Contra Costa Animal Services Seeking Adopters and Fosters as Shelter Reaches Capacity

A Cat in the Hat, a Dog in the Shelter,
CCAS is just short of Helter-Skelter.
Director Ward embraced “Capacity for Care,”
But without BOS approval, it’s an “ouchie” we must declare.

C4C, is a theory with a logical flair, 
“Spare shelters are better, less animals -> more care.”
But where will go the extra 4-legged creatures?
“Ah ha!” they surmised, “blame undesirable features!”

They think we don’t notice dogs scared, shy or with fear,
These creatures on kill lists, their plight crystal clear!
“Who needs a behavior team? Just let dogs fall!
They won’t give enrichment or toys to enthrall!”

Healthy kittens and cats, just turn them away.
then neglect spaying and neutering, hell, come what may.
Capacity for Care, experimental at best!
But it WAY doesn’t pass Governor Newsom’s test.

He deemed California 100% kill-free,
yet somehow Contra Costa, won’t embrace his decree!
We hold you, Board, accountable, we’re afraid to say,
for condoning a director and her system, this way.

Allowing their killing under a suspicious guise
We’ve been subject to Ward’s consistent lies
Burdo’s ‘threatening of death plan’ is complete without ethics
Duh! Just do the right thing, and you’ll see positive metrics

(These words that we choose, can reveal quite a lot
like euthanasia and killing: ALIKE – they are not!
One’s for mercy, by law, for sickness or danger.
The other is “murder,” sorry, that’s what I wager!)

So what can we do, what are the solutions?
We don’t want to just gripe, but to stop persecutions!
Global problems are vast and need our reflection,
but we must address issues HERE, move in the right direction.

So back to our goals, solutions and such,
spay and neuter – California law – would solve so much!
A snip bus to treat communities far and wide,
especially those with stray dogs at high tide!

And of course, backyard breeding, oh, what a plight!
Enforcement and tip lines would help win this 
fight!
Licensing too, would add so much more money,
hold the public accountable for their four-legged honey!

Education as well, let’s not disregard,
the shelter can teach “practical” not enact “Kierkegaard.”
Measure X and Benefit Fund could provide real bucks,
Plus cities to “fork out,” instead of not giving two…. !@^%(*&’s

Thank you for your time, and your keen introspection,
of the issues at hand, for our animals’ protection.
Let’s seek solutions to life-affirming dynamics
and fix what makes this scenario so very problematic.
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