The March 15 report by registered veterinary technician Christine Culhno of Long Beach Animal Control describes an incident in which an untrained officer used a rabies pole to drag an out-of-control pit bull from its holding pen. The report alleges the officer inadvertently choked the dog until blood gushed from its mouth and nose.

“The dog was flipping around and fighting so much that my syringe needle bent and I had to replace it before administering the drug. I lost my footing on a pool of blood as I walked across the room,” Culhno wrote in the report.

The scene was so exceptionally gruesome that, when the dog was finally euthanized, workers hosed blood off floors, walls, doors, cages and cabinets in the euthanasia room, the complaint alleges.

A source said someone sent the report to members of the media and city officials just a day after Long Beach City Council members voted unanimously to ask Animal Control to enforce stricter regulations for so-called “dangerous dogs” and their owners.

The dog’s death “resulted from several breakdowns in protocol that cumulatively made for an unfortunate incident,” said Michael Johnson, acting press information officer for the Department of Health, which oversees the Animal Control division.

The incident is still under investigation.

The shelter typically requires employees to sedate dangerous dogs before they’re removed from their cages for killing. Johnson says the animal shelter lacks a designated veterinarian on site and has failed to post medical license. California state law requires both. The animal shelter has not had an on-site veterinarian or premise license since December, according to Johnson.

Culhno filed a separate consumer complaint with the state Veterinary Medical Board after the death of the pit bull. She alleges the city has not had a premise veterinarian since October. Employees have been illegally administering controlled substances and vaccinations, an apparent violation of several codes of the state Veterinary Practice Act, according to the complaint.

Johnson said the agency is moving quickly to correct at least one problem. Loren Eslinger, a vet at the Belmont Shore Veterinary Hospital, verbally agreed this week to become the shelter’s premise vet, Johnson said. Eslinger was not available for comment.

Tags: animal control, animal shelter, dangerous dogs, pit bulls, veterinary medicine, vets

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Wait until you get the rest of the story and the newest incident with yet another animal suffering at the hands of a Lieutenant.

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Posted By Scribble on April 4th, 2008 at 12:39 am
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I am very sorry to read that this occurred. I have forwarded this craigslist posting to the following people and organizations. Maybe this issue will be addressed promptly and thoroughly.

humane@aspca.org
info@cacda.org
legislativeservices@aspca.org
comments@whitehouse.gov
first.lady@whitehouse.gov
laura.richardson@mail.house.gov
dana rohrabacher fax 714-960-7806
diane feinstein fax 310-914-7318
barbara boxer fax 202-224-0357

Isn’t craigslist a great way to communicate?……Watch Oprahs show today, it is about the horrific puppy mills……Tell all your friends……Program your DVR.

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Posted By animal lover on April 4th, 2008 at 7:06 am
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Where was the supervisor while all this was going on? Was he outside the door watching things unfold? Did they try to help with the dog when they saw it in trouble.

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Posted By Desiree on April 4th, 2008 at 8:10 am
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I’m sure Laura Bush will get right on it.

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Posted By Andy on April 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
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More abuse and neglect at The Long Beach Animal Shelter

The department thinks Kristina Vet tech sent out her report and that guy Victor will probably been fired for the incident. The department now can say, “We reprimanded this employee” The person responsible is Wesley Moore. He hired Sgt (SP), who watched the dog being mishandled and did nothing. We are so disgusted. I think the city council would love to know that the shelter animals are without medical care with the absence of the vet techs, who are both gone. Here is another animal abuse/neglect story. Another animal suffered neglect and abuse in the euthanasia area. A cat was brought in 3/27/08 and “apparently” euthanized by Lt.Quig late afternoon. The Cat was said to be “suffering” by MQ, who is not a Veterinarian. She left the cat in the carrier with the impound card on top of the carrier. The card stated she killed this cat with some type of put to sleep medicine. The cat was found alive the next morning in the same carrier in the euthanasia area ( 6-7am) 4 different employees had seen the cat and the card on top of the carrier and told other employees about it. The cat was still alive and starving in the morning. It had a severe case of mange. The cat had suffered all night long with no food or water and a “irremediable” medical condition. The impound card is missing now. I wonder what happened to it. Poor cat. Maybe the cat was not suffering at all like the card said. Who is she to decide that. Is she a Veterinarian? No ? Why are animals put to death because she thinks they are sick or injured? She should be charged with animal cruelty. Why are employees at fault for cruelty and supervisors can get away with it. 4 + people seen this cat in this situation but do not want to speak up because they will be punished. Who actually euthanized this cat that morning after it was found? Wesley Moore? Did He do it and cover it up like everything else? I would not be surprised. Shame on you Wesley Moore!!! Ignore this issue like everything else. Please Mr. Report sender guy. Send this to your contacts. You really have some good ones! Lets see if they fire the person who impounded this cat to blame someone.

Disappointed and afraid of punishment at the Long Beach Animal Shelter

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Posted By animal lover on April 4th, 2008 at 9:10 am
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Ummm… I think the greater problem is the fact that they Kill !!!! animals each week !!!!! . Spend the energy on saving the rest in the cages who and the ones who are on death row. Or on the ghetto-ass people who get dogs and can’t even take care of there own children, let alone the dogs. ( the pit was most likely one )

Yes a mistake was made, and he should be punished but don’t piss on the shelter people, theses guys are dealing with stupid humans an they are doing a great job cleaning up after them.

Where the F is Bob Barker when you kneed him!!!!

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Posted By The Price is wrong on April 4th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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Hey ” The Price is Wrong” , the stupid humans work for the city of Long Beach and SPCALA. Animals cannot get out of the Shelter unless SPCA takes them. The rest die because of a stupid contract between SPCA/Long Beach. Blame the SPCA for all the deaths then. Try to go against the SPCA. No one will touch it.

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Posted By Desiree on April 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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As long as humans keep making more unwanted animals, there will alwasy be an issue as to what to do with them. The point is there is a right and humane way to do this and there is a wrong way. Sounds like heads need to roll as we residents of Long Beach have a responsibility for our population of animals and the persons whom we employ. Time to change hands. There is no accountability and far too much coverup, time to revamp Animal Control and whomever is responsible for putting those people in charge. They had blatant disregard for the laws regarding a veterinarian and knowingly did nothing. I hate to think this dog suffered in vain if nothing is done but it seems to have been the vehicle which these other issues rode in on. I think we should pay a little visit to this “village” and see just how many idiots run (or don’t run) the place. Sure the Spca is there, but it’s not their fault. Granted the Long Beach Spca is run by ammatures that sweep even more under the carpet, overall in the larger piture they do good things. Management on both sides do work together to do dammage cotrol and cover each others butts, but I don’t think they are aware of that at a higher level of the Spca. Lets get a group together that they can not ignore and make them take notice. We will not stand by, we are going to dig into every crevice possible, even if it feels a little too personal.

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Posted By Dribble on April 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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Desiree, forget the spca just create a task force like the ” Guardian Angels ” and walk around the neighborhood and stop the influx of animals going to the spca. You can take action yourself of blame others.

How about another Noah’s Arc ? oops

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Posted By The Price is wrong on April 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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“The Price is Wrong” don’t forget that the SPCA walks around the shelter everyday and watchsLBAC neglect the shelter animals. You should of took action last year when the shelter cats were being cooked well done in their stainless steel cages. Blaming others is taking action.

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Posted By Who is Animal Lover? Rock On! on April 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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How come the animal shelter cannot adopt out animals? Scpa should let Long Beach Shelter adopt animals. I don’t understand why the animals have to die just because Scpa can’t take them. Where are all the rescue groups? Isn’t there some kind of law or something protecting these animals from being put to sleep? Someone should look into that. No doggy or kitty should have to die because of a stupid contract. I think that it is illegal to put adoptable animals to sleep. Is someone looking into this?

