That’s how other’s feel when Healthcare company’s deny people due to preexisting conditions or when people are denied the right medical treatment because their insurance doesn’t cover it. 

I hope he finds another outlet for his addiction.

Precisely.

…but Bush said we can all get free healthcare at our local emergency room?

This is the feel-good story of the year.

Hickory Dockery Dick, your cat is now a brick.

Does anyone else see a problem here?  Arizona will euthanize a kitten because of a $400.00 health expense, but Arizona won’t do anything to close/guard/protect its borders from the illegal alien Mexicans who wind up costing that state billions in additional health care expenses each year due to anchor pregnancies, property crimes, vehicular accidents, and various felonies committed against Americans, naturalized Americans, and other illegal aliens on Arizona’s soil…

In the time it took for me to scan this article dismissively, at least one child was aborted in America, and countless others murdered in the rest of the world. It’s a damn cat, people get a grip on your souls and your morality.

Human’s and life in general is overrated.

Perhaps we shouldn’t think we can describe life in a nice easy package.  

I can fix any and everything electronic to fit my needs.

Biologically, I don’t know if I can pick and choose the same way.

The Arizona Humane Society isn’t a government agency. In other words, it isn’t “Arizona.”

You’ll have to find someone else to spay, neuter and euthanize Mexicans.

+Scruffy The Kitten always pleases me

Duh!

Meanwhile….Abortionist are still  butchering babies by the truck load, and these holier-then-thou “animal rights” idiots are complaining about a f*cking cat.
I would have cooked the little rat bastard….they taste like chicken, you know?

This article is a metaphor for government rationed healthcare…coming soon to a Doctor near you!

Errr… outside of all the political gesturing, that was a pretty dick move by the HS if he could have used the credit card number or had the cash wired.

SORRY FOR BEING ON TOPIC

The humane society is a worthless organization. Most of the money they get goes to pay the executives salary. Hardly anything goes to helping animals.

he was prolly doin dope when his cat got wrapped in the barbed wire, dummy

You do know that a child cannot be aborted in the USA. A child means that a fetus has actually been delivered and taken a breath. Please don’t tell me that any life is important to you. If it is there are going to be a lot of guys in trouble for JO.

This cat we alive and breathing.

Birther alert.

The HS is not a care-center for abused animals….it’s comparative to an abortion clinic …the end of the road.
They just call it “humane” to make it sound prettier than “euthanasia” …..just like “Planned Parenthood” is prettier than “butchers”.

changing the meanings of words doesn’t change the act. You value cats over human beings. Don’t think there aren’t consequences for this moral idiocy.

Since you don’t like abortions…Don’t have one.

They are legal to have in the first two trimesters so STFU. God knows that the GOP/TP will not give the mother any money to care for having a child or another child.  I just love you “holier than thou anti-child” idiots.

Lets see…When I was pregnant, and I knew it at about 2 months, I most certainly WAS NOT carrying my fetus, I was carrying MY BABY. 

Whew! He is 18 and in college now. 

So strays should be left to roam the streets and hit or injured animals on the side of the road should just be left to die? Many vets offer services free of charge but the housing, care, feeding, shots, not to mention spay and neutering to help end the problem of unwanted pets and boarding of animals cost money. It does not go to executive pay.

Judging by the hateful, ignorant comments – America has bigger problems than the Humane Society. 

I’d have more sympathy for pro-life people if they fought for the cause in a positive manner instead of judging, attacking and hating – all of which the New Testament tells you not to do. 

However, people who donated to the Humane Society have every right to be angry when they aren’t using the money appropriately. 

Try having sympathy for the butchered baby and quit telling us what’s in the book you know nothing about.

Another dumb-assed liberal who defines “legal” as “right”
All things legal are not right….Bullshit Bear……That’s why some laws are amended or repealed.
Roe vs Wade should be repealed and killing assh*les like you should be legalized

You can spin murder to make yourself feel better if you wish…..Boo Boo Bitch….but it’s still  murder.
Did you kill your baby?

No, he’s a RECOVERING addict, and the cat was instrumental in his recovery. Try reading the article before posting.

you believe everything you read?

It’s much easier to believe everything I read then anything you say.

Mediaite has the web’s most ignorant posters.  I try to read through them quickly to find some nugget of common sense and all I see are fights, insults and off topic remarks.  Yeesh.  Getting to be a waste of time.

Actually Booberry, it’s a metaphor for the system we have now – folks who can’t pay don’t get treated. An’ they’s little eyes turn inna x’s, to put it in your vernacular. 

I know, right, Rocky? Sheesh! I keep trying to raise the bar with facts and reminders that if someone’s opinion differs from theirs it doesn’t necessarily make them a motherf*cking idiot liberal c**sucking babykilling a##wipe.

It simply means their opinion doesn’t match yours. There are a great many representatives from the bottom end of the gene pool here. Several have posted above, as you can see. Enjoy!

