Oakland Animal Shelter Abusing its Animals!

A friend of mine works at the Oakland Animal Shelter and just reported this blatant animal abuse to me. About a month ago, the Oakland PD broke up a dog fighting ring in Oakland. On location were lots of dead dog pelts hung up on the walls and blood everywhere. They confiscated ten fighting dogs from the man running the fights. One of them was missing half a face and the others were beat up pretty badly. Instead of putting these abused dogs to sleep, as they should have, they kept them alive and in pain at the shelter. Then, about a week ago, the owner of these dogs comes in and threatens to get an attorney and sue the Oakland Animal Shelter for unlawfully taking his dogs EVEN THOUGH DOG FIGHTING IS ILLEGAL IN OAKLAND. The shelter director, Glenn Howell, is so scared of a lawsuit that he is going to give these dogs back. THIS CANNOT HAPPEN. These Pit bulls have already received so much abuse at the hands of this man(to read more about this amazing breed go to http://www.badrap.org) that to send them back to him is just disgusting.

Please call Glenn Howell at Oakland Animal Shelter and tell him that you know what is going on and that you won't stand for it. His number is 510-535-5605.(they will have to transfer you from the switchboard) He may try to lie about this and say it is not happening, but it is. This kind of thing happens often as the city doesn't want the bad publicity nor to spend time or money on a lawsuit.

Also please call your local tv stations, newspapers, and anyone else you know with any power in this area to not let this happen. we can make a difference.