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Posted By Concerned on April 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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Where was Tonya Elliott, Senior Animal Control Officer during all of this? Isn’t she management? What was her schedule for that day? Who’s butt did you have your head burrowed in? How come nobody is talking about the rescue Chow she killed?

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Posted By Scrabble on April 5th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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I failed to mention that she submitted her resignation the same week. She ran with her tail between her legs. She knew what was going to happen to her by upper management considering her past disciplne but no one is talking about that.

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Posted By Scrabble on April 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
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“Concerned” — what happened to the rescues? Hmmm — let’s see, do you read the papers? Michelle Quigley has been on a crusade to drive numerous good rescues out of Long Beach. Michelle Quigley HATES rescues (unless it’s Shirley at the city’s own 501C-3…how the hell does that work by the way? They have a stellar adoption record — something 34 animals in one year!! Whoo hooo! FOLBA really gets the job done!)

After working closely with groups like Noah’s Ark for years, she turned on them and then tried to kill all the animals she took saying they were on death’s door when they were seized. Thanks to a restraining order, most of them were allowed to avoid Quigley’s killing needle and LBAC was pressured by the media exposure to do the right thing and find the animals homes. However, lots of them went missing and remain unaccounted for. Christine Culhno botched her testimony during the trial of Alex Kirkland and Gloria Ramos, and Lt. Elliott outright lied on the stand. But that wasn’t a problem, Judge Jesse Rodriguez was already in on the deal so he let her perjure herself without any ramifications. Long Beach is one of the most corrupt cesspools in California!

Justin Rudd keeps trying to have it declared the most dog-friendly city (of course he wants to run for office) but Quigley’s empire has one of the highest kill rates in Southern California. Thousands of animals pay the highest price for Quigley’s maniacal need to kill.

While we’re at it — since LBAC isn’t making money on adoptions because they barely do any, anyone know how they managed to make $70,000 two years ago? It’s on the public documents…if you can get a copy…but the source of the revenue is mysteriously blank. Where is that profit coming from???? D & D Rendering most probably….so you can feed those dead dogs and cats back to your own pets! Or medical testing labs so they can be tortured in the name of safe cosmetics.

Madeline and her SPCALA crew are just as bad. First the citizens of Long Beach grant the land for Pitchford Village and now the SPCA CHARGES THE TAXPAYERS in the form of rent to LBAC for their space at Pitchford. PD Pitchford is none too happy that his name is on the place — he knows what a hypocrite Madeline her team are! Also — if the SPCA workers just can’t be bothered to get an animal a home after 6 months, they are quietly dropped off at the Carson shelter who routinely violates the Hayden Act and kills animals in 3 days. But you probably hadn’t heard about that. In cases like Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts, once the news cameras went home and SPCALA knew no one was looking, all those animals they were “helping” were transported to Carson and killed.

Oh — and for all of you out there who lost an animal and were told by Quigley that your pet was found mortally injured or dead….yeah, that’s a lie. Quigley continually pressured contract vets to put animals to sleep that she didn’t like and routinely violated the Hayden Act herself which says that animals must be made comfortable and owners must be given 5 days to find their pet. Dr. Saleh knows the truth, but he’s been threatened in person by Elliott to keep him from talking. Maybe now he’ll be brave enough.

Here’s an interesting case: A 6 month old chihuahua had been found with a broken leg. Quigley told a vet to kill it. The vet knew this wasn’t necessary and found a rescue to take the dog and they even raised the money for it’s surgery. During the surgery, Quigley happened to stop by the vet’s office, realized that this was the dog she wanted dead and made the vet euthanize the puppy on the spot. Then she took the body with her. Can’t have any of that incriminating evidence laying around.

Aren’t you all glad you’re paying for Lt. Michelle Quigley to run your animal care and control department? Now she’s going to put in for a stress/disability claim so you all can continue paying her salary while she does less REAL work than she does now on your dime. You might want to work some overtime hours, you’re going to be paying for Quigley with your tax dollars for a long, long time.

Way to go Long Beach!

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Posted By Exposing the Truth in Honor of the Animals on April 5th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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You can requst to hear the LB Fire dispatch call the day of the raid where Tonya Elliott lied and did WHATEVER she could not to have to get off her butt to respond to the Noah’s Arck call. And how is fresh feces smell “sweet”. What an idiot, she was supervising the kennels at the time that’s why she didn’t want to respond she knew it would mean work for her. That would take away from her blogging and interenet surffing. She stayed around for oh a month then went off work for three months leaving the rest of the staff to do her real job. The animals where actually in more harm with her there anyway, so kuddos to the staff that took the challenge and did a great job despite her continuous efforts to sabotauge LBAC.

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Posted By Scrabble on April 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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Rest assured, Fred Bergendorff, now departed and former host of The Pet Place Television Show is still watching over all the animals. And someday all the perpetrators of crimes against animals will have to look Fred in the face and answer the question: “Did you or did you not hurt my animals?”

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Posted By Dwight K Snider on April 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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First I would like to say God bless Ms. Reger for bringing this horror to the public’s attention. If there are still any Press Telegram readers out there, you will note the absence of any commentary in that useless rag. It’s high time someone in the press stood up to the powers-that-be in Long Beach and printed the truth about what really goes on at the Long Beach “shelter” Kudos to Heather Reger for publishing this! LBAC has a history of mistreatment of and cruelty to animals; disregard of the Hayden Act; failure to comply with their own policies; cover-ups, deceipt, and corruption. How many more cases are there like this one? I’m sure it is not an isolated incident–they just got caught this time. Ms. Reger, please keep up the fabulous job you are doing–the voiceless ones at the shelter would thank you if they could.

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Posted By Mario on April 5th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
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Anybody have some coke for scrabble?

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Posted By Concerned on April 5th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
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Very good stuff here. The District Weekly did a great job! I am shocked that this tragedy has not made the local news. Why is this story in a local paper and not in a national publication? This is big news. I think the public has the right to know if the animal that they have adopted from the pound has been neglected and abused. If this happened to a child while in CPS, every TV station in the world would jump on it. I don’t get it

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Posted By Elanie on April 5th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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I left this shelter because I was treated very poorly by management. I worked extra hard to care for the animals and got paid very little. That part didn’t bother me because I liked working with the animals. We had so many cats from that raid and we didn’t have enough people to take care of them. When the kennel workers would clean the cats, they had to hurry because there were so many. The cats were always grabbed by the back of the neck to clean the cages. They got so scared and would run to the back of the cage after a few months. The only attention they got was someone grabbing them by the neck and putting them in a carrier. It was so sad and I couldn’t deal with it anymore. Also, most of the supervisors would make me really embarrased every time I walked into the office area. They would page me or call and hunt me down just to yell at me because it was taking too long to clean the animals. I just wanted to do a good job. I didn’t have any experience and they hired me. I didn’t have any training and was just learning. I don’t know why those people had to be so mean. I don’t think they wanted a person who was there for the animals. They wanted someone who worked fast and they didn’t care how the animals were treated as long as the cleaning was done. They are not animal people. They are selfish. Poor animals! I feel better knowing that there might be a change. Maybe I will go back someday. I make more money working at fast food. They treat me better at least.

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Posted By Former Kennel Person on April 6th, 2008 at 12:36 am
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Thank god there’s finally an alternative for the fluffy tripe that passes for news at the Press Telegram on this issue. Good reporting job.

All shelters have problems… but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one that focuses so much on presenting a pretty picture to the public and so little on the animals. Time to clean house.