And you know this how?
(btw it’s “executives’ salaries” – plural – unless you meant there is one exceedingly greedy executive somewhere, sitting atop a pile of dead kittens and puppies, counting his money) 

Wait, weren’t we were talking about a kitten named Scruffy? 
But since you insist on calling Planned Parenthood “butchers,” it should be noted that abortions are an unpleasant but necessary fact of life for females worldwide. Nobody wants ‘em, but you gotta have ‘em available or it means dead or disfigured women.

No, ma’am, he was a baby once he fell out of you, but not before. Glad he’s going to college because education is one antidote to ignorance. 

Last month I had to put down my 13 year old Blood Hound, Otis.  He was my constant companion all those years as I had him since he was 10 weeks old.  He slept at end of my bed.  

Mr. Otis was filthy disgusting beast, I loved him and by my commitment to my old friend, I held him in my arms as the Vet pushed the plunger.  Some people give their pets to Vet to do the deed and leave.  I guess I cant blame them as I wept like a child!  Was one of the most profound moments of my life.

With that being said, I feel for Veterinarian and staff that are charged with euthanizing animals, day in, day out.  It can’t be any fun, and perhaps a bit of callousness appears.  

Ease up, as typically they are cleaning up other people’s mess…

Purveyor

You are one sick f*ck

That’s your comeback? Seriously? 

Great post. Sorry for losing your old buddy. We had our very healthy male English mastiff just drop dead one day. It was very painful and we still to this day believe he might have been poisoned by the neighborhood brats. 
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I think you are brain dead after reading your flippant post. 

Have you ever heard of Gastric Torsion aka Bloat?  Can kill a deep chested beast like your mastiff in 5 hours, if you don’t notice whats happening.

Is this a possibility?

I’ve had 4 Blood Hounds in the last 25 years.  A life support unit for a nose!  LOL

Now that you say it, he was already bloated up by the time we found him. He was an outside dog and he died while we were in bed. Had no abnormal signs the night before when my wife checked up on him @ 10pm. He was laying dead at 7am. So if something happened at night, we had no chance to notice it. He was a very good dog. Aggressive and territorial towards strangers but very loving towards his friends. Miss him.

If you don’t catch it and get the dog to vet where they insert a large syringe into stomach, the bloating shuts down all the vital organs, including lungs.

WOW!  I hope this doesn’t kick in the PTSD that you may have had after he died?

Will you get another monster, or, do you have one?  At least now you know what to watch for.

You should Google the subject.

I’m fairly sure there is one more Blood Hound in my life, but, they are a handful!

Purveyor

I’m ok, but the wife took it really hard. I did read up on it after you mentioned it and I really think that was the issue. Thanks for the heads up. 

yeah that would be wayne pascelle…

Wow…Are you Pissed about something? 

It seems like the article is about Scruffy getting euthanized, due to someone not affording treatment, NOT about your religious right wingnut beliefs on Roe v Wade.

Imagine, if you are capable of doing so, that you, or a loved one was FORCIBLY RAPED…

Would you carry the fetus or would you want the fetus removed?

IF you decide to have the baby, would you care and love the baby OR give it up for adoption?

If the latter…
What sort of life would this child have if it discovered that it was an unwanted pregnancy?

You have a LOT of thinking to do, before you throw your idiotic anti abortion rhetoric around.

Arizona Humane equates to the wondrous (sic) diabolical vitriolic pathological subhuman 
Society…

P l e a s e  R e a d!   Not to mention OSTL every news outlet in the country is carrying the story it is a conspirecy? against you.

Jane Arizona passed a law to prohibit illegal aliens from getting government funding and healthcare.  The Obama people are attempting or have made Arizona repeal the law.

It doesn’t matter if it was a child or an animal it is and was wrong to kill.!

What if some asshole euthanized one of thier children because it had a scratch or cut.You people disgust me.I am amazed by you your inability to show the sl bit of compassin, thats fucked up.

I had an abortion and I’m glad I did. Looked like a glob of snot.

I had an abortion and I’m glad I did. It was not a baby – I got up and looked at it. It was a glob of loogey.

Soop, you are in no position to place a value or purpose on any group of sentient beings. Non-human animals are no less sentient than we human animals. Remember God said in the Bible, “Whatsoever ye do to the least of thee, ye also doest unto me.” God and Jesus hate animal abuse.

Soop, then keep it in your pants and don’t get any women knocked up. Now you’ve done your part. You are in no position to judge the value or purpose of any living sentient being, cat, elephant, or otherwise. You are an ignorant, speciest, uneducated, illiterate redneck, lacking a soul, and morally bankrupt.

I was carrying a fetus at 2 months and it was a fetus. I looked at it when it was removed and it was a glob of snot.

