(US-NJ) Letter to Editor re: "Judge: Shelter cannot allow animal tests"

[CompassionForCam at aol.com]

May 13, 2003

Letters to the Editor
Courier-Post
Cherry Hill, NJ

Help animals
Re: May 1, 2003 "Judge: Shelter cannot allow animal tests"

Allowing shelter animals to be used for medical experimentation has been 
stopped dead in its tracks at the Camden County Animal Shelter and Adoption 
Center. According to witnesses, healthy and adoptable dogs and cats suffered 
and died because of it. The judge's order said no more testing and hopefully 
it will be obeyed. 

Camden County freeholders contract the group that runs the shelter and 
allowed the testing in exchange for money in the first place. The group's 
name is the Humane Society of Southern NJ, formerly the Camden County Humane 
Society. Their president is Richard Perr, an attorney for Fineman and Bach of 
Haddonfield, and he's been in charge ever since the place opened. 

If Perr's group remains the county-funded shelter's name needs to be changed 
because it doesn't apply. The word "shelter" is defined as save haven, refuge 
or sanctuary. The only word that fits a place that year after year has a 
despicable record of killing about 70% of all dogs and cats that enter the 
building is pound, such as in impoundment facility. The words "adoption 
center" are another illusion for a place with annual adoption rates of about 
18%. The rest are reclaimed or arrive dead, according to the state Department 
of Health.

So, it's up to the gatekeepers of hell, our permanent county government, to 
keep Camden County the "Auschwitz for animals", as its often described in 
correspondence we receive, or find a new contractor.  

Marion Churchill, President
Compassion for Camden, Inc.
Cherry Hill

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To learn more, including witness statements, go to 
http://www.compassionforcamden.org/newsletter/2003_si/2003_special_issue.html 

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