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Posted By Sammie on April 6th, 2008 at 5:39 am
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Below is a posting that is on craigslist LA

Reply to: comm-632070394@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-06, 3:05AM PDT

WOW!! I can’t believe these disgruntled employees are airing all the dirty laundry on Craigslist. These are lazy, incompetent employees that had one foot out the door from day one. True, if management had more balls, he should’ve fired (Pill popping)Lt. long time ago to prevent all this s#$#t from hitting the fan. Too late its out in the public now. Unfortanatly you have some good people that really do care about animals working at LBAC and of course they will also be lumped in with the incompetant ones. Shame on you!! Pill popping, drunk ex Lt.Elliot Shame on you!!.

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Posted By animal lover on April 6th, 2008 at 7:07 am
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When a human being is savagely murdered, the act is never, ever referred to as “an unfortunate incident” Mr. Johnson’s description of this crime is just another example of LBAC’s disdain for the animals in their “care”. The employee who brutally abused this dog should be charged with felony animal cruelty…but don’t bet the farm this will ever happen. It will be swept under the rug like all their other crimes.

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Posted By Mario on April 6th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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Thank you Mario, you are so right about about this shelter. They do not comply with the Hayden Act. They are all the things you say they are. It is a corrupt, horrible shelter. Ms. Reger really helped the animals by writing this story. You are wrong on just a few little things. This is not going to be swept under the rug, you can rest assure. Don’t blame the employee who handled this dog, that is the way he was probably taught. Rescues are not allowed to take animals from this shelter. Hayden Act is not inforced in Long Beach

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Posted By local rescue on April 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
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Lets not forget that a “supervisor” stood there watching this happen, If the employee was not trained nor corrected at that time, then it is on their supervisors. I sounds like the employee was set up to fail and look bad. Why didn’t anyone help? They were there. Why wasn’t a qualified person asked to tranqualize the animal in the cage first, that is not unheard of, they have those guns. I think there was failure to inform, assist and correct. Someone knew that the dog was unruly. What happened to the animal was horrific but has anyone considered the safety of the humans involved as well. The risk of injury or mauling, slipping in all that blood, the untrained assistants and those observing it all. Why are employees intentionally put at risk? No wonder there is such a turnover. Emotionally, physically, who helps the employees? Who trains the employees or makes those decisions because that duty needs to be retracted from those involved. It’s just so ironic that they are employees of the “Health” Department. I would like to talk to a couple of these employees, past and present. That would be a good Idea for the reporters, ask them directly. Maybe they should have a deposition where they would have to tell the truth. Sounds like someone took the fall and others are being protected, I’d like to hear more, keep it comming.

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Posted By Nibble on April 6th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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I believe there was mistreatment of employees really trying to do there best that appears 0bvious. When you have a case of territorism, lack of ability and straight hate for another a individual or in this case it appears to be hate for many individuals, how would any company successfully provide service. It all appears to be people that have no desire to do the job at hand or just the job they have been given by the director. It’s easy to complain and air dirty laundry when more than likely you are at fault. If you read the report above and on craigslist you can see that the individuals are actually spending too much time in other person’s buiness and making claims that have no bearing or proof, that’s why there are no names on anything. At least Ms. Culhno had the balls to report what she felt was a horrible incident I too would be scared to loose my license it’s her lively hood. She worked hard to get it and I’m sure doesn’t want to loose it. With all these upset, low life former and current employees I would run scard too because it’s obvious someone is unhappy with a big mouth. Where was her supervisor or a supervisor that day? . The report by Ms. Culhno above is aweful, yet I question who was in charge in the room when that happened. Isn’t it ultimatly her if not her supervisor. This is a place where four legged animals come for safe keeping but the two legged animals are the vicious dangerours animals.

Concerned: I’m a bit confused by your comment but I have plenty of Diet Coke her thanks for looking out. You seem to go both ways, I’d be concerned too. Or at least somone with the upset group.

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Posted By Scrabble on April 6th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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Where in the story does it state a “supervisor” stood by and watched?

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Posted By Scrabble on April 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am
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Senate Bill 1383 sets the standards for euthanasia in the State of California. It is lengthy so I will not include the full text of the Bill in this comment. The Bill states, in part, “…one person shall supervise and adminster the drug and the other person shall do whatever is necessary to ensure that the treatment of the animal during euthanasia is humane.” I urge readers to review the complete Bill, and my hope is that each will conclude there was a violation of SB 1383– and certainly a violation of human decency.

There was a humane way to handle this. Animal tranquilizer guns may be purchased for as little as 75.00. Animal Control officers receive weapons training so lack of skill is no excuse. The dog could have been fed a tranquilizer pill in a morsel of food as well, in order to subdue him. There is simply no excuse or justification for what was done to this dog.

I truly hope Local Rescue is right–that this crime will not just vanish–any meaningful investigation will need to be done by the State of California. The City of Long Beach will protect its own. I would love to be proven wrong on this point.

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Posted By Mario on April 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to post and give all of your knowledge, it is caring, driven individual like yourselves that really can make a change for these animals. Please send the district weekly link to everyone you know. That way we can reach even more concerned individuals…..:) :) :)

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Posted By animal lover on April 6th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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I hope that in the end of all this slander that someone with true knowledge will report the truth. I also hope the City hires a independant resource to investigate the claims nd makes it available so that these people can’t claim it was swept under the carpet. Is there carpet at the shelter? Not everyone is meant to like each other but this is a new level. I hope the unhappy moran’s and idiots aren’t working there anymore.

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Posted By Hoping for the truth on April 6th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
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I’ve heard of numerous problems with key staff at this facility. From a gay Lt. trying to turn straight married women. So crushed that she doesn’t do anything else all day. To married officers and married female staff having extra marital affairs. Most of them alcohalics smelling of booze at work or just not coming in because they are too hung over. Employees disapearing at hours on end with no recourse causing major staff concerns. Employees out on injury continuing to slap those in the face who have to pick up extra shifts while she makes it out for drinks and dancing with the above problem childern. It’s just too bad for the animals and staff trying to hold the place together.

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Posted By Interested on April 6th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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To Scrabble, comment #28, you clearly can’t keep up with the story, this is a copy of the craigslist posting from several days ago. And I quote “The person responsible is Wesley Moore. He hired Sgt (SP), who watched the dog being mishandled and did nothing.”

And “Interested”, FYI, both Lieutenants are gay, only one looks like it. Many married staff do “co-mingle” thats how they keep their jobs. Someone should check the sick leave charts, you’d be supprised who is “really” calling in sick. I’m sure every employee picks up extra shifts due to the huge resignation rate, so blaming one injured person won’t help as there are many. Watch the slander, I hope some of you at Long Beach Animal Control have legal representation, I know I would.
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Animal Shelter in Trouble (Long Beach)

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Reply to: comm-629993366@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-04, 8:32AM PDT

More abuse and neglect at The Long Beach Animal Shelter

The department thinks Kristina Vet tech sent out her report and that guy Victor will probably been fired for the incident. The department now can say, “We reprimanded this employee” The person responsible is Wesley Moore. He hired Sgt (SP), who watched the dog being mishandled and did nothing. We are so disgusted. I think the city council would love to know that the shelter animals are without medical care with the absence of the vet techs, who are both gone. Here is another animal abuse/neglect story. Another animal suffered neglect and abuse in the euthanasia area. A cat was brought in 3/27/08 and “apparently” euthanized by Lt.Quig late afternoon. The Cat was said to be “suffering” by MQ, who is not a Veterinarian. She left the cat in the carrier with the impound card on top of the carrier. The card stated she killed this cat with some type of put to sleep medicine. The cat was found alive the next morning in the same carrier in the euthanasia area ( 6-7am) 4 different employees had seen the cat and the card on top of the carrier and told other employees about it. The cat was still alive and starving in the morning. It had a severe case of mange. The cat had suffered all night long with no food or water and a “irremediable” medical condition. The impound card is missing now. I wonder what happened to it. Poor cat. Maybe the cat was not suffering at all like the card said. Who is she to decide that. Is she a Veterinarian? No ? Why are animals put to death because she thinks they are sick or injured? She should be charged with animal cruelty. Why are employees at fault for cruelty and supervisors can get away with it. 4 + people seen this cat in this situation but do not want to speak up because they will be punished. Who actually euthanized this cat that morning after it was found? Wesley Moore? Did He do it and cover it up like everything else? I would not be surprised. Shame on you Wesley Moore!!! Ignore this issue like everything else. Please Mr. Report sender guy. Send this to your contacts. You really have some good ones! Lets see if they fire the person who impounded this cat to blame someone.

