I was a trustee at animal control for almost 4 months. I took the job as “Cat Man” taking care of every cat and kitten that came there.
I made it my goal to get every cage cleaned every day before we went back to the jail around 5:00 pm. We worked 7 days a week.
I can’t even count how many cats and kittens were euthanized every week while I was there. Some days they would put down between 40-to- 80 cats and have them all laid out dead in the walkway of the other cages.
Here’s the real sad part and if you think I’m making this up well you have never been more wrong in your entire life.
They would put 3-4-5 or maybe 6 cats in trash bags and put them in the freezer. When the freezers were full Grady Judd would have a guy come in a semi-truck and load them up and take them to be sold and the sheriff’s department got a percentage of what they got for them.
I only handled one dead kitten that I named TILT because he had neurological problems and his head stay children on one side.
I was to inform the so-called vet if I see a sick animal.
I told three different people in one day that TILT wasn’t doing very well and they all said well he’ll be alright. The next morning I got there and went straight to his cage to check on him and he was dead.
I’m a cat lover but that is the most heartbreaking place I have ever seen in my entire life.
I could go on and on and on about animal control. But I hope everyone gets the point I’m trying to get access to. Something needs to be done positively.
They drive around in big nice trucks with computers in them and set traps just to take them and kill them.
They will all rot in hell and I pray they all get haunted by all the animals that they killed for no reason.
Oh if you’re animal has a chip they don’t always notify you.
They kill them so fast they have killed about 300 that had chips and they didn’t realize it until after they euthanize them and there’s no way to bring it back. Sorry, you had to find this out but I swear on my life every word of this is 110% true.
Editorial Note: The Lakeland Gazette has removed the name of the former trustee
Where/who were the deceased animals being sold???
Dog cadavers are donated to the University of Florida Veterinary Department in Gainesville, Florida. These are donated, not sold.
Cat cadavers go to Bio Corporation (a company that provides cadavers/specimens to educational institutions).
The information about killing chipped animals is shameful. These people need to be held accountable for that . As far as euthanizing stray and unwanted animals is a necessary evil. The county cannot feed and house those animals. The humane thing to do is euthanize them. We can’t allow them to run rampant in our neighborhoods. No