17 responses so far ↓

• 1 Jessica Reid // Nov 23, 2011 at 12:30 pm

  80 animals per day = 29,200 pets in a year

  According to their OWN numbers from Oct 1, 2010 to Oct 1, 2011 – they took in a *total* of 12,149.

  That’s a lot less than half of 29,200…

• 2 Rosebuds // Nov 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

  FACT: Either fire the idiotic motherfuckers who work there and can’t do their jobs, or micromanage the hell out of every step of their day to ensure they do their jobs correctly (at present, most aren’t) – OR you will end up with the clusterfuck that is MAS.

  Having worked there for 2.5 years, endured Meloche, Zelinsky, and that temporary EMS lady whose name I can’t even recall at the moment, as well as Chief Community Bitch Sadiqa “I’ma JUDGE and I can read BODY LANGUAGE!” Reynolds, written NUMEROUS proposals (copies of which were provided to agency director, Mayor, mayoral candidates, city council) with suggestions for improving that shithole, AND having received feedback that the proposals were SPOT ON yet watched as none of the suggestions were EVER implemented – I know exactly that’s wrong with the place. It’s the people in charge refusing to MANAGE their employees and ensure procedures are followed. MAS policy as written is pretty messed up, but if the damn thing was actually followed, even half of the time, the place would change overnight. Consider, then, what would happen if the policies themselves were actually changed to be no-kill policies – we could be a national model. Instead, we’re a damn embarrassment.

  This city should be DISGUSTED that a boy with a high school diploma and two years experience sticking his head up the asses of HSUS officials is getting paid nearly $100K per year to “run” our shelter (and lie, apparently). Maybe, if the fucking thing actual got RAN, it wouldn’t be such an egregious misuse of funds.

  Fucking pathetic. The good ol’ boy, who’s-got-funds-to-finance-my-campaign, I’m-entitled-because-my-daddy-______ attitude that permeates the political culture in this city and state is why Kentucky lags far behind the rest this country, and why many of Kentucky’s best and brightest are fleeing this state faster than they can be counted. You’d think our city leaders would recognize the importance of modernizing their system of governance, allowing smart, well-meaning citizens the chance to step in and help FIX the problems. Yet, they don’t. In fact, in many cases they work tirelessly to push us away, pull the wool over our eyes and deafen our ears to the true facts by blasting bullshit from their bullhorns.

  Fucking gross.

  I need a shower now. And a stiff glass of Woodford.

• 3 G'town Reader // Nov 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

  The Metro keeps recycling the “same ol’ same ol’” either out of laziness, or to keep them in their generous govt. pension plan until their cushy retirement. Scally? – I’d still like to know what perverse, knee-jerk reaction got HIM into the “system.”

• 4 samantha ell // Nov 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm

  Doesn’t Patty Swope have connections to HSUS? And was a contributor to Fischy’s campaign? Hmmmm.

• 5 jake // Nov 23, 2011 at 2:03 pm

  Feel free to read our previous stories about Swope and her involvement with the KHS.

  She, along with one of Greg’s right-hand women, are 100% responsible for this LMAS mess. Greg stupidly (not ignorantly) swallows everything they feed him despite reality hitting him in the face 24/7.

• 6 Studs Turkle // Nov 23, 2011 at 3:05 pm

  Patty Swope has the crazy eyes.

  Incompetence is not a management issue within Metro Government. If your subordinates do a sub-standard job it just means that your job is clearly needed to keep them on the straight and narrow.

• 7 Chris // Nov 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm

  Jake was and is absolutely correct about the two suggestions attributed to Justin Scally.

  Scally’s first suggestion is that a shelter must be a non-profit organization in order to successfully go no-kill.
  This suggestion is false.

  There are many, many municipal animal shelters that have transitioned to no-kill. Only a few miles away in Shelbyville is the no-kill Shelby County Animal Shelter & Control. In Scally’s home state of Maryland, the Allegany County Animal Control & Shelter replaced their high-kill shelter director in 2010 and went from a 15% live-release rate to a 90% rate so far in 2011. Travis County Texas has the Austin Animal Center that absorbed animals displaced by the Bastrop wildfires and still managed to keep its live-release rate above 90%. Wyandotte County and the city of Kansas City, Kansas are served by a joint partnership between the city’s Animal Control Office and the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City, and have gone from a 47% live-release rate to a 97% rate. King George County Animal Control in Virginia maintains a 98% live-release rate. Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in Texas has a 90% live-release rate so far in 2011. The list goes on and on.