Disappointed and afraid of punishment at the Long Beach Animal Shelter

Location: Long Beach
it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 629993366

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Posted By Pappy on April 6th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
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The only reliable information is coming from Ms. Reger, the rest is just childish batter. The rest of just contribute to the problem rather than a solution

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Posted By Bewildered on April 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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I’m not sure what all this has to do with the brutallity being reported and the department is not denying it. Hopefully it’s an isolated event and the city does the proper investigating. It appears alot of the postings are from people close to the animal shelter, so I can’t imagin what it is like to work there if this is what is going on. This is junior high at it’s worst. What is the relevance to the situation. If looked into by any investigator all current and former employees can be supeonaed to provide a interveiw so that a well rounded assesment can be made. It’s just too bad the it wasn’t handled or controlled. Who really knows what is going on and if things are done off work site and brought back into the environment it’s not managements fault unless they too are part of it as well. It looks like a lot of unhappy perinoid people.

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Posted By Confused on April 6th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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What does this have to do with the report by Ms. Reger? This is junior at it’s worst. I can only imagin what it was like to work there with these people, my goodness I’ve never heard some much hate in my life. It’s just disgusting, who was caring for the animals while these morans collect a pay check?

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Posted By Saddened on April 6th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
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March 15, 2008

Incident date: Thursday, March 13th 2008

Re: Euthanasia Incident

Individuals Involved/Witness List: Victor Martinez, Edna Gonzales, Steve Peltier, Bobbie Ryan, Tonya Elliott, Stephanie Anderson.

This is a report of the incident that happened on 3/13/08, per Sgt. Linn’s request on 3/15/08. All information given in this report is the truth to the best of my knowledge.

My shift began at 8:00am on 3/13/08. The impound cards for euthanasia were being review and signed off by Sgt. Linn and Sgt. Peltier. Sgt. Linn reminded me of a dog that I had to sedate because it was too vicious to even get out of his vehicle. I remembered this dog well. I thought it to be one of the most vicious dogs that I have ever seen. He told me, “You should probably Telazol it in the cage”. I agreed and then headed over to the Euthanasia Room to prep it for a usually busy euthanasia day. Sgt. Peltier walked into the Euthanasia Room shortly after I did and told me, “Victor and Edna will be assisting you today with GK”. He told me “Victor is going to stay overtime from the graveyard shift”. I asked him, “Why” and he told me,” Dave and I are going in the field”. No mention to of anybody else helping. He handed me the stack of cards and I reviewed it, 15 dogs, several of them were marked “Caution”, one of them was the a dog Sgt. Linn and I had discussed earlier. Sgt. Peltier left the room. That was the first time I had a bad feeling about the situation. I thought that Edna was still under training and was not ready to be alone. Sgt. Peltier is her training officer, he would know if she is ready to be alone. Victor had a little more experience but, in my eyes, was not the proper person to be with her. I prepared extra sedative and was planning to sedate every dog that day. Victor and Edna arrived to assist a few minutes later. I told Victor about the dog that was too vicious for Dave and that we should Telazol him in the cage. Victor joked laughed and mentioned something to the fact that I was dealing with a pro and that “No worries”. He told me, “I can handle the dog”. I said, “Dave couldn’t even handle the dog”. I was putting the sedative on the syringe pole and Victor said, “Let me try to get him first”. I told him that he was not going to be able to get the dog and I needed to sedate the dog in the cage. Again, he insisted that he will try it first and if not then we can do it in the cage. He left the room with the rabies pole. I asked Edna, “You are still under training right?“ She said, “Yes”. Sgt. Peltier and Bobbie Ryan were outside the room prepping their truck and I knew I could ask for help if needed. I heard a struggle outside of the euthanasia room near the wash rack. I looked over toward the back door and saw Victor fighting and pulling with the dog on the rabies pole. The dog was covering in blood. He pulled the dog through the doorway. Multiple streams of blood were pouring out of his mouth and nose onto the floor. The dog was being pulled into in the room fighting, dripping blood from his mouth and nose and appeared to be having difficulty breathing. I looked up and seen Sgt. Peltier outside the door that Victor brought the dog into. Victor put the dog up next to the wall near the fire extinguisher. The dog was fighting and blood was flying everywhere. I noticed Bobbie Ryan trying to get away from the dog as Victor brought the dog into the building. She was standing still, not knowing where to go. I said, “Watch out girl!“ She backed away and moved out of the way. I told Victor to put the dog into the holding cage so I can sedate him. The noticed that the dog was turning blue. The dog was flipping around and fighting so much that my syringe needle bent and I had to replace it before administering the drug. I lost my footing on a pool of blood as I walked across the room. I administered the drug and the dog was put the dog in the holding cage. Blood was smeared and pooled everywhere. It was on the floors, walls, doors, cabinets, cages, and it dripped on the ground all the way from the dogs cage to the outside of the euthanasia room. Victor had blood on him and I had blood smeared on my hands and shoes. The huge amount of pools of blood on the floor began to clot. I said, “That is why I wanted to sedate him in the cage”. I told him that we can all be fired for this and that this is wrong is so many ways. I told Victor that we need to clean all this blood up before we get into trouble. He told me that we can do it when we are finished with all the dogs so we didn’t have to do it twice. I told him that someone is going to slip and fall and that we should clean it up before the next dog. I began to wipe some of it up with a towel and realized that there was too much and we needed to hose it. I stepped away for a minute to fill out the drug log and then Bobbie Ryan walked back into the room to get a duck that was in a cage very close to the sedated dog. I warned her not to slip and told her that the duck had been in the carrier all night and smells horrible and that she might want to switch carriers. She walked through the blood to get another carrier outside behind the euth room. As she came back into the room, Officer Peltier quickly followed her inside the euthanasia room and stepped through the blood on the floor. He asked, “What’s the hold up?” Bobbie explained that the carrier smelled and I told her to get another one. He told her that she now tracked in the blood twice and make the mess worse. He said, “Whatever, come on!” Bobbie had a confused shocked look on her face and was obviously upset. I followed them out the door and got the hose from the wash rack to clean the blood. Edna Gonzales was still in the room, watching things unfold, unsure what to do. Victor returned with another dog as soon as I started hosing the room. He asked me, “What are you doing?”. I told him, “what just went on here was not right and that if someone had seen this we would all be in trouble or fired.” He was shocked and said, “Really!” Edna remained silent. I again told the both of them that I have sedative for this very reason. I told them “Things can happen, but this is pretty bad, how this would look to the SPCA or people driving on the road outside the room, not to mention that it is wrong”. Victor said “Sorry” and tied the dog that he had to something and took the hose from me and begin cleaning. I started wiping up the blood on the other end of the room near the back door and wash rack. I realized that the whole area needed to be hosed and cleaned up better after we were done. Shortly after this first episode, we had another very aggressive dog. The dog was brought into the euthanasia room with no problem and sedated. There were about 3-4 dogs laying on the floor and I asked Victor to help me lift some of these dogs to get them off the floor. He asked me if I “hit” all of them. I told him, “no, not all of them”. I was drawing up euthanasia solution for a Shar Pei that was on the floor. I noticed Victor picking the dog up. I thought he was going to put him on the table, but he placed him into the bottom of the barrel. I said, “ I having done that dog yet”. He said, “You didn’t?“ I yelled, “No”. I looked in the barrel and the dog was heavily sedated and his breathing was very shallow. I euthanized him in the barrel and asked them not to put any other dogs in the barrel right now. Edna was looking at me and I just shook my head. By this time I was very frustrated with the whole situation. We continued with the dogs, sedating any animal that might possibly be a problem for the two of them to handle. It was taking a long time and I didn’t realize that the shelter was open or about to open. I do not recall the time. Tonya Elliott opened the front door and peaked in and asked, “What happened out here?” Confused, I walked over to the door as she opened it wider and was horrified. Blood and large blood clots had been pushed underneath the door and onto the ground outside the building. Tonya said, “You need to clean this up right now!” “The public can see this, we seen this walking down the sidewalk.” Then I noticed Stephanie Anderson standing there with her mouth wide open. Tonya asked, “What happened?” I was embarrassed and told her “Later.” She told me Stephanie had clipper blades and stuff for me. I pointed to the back near the wash rack to get Stephanie away from the door. Victor begin cleaning the blood and I walked to the back near the wash rack, forgetting about all the blood back there. I was embarrassed and frustrated by everything, so I quickly brushed them off and walked back into the euthanasia room. I realized at that time that this would never happen again. I was not upset with Victor or Edna because I knew neither of them had the proper training and were not qualified to handle very aggressive animals. I was more upset that my supervisor(s) had put myself and my co-workers at risk of injury and that no animal deserves handled in this manner, no matter how vicious it is. Upset and angry, I knew I needed to report this to my supervisor. Sgt. Linn came in from the field late afternoon and I briefly told him that euthanasia was horrible. I briefly told him about the dog he wanted me to sedate. He asked me why I didn’t sedate the dog in the cage. “No matter what Victor told you.” I agreed with him and told him that I should of just demanded more and should of followed him out to the kennel. I told him that Steve was outside and he could help if I Victor and Edna had issues. We both were busy so the conversation was brief. It was after 5:00pm and Officer Peltier walked into the euthanasia room. We had a personal conversation, unrelated to the incident. I then decided to tell him my concerns since he was the person who told me who my assistants would be and I knew he was outside when everything happened. He also was inside after the incident and I knew he was aware of the struggle. I told him, “I don’t ever want to be put in that situation again.” I asked him “why and who decided that these two people would be able to handle these 15 dogs, most of them were “Cautions”. “You two signed the cards and must have been aware of the situation”. He reminded me of out current staffing shortage and that if he didn’t have to go in the field that he would of helped out. I was still really confused but felt a little better that I addressed my concerns to him. I still was unclear about who my supervisor is and ever was. It changes depending on the situation. I have a legal and moral obligation as a Registered Veterinary Technician to report incidents that are wrong/inhumane/illegal/etc. I realize that I am suppose to report this problem and incident to the very governing agency for whom I work for. The next day I pulled Edna aside in private and told her, “What happened yesterday was wrong and should never happen again.” I said, “I know your new and under training and I could see the shock in your face”. I told her, “ I don’t want you to think that this is normal and this is the way things are suppose to be”. I also told her, “I hope that if you ever see this again, that you will report it to your supervisor.” I told her that I was aware that her training supervisor was there and that I know it seems confusing but I just wanted to let her know that it was wrong. She said, “O.K” . I was on the verge of tears and was more upset that I had to explain this to her. At that moment, Victor Martinez entered the room and apologized for things that happened yesterday. He told me that he had been talked to and was told not to handle a dog on a pole like that ever again. He apologized again and then told me that Edna and him were assisting with euthanasia again today. I thought he was joking. We have a pretty good working relationship so I laughed and said, “Yeah, right!“ I didn’t believe him and brushed him off. He assured me that yes indeed, they were told to assist. I was shocked and silent. Edna and I began heading back to the euthanasia room. I told her, “I can’t believe this, I can’t believe you two are helping again after what I told them!” “No offense” I said. She just smiled and was quiet. There were fewer animals to euthanize and everything went well.

