Wells Fargo forcloses on Volunteer Animal Shelter

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SPCA chief: Bank must take care of sanctuary's animals

GLOCESTER, R.I. -- A state constable barred access Tuesday morning to Bonniedale Farm, a sanctuary for abandoned animals, after Wells Fargo Bank evicted the owner on Monday.

Dr. E. J. Finocchio, head of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said on Monday that the bank could face charges of animal neglect and abandonment if it failed by noon Tuesday to provide food, water and care for 136 animals left at the site. Finocchio visited the farm Tuesday morning but was not available for comment.

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Finocchio on Monday said that he and Glocester Animal Control Officer Michael Merchant and Dr. Scott Marshall, the state veterinarian, spent most of the day trying to make sure that the Massachusetts bank was made aware of its responsibility to care for all the animals.

"I don't think the bank was prepared for what they were getting into when they took over the property," Finocchio said. "Our lawyers tell us that this situation is unprecedented. at least in Rhode Island. and possibly in all of New England."

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http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/12/rispca-chief-bank-must-take-ca.html

[lob1]

1. God, don't let those people foreclose on a hospital.

[Craftsman]

3. New my home they were building a new hospital

It lost it's financing and was sitting unfinsihed for months, they have gotten enough money together to glass it in but now the hopsital that was going to lease it out has backed out.

[mike_c]

2. rat bastards....

Bankers give pigs a bad name.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. My friend demands an apology

Pets World (UK}

He is proud of what he is and will tell you he is far superior to a banker or any other robber baron.

[corpseratemedia]

4. wells fargo is disgusting

i should be surprised but I'm not

they better not let those animals suffer....

[Yunomi]

5. By all means, bring charges,

but that in itself won't feed and care for the animals. It's cold out there, folks, and something needs to be done for the critters, TODAY.

[Robb]

6. Devil's advocate:

...If I'm foreclosed upon and leave my kids behind, is the bank responsible for feeding my kids? :shrug:

[Sanity Claws]

15. if the kids were locked in and you were not given access? yes

Remember the owners are being prevented from going back on the property and help the confined animals.

If someone locked your kids in your foreclosed property and prevented you from getting them, yes, the bank would be responsible.

[northernlights]

16. if you were locked out of your property, then yes

they locked owners out, the animals are trapped there. They mother-fucking better take care of them, or allow them to be removed immediately.

[northernlights]

17. and for the record, dogs have been found starved to death locked in their crates

inside foreclosed homes.

If it were my dog, I'd naturally break in and enter illegally to rescue him. But not all people have apparently been able to pull that off. :cry:

[AndyA]

8. Those poor animals! I hope they will be cared for.

What a disgrace. Runaway banks and corporations doing whatever the hell they want to do, with no consideration for life, law, or anything else.

I'd say karma will catch up to them eventually, but I'm afraid when it does, the American people will be the ones suffering with yet another bail out. :eyes:

Sending good thoughts out to the little animals, hoping they're fed, watered, warm, and dry.

[MineralMan]

9. I guess my question would be whether the folks who ran

the shelter were aware of the foreclosure date. I can't imagine that they were not. Eviction notices generally don't come as a complete surprise.

Notwithstanding that, Wells Fargo now owns the place and its contents, which includes the animals housed there. I just wish things had been taken care of a little more responsibly by all parties, including the foreclosed owner.

[4_TN_TITANS]

10. Safe to say Wells Fargo has screwn the pooch...

but this one might turn around and bite them.

[Better Today]

11. I don't see this as being any more vile than foreclosing on families and the

elderly who would be able to keep their pets if the banks weren't foreclosing on them.

[notesdev]

12. It's not

but it just goes to show how the impersonal and mechanical nature of bureaucracy manifests itself in what any person with common sense can see is patently stupid end results.

[northernlights]

18. leaving animals to starve to death?

the whole thing is vile.

[Mopar151]

13. It's so hard to find an orphanige these days...n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

14. The bank has probably already contacted the local rendering plant.

[normrx7]

19. Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo has foreclosed on countless homes that people live in, what makes you think they would think they would treat animals any differently?