{"id":1192,"date":"2012-01-05T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/more-injured-and-euthanized-animals.html"},"modified":"2012-01-05T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:31:36","slug":"more-injured-and-euthanized-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/more-injured-and-euthanized-animals.html","title":{"rendered":"More injured and euthanized animals"},"content":{"rendered":"Why does this sound familiar?\n
\nAfter a 2 1\/2-hour closed-door board meeting Wednesday, SPCA of Niagara\n\n<\/a>\nboard president Bruno Scrufari III announced the request for the\nprobe, in the wake of charges by board member Kathy Paradowski, former\nveterinary technician Kari E. McAlee-Miller and others that animals were\nunnecessarily euthanized and that injured animals brought to the shelter\nwere left untreated.\n<\/blockquote>\nThere are a few differences from the local situation here.\n

\nThomas J. Prohaska wrote yesterday for BuffaloNews.com,\n\nSPCA in Erie County to probe charges against Faso:\nNiagara board president announces request for investigation of claims<\/a>,\n

\nBarbara Carr, executive director of the SPCA Serving Erie County,\nsaid her board of directors, which meets today, would have to\napprove the investigation, but she doesn’t expect any difficulty in\nwinning approval.\n

\nThere will be at least one key condition: “I wouldn’t do an\ninvestigation unless the document we produced was made public,” Carr\nsaid.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe relevant local authorities welcome an investigation and\ninsist on making the results public.\nImagine that!\n

\nAnd, according to\nDave McKinley yesterday at wgrz.com,\n\nNiagara Co. SPCA Approves Outside Investigation Of Its Animal Shelter<\/a>\n\n\n

\nScrufari spoke with reporters Wednesday, following a 2-1\/2 hour,\nclosed door emergency meeting of the board, in which 9 of its 10\nmembers participated.\n

\n“At this point we have not been able to verify any of the\naccusations, including the issue of the healthy animals being\neuthanized,” Scufari said.\n

\nBut he also says the matter is far from being closed.\n

\n“So, what we have done is requested the Erie County SPCA to perform\nan independent investigation of some of the issues that have been\npresented in the (media) and by former employees.”<\/blockquote>\nOK, that part about “we have not been able to verify” sounds familiar.\n

\nBut the parts about going ahead and holding a special meeting to approve\nan investigation, and explicitly calling in an outside agency\nto do the investigation, those just don’t sound like the Lowndes County way.\n

\nBut they could be.\n

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