Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – In an email regarding a social media post about a resident’s attempt to take a kitten to the Alachua County Animal Resources (ACAR) shelter, Interim Shelter Director Dianne Sauve told Alachua County Commissioners that the messaging “should have been softer.”
The social media post shown below (with the poster’s name redacted) was sent to Commissioners on July 12:
The post reads, “I was once an advocate for this place but can no longer do so. Last night I found a 3 week old kitten in the middle of the median on the highway. She was in a dangerous spot and crying so I could not leave her. I work 7 days a week also have 12 cats; I was unable to give her the care she needs so I called Alachua Animal Control. They told me I could bring her in but if they could not find a foster for her THAT DAY THEY WERE GOING TO EUTHANIZE HER. So they were going to kill a healthy kitten rather than deal with her for more than 24 hours. I did find another rescue to take her, fortunately, but for them to so casually kill baby animals simply because they don’t want to deal with it is Absolutely Unethical and Ridiculous. DO NOT BRING YOUR ANIMALS HERE OR THEY WILL KILL THEM RATHER THAN DEAL WITH THEM. Absolutely despicable. This place used to care about animal lives but make excuses now to kill them.”…