Christine Culhno – Registered Veterinary Technician
Long Beach Animal Control

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Posted By Read the report and you decide on April 6th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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What is so bad about this whole thing is that the truth is trying to be disguised by all the name dropping, alleged affairs, and gossip by individuals that can’t accept the fact that there are problems at the LBAC. And shame on you, (I know who you are) Scrabble for acting like a little child throwing a fit because you didn’t get the love you needed as a child! You need to be careful, because the truth will come out, and when it is all said and done,I don’t think you will be standing on that high horse of yours. I love the animals and I love the people of Animal Control that do care…Rachel

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Posted By Rachel on April 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
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That’s extemely graffic report, it sounds like the staff were just left to fail by supervisors.

Wow lots of bashing and threats being thrown. Keep in mind the real issue at hand and forget the other crap it’s just a bunch of un related crap.

Rachel… I’m not a fan of horses so you don’t know me. You must have me confused with some other fit throwing child. Peace

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Posted By Srabble on April 6th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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What a bunch of cry baby’s. Drop names say I know who you are and you are but not saying your own full name. Just put your real names on the quotes and lets see who still sticks to there story. High School Girls

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Posted By The blame game on April 6th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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What a bunch of high school girls. You are all so tuff and have so much to say. Like I know who you are and the truth will come out but you don’t put your full name down. You loser. Lets have them all put there full names down and see if there story changes.

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Posted By The blame game on April 6th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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I am sickened by all of the ridiculous comments posted by the supervision who work at Long Beach Animal Control. You have just proved to the world that you are dysfunctional group of individuals and now everyone is aware of the problem. You threw yourselves under the bus and I thank you for that. Thanks for all the personal attacks on each other, it really gives the press something to feed off of and it gives the public something to laugh at. This is the day to day life at this animal shelter and it is really getting out of hand. The shelter animals are directly being affected by this feud and I can’t believe it has gone on so long. I was shocked and upset when my report first became public, Now I am happy about it and wouldn’t change a thing. I hope the animals will benefit from this embarrassment. I am really upset that you all decided to formally charge Victor with cruelty for this. Cowards!! Deal with this the right way. You are ruining his life to cover up the real problem. At least I posted my real name and not some bullshit scribble, dibble, dribble fake name crap. At least I stood up for what is right and had the nerve to do anything about it. I may not have a job or a license after this, but at least I know I did the right thing for the animals. You are all cowards because you have witnessed things that were wrong and just turned your cheek. I am ashamed that I decided to work at such a poorly managed embarrassing shelter. I wish that I was warned about the “warzone” in the office area. This petty management battle hurts everyone involved, including the animals we are suppose to be protecting. Maybe Wesley can post a shelter blog site so employees can bash each other there.

