PINEBROOK CARE CENTER NEW ADMINISTRATOR Wants 20 Year Cat Colony Destroyed

The new administrator at the Pinebrook Care Center in Manalapan, NJ filed a complaint with the Manalapan Health Department.  No actual evidence was offered yet he insists on the removal of a managed cat colony that has resided in the woods for more than 2o years.  There have been no complaints in 20 years yet all of a sudden the cats must be killed. Everyone who lives in the area or visits know of the cats.  Many visitors and Pinebrook Care employees leave food for them and have also adopted several.  One worker even helped shovel a snow path for them in the winters and helped build shelters for them.

The kitties are sweet, well fed cats.  However, the new adminstrator wants them gone even though they are part of the community.  In fact, the cats have resided in the area for more than 20 years and the new administrator is only on board 2 months! Two months you say??  We do not even know how long he will be around yet he wants the cats removed.  Each of his calls to animal control is a waste of Manalapan's financial resources, your tax dollars.  Animal Control has better things to do with their time like hunt down dog fighters, animal abusers, and capture run away farm animals.

If the beautiful cats of Manalapan/Pinebrook are forced off the property, they will be taken to the overcrowded, filty, Helmetta Animal Shelter, as per the Manalapan Health Officer.  There is an inherent conflict of interest that a Health Officer is so inextricably linked to a Kill Shelter...yet we all know about politics ($$$$).  Helmetta is a concentration camp for feral cats who wait the fate of death.  100% of feral cats are killed within 7 days, if they last that long.  While they await their fate, they are trapped in wire cells scared out of their minds, separated from their babies and feline friends, torn from their homes, panting in fear. They are not treated well.

It costs Manalapan Township thousands and thosands of dollars to inhumanely trap helpless, otherwise happy, cats and kittens.  They are ripped away from their families, mothers and the only home they know, all because a new administrator is trying to prove himself.  What do you think?  Will you pay for the trapping of kittens and cats to be killed at Helmetta?  Do you support killing healthy pets?

Are you aware of the conditions at Helmetta Animal Shelter? Please take a quick drive there, just past Monroe, on Main Street.  After you view the horrific conditions, putrid stench when you enter the building, take a look at the starving kittens in the sick kitten room. Then look into your hearts and write to Manalapan officials to stop trapping and killing healthy pets.  Thank you.

 Please voice your concerns about the cost to the community, bad publicity and shameful, archaic policies. mals.  Thank you.