Eugene weekly., July 12, 2007, Image 7

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In reply to Johnni Prince’s letter in the
June 28 EW, I would like the community and
Greenhill’s donors to know that Greenhill
does kill adoptable animals.
In March I took cats I had rescued to
Greenhill based on the reassurances from a
friend and Greenhill staff that Greenhill did not
kill adoptable animals or kill for space. I vis-
ited these cats at least twice a week for three
weeks. I was reassured each time that they
would find their “forever homes” and I didn’t
need to worry. Numerous times, I told staff
(senior and otherwise) I would take them back
into my rescue cattery for any reason. Stray
Cat Alliance also offered to take the cats and
find them homes. These cats had two adoption
possibilities. Greenhill killed them anyway.
Their excuse for killing was for “medical”
issues. I’ve obtained the records for the cats,
and only one had a notation that it needed
teeth cleaning. Greenhill has a fund to pay for
this kind of medical care for animals.
Opinions I have from three different veteri-
narians state that dental care is not a serious,
untreatable medical condition.
Their website defines “treatable” animals:
“Greenhill considers animals treatable if they
are not adoptable, but could become adoptable
with reasonable effort. Animals that are con-
sidered treatable include: Sick or injured ani-
mals that need appropriate medical care; and
traumatized or unsocialized animals that need
behavioral modification and/or foster care.”
Greenhill has refused to acknowledge
their mistake, and in fact, didn’t show any re-
morse for killing these adoptable cats. How
many more adoptable animals have they
killed that no one but them knows about?
Kathy Norris
Homeless Animals’
Lifeline Organization
Junction City
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BEING EDGY?
Can anyone please tell me what “edgy”
means? One Eugene bar club seems to think
that any view that doesn’t fit into their self-
described “edginess” is a misinformed
enemy combatant. I’ve written three letters to
EW to help stop the commercialization of vi-
olence and misogyny in a few (discontinued)
weekly commercial ads. My voice has surely
been only one among many that do not want
Eugene to get any smuttier by publishing
coarsening images in the ads of EW.
In retaliation to my remarks, the bar has
named and targeted me personally in a dubi-
ous ad recently. What bar, especially a bar that
thrives on trumping-up a “bad kids — kinky
bar” image to sell to Eugene, would ever say
about itself: “They have more theme nights
than a senior center.” Not one. The only inten-
tion of this ad was to intimidate me personally.
The ad makes no sense commercially.
Well, as far as “edgy” is concerned and
asking the question if views are valid without
enough “edgy-life credentials,” I just might
have enough: Went to high school with Alice
Cooper and gang, sang country and jazz, ex-
perienced Woodstock, raised kids, faced
death and dying, traveled and studied Zen in
Dutch and French monasteries, taught and
now live pretty fully with a humble trailer
park base camp. I am their ad’s “trailer trash.”
Still, what does edgy really mean: Razor’s
edgy? Cliff’s edgy? Reckless? Ambitious?
Defiant? Out-of-the-box? Unconventional?
Touchy? Tough? Being right here? Escape?
Deb Huntley
Eugene
1027 Willamette • 683-5903
www.harlequinbeads.com
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