Are you crazy? Rocket Scientist, NOT! Read the article. This is the Arizona Humane Society, not HSUS. They are not affiliated. Local humane societies have nothing to do with each other or HSUS. What “executives” does the Arizona Humane Society have, Einstein? And btw, if you were one, the correct grammar would be Environmental Expert, no Environmentalist Expert, but obviously you are an expert on very little. Journalist, my ass.

Another moron… It’s Pacelle, you idiot.

She’s right, moron, the New Testament does command that. I have an advanced degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Thank you for being present holding your friend in his last moments. That’s always the right thing to do for the companion animal, no matter how uncomfortable it may be for the caretaker, because that is what the animal wants.

Soopermexican–yes and we humans are so superior to other animals.  Just look around the world, can’t you tell?…Devastatingly classic mix of arrogance and ignorance. 

the rest of us are. you, I have my doubts about.

I can’t judge anything but you can judge me. You are as intelligent as your moral values are. That is, not at all. (didn’t want to leave you in the dark)

Jesus wasn’t referring to cats, you degenerate. Good Lord.

EVERYONE! Please share Scruffy’s Facebook page with your friends so we can help protect all animals from unspeakable acts of cruelty. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scruffy-the-Cat/327995337220337

Screw the “butchered” “baby” and pay attention to the ones that are starving or bring beaten right in front of you.

You are a judgmental trolling fuck-tard. “God” won’t let you in if you keep that shit up. You’re a preacher aren’t you.

Something smells very fishy about this case. 

One thing is sure…if you read the press release on the Arizona Humane Society website, and then try to reconcile it with what the Public Relations damage-control expert Ms. Pearson alleges, there appears to be a problem. 

From the Arizona Humane Society’s Press Release posted on their website: ” Scruffy was brought to AHS after getting tangled in razor or barbed wire. Her injuries were significant. She was suffering, her muscles were exposed. Her owner could not pay for treatment himself, and allowing a day to pass without treatment was inhumane. AHS is not allowed by law to hold an animal until payment is made. Scruffy was in urgent need; therefore Mr. Dockery made the heart-wrenching decision to surrender his pet on Dec 8th. “ 

Then….pair that with what the article from USA TODAY-LIFE states: ” Pearson acknowledged Scruffy’s injuries were treatable but said they were so significant that clinic staff could not return the cat to Dockery without treatment. She said the staff also could not let the animal go without treatment for 24 hours.” Which is it??? Were Scruffy’s injuries so significant that treatment was not even reasonable, or is this just about economics? Do you mean to tell me that the Humane Society would charge him $400.00 for treatment, but that they could not refer this gentleman to even one veterinarian in the area who would work with him or allow him to pay his bill in installments, or as Mr. Dockery says, pay the bill outright with a credit card, or via Western Union. Any professional organization would have established service-level agreements with professional providers in the area, regardless of whether it is a professional, public, private, or volunteer agency. This leads me to believe that this Humane Society, and perhaps the Humane Society as a whole, needs to evaluate who is crafting their policies, procedures, processes, and even whether they can live up to their mission statement. I will be monitoring this case closely.

Please donate only to no kill shelters. Otherwise you waste your money. New York SPCA nursed a pit bull back to health that had been thrown off a roof and almost killed. Then they determined that it had “issues” (who wouldn’t after being thrown off a roof?) Pet’s Alive a no kill shelter offered to take the animal and place it in a forever home with them. She had been through so much. Instead the SPCA refused, actually ignored the request and murdered the animal. That is like the state spending your money to heal the broken leg of a prisoner only to put him to death after he has recovered. If taken by the no kill shelter the animal would not have been given a chance to harm a child or anyone else. It would have received love, exercise and compassion. Something it had not known from the previous owners or the SPCA. Then to top it off the SPCA fought tooth and nail to prevent OREO’s law from passing which would give animals the right to be adopted by no kill shelters instead of murdered.

I killed a weed the other day and liked it.

OMG, for real?!?  You KNOW exactly what Jesus was “referencing”??  You knew HIM personally and spoke and conversed with HIM directly?  How amazing!!  I’ve never heard of a 2000-year old living human being. 

Praise the LORD, we have a miracle alive to tell us precisely what Jesus meant!!

W-R-O-N-G!!!  Investigate and do research for before you make a flippant comment!  This Human Society’s CEO makes $282K per year salary, PLUS their 2010 financial report showed an entry labelled “cash-on-hand” of nearly $2 million!!  So, before you go irrationalizing an argument – check your facts! 

They have millions in excess cash, can afford to hire a PR spin-doctor to cover their a$$e$, and NOW change a policy where they will accept credit card payments (ironically, this policy did not apply to donations!!).  Yet, they WOULD NOT accept his mother’s card payment, CHOOSING instead to LIE and MURDER this man’s 9-month old kitten?????

