the male for “skull analysis,” a highly inaccurate theory based technique used to tell if there is any wolf in a dog, for the purpose of going after the friend, whom Dianne had received the animals from, in a legal suit. He also told Dianne that she would not be fined if she would sign over the rights of the animals, in other words disown them. Dr. Hannafin wanted and still wants the animal’s head for criminal investigation, but the only way for him to be able to kill the dogs, would be for Dianne to disclaim them, and the only way for them to be able to stay alive is for her to pay a huge sum of money.
On the thirteenth of January, this last Thursday six beautiful puppies were born unto one of the two females capture. It is her first time being a mother and she has been doing an excellent job at nursing and caring for the pups. Dianne went to visit the Public Pound, and upon entering, the woman at the desk picked up her telephone and called the police. Dianne, perturbed by what she had done to instigate such a response, was dumbfounded. An officer came to the center and told Dianne that she was not allowed there and that she would be receiving a warning for trespassing that would go on her permanent record. Dianne, being crushed by the chain of events went home and called every animal rights center as she could in between tears. None have helped yet.
Dianne went to court for the second time last Monday. She was informed then that the judge’s verdict was for Dianne to pay eight thousand dollars for the animals to stay alive, otherwise the dogs and the puppies would be disowned and euphemized.
The normal quarantine for a stray dog in a pound is ten days. The state veterinarian has made it so that the quarantine is six months. Costing 6,500 dollars for quarantine fees. The puppies will be placed in an animal care facility because they will be separated from their mother and won’t be able to survive otherwise, costing 1,500 dollars. Yet at two weeks old, the puppies have an incredibly thin chance of survival without their mother, even with modern canine medicine. The dogs will not be allowed out of a cold, grey cage for six months, or they will be murdered. The pups will be separated from their mother during their infancy, or they die. The cost of their survival is 8,000 dollars, but their happiness can never be bought. Save them.
Tomorrow, there will be an organized act of civil disobedience; a protest, in hopes of raising public awareness and support on this profound issue. It will be held in front of the Kent Court House, where Dianne Izzo, for her third court session will hope to achieve more time for raising money to keep these beautiful animals alive. Please help by participating and telling all about this event. If you are interested, call 397-8228, or 397-0009 at any time during the night or day (24-7), and ask for either Dianne Izzo or Benjamin Izzo.
If there is nothing that you can/want to do, do a favor for me, and try and relay this to someone who can. I'll owe you one.