Bravo Steve Sacchitelli.

Well there's two sides to every story. You believe what you want but those who witness it everyday know the truth about what goes on behind closed doors at LHS. It's very easy to tell people what they want to hear and it's pretty amazing how far a person can go with who they know (very political). Hmmm - I wonder how many volunteers they will lose now with all that's going on?? But wait - that's what they want so they can't be exposed. Do you really think volunteers would walk away if nothing was wrong???

So if LHS has nothing to hide, I agree, why don't they post all that were euthanized with the reasons why and how exactly they were tested. But of course they will do nothing but lie as we can obviously see based on how it's been going since the last board meeting. It was said then that their goal was 40 more dogs and they denied that but it certainly looks like thats the path they are taking.

This is a plea for help for the many pit bulls, pit mixes, and other dogs at Liberty Humane Society located across from Liberty Science Center in Jersey City.

Recently the interim LHS Board of Trustees passed a resolution capping the number of dogs they will house to 40. This was to be done via adoptions, fosters and rescues. There was no talk of killing these innocent animals.

Last week the board authorized the killing of 10 pit bulls, four more this morning and as I write this letter more are being killed.

The evaluation method they are using to decide whether a pit bull will be killed or not in order to meet their quota is to place a bowl of food outside of the dog's cage with another pit bull standing next to the bowl. They then open the cage of the animal under evaluation - if the dogs act aggressive to one another the animal has failed evaluation and will be killed. Anyone who is familiar with dogs knows that this test would result in a failure for almost every animal.

The animals being slated for killing include pit bulls who had 2 or more families requesting to adopt them. A rescue group visited the shelter yesterday and was recommended not to rescue a particularly friendly puppy because there were several people interested in the dog; he was evaluated and did not pass this sick test and will now be killed sometime soon instead of being adopted.

If you are as horrified by these actions as I am there is a way you can help. Please contact the following councilmen with Jersey City and tell them that you are opposed to what is happening at the Liberty Humane Society. There are many people out there willing to adopt and rescue these animals if they are given the chance but the board at LHS is moving extremely quickly to euthanize the dogs before anyone has a chance to step up and rescue them.

Harry Melendez - 201-547-6800 , HarryM@JCNJ.ORG
Steve Fulop - 201-547-5315 , FulopS@JCNG.ORG

To contact the board of directors of the Liberty Humane Society email them at BOARD@LibertyHumane.org

This is a bloodbath and these dogs need help!!