  These are all open-admission municipal shelters. Open admission means that they are legally bound to accept any animal surrendered. They are forbidden from picking and choosing which animals to accept in order to artificially improve their live-release statistics.

  Scally’s second suggestion is that it is not possible for a high-intake shelter to go no-kill.
  This suggestion is also false.

  The intake of animals to LMAS, reported on the Louisville government web site, was 15,250 in 2009; 14,150 in 2010; and will end up being somewhere above 12,000 in 2011. The intake has remained steady over the past three years at around 40 dogs and cats per day, not the 80 that Scally is reported to have stated.

  Comparable to Louisville, in Washoe County, Nevada the joint partnership of Washoe County Regional Animal Services and the Nevada Humane Society take in over 15,000 dogs and cats per year and have a live-release rate of 90%. Also comparable to Louisville, the Portland Oregon Humane Society takes in over 10,000 animals per year and saves over 97% of them.

  Both of Scally’s suggestions are false.

  Scally works every day in the activity of animal control and sheltering. He ought to know what is going on in his career field. We are left to wonder whether Scally is deliberately obscuring the facts or whether he is simply ignorant of them. Neither case is very reassuring.

• 8 nova china // Nov 24, 2011 at 8:06 am

  Take the management model for LMAS and apply it to every department at every level of local, state and federal government that has anything to do with wellbeing of the majority of the citizens under its jurisdiction and you’ll have a true picture of how things work in this country.

• 9 totalfailure // Nov 25, 2011 at 1:02 pm

  The bed-wetting boy wonder is clueless. The Zoo is a non-profit governmental agency that fundraises and is very successful at it. They were, now that Fischy, according to his office, is recycling is buddies (Swope is back on the Zoo board) I doubt they’ll be as successful. If Scally had a clue, he would realize he probably could partner with local groups, formulate a plan, and raise funds together for new No-Kill facility and bulldoze the death chamber. Seriously, a bunch of drunk monkeys could do better than anyone in the mayor’s office. I especially like how Fischy’s own peeps complain about him and they are just as inept as he is. Please note Fishy, you surrounded yourself with peeps that care about themselves and a paycheck. That binder of “how to beat Fischer” will need a library to be housed in. Year 1 mistakes is already a 26 volume set.

• 10 jake // Nov 25, 2011 at 1:07 pm

  Just poking fun at his age isn’t acceptable, I don’t think.

  But including it when pointing out his severe lack of experience, blatant dishonesty and unwillingness to do the right thing?

  Then, by all means, call him a bed-wetter.

• 11 totalfailure // Nov 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm

  I admit, its a professional attack not a personal one. I don’t know him. I only know he isn’t fit for the job like Director. He’s in good company though. Fischer isn’t fit, Sadiqa isn’t fit and more than half of the mayor’s staff isn’t fit. Oh Scally, Waterfront Development fundraises, the Parks Department fundraises, the Police Department has a foundation and it fundraises. Don’t worry Scally it is all your fault. Fischy and folks don’t understand that investing in a single fundraiser can result in funds for their organization that are 3 or 4 times their own salary. Scally is just a “yes” person. Fisher hired a go-along that isn’t capable of doing the right thing. He only cares doing what the mayor via Sadiqa says. He’s a joke. He is unable to lead and only knows how to follow. He’s a coward that got job because he is young and he is unproven and he seriously could care less about making Louisville a No-Kill city.

