Attention Animal Rights Activists!

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I am writing this message in order to request help to release my pet which has been held since 29th April in the Quarantine Station facility located in Havelock Street, Curepe in very unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

Animals enter this Quarantine Station, healthy, only to have their lives shortened by abuse or illness — at the hands of our Government. The Quarantine Station is a depressing place. You can feel the dark energy, the sadness and pain. It is a mystery as to why the Government objects to changing the Quarantine system. The leaders only need to study the rabies vaccination statistics to see quarantine, as operated in Trinidad and Tobago, is completely unnecessary. Today, we can fly from the mainland to the United Kingdom with a “pet passport” (eligible pets have rabies vaccinations, blood tests and microchips). But we cannot fly to Trinidad without “jailing” our pets.
Spending 30 to 120 days exposed to the elements, sleeping in the same confined quarters without exercise, extreme heat, fleas, ticks, wounds, skin rashes is cruel, inhumane punishment. Yet our innocent, vaccinated animal companions are imprisoned at the state Quarantine, guilty only of being in Trinidad.
I ask the Animal Rights Activist to request to our lawmakers to please eliminate unnecessary incarceration of qualified pets.

I also wanted to forward the following article from September 2007: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296062,00.html ,which confirms that dogs coming from USA are very healthy and it is not necessary to incarcerate them...

These are just “some” of the conditions of the Quarantine Station:

(1) The facilities are not in good condition. The space, utilities and facilities in the quarantine station are not thoroughly sterilized using specified chemicals, methods and procedures to keep animals and the internal environment clean. The dogs have cuts in paws and tails from the rusted metal doors and the fences.

(2) There are not fire prevention, antitheft, poison, and rat, mosquito and fly prevention measures. The animals in the compound have numerous bite marks and ticks, they also have skin rash.

(3) They fail to feed and attend animals according to a regular feeding time. There have been numerous times I have visited my pet and I have found the bowls without fresh water.

(4) The quarantine station is not well cleaned, and animal excrement, contaminant, sewage and refuse is not disposed conforming to epidemic prevention and environmental requirements.

(5) The staff of the quarantine stations is not trained to handle animals, there are not related regulations, quarantine station management systems, animal feeding and epidemic prevention during quarantine and other professional knowledge, and are not tested for qualification before working on in the facility. There is not a Veterinarian in the compound and they do not allow our personal veterinary to enter the compound to inspect the dog.

(7) There is not a proper laboratory equipped with personnel, technology, instruments and equipment satisfying the need of inspection work.

(8) There is not ventilation system, especially in these weather conditions (32 Celsius Degrees). I placed a fan in the kennel for the dog to be able to beat the heat but it is not enough. Dogs can have brain damage or death from heatstroke in just 15 minutes.

(9) There are not green areas where pets can exercise. Pets are not allowed to leave the kennel. My dog has gained a few pounds due to the lack of exercise. If we did not provide the food, I am certain the dog would be starving.

(10) There are not sewage treatment facilities to ensure the sewage emission conforms to epidemic prevention and environmental requirements and to prevent any disease agent from entering or escaping the facility

(11) The Facilities do not provide safety. Gates and fences are never locked to prevent quarantine animals from escaping.

[nervewrecker]

Section 79 of the Summary Offences Act states that: “Any person who cruelly beats, ill-treats, starves, over- drives, overrides, overloads, abuses, tortures, or otherwise maltreats any animal is liable to a fine of $400 or to imprisonment for two months”

how much for tint?

[sMASH]

lawyer up, maybe even consumer affairs division

[hustla_ambition101]

So why didn't you do your research before importing a dog, if you had done checks you would know that it would have been better off to leave the animal where it was because quarantine is a sheithole

[security]

So why didn't you do your research before importing a dog, if you had done checks you would know that it would have been better off to leave the animal where it was because quarantine is a sheithole

That dog is like my son, the dog was living with me, I was not going to abandon him in USA. There was not another option.

[hustla_ambition101]

Well pal welcome back to Trinidad, where animals have no rights.

[S_2NR]

yu shudda stay in USA..seriously..trinidad is a dump..

[TRAE]

yu shudda stay in USA..seriously..trinidad is a dump..

then move... I like it here

[Bizzare]

Ent....go to the forking USA.

[Captainzaak]

So why didn't you do your research before importing a dog, if you had done checks you would know that it would have been better off to leave the animal where it was because quarantine is a sheithole

Clearly you don't understand the relationship some people have with their animals.

security,

Did you contact anyone from TTSPCA for advice on what to do?
Try getting in touch with Sara or Sita. (North Branch).

11 Mucurapo Lands,
Mucurapo Road,
St. James.
Trinidad and Tobago

Tel: (868) 622-1367
Tel/Fax: (868) 628-1615
Email: info@ttspca.org

[hustla_ambition101]

So why didn't you do your research before importing a dog, if you had done checks you would know that it would have been better off to leave the animal where it was because quarantine is a sheithole

Clearly you don't understand the relationship some people have with their animals.

security,

Did you contact anyone from TTSPCA for advice on what to do?
Try getting in touch with Sara or Sita. (North Branch).

11 Mucurapo Lands,
Mucurapo Road,
St. James.
Trinidad and Tobago

Tel: (868) 622-1367
Tel/Fax: (868) 628-1615
Email: info@ttspca.org

Yeah but what is the sense of bringing an animal if it is going to be left in a facility to suffer and probably die

[SUPAstarr]

TTSPCA has already received a report of this today and will be discussing how best they can assist.

[S_2NR]

yu shudda stay in USA..seriously..trinidad is a dump..

then move... I like it here

to each his own..doh beat up

[Stephon.]

yu shudda stay in USA..seriously..trinidad is a dump..

then move... I like it here

So much potential.

@OP sorry to hear what happened to your pet, lawyer up. I know I would if I was in your situation.

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First Set of Photos of the Quarantine Station has been uploaded

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This is a continuation of the topic: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=377470

Please see below more photos of the Quarantine Station

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Any help will be greatly appreciated

[Kiro_lee]

U can just put them in one thread. A merge will be in order.

[DFC]

Bro I say u go @ midnight and take your dog and go home.

[RapToR]

Bro I say u go @ midnight and take your dog and go home.

x2

[Stephon.]

Them pictures hard to watch, your dog still there?

[iM@st@1]

Bro I say u go @ midnight and take your dog and go home.

x3 ... it doh even look like it would have any1 watching the compound ...go thru daddy!

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Them pictures hard to watch, your dog still there?

Yes, they want to keep it there until August, that is why I am trying to get help for them to release it

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I just was told that Dogs are left unattended from 4:00 PM to the next day? The bowl of water will be empty by the afternoon and nobody is there to refill it ...

[Stephon.]

-Dogs are left unattended from 4:00 PM to the next day

There's your chance to

go @ midnight and take your dog and go home.

[security]

-Dogs are left unattended from 4:00 PM to the next day

There's your chance to

go @ midnight and take your dog and go home.

I will just be risking his life, because they will come to my home to pick him up and they will put them to sleep because he left the Quarantine Station before time...

[Sheriff]

Get ur dog out of there man.

[Sheriff]

That place really in ah sad state yes.

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It is not only the place, it is the fact that the entire Quarantine process does not make any sense and they are risking the health of the citizens also, as they are cats roaming free in the compound and they enter in the dog kennels all the time. If a dog comes with a disease, it will spread very easily as the basic controls are not there!

[nemisis]

-Dogs are left unattended from 4:00 PM to the next day

There's your chance to

go @ midnight and take your dog and go home.

Your dog in a bad situation yes but look for a legal solution and not this betham behavior suggested above