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Hoarding is a psychiatric diagnosis, and this is nothing more than animal hoarding at its worst. If this was a dog kennel, it would need a license to operate, and horse farms should be no different. Horse farms that breed and/or board should be licensed and subject to routine inspection of the facilities, paperwork showing proof of inoculations (which should be required, ie rabies, EWT, Coggins), and feed storage. Taking care of horses DOES require money, commitment, and the ability to know when you can not provide for anymore. It is like having more children than you know you can provide for ----and I already help take care of too many of those with my taxes!
I do hope Animal Welfare has NOT forgotten the Burnham property. I don't want them to give up on these horses. Winter is coming...
Nope. I'm just saying there is a right way and a wrong way. State workers were mentioned so I responded -- don't know of others being scrutinized other than the state workers. And...of course every work place has different guidelines. I guess, the point I'm getting at is -- you can be a whistle blower but do it going through the appropriate channels and keep going up. Don't whistle blow slamming your employer on a public forum because no employer in their right mind will let that pass. That's it. You wouldn't! People need to see through the trees here and stop bringing in the emotions. Do the job, stick to your beliefs, go by the guidelines, use the laws to your advantage and keep the personal stuff out of it because if you don't, everyone will take it personally even your employer. Then it won't be about the animal anymore it will be about the human.
Everet also wanted to mention, not all of the people that work for the state that she is going after work in her department or are her employees and therefore are not under the same "rules" about disclosure, maybe you need to read the state handbook.
and personally as for the staff who work at Animal Welfare and have become whistle blowers (which is a legal and protected right) I give huge kudos to her workers who dared to stand up and say something was wrong..what are you saying, keep letting the horses die and keep your mouth shut when you are one of the people who work there and see this happen time and time again??!!?
More changes? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the hierarchy changed. And who is Norma accountable to now if not the Commissioner?