Letters to the Editor 01-15-2004
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Shelter Does Best It Can - Fate Of Saddam
Shelter Does Best It Can
Editor, Times-Union:All volunteers wear boots at the shelter for protection from slipping on the concrete floors and to keep their feet dry. Not because of the drains. The water coming out of the drains was from the washers being run that day, not from raw sewage as you have stated in your letter. Since we are on the subject of volunteers, the shelter needs help from volunteers every day since it is a nonprofit organization. It is the volunteers that help the shelter run smoothly. They walk the animals, play with them, etc.
As far as the stench that you claim to have encountered, the shelter is cleaned daily by the staff on duty and I'm sure they would welcome you to come in and volunteer to help them. After all, it is an animal shelter, what do you want it to smell like?
Now on to the puppy that was adopted, it is really sad what happened to your puppy, but who you really need to be mad at are all the owners that just abandon their animals at the shelter without a second thought about the illnesses the animals carry with them, and without regard to the animals already at the shelter. Vaccines are important to these animals and a lot of them come to the shelter without any, also the lack of responsibility of the owners to have them spayed or neutered.
Remember the Animal Welfare League is a nonprofit organization, they are doing the best they can under the circumstances.
I just want the citizens to be aware that it is not the Animal Welfare League misrepresenting these animals. They are the ones left caring for them.
The staff and volunteers are doing the best they can.
Brian Palik
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fate Of Saddam
Editor, Times-Union:In the Jan. 10 issue of Times-Union an article said that Saddam is still not talking. I think I have a way to make him talk. (Big smiley face; tongue-in-cheek). Take him back to his spider hole, put him in, standing up, and bring a great big cement truck alongside. Start releasing soupy desert sand-mixed concrete 3 inches at a time. Casually ask Saddam where his WMDs are located. Hmm ... no response? Run another 3 inches. Still no response? Add another 3, and remind him that the first batch is already setting up. Will he talk or not? Never mind. If he doesn't, he will be encapsulated in his own tomb (a real sculpture).
Then, after all the cement is hard, dig it up and set it in one of his palaces as a memorial to the thousands he had murdered. Some people may think this is cruel and inhuman treatment, but after the way he brutalized his own people, the tyrant should have "concrete" punishment for not talking! And he did love having his sculptures all over Baghdad. (smile one more time)
Alvon Abbott
Warsaw
via e-mail
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- Shelter Does Best It Can - Fate Of Saddam
Shelter Does Best It Can
Editor, Times-Union:All volunteers wear boots at the shelter for protection from slipping on the concrete floors and to keep their feet dry. Not because of the drains. The water coming out of the drains was from the washers being run that day, not from raw sewage as you have stated in your letter. Since we are on the subject of volunteers, the shelter needs help from volunteers every day since it is a nonprofit organization. It is the volunteers that help the shelter run smoothly. They walk the animals, play with them, etc.
As far as the stench that you claim to have encountered, the shelter is cleaned daily by the staff on duty and I'm sure they would welcome you to come in and volunteer to help them. After all, it is an animal shelter, what do you want it to smell like?
Now on to the puppy that was adopted, it is really sad what happened to your puppy, but who you really need to be mad at are all the owners that just abandon their animals at the shelter without a second thought about the illnesses the animals carry with them, and without regard to the animals already at the shelter. Vaccines are important to these animals and a lot of them come to the shelter without any, also the lack of responsibility of the owners to have them spayed or neutered.
Remember the Animal Welfare League is a nonprofit organization, they are doing the best they can under the circumstances.
I just want the citizens to be aware that it is not the Animal Welfare League misrepresenting these animals. They are the ones left caring for them.
The staff and volunteers are doing the best they can.
Brian Palik
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fate Of Saddam
Editor, Times-Union:In the Jan. 10 issue of Times-Union an article said that Saddam is still not talking. I think I have a way to make him talk. (Big smiley face; tongue-in-cheek). Take him back to his spider hole, put him in, standing up, and bring a great big cement truck alongside. Start releasing soupy desert sand-mixed concrete 3 inches at a time. Casually ask Saddam where his WMDs are located. Hmm ... no response? Run another 3 inches. Still no response? Add another 3, and remind him that the first batch is already setting up. Will he talk or not? Never mind. If he doesn't, he will be encapsulated in his own tomb (a real sculpture).
Then, after all the cement is hard, dig it up and set it in one of his palaces as a memorial to the thousands he had murdered. Some people may think this is cruel and inhuman treatment, but after the way he brutalized his own people, the tyrant should have "concrete" punishment for not talking! And he did love having his sculptures all over Baghdad. (smile one more time)
Alvon Abbott
Warsaw
via e-mail
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