ACTION ALERT
Stop Worcester County Animal Control From Killing Oliver
Stop Worcester County Animal Control From Killing Oliver
Dear Cat Advocate,
We urgently need your help—a cat’s life is on the line. The Worcester County, Maryland animal control agency recently impounded a community cat named Oliver, and now they plan to kill him.
Worcester County Animal Control has a horrible record. In 2015, they killed more than 86 percent of all impounded cats. Please speak out so Oliver is not another statistic.
Worcester County Animal Control trapped Oliver after another cat in the area tested positive for rabies. Oliver has been previously vaccinated against rabies, and his eartip shows that he’s part of a Trap-Neuter-Return colony. Killing him is not only inhumane, it’s unnecessary for public health. Oliver can be held for a quarantine period to ensure he doesn’t have rabies—an option practiced by animal control agencies and health departments across the state of Maryland and the nation.
A local rescue organization, that has experience successfully completing similar quarantines, is ready and willing to care for Oliver. But animal control refuses to release Oliver into its custody.
Alley Cat Allies and other rescue groups have reached out to Worcester County Animal Control for information and to offer assistance. However, the department has remained closed off to the people, and is unwilling to even discuss the case.
Worcester County and Ocean City are huge tourist destinations, so your voice is influential and crucial. Please speak out and help us save Oliver.
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Sincerely,
 Becky Robinson Founder and President, Alley Cat Allies |
P.S. Please share this with your friends and family. We need as many voices as possible if we want to save Oliver!
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10 comments:
please let Oliver live. We have a Feral cat and love him very much, it took time for her to make friends with us . She had 3 babies and took care of them They went to pets mart. She now is a wonderful pet and taken care of. Please consider his life and be the first to live,It is not up to you to kill if someone wants the cat to live. Quarantine.
Quarantine, yes.
Yes to quarantine.
Quarantine first instaed of kill first. In these days it's just so convenient to kill a living being without considering other options first.
Save Oliver the cat!!
Please Ted Elder from a old drag racing buddy do not let them kill oliver .This is a big ole world we live in with plenty of room for all of us.
Please let him live please, please.
Just saw a post on FB from Town cats of Ocean City that he was put down today. :(
It would help if they had a link to the county officials' email/info for people not from the eastern shore.
And they still use the gas chamber to perform this task. Very cruel
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