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Posted By Christine Culhno - RVT on April 7th, 2008 at 12:19 am
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Christine, I don’t work there and would have left right away if I did but you are part of the problem and now are shoving everyone in the way to save your own skin like every one else in this blog. You and your people started by naming names in the begining and now that they all got mad and I am sure a few others who where not named are posting in to slam a few people they don’t like. It took you long enough to put your name down. What about the posts at the begining what ones where you or your buddys and now you call them cowards try putting the names on the first few posts to see who started naming names that is the cowards they see the story and slam some people by putting there names down to try and prove something. You should have controlled the situation and handled it better don’t just blame someone else for your own problem and the way you handled it and pat yourself on the back becouse you posted what happened. You messed up that day you should have taken control and handled it better so don’t run and hide and say they should all be in trouble and call the news to cover yourself.
How long have you worked there?
What took you so long to speak up?
Why did you wait for it to get this bad before you said something?
Could you not get another job?
You hide behind the news so they can’t touch you now becouse you broke the story. That is a coward and now the people named will be fired or written up and everything else that comes from this will be on your back. I hope you can find Victor a job and every one else that gets fired from this.

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Posted By Tom J. on April 7th, 2008 at 12:58 am
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Oh Yeah, one more thing - why is this place still open? HR told me the shelter would be shut down if it was without a Veterinary Premise Permit. That was 3 weeks ago. Why is it still open without a permit? You need to have one. It is the law. Hello!!! Do you understand? Ilegal !

If you have something to say to me or if you just want to post a comment that you think might draw attention away from the real problem, go ahead. I would rather have you stop by my house. My address is posted on the VMB’s website. I would rather have you verbally attack me in person.

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Posted By Christine Culhno - RVT on April 7th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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#43 is that not a attack???
You are also taking away from the problem by posting you own problems. It has become a b@@ch session here and you also are doing it and now once again want it all to go away from you by saying stop by my house to take it off you. You are crying like a little kid and your last comment to shut it down how is that going to help the animals? We are here for the animals not you or anyone else’s problems or vendetta’s. Animals first and a permit I am sure some dumb paperwork can be done on someone’s time not while the animals suffer. Once again crying to get your way.
Do you still work for the place that you hate so much or do you have a new job becouse as a tax payer I sure don’t want to pay you while you sit on your a@@ and collect a check.If the place is that bad leave and get a job and follow up to make sure the changes happen.

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Posted By Tom J. on April 7th, 2008 at 8:38 am
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By Carla M. Collado
Staff Writer

Before continuing with last Thursday’s proceedings in the Noah’s Ark Animal Rescue felony animal-cruelty trial, Long Beach Superior Court Judge Jesse Rodriguez told the jury about new revelations regarding the medical and treatment records of the nearly 300 animals seized from the shelter during a raid last year.

Deputy District Attorney Mark Burnley and Attorney Todd Krauss — representing former Noah’s Ark owner Alexiea Tiraki-Kyrklund and her volunteer Gloria Ramos — discussed the new findings with Rodriguez at a special hearing Thursday morning.

According to both attorneys, the copies of medical and treatment records given to them by Long Beach Animal Control lacked information that the original records contained (such as medications given, microchip numbers and kennel locations). In addition, they discovered that the original records had been added to and changed since the copies were handed over to the attorneys.

Finding it to be a violation of the discovery process statutes of the California Penal Code 1054, Rodriguez gave Krauss the option of either considering a mistrial or continuing the case with a special instruction to the jury.

“The court is very disappointed about it,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t understand how this happened, I just don’t.”

After discussing the options with Tiraki-Kyrklund and Ramos, Krauss chose to continue the trial on the conditions that the jury be instructed of the new findings and that he have more leeway during the trial’s closing statements.

“We knew that the truth would only come out in trial, so mistrial was not an option,” Tiraki-Kyrklund said.

Burnley said he cannot comment on the case during the duration of the trial.

Last year, animal control officers raided Noah’s Ark — then located at 1333 Redondo Ave. — and seized nearly 300 dogs and cats, claiming the animals were living in unsanitary conditions. Both defendants were charged with 13 felony counts of animal cruelty, and Tiraki-Kyrklund also was charged with two misdemeanor city ordinance counts. Each animal cruelty charge carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

Once the jury was brought up to date on the matter Thursday afternoon, the trial continued with Krauss’s cross-examination of Christine Culhno, a registered veterinary technician for Long Beach Animal Control who examined all 299 cats and dogs taken from Noah’s Ark on Aug. 23, 2006.

Krauss questioned the validity of Culhno’s previous testimony (on Wednesday) that many of the animals seized were severely sick, with ear infections and matted fur — among other health problems — pointing out that she is not officially qualified to make any medical diagnoses.

He asked her why a number of the animals taken from Noah’s Ark got sick after the raid, during their stay at the animal control facilities, and why some took months to get better, despite the pristine environment at animal control. She explained that incubation periods for some illnesses and infections can vary from animal to animal, and that it is not uncommon for animals at times to get sick while at animal control.

Culhno said she still believes it was better to submit the animals to the stress of being moved out of Noah’s Ark rather than leaving them at the shelter.

“I believe they needed to be in a different environment to get better from the disease or to prevent the disease from becoming worse,” she said.

During questioning, Culhno said she had no personal knowledge of when any of the animals arrived at Noah’s Ark, under what health conditions they were brought there, what medical treatment they received at the shelter, or whether Tiraki-Kyrklund and Ramos gave any care and attention to the animals at Noah’s Ark.

During the trial, Krauss also showed the jury medical treatment records and impound cards for numerous dogs and cats showing that many of the animals taken from Noah’s Ark were then given the same medications and treatment (or no treatment at all) despite having different types of ailments. Culhno said she did not prescribe any of the medications (she is not qualified to do so), and instead treated the animals using prescriptions given by another veterinarian at animal control.

The Noah’s Ark trial continued Friday and will resume on Monday, Nov. 26, at Long Beach Superior Court.

Is this a person to trust????

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Posted By Tom J. on April 7th, 2008 at 8:42 am
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Forget Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and the ASPCA! I’m telling Oprah!

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Posted By Melinda Santa Cruz on April 7th, 2008 at 10:24 am
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Ms. Cuhlno showed great courage in exposing this act of cruelty by LBAC. She did the right thing in filing a complaint, even to the point of risking her job and the wrath of co-workers and others. Regarding her testimony at the Noah’s Ark trial (post 47), perhaps there was pressure on her to spin the facts in favor of the prosecution.

She is to be commended for bringing the dog killing incident to light.

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Posted By For the Animals on April 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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To #48 I thought of that especially since she had her expose on Puppy Mills last Friday….YOU GO GIRL!!!!It’s all about team work…..

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Posted By animal lover on April 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
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….I saw all of this coming to ahead two yrs ago when my dog was taken away and killed for a single dog fight incident(the other dog was’nt even killed).Quigley lied about everything even showed strangers who she invited into court to see the picture of my dog, the pictures of the injured dog were fiddled with to make it seem like the poor creature had been attacked by wolves. The picture of my dog wasn’t even my dog, you will spend thousands of dollars on lawyers trying to save your dog. In the end Quigley recieved her thriil in ordering my dog killed, giggling and smirking as she orders a dog killed.I hope they do shut the shelter down its not there to protect the animals.
Rott in HELL Quigley!

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Posted By jon.yjorth on April 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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I actually have a lot to say, but not like this. Though advised not to, I felt it necessary to give some type of response in support of what is right. What I have to say will go to Heather Reger (directly and on the record), Ron Arias, Human Resources, Patrick West and any other official or legal intity necessary. I am fully aware of who is defaming the good character of some of these employees, these issues will be legally addressed as well. This IS what ocurres on a daily basis in the life at Long Beach Animal Control. This is partially why I resigned my position. I can now address these issues without any retaliation against me or the good people left at Animal Control.

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Posted By Tonya Elliott on April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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Dont feel sorry for ya Tonya! You knew what was going on all the time. Thats right go run to the do nothin Ron Airhead Arias, Your responsible for the miserable condtions of these animals. Your character is’nt being defamed you could have quit along time ago. If Heather is forced to take down what is truthful I will personally put up my own web sight to expose the criminals you are.The internet is a bullet train of info the whole world already knows what you did and Ron or City manager can’t stop the truth from going full speed ahead!

