Please Help to Keep Florida’s Homeless Animals out of Harm’s Way

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Source: PETA

PETA recently went undercover at Caboodle Ranch, Inc., a self-proclaimed “cat rescue sanctuary” in Madison County, Florida, that claims to give cats “everything they will ever need to live a happy healthy life.” Based on PETA’s evidence, officials are seizing Caboodle’s animals and charging its founder and operator, Craig Grant, with cruelty!

PETA’s investigation found that the “ranch” was essentially a one-person “no-kill” operation that subjected nearly 500 cats to filth, crowding, and chronic neglect. Grant denied cats effective veterinary care for rampant upper-respiratory infections and other ailments, sometimes with fatal consequences. Grant also left cats like Lilly to deteriorate and suffer month after month.

Several cats—including some with seemingly treatable conditions—died without veterinary care during the course of PETA’s investigation.

Grant allowed cats sick with fatal feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and leukemia to roam freely and come into contact with cats not known to have either. In order to “clean” sick cats’ faces, Grant roughly rubbed cats’ eyes and noses with Clorox wipes; insects swarmed around ailing cats at Caboodle; and cats were forced to endure disgusting living areas covered with vomit, trash, and waste and infested with roaches and maggots.

A dangerous bill is currently making its way through Florida’s legislature. Animal shelters would be forced to hand over animals to self-proclaimed, unregulated animal “rescues” just like Caboodle if the misleading “Animal Rescue Act” (S.B. 818 and H.B. 597) becomes law. PETA is calling on the bill’s sponsors to withdraw the legislation. Please help us make sure that happens by contacting these legislators—Rep. Joseph Abruzzo and Sen. Mike Bennett—now.

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Karen Lyons Kalmenson