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01/23/08
To Furrever Friends Rescue & Volunteers' dedicated volunteers, supporters and the community,

    It is with a torn heart that I am writing to inform you that Furrever Friends Rescue & Volunteers is shutting down ALL our rescue efforts until further notice. We have often briefly closed when, like many rescues, we are filled to capacity. This is not the case now though.

    Furrever Friends Rescue is closing at this time due to the fact we have been fighting the aggressive efforts of Brooklawn Township to shut down one of our foster homes in their town. The town has refused to work with our volunteer foster, Ms. Smith, and instead has fined her under their "pet limit ordinance".

    We have stayed open up until now while we tried to reason with Brooklawn about the importance of animal rescuing and the crucial part foster homes play in it. However even after attempts to work with the town and with a pending trial in Superior Court, Brooklawn has continued their harassing tactics.

    This letter is to express our frustration, notify you of our current intentions and hope that you will support us in this trying time. Currently we are paying our lawyer to put in a "stay" in an effort to make sure that the township of Brooklawn cannot send daily fines to Ms. Smith until our trial in March. Obviously, our money is going to these court efforts. Though it hurts us to be directing our donated funds (yes, it's 100% donations) into the legal system instead of the animals themselves, it is necessary. The fact is, our foster, Ms. Smith, should certainly not be harassed by Brooklawn with fines when rescue work is such an asset and our foster home there is too crucial to the animals they help for Furrever Friends to simply wave a white flag by moving out all her foster pets, the only reason Ms. Smith is over the limit to begin with. With this effort, we are trying to protect ALL foster homes and animal caretakers that may be in a similar situation.

For the full story, see our website at
FFRV.PETFINDER.ORG or WWW.TRAPPEDCATS.COM


Sincerely,
Jen Wesh


"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ... [They] are an obligation out on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty." -James Herriot
  

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