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Posted By jon.yjorth on April 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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More commentary at nedthetoothpick.com unfortunately.

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Posted By They're at it again on April 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
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this is sick! You go Chris! I’ve got your back.

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Posted By wow on April 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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Hi all — long time no “chat”. Just thought you all should be updated on the goings on in Long Beach, CA. I know many of you thought that Noah’s Ark supporters and Alex/Gloria were plum crazy when we talked about the evil pit that is Long Beach. Guess what — people in Long Beach can tell a pile of horseshit from the truth…and now it’s all oozing out. You’ll note that Christine Culhnoe, the vet tech who lied on the stand during Alex/Gloria’s trial, and Lt Elliot who perjured herself on the stand and the judge overruled Atty Krauss objection….have now both resigned from Long Beach. Alex and Gloria have paid a huge price for the sins of Lt. Michelle Quigley. Animal Cruelty???? Read the story below! Alex and Gloria never allowed such horrible, cruel treatment of animals in their care at Noah’s Ark. Quigley was just jealous — NA was finding homes for animals not torturing them and killing them like team LBAC.

The seams of Long Beach’s little world are coming apart, read on! BTW anyone think Pnina Gerston didn’t make a deal with the devil NOW? She turned on Alex and got in bed with Quigley. I question her judgement even more now after this article.
Ned’s Animal Shelter

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Posted By the blame game on April 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
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There’s more–lots more, and the bull doesn’t stop at that board.

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Posted By They're at it again on April 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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Tom J — uh hello — pull your head out of your ass! Culhno is a whistleblower plain and simple. If you can’t figure that out, then you’ve probably got your nose up Quigley’s ass. Or maybe you are Quigley — she seems to like to use a male name as an alias…or maybe she’s transgendered. Whatever — she’s been running an animal auschwitz for too long.

Elliott — you never had the balls to do what she’s done — maybe now you’ll sack up…but unless you can admit that you’ve been part of the problem and can show how Quigley was out to get you, I got no respect for you my friend. How many dog and cat carcasses do you need piled up on your doorstep before you’ll finally grow a set?

Christine, why don’t you contact the Noah’s Ark Attorneys and let them know how you were pressured to testify with lies. Elliott doesn’t have the balls to admit that either.

BTW — don’t waste your time with Ron Arias — he’s a tool. You all need to be talking with the California Attorney General’s office. Ask Quigley for her contact there — she’s got someone she’s been feeding lies to for months, it will be eye-opening when they find out they were led so far astray by a total mental case.

Someone also needs to take Quigley up on charges of animal cruelty and ensure that she never has contact with any kind of animal ever again…she just enjoys killing them too much. BTW — Christine — don’t let Quigely get hold of your home address unless you’re going to have round the clock police protection. I’m not kidding! Ask Gloria Ramos. Quigley is a f***in nut case, and you all are paying her a real nice salary. Time to put an end to the gravy train.

Thanks Heather for bringing the truth out! It needs to be broadcast even bigger and there’s more skeletons hiding in the closet for you. You should contact Alex Kirkland — she has some details you’d really enjoy!

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Posted By Clean House at LBAC on April 7th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
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Well it seems the dam has finally burst. Although the name-calling on some of the posts detracts from the real issues here, I trust Ms. Reger to use her excellent skills to bypass the baloney and further investigate the conditions and operation of Long Beach Animal Control. I suspect the reader will be appalled at what she uncovers, should Ms. Reger decide to pursue this.

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Posted By Mario on April 7th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
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Dribble wrote: As long as humans keep making more unwanted animals, there will alwasy be an issue as to what to do with them.

I hereby apologize for my wife’s recent delivery of a 10 pound Himilayan. His name is Puma, and we looooooooooooooove him.

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Posted By Andrew Williams on April 7th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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Well finally Wesley Moore is NO MORE! Unofficially of course this poor schmuck is finally out of my life. He either got axed or they made him resign today. Now they need to get Quigley out of there before it really is too late for the rest of us. We have all had to endure a living HELL under the rule of these idiots. When they dumbed down the position for Wesley to take over…that was the beginning of the end. Now if they can oust Little Timmy we will be golden. I fully agree with Christine as for the incident. They dumped ill trained and virtually untrained people to assit her in doing a job that definately requires years of experience to accomplish correctly. As for all the other BS rumors, just keep in mind this is coming from the people whose ass is in a sling right now. Scrabble, you need to lay off the bleach…it’s getting into the grey matter. Maybe now there may be a glimmer of hope for this organization to regain the reputaion it once held in the industry. Doubt it though those days have past. We have lost good people over the years and more will go, maybe even me.

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Posted By doggy-style on April 7th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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Well finally Wesley Moore is NO MORE! Unofficially of course this poor schmuck is finally out of my life. He either got axed or they made him resign today. Now they need to get Quigley out of there before it really is too late for the rest of us. We have all had to endure a living HELL under the rule of these idiots. When they dumbed down the position for Wesley to take over…that was the beginning of the end. Now if they can oust Little Timmy we will be golden. I fully agree with Christine as for the incident. They dumped ill trained and virtually untrained people to assit her in doing a job that definately requires years of experience to accomplish correctly. As for all the other BS rumors, just keep in mind this is coming from the people whose ass is in a sling right now. Scrabble, you need to lay off the bleach…it’s getting into the grey matter. Maybe now there may be a glimmer of hope for this organization to regain the reputaion it once held in the industry. Doubt it though those days have past. We have lost good people over the years and more will go, maybe even me.

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Posted By doggystyle on April 7th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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61 Comments F-me it would be great if we all put this kind of energy into the Humans being euthanized in the streets of Long Beach.

Scrabble anyone? I hate it but love the way it smells.

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Posted By Kill ME NOW on April 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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clean house
You must be in bed with Culhno to once again try and take the light off of her or are you her posting as someone else? She sure can’t seem to answer any of my questions can she. Hide under that rock you built up and yes we all know she is the whistle blower and is hiding behind that of course. You are making it out like she did nothing wrong she should have taken charge and handled it better. The problem is on her and her lack of taking charge. You goggle her name and more than one thing comes up she has been on alot of articles and there always seems to be some question of what happened or how it was handled. If it was that bad and she was worried about a piece of paper then get a new job. When you sit there and let it happen intell shit hits the fan you are no better than the people you are blaming and I do believe you hold all the responsibilty of what heppened. You can say they should have had someone better trained for what to make your job easy? Stand up and say I messed up and don’t blame other people as a tax payer I don’t want to pay for someone higher up to take a dog from one room to the other give me a god dam break that is what the as they say one had some training and the other was in training work with what you have or leave and shut the hell up.
Clean house as for me being Quigley I am not sure who that is but I bet you worked for them and got fired or written up and now are jumping in on the band wagon becouse someone is picking on you buddy or you are her once again hiding and want to slam her now. why did you wait for a blog why not stand up and tell her if you are that big. You hide with a fake name on a blog at the end when alot has already been said. Once again I am a tax payer paying your salary if you work there so I will say what ever I want. Welcome to the USA DUMBASS.

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Posted By Tom J on April 7th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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Animal Control used to be a great place to work. It’s to bad that things had to come to an end like this.

