Greetings!

Join Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary for our next Rabbit Spa Day on Saturday, December 11th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Volunteers will have an opportunity to interact with Harvest Home’s rescued rabbits by providing health checks and grooming. Holiday vegan refreshments will be provided for volunteers.

To volunteer, email us at enews@harvesthomeanimal.org. Driving directions will be provided with your email RSVP.

We look forward to seeing you!

All the best,
Christine @ HarvestHomeSanctuary.org

Several weeks ago, the Dept. of Public Health held a hearing with the U.N. Plaza Farmers’ market manager Christine Adams and live poultry vendor Raymond Young to give them their final warning to comply with health laws, or have their permits revoked. We’ve been since documenting and reporting flagrant and defiant continued, while patiently waiting for the Health Dept. to proceed with enforcement.

Last night, KRON 4 TV’s Stanley Roberts ran a news story about violations of the “no live animals in the market” law, which should put more pressure on the Health Dept. You may watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxB8IqITh1U.

If you are uncomfortable shopping at the market with the continued violations, please call the health department to complain (mention that you saw the KRON 4 TV news story). You can reach them at (415) 252-3800 from 8 am to 5 pm. (Don’t worry about the future of the market itself – if the permit for the current nonprofit management organization is revoked, management would simply change over to the city’s Real Estate Division.)

Also, it would be good if you can post comments on the YouTube video’s page, for city officials to read!

Thanks,

Andrew

www.LGBTcompassion.org

[Attachment(s) from May, Nadine included below]

Hello fellow animal people,

I'm sending this on behalf of Greg, who is a long-time feral cat colony
feeder and rescuer. I'm hoping you'll forward this email as widely as
possible to all your fellow animal lovers.

In case you can't access the flyer that I have attached, here is
Whiskers' information:

Whiskers was an upstanding member of Greg's feral cat colony until a few
months ago, when he noticed that the poor little guy had gone blind --
so of course he had to bring him inside where he would be safe and warm.

Whiskers is about 8 years old, black, neutered, vaccinated and FIV/Felv
negative. He has been to the vet a few times and, after dental surgery
(his teeth were very bad and had to be removed), he has been declared to
be in good health. He may have some sight, but we can't be sure about
that. He eats well and uses the litterbox like a gentleman! There were
never any signs that he had any problems getting along with the other
cats in the colony, so he would probably do fine in a new home with
other cats, as long as they're not aggressive (obviously he is at a
disadvantage there).

He is safe and warm and well-fed in San Francisco, but Greg feels he
cannot give him the attention or accommodations he should have. For now,
he is "warehoused" in Greg's bathroom, just sitting, bored. Being a
former feral kitty, he does not seem to crave petting, but he is
sweet-natured and tolerates it.

If you know of or can provide a situation in which he is safe, well-fed,
and perhaps even has an indoor-outdoor enclosed run, please contact Greg
at 415.647-1679 or at cogreg@gmail.com.

Thank you, everyone, and again, please forward to all fellow animal
lovers.

Nadine

Hello again, fellow animal lovers.

This is a sad situation, but I'm hoping there are people out there who
might be able to help. There are two feral cats in the Excelsior
District of San Francisco who, for about five years, have been fed every
day by a very kind woman who has a home there. They wait to be fed on
her front porch. Sadly, she is in the last stages of cancer, and
probably has just weeks, maybe even days, to live. Yesterday she said
that she simply doesn't have the strength to feed them any more, so a
neighbor has temporarily stepped in to help, but she cannot take the
cats in, and none of the other neighbors have offered to help feed or
take care of the cats. The house will be sold after her death and the
cats will have nowhere to go.

Can YOU help these two kitties? We are desperately looking for a
cat-friendly person willing to provide a backyard for the two cats to
live out their lives. These cats were trapped, neutered or spayed and
vaccinated years ago. The only option available for them is to find them
a new backyard "home"; otherwise they will be euthanized, as we simply
cannot leave them out there to starve.

That's where YOU come in! If you have a backyard and are willing to
give these cats a safe place to be, and fresh food and water every day,
we will be happy to guide you through the process of helping a
feral-in-need accept your back yard as home. You give them a safe place
to live and some food and water, and they gratefully watch over your
yard and provide the beauty of a feline form at rest and at play. If
you love cats but are allergic to them, or don't want cat fur around
your house, this is a purrfect solution! Please consider extending a
helping hand to these two San Francisco feral cats! If you're
interested, or need more information, please call me and I'll be happy
to answer any questions you might have.

In addition, we always have other feral cats who need to be relocated
because they are losing their habitat (new construction, for example) or
need to be moved out of a dangerous or unhealthy location -- so if
you're interested but would rather take in just one cat, we can find the
perfect cat for you!

Please forward this as widely as possible to any animal lovers who might
be able to help. Thank you so much, as always.

Nadine May
415/221-3618 or
415/846-1362 (if no answer, please leave a message with your name, phone
number and the best time to call you)