HEAVY HEART Responders

To Whom It May Concern,
I must admit this is the saddest letter I have EVER written.
I actually worked at Pet Rescue for over a month--I love animals
but I just couldn't see the faces of those poor innocent animals anymore that just wanted
a home. I was never taught what to do-Penny Horack, just figured I would
somehow know everything. She avoided me as much as possible. My
job was to help with this elderly lady,that helped twice a week and they
were so lucky for her. I never saw Penny do anything there. We would start
to clean the cat cages in the big house(the one that had a sink with
running water-the small building with animals cages upon each other didn't).
We would have to go as fast as we could--because no one was going to help us.
( a break--see if you can drink a bottle of water, you brought). I
would want to pet or play ONCE in a while with these animals striving for love
and would be told to go faster on cleaning. We where out of supplies
often, so everyone would not only bring newspaper for cages BUT we had to
bring Kitty litter, food - I brought new pillowcases for their beds and toys, a
volunteer, I think we had only 3(?) would bring home the pets' laundry. If Penny
brought anything in, she wouldn't get there usually until mid-morning, if she
came. By the time you bought everything there went your paycheck but it was for
the ANIMALS. Some of us didn't care. Everyone there THAT cared wanted to bring
an animal home. I already have pets so couldn't have,Penny probably would have
denied me-she does that to A LOT to qualified people, till the animals get older
with no discipline and some people would bring them back usually because of
illness or aggression. I can remember cleaning cages that had signs to give medicine BUT NO
MEDICINE was there and the animals needed it. I would ask my fellow worker and
she said write it up(I brought my own paper) Penny would take care of it--SHE
NEVER DID. Usually, Sharon Seremek(an angel for pets) would try to get them
into
her vet and pay for them because Pet Rescue I heard owed so much money to vets.
I never saw ONE vet there -to check on these poor animals. My heart would break
every day. I wrote so many notes for Penny on sick animals to no avail.
Upstairs,I couldn't believe it, they had a wall of Feral cats(ones that should
be released). The way they would get fed was you would stick a stick in their
cages and kind of flick in their food/water because they were known for
attacking--of course,they are not to be in cages. Then in the small
bathroom--they actually had pigeons, in the bathtub!!! All loosing their
feathers-how sanitary! We would try and get a sandwich or something in for a
lunch and go to the small house-it was always on the go. We sat where we
could because the cages are stacked on top of each other. In the accompanying
cat room-those cats did not look well at all. ONE day Penny was there (big house)
with someone she was trying to impress. They moved one sweet dog to the back
room-and another dog to the middle,again,trying just
to impress this woman.
FINALLY, Penny was there where I could talk to her. I told her of my notes and could she look at
this one REALLY sick cat, she was just laying in her litter and moaning. Penny
dismissed me saying later she would give it penicillin-she didn't even look at
the cat and left. I couldn't take it anymore, and kept telling the people in the
small house to call the owner,Dale, who finally agreed to have the cat taken
in to a vet. I TOOK the cat myself, to one of the vet's Kris used. They were
appalled=the cat had been sick and in pain for a long time-she had to be put to
sleep. I called Kris who called Dale who had to agree. The vet was angry. So I
left without the poor cat knowing it would be going to a much happier place. I
called Penny the next morning and said I had to quit, I couldn't take being with
those abused animals as it was affecting everything else I did. And the sick cat
was the last straw.-she told everyone I called in sick once and never again so
she had to fire me.
I didn't fight it, I
know what I did-I just couldn't look into their eyes anymore. I have to drive
by there more lately and with all those animals there, usually two cars in the
parking lot-2 people TAKING CARE OF ALL THOSE ANIMALS,I always get a tear in my
eye. Please,you have to get those pets out of there and into SAFE and HUMANE
places, please. They are living in worse than HELL and they did nothing but be at the
wrong place,wrong time-I don't think God wanted that, do you? Do you think your
fellow or rival politicians would?
Sincerely,
Nancy
Glendale Heights, IL.
Thank you for your time....