Wesley’s gone but it really should have been Michelle Quigley that was ousted. Animal Control has gone down hill every since Michelle became a lieutenant. And her position is really a Senior Officer, but she wanted to be like the SPCA, so she made herself a Lieutenant.
If Wesley had followed in the footsteps of his successor(Roger Hatakeyama) Animal Control would still be a well respected organization.
Through bad judgements, vendictiveness, and threats Michelle has drug Wesley and animal control down to nothing.
People get tired of being threatened with insubordination and other disciplinary actions. Things were so bad that Michelle had gotten to the point were if you had a problem and you didn’t like the way she handled it, she told employees they couldn’t go to Wesley for a second opinion because she would write them up.
Employees keep leaving because Michelle is a hard person to work with.What she does is for the good of Michelle, not the good of Animal Control.
Take a survey of all the employees that no longer work at Animal Control and you’ll find that they left because of the bad treatment employees recieved at the hands of Michelle Quigley and Tonyan Elliott, before Tonya became one of Michelle’s targets. hahahahaha.

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Posted By former employee on April 7th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
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doggystyle
They had to dumb down the position. If you are so great why did you not get the job? I bet it was some once again a thing that was sweep under the carpet. You all make me laugh you will push people under the bus but one thing is he was only as good as the people under him and it can’t just be one or two people that make a place run so crappy. He should have cleaned house with all you cry baby’s and started fresh. I bet he had a few that worked for him and not against him. The ones on the bottom are always the cry baby’s becouse they are where they belong at the bottom and cry becouse they have to work and always want a change to make there lives easy. Lets see in about 6 months you will all cry about something new and put the blame on someone new becouse you are a loser and will always be a loser. If you are that great go in and demand that you get his job becouse you are so great and don’t cry and say crap if you don’t get it shut up and deal with it or move on and do something else. I am sure there are alot of people that need jobs and are willing to go the extra mile for the animals and not just cry about things. If this is about the animals then shut up and make it your goal to make things better with who and what you have. I have read all the posts and sounds like a bunch of crap stand up and say I will make this place better and go the extra mile don’t just sit in the corner and cry a river and point fingers.

“I fully agree with Christine as for the incident. They dumped ill trained and virtually untrained people to assit her in doing a job that definately requires years of experience to accomplish correctly.”
It takes years of experiance to take a dog from one room to the other. What the hell has this world came to a bunch of pussy’s. If she would have as she said followed him and sedate the dog in the cage. This would not be a issue. She did not take control and do her job and is dumping it now on everyone else.

What was the dog bleeding from? I had a dog loose a tooth once and thought he was dying becouse of all the blood that was comming out and he was fine just lost a tooth..

You all act like you know who is posting what. If you know who it is what are you going to do about it nothing I am sure besides bitch some more. You have all said things and hide behind fake names. Shut up and deal with it.

I am fully aware of who is defaming the good character of some of these employees, these issues will be legally addressed as well. This IS what ocurres on a daily basis in the life at Long Beach Animal Control.
Please shut the hell up you don’t have crap and can’t do crap anyways it is all opinions and rumers can’t do shit for that DUMBASS

If we are hear for the animals start by helping them and focus on them and SHUT THE HELL UP.

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Posted By Tom J on April 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
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I am so sick of the I am a tax payer crap!! I pay taxes too, does that mean I have to work under a hostile work environment or poor training because you pay taxes? If you are a resident of Long Beach or one of our contracted cities you would know that we provide a much needed service. I am proud of what I do.I did go to the management team on issues that I knew where detrimental to the moral and future of this department, and I was met with hostility. Should I have left, sure, I know I wouldn’t be in the position I find myself in now. But i think that there is still hope at LBAC. Tom J why don’t you flex your muscles at tomorrows council meeting at 4:30 pm in LB and demand that your tax dollars be put to better use…

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Posted By Rachel on April 7th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
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I just want to say that i am sooooooooo proud of you Chris!!!!! I am so happy to call you my bestfriend of more than 30 yrs:) even though you might get fired and lose your licence you were brave enough to finally say” thats f@@ckin enough!” Even though your a single mom with a family to support you said “thats f@@ckin enough!”. You dont understand how much i love animals..so much that i could never be a vet tech because i would be cryin all the time. I need a bumpersticker that says i slow down for butterflies! Chris is such a hero in my eyes right now..its all about the animals for her now and getting someone in there who doesnt care about bonus, raises,or vacations..because if you are truly there for the animals in the mgt position or anywere in the LBAC you work 24/7…thats how much your suppose to care. I know there are plenty of people out there who would work for half the pay those so called animal lovers get to make sure everything is done right and legally and most of all humainly..cause thats why they went into the field they went into right???…or is it becase animals cant speak so they can do whatever they want to whenever and only hear the cry of animals..which obviously is not a big deal to them. Never have i seen chris so distraught over this job and what she should do…who to report to? who to trust? was she going to beable to take care of her family? Everyone in higher mgt all seemed like back stabbing people who didnt care about anything..so how do you report it to them?..frustrating for anyone at any job. The stories she told me broke my heart and i hated the SPCA and the people who did nothing for the animals at the LBAC. SHAME ON all who knowingly hurt,starved,beaten,ignored,disrespected those animals who depend on us to survive!!!!…HURRAY for the people who have found there confidence and there voice to speak up for the animals that we all love so much:) I LOVE YOU CHRIS!!!!YOUR DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR THE ANIMALS YOU LOVE!!! P.S. This message is to TOM J…calm down before you burst a blood vessel..this is a good thing, take a look at the whole picture.all she is doing is trying to make all the wrong at the LBAC and the SPCA into something that is right…why are you arguing with her? Do you argue with everyone who is tryin to do somethin right?..do you cheer for all that bad in animal crulety? I bet you were one of those people that said the TELETUBBIES were a bad influence and that one of them was gay huh?..meaning that you will try and find the bad in the nicest silliest thing and try and flip it….your a weirdo if you against treating animals with love and care and respect..cause since your talkin all that poopy the readers would have to believe that…try and right some positive stuff..and if you feel all warm and fuzzy doin it..dont be alarmed..it just means you care.

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Posted By april washington on April 7th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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I bet everyone has a family to support that is involved. That is the problem they are all blaming each other and all have a family to support and take care of but it did not stop her from starting a war and also the first few posts I am sure where her and her buddy’s naming names and then when there names got thrown out also they ran. Work should be a familey also and you all work together and we have all had that one or two people that we don’t get along with and you learn to deal with it, work around it or leave.
How about the guy that got let go or left what about his family? Is she better than him?
My soft side she is trying to make a right and put blame on the other people that where not there. It was a bad day and they tryed to cover it up and not go for help right away that is my problem and she wrote that.
“I told him that we can all be fired for this and that this is wrong is so many ways. I told Victor that we need to clean all this blood up before we get into trouble”
It happened move on and make sure it does not happen again. I am sure there will be a few fall guys for the whole thing and then back to normal like always and some lives will be changed for a dog that was on his was to be put down anyway. You learn from your mistakes and don’t be so quick to put blame on others. No dog should suffer but familys should not be ruined also becouse of this. Come with a solution not a problem and don’t say that no one would help either you did not go high enough to solve it you hide and went the easy route and have them do the dirty work.

What positive has she wrote about other people besides throwing them under the bus?

Trust me I do care I have been there and gotten a animal from there but see no reason why this has gone so far for what. I think they should all write who they think should be fired and how to fix it. Come with a solution and not a vendetta and don’t say anyone would be better than this or that person.If you are so great or have someone that is. Stand up and take charge or get them to. I don’t deal with unions or I would take charge and clean house all the cry baby’s gone first becouse they are always the dead weight and the ones they hate keep them becouse most people hate the ones that are doing the right thing even if they don’t think so that is why they have the jobs under them and did not get that job..

TELETUBBIES if you don’t think they where creepy then you got a huge problem and he was the gay one.

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Posted By Tom J on April 8th, 2008 at 12:16 am
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Golly gee, you’d think the blog site would have been updated notifying the world, or do you need input from a spoil

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