A heart-wrenching story, and I, too, have had to sit with several pets when it was their time to pass comfortably and out of pain!

BUT, that has nothing to do with the behavior of this Humane Society’s employees!  They lied and deceived the pet owner, refused his payment for treatment, and THEN elected to dispose of the kitten!!  There was NO humanity in this action, and it was calculated callousness, putting it lightly at  that!

A heart-wrenching story, and I, too, have had to sit with several pets when it was their time to pass comfortably and out of pain!

BUT, that has nothing to do with the behavior of this Humane Society’s employees!  They lied and deceived the pet owner, refused his payment for treatment, and THEN elected to dispose of the kitten!!  There was NO humanity in this action, and it was calculated callousness, putting it lightly at  that!

Quote:  ”calculated callousness,” hmm?

I suspect, you blame the Police for perceived infractions, when they deal with rioters and criminals?  Moreover, I suspect you blame Soldiers for killing a civilian, even though the “bad guys” used them as human shields?

We all have bad days at work, but the folks at a Humane Society, must have them more than most.  They do a job most of us would prefer to avoid.  I don’t see any semblance of deliberate animal abuse in this scenario, only a case of unfortunate dispassion.

“Ease up” 

U.S.
Animal Protection’s animal shelter reform division is inundated weekly
with news of shelters killing people’s beloved pets as well as
euthanizing inhumanely. Exorbitant salaries taken in by so called humane
societies yet, mass killings continue and in many shelters there is
evidence of inhumane killing. There is a shelter/sanctuary located in
North West Arizona that I would like to see brought to the attention of
Arizona residents that receives little to no funding takes no salaries
yet receives hundreds of animals per year worthy of contributions and
support. This shelter/sanctuary is in dire need of help yet has seen
very little. It’s hard to see so many unaware people send money to
shelters that kill. This is not a solution. Rescued Unwanted Furry
Friends Foundation is a save haven for animals and nearly 300 reside
here with over 10,000 that have been adopted. All animals are spayed and
neutered as well as vaccinated upon their arrival while they await for
their forever homes or live out their lives in comfort and love. This
rescue/sanctuary is battling the county bureaucracy and continue saving
the lives of these precious animals and are not killed. This is a no
kill rescue/shelter/sanctuary. RUFFF believes every life is valuable and
not disposable.

 This is a shelter/sanctuary where people can feel comfortable donating
and know they are not paying for euthanasia drugs that are killing
animals. Please either call or visit the Sanctuary and Rescue shelter
for animals in Golden Valley Arizona. You will see the way a shelter
should be run. Mass killing is unnecessary and a lazy way out of finding
a solution to overpopulation. There are many cases just like the
Arizona humane every year where people lose there beloved family
companion animals. Please check out RUFFF and direct locals to consider a
donation to this wonderful shelter and wonderful woman doing all she
can for animals and doing it far better without a salary let alone a six
figure salary. Go to http://www.RUFFFHouse.org to find out more about this wonderful shelter/sanctuary.

Interesting observation you make.  Well done. 

 ”God gave man dominion over the earth”  I believe God meant a benevolent stewardship, not the cavalier use of a resource?

I wrote a paper once, arguing that animals have “Rights.”  They do not have the same rights as humans, but, “Rights” nonetheless.  For instance, a human may take an animal for sustenance, but the animal has a fundamental right, NOT to be tortured to death in the process?  Part of the “stewardship I mention above.”

I was surprised at the negativity I received by some people who simply viewed animals as little more than rock.  Oh well…  A battle for another day, as I have plenty fights now.

Purveyor

Leave it to the anti-abortion goofs to turn a cat killing into another rant about babies.  Stick to the subject matter.  They killed a KITTEN, not a damned baby!  Using these formats to push YOUR personal invasion into someone else’s life is ridiculous.  Go to your church and discuss this crap with your fellow jesus worshipers and naive believers in the “Grandfather in the Sky” theory of how we got here.  Rant to the killers of the cat, not abortionists.  The Society was wrong and hopefully, this will cause them to review their policies on sick animals.  Leave it at that, bible thumpers!  You make the world a VERY irritating place to be for us people who use SCIENCE and PROVABLE FACTS to learn how we REALLY got here on this rock.

Leave it to the anti-abortion goofs to turn a cat killing into another rant about babies.  Stick to the subject matter.  They killed a KITTEN, not a damned baby!  Using these formats to push YOUR personal invasion into someone else’s life is ridiculous.  Go to your church and discuss this crap with your fellow jesus worshipers and naive believers in the “Grandfather in the Sky” theory of how we got here.  Rant to the killers of the cat, not abortionists.  The Society was wrong and hopefully, this will cause them to review their policies on sick animals.  Leave it at that, bible thumpers!  You make the world a VERY irritating place to be for us people who use SCIENCE and PROVABLE FACTS to learn how we REALLY got here on this rock.