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Please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
Please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
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Hi,
I am a senior citizen and Petaluma has been
my home for the past 35
years. I love Petaluma. It is a wonderful City with plenty
of history and wonderful people. Like everything else or anywhere
else, politics is not perfect in Petaluma. Sometimes a group of
people can govern a city and if no one pays attention, bad regulations
can become laws.
It happened in Petaluma in 2004 when a
group of people with too much
influence with City Council drafted an ordinance that Council passed
unanimously. The result has been high cost to the City and
citizens of Petaluma and the death of hundreds innocent animals.
You can find out more here: Petaluma Feral Cats
Continued
here
"The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
in which its animals are treated."
Mohandas Gandhi
And please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
The
Voice of Petaluma City Council Candidate
David Glass
Under
construction
"The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
in which its animals are treated."
Mohandas
Gandhi
And please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
Continued from above
David Glass was
mayor of Petaluma in 2004 when they voted unanimously
to adopt the inhumane law that banned outdoors cats from almost the
whole city of Petaluma. The ordinance was drafted by
Petaluma Animal
Shelter Manager, Nancee Tavares and a group of Shollenberger Park
Docents and modeled
after organizations such as ABC and PRBO. (Read about it here)
Soon after adopting the ordinance, animal shelter began the
extermination of Petaluma outdoor cats.
Recently David Glass
met at my home with a group of concerned citizens and we
spoke solely about the ordinance and homeless and feral cats. I
don't think
anyone
on the council truly understood the impact of the ordinance they passed
in 2004. As I often said, homeless and feral cats, if you don't
see them, they
don't exist. They are invisible. They have no voice.
But for the
first time, I think David Glass really heard
the voices of Petaluma feral cats. We spoke with passion about
these
innocent victims of our society and our responsibility to them.
We
made him aware of the considerable cost to this city to trap and kill
the cats. We provided him with information about the alternative
method, TNR, adopted by many cities all over the United States.
When
the ordinance comes to the City
Council for a change, I feel
confident that the voices of these animals will be felt and
heard.
David Glass is a man with good common sense and I think he understands
that
to continue the cruel treatment of our Petaluma animals will have
severe financial consequences
to the City of Petaluma by loss of tourist revenue. In
America, we
love our pets and cats are the largest number of household pets in
America.
Marcelle Guy
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Senior Advisory
Committee 
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