Please Tell Loews Hotel Group to Stop This Brutality Against Cats

[jsmirman]

This group of hotels is trapping cats on their property and then leaving these cats to suffer for days, in confinement, in near 90 degree temperatures.

This is appalling.

This cannot be the correct solution to any problem.

Please sign the petition and tell these hotels that this is intolerable cruelty. I believe this is a situation where a petition can really communicate to corporate officials that they need to change their course of action. The situation, however, is urgent!

Please help by making your voice heard on this issue.

http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=1177&erid=19593780&trid=8daba903-c27d-4368-ad93-943d1fa2e703

[arthritisR_US]

1. Done! k&r

[TriMera]

2. Done. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. Done and shared!

[jsmirman]

9. That's wonderful - thank you to everyone

who has responded to this thread.

[Vincardog]

4. SKR

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. done!

[HockeyMom]

6. Done

I adopted two kittens from a shelter. Their mother was a stray who had given birth to a litter. They were found outside a restaurant which had tried to POISON all of them.

BTW, After the shelter rescued them, Mom and all of her kittens were adopted. Do you think I will ever patronize that restaurant after hearing what they tried to do? Anyone who mentions that establishment, I tell them the story of my now 2 year old brother and sister "children".

[jsmirman]

8. Exactly - I won't give a cent

to support any group/restaurant/hotel/business that would do something like this. Good for you - what a wonderful thing you did providing your two children a good home.

[ellie]

7. Done and posted to my Facebook.

[jsmirman]

10. Thank you so much

and thank you, again, to everyone else who has responded to this thread. It never fails to move me to know that people care.

[kiva]

11. Done...K&R

[AtomicKitten]

12. Done and thanks for the heads-up on this.

[jsmirman]

32. Thanks for always supporting

efforts to demand a more humane world

[tosh]

13. Done...and THANK YOU for posting this here.

[jsmirman]

33. My pleasure

it's wonderful that people care enough to follow through on this.

[dbackjon]

14. They need to continue the trapping - as cats have no business being outdoors

But need to check the traps every couple of hours, and then humanely deal with the trapped cats.

[jsmirman]

34. I appreciate your interest, but

not really sure what you mean when what we are talking about here is a model TNR feral colony

[dbackjon]

44. There is NO SUCH thing

All TNR colonies are failures - they leave the cats outdoors to terrorize the native wildlife population, and the cats still have very short life spans.


All cats should either be indoors, or dead. They have NO PLACE in the outdoors.

[dhill926]

15. done....thanks for the info.....

[jp11]

16. So why hasn't anyone in that area contacted the ASPCA or police/etc?

I'm sure it can't be legal to trap animals then treat them like this even if their ultimate end is to be put down.

Not sure if this is the correct ASPCA but it is in Orlando FL.
http://www.ohs-spca.org/faq.htm

[jsmirman]

25. What Robin said (Alley Cat Allies is as good as it gets

on this stuff)

And there really is no reason for these animals to be put down. There are numerous alternatives.

Sorry, I missed your post and didn't respond - but, like Robin said, Alley Cat Allies can be counted on to take any possible steps - if they're calling for public pressure, there's a good reason for it. A friend of mine/law school classmate works for ACA, so this is an organization I know pretty darn well.

[jp11]

39. Okay, I didn't see any explanation as to why

the aspca wasn't doing something or couldn't, Alley Cat Allies seems to be a good group with the right idea it just confuses me when there is 'no comment' on what/why the aspca isn't on this.

A petition is usually the 'last thing' we do when other avenues fail us. I just would have liked to know why/how the aspca failed in this situation and didn't see anything on it.

[jsmirman]

40. Eh, the ASPCA is a good org, but they don't do everything and

they're not in all places at once.

I could ask someone from the ASPCA's national office I'm having a sitdown with next week, if you would like, but different orgs get on top of different situations first, and different situations are best suited to different responses, it seems to me.