• 12 TRANSPLANTED TO KENTUCKY // Nov 25, 2011 at 3:34 pm

  I agree with totalfailure. Now here is the big surprise- During the hiring process when we actually believed that the chosen committees would have some input and believed that Fischer actually wanted a NO KILL community that was nationally recognized, there were plans to fund raise and actually do an extreme makeover over a two to three week period this month with the shelter. There were significant plans to build a world class shelter- a community project (not for 900 aka Meloche because with NO KILL we don’t need it). We had a contractor and much of the material committed as long the shelter was truely committed to NO KILL. There were plans to have the public participate and sign the final beams, bricks both memory and honorary for the walkways would be sold as well as tiles painted with purchaser’s images would be made and displayed in the entry. We even had a potential donation for a mosaic tentitively committed for the entry. I could go on and on. NO ONE wants to build a new death facility so until Fischer and crew decide that a world class facility takes hard work and a community partnership and not jobs for your buddies or for those who just say “yes” then we will be continued to be mired in this mess and be looked on nationally as the community that just couldn’t do it. Thanks to Jake for keeping this mess at LMAS in the public debate!!!

• 13 jake // Nov 25, 2011 at 3:36 pm

  “We”?

  Last time I checked, very few people actually believed Greg Fischer.

• 14 ed haliday // Nov 25, 2011 at 5:43 pm

  You get the leadership you deserve, you voted for your Mayor, after his character was well proven. Now reap it, and continue to color in that straight party circle with your no. 2 pencil,.
  Pretty some you’ll have a well deserved “Mason Dixon ” version of Detroit, and Chicago.

• 15 totalfailure // Nov 25, 2011 at 10:26 pm

  Haliday makes zero sense. I voted for the other guy knowing that Fischy and Trust Fund advisors have zero clue at what they are doing. It’s not just LMAS, its every department, many of which Fischy has never visited or contacted since being in office He cares more about being in the Voice Tribune rather being a leader. His staff attacks those who call them out, its the say ” anything” to get elected, its the fact that a few think that having more money than others automatically qualifies them as being the smartest person in the, its the lack of vision, backbone or guts to do something for the community rather than doing something for themselves. Even the Directors that are half-way smart or the members of Metro Council sit on the sidelines and choose to do nothing (Jim King). People want leadership and someone who puts the community first. Fischer is a four-year mistake. There is no way this community re-elects this spine-less liar, gutless follower, thin skinned prick, double talker. About a year ago, Jacob posted a pic of Fisher at Proof shortly after being elected. He was alone and had a blank stare. I imagine he is alone and has that same lost look on his face every time he shows up to work. His daddy’s money can’t buy this guy a clue. He’s lost and surround himself with vindictive assholes that are just as clueless. He knew months before going into office about LMAS. He did nothing. He made it worse. The other issues within Metro weren’t secrets; he knew and he did nothing. He made it worse. He doesn’t care, his staff doesn’t care, the “traditional” press doesn’t care and I know many in this community do care and there are people on both sides the aisle that can send Fischer back into his daddy’s business.

• 16 I told you so // Nov 26, 2011 at 8:17 pm

  I agree with the above sentiments regarding our mayor. When he was running for election he attended practically every function that No Kill Louisville threw. For Christs sake, he even went to a party in the backyard of one of their members in an attempt to fool everyone into thinking he actually gave a shit about animals and get elected. It worked. He won by only about 7,000 votes, and I firmly believe most of these were because he acted (I emphasize the work ACTED) like he cared. The people that voted for him are ashamed of their mistake and won’t make the same mistake twice. There is no way this guy will be re-elected and if by some miracle he comes up with a new group to exploit for their vote, I am moving out of this fucked up city.

• 17 totalfailure // Nov 27, 2011 at 12:32 am

  I apologize for those trying to read my posts. Missing ton of words and some my sentences lack any thought. I get so mad at these fools I type without thought. Fischy is classic textbook version of failed leadership. The last guy caused severe cracks in the City’s foundation and over the years the cracks got worse. The new guy has no clue how to fix the cracks thus making things much worse with his half-assed attempts that widen and deepen the cracks. It takes brains, backbone, balls and common sense to be a leader. Some leaders have a combination of the aforementioned but Fischy lacks all them. He has no business being Mayor. Its only going to get worse. Its heart-breaking to have so many animals being wrongfully killed. Now we have the guy that lacks compassion and brains selecting a new police chief. Drugs and murder will increase with the wrong choice.He hasn’t done anything about LMAS, EMS, MSD etc. what makes you think he will do something right with the police chief. We are all screwed no matter if you have four legs or two.

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