Comments on: New Meloche Complaints are Sickening

By: Kismet

Kismet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:04:13 +0000

Seems to me that a funding problem for animal care could be helped tremendously by getting rid of a few managers in favor of less costly Animal Care staff. Staffing at LMAS is seriously top-heavy. Why? The budget at LMAS has increased by 150% in the few years Meloche has been here. Don’t give me that garbage about funding. Sounds like “witness” is brainwashed.

By: EdenSprings

EdenSprings — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:05:44 +0000

Dear “Witness”: Well, ain’t that special? What about the current quarantine of all kittens with ringworm out there and the chronic feline respiratory illness in the rest of the feline population?

Or, what about the fact that all those animals are freezing to death due to the fact that there’s no heat in the building and more animals will get ill by the day now that winter’s coming?

Or, how about the multiple-day accumulation of feces that the dogs are allowed to walk through and sleep in? That sure sounds sanitary!

If any citizen kept their animals in those conditions, MAS would seize them and they’d be in court before they knew what happened. So, why is it OK for that to happen at the shelter?

Meloche is one sick SOB and nothing out there will ever change until he and all his lackeys are G-O-N-E!

It’s sick and pathetic that any animal is deliberately treated in this manner, much less than by someone who is a veterinarian. I feel sorry for anyone with a conscience who tries to accomplish any good out there.

By: jake

jake — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:58:51 +0000

Watcher: I’ve been screaming for years about Jerry but no one has wanted to listen, always dismissing. Funny how everything is coming to fruition.

And now that he’s running statewide, we can dig back into his deals from the 1990s. Oh, what fun.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:56:36 +0000

We can only hope that this disturbed individual will haunt Jerry’s next campaign.

I joked in a previous post about pictures of the Mayor and barnyard animals, but seriously folks, how can anyone defend this guy?

By: chief

chief — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:19:31 +0000

I can”t believe that all the Metro Councilmen have just ignored this!….Typical Jerry reaction, just ignore it, change the subject without answering the specific questions, act like everyone else is wrong & count on no one pressing the questions to be answered in his face.
No telling what or why Jerry wants to protect him, but there is a reason!….Jerry never admits he wrong or f’d up……You’d think the Metro Council would demand some accountability from MAS & the Mayor …..Mayor Jerry tells his boy Tandy & friends to lay off…..and they do what they are TOLD.

By: a witness-but about the animals

a witness-but about the animals — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:23:46 +0000

Thanks for letting me share with someone who might care, what I see when I am at the shelter. I have been a recent witness that kittens exposed to FIP were quarantined away from other kittens/cats and each prospective adopter was told of the exposure of those kittens and had the option to talk to vets about this and many chose to adopt these kittens with full knowledge. There are vets who believe FIP is a mutation of a virus and not a spread contagion. Animals that have come in with broken legs but not sufficient injury to justify immediate euthanasia (have to be able to defend in court if owner comes to claim a lost/stray and we have euthanized) have been denied treatment during the legal 5 day “wait” period for “strays” and then, if lucky post 5-days, taken in by a rescue which provided treatment. I do not understand the reasons for lack of treatment during “stray wait” except that part of it is financial. Many of these animals will be euthanized and treatment followed by euthanizing may also not be a good option. Treatment can also be painful. Pain-killers or something of that sort seem to be a humane option but perhaps there is fear that pain-killers/absence of pain might allow the animal to reinjure itself since pain is a deterrent to reinjury. There may be a fear of treatment of an animal on stray status that could be claimed by an owner. Many healthy, adoptable, friendly, and even young animals that would have been euthanized right off the bat under the Eric Blow era now have a chance but that chance entails more crowding and thus the chance to become sick. The funding and staffing of the shelter is what is most inadequate and leads to most aspects of less than humane treatment. On second shift there are times when one employee in-house works alone and is responsible for walk-in dumping of animals by owners, filling food bowls and feeding200+ dogs, ensuring all animals (ferrets/cats/rabbits/pigs…) have food/water/a bed/proper temperatures, while fielding and responding to intake from 4 Officer trucks on duty throughout the city, responding to walk-in requests for euthanasia of dogs that can no longer walk due to age or have tumors or whatever, logged all interactions, intake of animals-taking animal photos, vaccinating some animals. etc.. All these things are of equal importance and one employee is to do them all. This is an issue that is beyond the director’s control perhaps and bleeds back to the council and the mayor as well. People dispose of wonderful animals that have clearly been good pets on whims and that is a real demoralizer for anyone who is in the shelter environment as we know 60-75% of the dogs and even more of the cats will be euthanized.

By: EdenSprings

EdenSprings — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:22:36 +0000

Hey, Mona–did you ever get that life that Templar insisted on?

I was thinkin’ about upgrading my GED with some night school classes, but now that I see what a DVM and an MBA get you in this world, maybe I’ll just stay stupid, ya think?

By: montanamona

montanamona — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:15:36 +0000

amen.

By: Thinknaloud

Thinknaloud — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:34:39 +0000

For all the people that worked at MAS and truly cared about the animals but were fired by Meloche; and for all the employees at MAS who have been mistreated, manipulated or harassed in one way or another; and for the steer with a broken leg and pelvis that was kept alive for weeks under Meloche’s orders; and for all the dogs, cats, puppies and kittens that have disappeared, were not given medical treatment, were grossly overcrowded in an outdated shelter to appease the sickness of a hoarder exploiter and then killed because of indefensible shelter management; and for all the owners whose pets were hijacked, held for ransom and sterilized against their owners wishes, I hope that Meloche, Mayor Abramson and anyone else who has aided and abetted this reign of misery goes to jail.
Meloche withheld medical treatment in Canada and was found guilty of a malpractice suit because of it. He was found guilty of not keeping records of steroids in Canada.
He withheld proper medical treatment on a dog that died in the shelter he ran in Florida and fired the whistle blower who reported him. The whistle blower sued him and the city and they settled out of court.
He over crowded the shelter in Florida. He banned rescue groups from helping at the shelter. He set up side financial accounts that he couldn’t justify and account for. He had no standard operating procedures. Sound familiar?
The difference is that FL forced him out in 18 months.
Who’s protecting Meloche and why? This sordid, sick and tragic mess is a disgrace to Louisville Metro and it must stop.

By: montanamona

montanamona — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:14:24 +0000

none of this is news to any of us who have had contact with Dr. Meloche and his callous attitudes towards animals ( and women). WHY has Jerry done nothing/said nothing/addressed none of this? His administration has known since January. One cannot help but speculate. This is twisted politics.