{"id":1726,"date":"2011-07-22T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/i-was-hurt-from-holding-the-loop-stick-while-the-pig-pulled-jerked-and-squealed-out-of-pain-statemen.html"},"modified":"2011-07-22T08:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:06:54","slug":"i-was-hurt-from-holding-the-loop-stick-while-the-pig-pulled-jerked-and-squealed-out-of-pain-statemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/i-was-hurt-from-holding-the-loop-stick-while-the-pig-pulled-jerked-and-squealed-out-of-pain-statemen.html","title":{"rendered":"I was hurt … from holding the loop stick while the pig pulled, jerked, and squealed out of pain —statement of Amanda Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"In this PDF<\/a> of a statement of 5 May 2010 from\nAmanda Jordan, she alleges inappropriate use of euthanasia,\nimproper boarding of horses, improper castration of a pig,\nand resulting physical injury to an employee.\nShe asks for:\n
\n“I feel that some detailed financial, paperwork, and computer investigation\nshould be conducted within the Lowndes County Animal Services office.\nTaxpayer’s dollars are spent to keep these animals of Lowndes County safe,\nand I’m sure if the citizens of Lowndes County were aware of some of these\nthings they may be very hurt and disgusted with the Board of Commissioners for\nnot making sure the right measures are being taken to do what is right for this office.”\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nMy Name is Amanda Jordan. From June 2005 to December 2007, I worked for the\nLowndes County Board of Commissioners Office with the Animal Services Division.\nLinda Patelski was the director and my direct supervisor during that time.\nI enjoyed my job as a shelter attendant dearly.\nIt was such a pleaser to see animals get adopted to new homes\nor returned to their owners if they were picked up by Animal Control officers.\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nAs rewarding as it was, I also had other jobs that were not\nas pleasurable.\nEuthinizing animals were sometimes heartbreaking.\nWhile some animals were injured, sick, or feral, others were perfectly\nhealthy and just needed a home.\nDue to the lack of space in the facility they had to be euthanized.\nI recall a full term pregnant female dog came into the office.\nNormally, this would be a reason to put a dog down due to the\ninability of space to house a mother dog and her puppies.\nBecause this particular mother dog was some sort of small breed\nand her puppies expected to be small breed Linda Patelski\n(the director) decided we must keep these puppies for adoption.\nEven with the risk of diseases they were saved for the adoption room\nas other healthy dogs were put to sleep to accompany the space\nfor the puppies.\nThe shelter also has\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
\na very large fenced area in the back of the building.\nFor roughly 15 to 18 months Linda kept her own personal horses\nthere.\nShe had two horses that she decided to keep at the office as she did\nnot have another place for them to stay until she could\nbuy land to put them on.\nI am sure she never paid a boarding fee to the county for keeping them\nthere, as her reason for bring them there to begin with was\nshe did not want to pay what she was paying to a boarding facility.\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nI also recall during my time there when the office took in a pot belly pig.\nThis pig had his tusk and his testicals.\nI was instructed to hold this pig weighing about 50 to 60 pounds\nwith a short (3 foot) rabies pole (loop stick)\nwhile Linda had cut off his tusk with bolt cutters and also neutered him\nherself in the intake area of the shelter.\nMs. Linda said she worked for a hog confinement\nfor several years and done this kind of stuff on a daily basics.\nAs I held the pig, instructed by the Director, he squealed non stop as she\nonly wearing a pair of gloves with a scalpel blade she cut the pigs testicals\nas a Veterinarian would do if they were to neuter an animal.\nThe pig was not giving in medication for pain nor was he put on antibiotics\nfor possible infection.\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nI was hurt during all of this from holding the loop stick\nwhile the pig pulled, jerked, and squealed out of pain\nfrom Ms. Linda attempting to neuter the pig.\nI wrote out a statement for the admin\nbuilding for workman’s comp as I was hurt on the job and stated\nin my statement that I was hurt while assisting Linda in neutering a pig.\nThe Shelter had a Veterinarian that was paid for by the county office\nbut Linda chose not to let him do the neuter.\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nWhen I left the Shelter in December I was never happier.\nI left of good terms as if I ever needed to go back there I would\nbe considered.\nThis is just a small amount of things I have seen go seriously wrong\nin this office.\nI feel that some detailed financial, paperwork, and computer investigation\nshould be conducted within the Lowndes County Animal Services office.\nTaxpayer’s dollars are spent to keep these animals of Lowndes County safe,\nand I’m sure if the citizens of Lowndes County were aware of some of these\nthings they may be very hurt and disgusted with the Board of Commissioners for\nnot making sure the right measures are being taken to do what is right for this office.\n

\n[signed] Amanda S. Jordan [Date] 5-13-10\n

\n[notarized ] Kathy Greer 5-13-10\n<\/blockquote>\nSusan Leavens obtained Amanda Jordan’s statement 31 May 2011 from\nShirley J. King, Open Records Coordinator, Shirley.King@agr.georgia.gov,\nin response to an open records request she filed 25 May 2011.\nThe text of that request is appended.\n

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\nI would like all information regarding the investigation done by pat Smith\nfrom the statements from Ronnie Ganas, Amanda Jordan, and my self Susan\nLeavens that was turned in June of 2010, I would like all corrispondance\nfrom Vennessa Green, Pat smith, Cora Potter and any other person involved\nin the investigation regarding my statements and the other people I\nspoke of, in Feb. 2011 there was a meetin between the Lowndes County\nManager Joe Prichard, Lowndes county shelter director Linda Patelski,\nand the Lowndes county attorney with Cora Potter, Pat smith, Vennessa\nGreen and several other people I would Like all notes, and findings\nfrom that meeting, any information regarding this ivestigation of animal\ncruelty an neglect that department of agriculture has and there findings.\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this PDF of a statement of 5 May 2010 from Amanda Jordan, she alleges inappropriate use of euthanasia, improper boarding of horses, improper castration of a pig, and resulting physical injury to an employee. She asks for: “I feel that some detailed financial, paperwork, and computer investigation should be conducted within the Lowndes County […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,324,88],"tags":[3071,4077,4014,8701,2435,1906,7,3755,4002,3518,4080,4079,4078,6],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-animals","category-lowndes-county-commission","tag-animal-shelter","tag-castration","tag-dog","tag-georgia","tag-horse","tag-injury","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-animal-shelter","tag-pain","tag-pig","tag-puppies","tag-testicals","tag-tusk","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-rQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}