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Dear Editor:

The Borough of Brooklawn is about to embark on an injustice 1letters to their citizens by: Spending thousands of tax dollars to protect a USELESS law Pushing out a non-profit animal rescue that has been providing FREE humane animal welfare services to their residents for years
Assuring that MORE stray animals will walk their streets Setting a precedent that “no good deed is unpunished”

Residents of Brooklawn:  your voice is needed to STOP this ridiculous, ego-driven controversy.  Only YOU can stop this waste of money, effort, and time on the part of your town council.

Last week, Furrever Friends (FFRV) was featured on FOX and Channel 3 News regarding the rescue of a mother cat and her 3 kittens; they were found hogtied, in a knotted trash bag, in a dumpster in Brooklawn, NJ.  Last year, they instructed the wife of a Council Member how to bottle fed several litters of orphaned kittens found in Brooklaw; In Nov, they intook a cat from the son of a Brooklawn Council member...only to be stiffed a promised donation. The Brooklawn Office gives out FFRV's information to their residents calls came in regarding strays. 

YET - Brooklawn continues to harass and threaten to fine FFRV foster volunteer, Jen Smith, because her RESCUED animals are over their "pet limit" of three. She is going to Municipal Court AGAIN on February 12th, and as she was warned, could be fined for each and every day she is breaking this "law".  The case will also be heard in Superior Court on March 11th.  Keep in mind that FFRV is a strongly supported rescue in Southern NJ, and has full support of the Camden County Animal Shelter, Almost Home Shelter, Society to Protect Animals, Save the Animals Foundation and the Animal Welfare Assocation. 

It is amusing that this pet limit law...put into place to protect animals...is now being used to hinder, demean and punish an organization that rescues more animals in Brooklawn then their useless pet limit law possibly could.

This constant treat from Brooklawn has forced Furrever Friends to take this matter to a higher court.  Rather then work TOGETHER to find a solution, Brooklawn is going to spend tax payers' money for a multiple day Superior Court case so the town may have the right to force YOU to give up a pet IF they see fit!  The rescue, in fact, has now shut down all intake of new animals so the volunteers can concentrate on the legal battle before them.  What a horrible shame.

Do Brooklawn Residents want:Brooklawn to spend $10k or more of your money to protect a law that doesn't work? Brooklawn to have the right to force you to give up a pet DESPITE that you are a picture perfect guardian?
MORE strays to walk your steets? (If you do not like animals, that is even MORE of a reason to endorse the volunteer efforts of Furrever Friends!)

To read what Pet Limits REALLY accomplish (nothing!) compared to what ENFORCED nuisance laws do...or to adopt one of Jen Smith's foster animals before Brooklawn orders her to toss them out...see the Furrever Friends website.  FFRV.PETFINDER.ORG

Your time in reading this is appreciated.

Jen Andersch, FFRV Volunteer
Woodbury, NJ

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