Alley Cat Allies tends to be highly effective, and I think they've already made *some* progress in the situation, as you can see by the animals that have been rescued after injuring themselves in the traps. I don't know how they got the right to grab those animals - they may have involved a local authority in that instance and other similar ones.

I think this is a situation where you have a company that caters to consumers looking for something pet-friendly, a company in the hospitality business - and so, public pressure is likely to be unusually effective in this situation.

[robinlynne]

17. has the humane society been called? this is quite illegal.

[robinlynne]

18. After sgining, I see it is alleycats. they are a good group. I'm sure they make the proper

phone calls. They helped my friend rescue a colony of feral cats, had them all taken to the vet, spayed, healthy, then released back to the same place they came from. Alleycats gave the cages, advice, support, etc. My friend feeds them.

[varelse]

19. done (nt)

[Lucky Luciano]

20. Sad to hear this! We always loved Loew's hotels

...because they are extremely dog friendly - including super kindness to my pitbull.

[jsmirman]

21. Lucky

I feel like there's a real chance with this one that public pressure will have an impact on them - I don't get why they are doing this, and I hope they come to their senses. Particularly when they realize that a customer-base that has viewed them positively in the past is appalled by this behavior...

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22. Post this on 4Chan /b/...

(assuming they don't already know).

their lives/buisness will never even be close to being the same again.

Trust me on this one.

[jsmirman]

24. The fact that 4Chan loves kitties

and is pro-animal -

I can't deny being a pretty big fan of that.

[jsmirman]

28. Oh, you were saying I *should* do that

do you post there ever?

Would you mind posting it?

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30. Occasionally.

My username is "Anonymous".

Would you mind posting it

[jsmirman]

38. Not sure either

will ask you about it over PM

[MoonRiver]

23. Done!

Rat bastards!

[Luminous Animal]

26. WTH! Signed.

And thank you for keeping us on top of the stories.

[jsmirman]

36. Glad to pass along

if I could just find some way to reduce the old school mail I receive from the organizations I support...

[undergroundpanther]

27. May lowes hotel group become a failure financially...

May the owners and the people who left these cats to die and suffer so bad, and the people who stood by and let this abuse happen,One day be confined in a jail yard in 90+ degree heat and Baking sun.They are ignored as they dehydrate,until they succumb to heatstroke,as they draw their last raspy breaths in the dust of the prison yard, they will see no heaven,they will see Bast hissing with claws of fire ripping their ignorant souls and Ba's apart,defending her own,and may Sehkmet destroy their names and erase them as if they and that hotel chain never existed.For what they have done.If they fail to fix the abuse they do to the cats they trap asap,may this curse be their new futures.

Sa Sekem Sahu..

Cat abusers are evil pieces of shit.

[jsmirman]

37. Vivid

!

But I'm for anyone who supports a more humane world.

It bothers me greatly when we condemn animals to conditions none among us could tolerate for even an hour, usually, in the case of factory "farm" animals, without cessation for a period of years!

[onestepforward]

29. Done!

[1620rock]

31. Done...bastards.

[geardaddy]

35. Done!

and K and R

[hamsterjill]

41. Done!

How horrible! I hope the pressure remains on these corporate jerks until they have to stop this, or go bankrupt in the process.

[jsmirman]

42. thank you to athritisR_US, TriMera, Vincardog,

Liberal in LA, kiva, dhill926, robinlynne, varelse, MoonRiver, onestepforward, 1620rock, geardaddy, hamsterjill and anyone else I am forgetting to mention who I haven't communicated directly with in this thread yet. And thank you to everyone else, too!

It's so nice to see so many people care.

[jsmirman]

43. Update - protest today - Loews still not backing down

http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=376

This is Jonathan Tisch. As in, my fucking beloved Football Giants Tisch.

This hurts my heart.

And they are being so damn stupid to not work toward a reasonable solution.