For 22 years, Elizabeth Epps has groomed and boarded my animals. No one loves animals more or works harder than she to save the unloved, throwaways or pets that people have to give up.
Shame on anyone who would set up a contrived situation to create a totally false picture of reality.
Whey Mrs. Epps arrived home from a five-hour hospital stay recently, she found animal control officers dragging the cats she was caring for out of her home using that infamous pole used for vicious dogs.
I am told that these animals all had been people’s pets, that they were all spayed or neutered and that some had been declawed.
I guess that, because they had been so traumatized by the experience, most were classified as feral, and more than half of them were euthanized immediately.
Readers, please support a budding Humane Society shelter. We need someone in Suffolk besides Mrs. Epps to care about animals. And we need people who will not rush to judgment without investigating unfounded allegations against people like her.
This letter to the Editor of the SNH defends Mrs. Epps who has tirelessly helped animals in trouble over many years. We think she should be honored for her efforts so what prompted the sudden raid on her home and the euthanizing of so many of her cared for animals?
2 comments:
It looks like a "civil Servant" or two need to be fired for rushing in without having the facts and investigating. Perhaps Bennett and Hinton could make a career at Animal Control.
A picture is worth a thousand words. While I am sure that Mrs. Epps' intentions were good, perhaps the struggle of caring for a dozen cats, among other animals, was just too great. The SNH reported that animals were confined without water, with 'moldy items' in their crates (food or feces?). A situation like that would not occur in the five hours Mrs. Epps now claims she was gone. When pictures of the animals and conditions are displayed in court, I bet that Mrs. Epps' supporters will have a clearer idea of what was really going on in her home.
For all of her supporters - who turned her in? Who let her into the house to see the conditions in the first place? I cannot believe this is a one-sided act of persecution.
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