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That's terrible. I have only ever been on one "Raid" And we were there legally and had complete permission of the land lord. A man abandoned his townhouse, never told anyone, kept paying for it apparently, and let a small handful of cats breed there... for years he would just throw bags of catfood in there and leave them with a little trickle of water in the sink.
the results was a health hazard and over 100 inbred cats. The place had to be condemned, several or the cats died or had to be euthanized.
Also we all ended up sick. We had ammonia burns, some had to be treated for ammonia inhalation, I ended up with a weird fungal rash that took several experts to treat. Someone had to be carried out from heat exhaustion. (It was the hottest day of the summer, and we had to wear full face covers sleeves pants and gloves because the feces were so thick and the smell so bad. The sad this is, it was a mentally challenged man who though he was doing the right thing and simply became over whelmed.
That was near the time I quit animal rescue. I was in college and simply couldn't handle it any more. The thing is our group never ever did anything without legal backing. Even then it had to be a really bad situation to gain permission and most of the time we were able to talk the owner into either cleaning up, in which we often helped them out, using our own time and money to do so, or giving up the animal. You don't just wander onto someone's property and hijack their animals. People like that made the organizations like the one I volunteered with look really bad.
That's terrible. I have only ever been on one "Raid" And we were there legally and had complete permission of the land lord. A man abandoned his townhouse, never told anyone, kept paying for it apparently, and let a small handful of cats breed there... for years he would just throw bags of catfood in there and leave them with a little trickle of water in the sink.
the results was a health hazard and over 100 inbred cats. The place had to be condemned, several or the cats died or had to be euthanized.
Also we all ended up sick. We had ammonia burns, some had to be treated for ammonia inhalation, I ended up with a weird fungal rash that took several experts to treat. Someone had to be carried out from heat exhaustion. (It was the hottest day of the summer, and we had to wear full face covers sleeves pants and gloves because the feces were so thick and the smell so bad. The sad this is, it was a mentally challenged man who though he was doing the right thing and simply became over whelmed.
That was near the time I quit animal rescue. I was in college and simply couldn't handle it any more. The thing is our group never ever did anything without legal backing. Even then it had to be a really bad situation to gain permission and most of the time we were able to talk the owner into either cleaning up, in which we often helped them out, using our own time and money to do so, or giving up the animal. You don't just wander onto someone's property and hijack their animals. People like that made the organizations like the one I volunteered with look really bad.
