Comments on: USDA Proposes To Confine Hemingway House Cats

By: kim

kim — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:01:04 +0000

If the USDA has their way, there will be more problems than this. Check out http://nonais.org
This government office is running amuck…dangerously so. They are not out to protect anyone or anything except
foreign trade and the big processors/factory farms.

If you eat anything..be you carnivor or herbivor, watch the USDA…closely!

If you own a pet, watch the USDA….closely!

By: GO USDA

GO USDA — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:06:01 +0000

These cats are dying due to getting hit by cars, who should regulate them?

By: Debbie4747

Debbie4747 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:53:32 +0000

2CatMom says:

July 31st, 2007 at 1:15 pm

“”Sounds like the USDA has come down with a case of Mad Cat Disease!
“”
+++++

LOL! Very good!

By: 2CatMom

2CatMom — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:15:56 +0000

Sounds like the USDA has come down with a case of Mad Cat Disease!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:30:48 +0000

The USDA can’t keep track of contaminated food- or stop disgusting people from running puppy mills, and don’t have the staff to regulate important issues- but they have all of these resources for something as ridiculous as trying to have these cats confined. They aren’t preformers! Hemingway left the property to his cats- and that’s where they belong- they should have every right to roam freely on that property.

By: Traci

Traci — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:47:02 +0000

Lynn:
::I mean, really, how would YOU like to have the candy store so accessible?::

“Build it, they will come”

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:54:48 +0000

It sounds as though one complaint by Schultz snowballed into a legion of legal rules and tribulations.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/n.....cats_x.htm

I have to wonder why Schultz set up a feeding station for [other] cats so close to the museum [or at all, for that matter], especially with Ivan the Terrorist [I say this in jest] 4 doors away. I mean, really, how would YOU like to have the candy store so accessible?

By: Lorri

Lorri — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:02:18 +0000

Let’s confine the self righteous bitch Debbie Schultz to a cage after her “performance”
What is this woman’s deal? Time to start writing to the legislators for that area…obviously she’s figured out the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:47:50 +0000

Why doesn’t the USDA mind it’s own business and do some real work. I do think taking care of feral cats is important, but the Hemmingway place was there first - is there a reason the feeding station was set up so close?

By: Traci

Traci — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:09:56 +0000

“The Hemingway cats rarely strayed from the 1-acre property surrounded by a 5-foot brick wall until Schultz arrived about eight years ago and established a feral-cat feeding site half a block away, Morawski said. Cats began disappearing over the wall and turning up at the SPCA as captured strays, he said.”

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ats29.html

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:35:25 +0000

“In October 2003, a USDA inspector posing as a tourist surveyed the grounds and later ordered the museum staff to get a license or face $10,000 in daily fines. Since then, a veterinarian from the USDA has made repeated inspections of the property, recommending increasingly restrictive measures each time,…..”

Well, now, isn’t this special? The USDA suddenly discovers it can fine people and force them to bend to its will. Oh, and it has the resources to send a vet back to the property time and again to insist on even more stringent controls over the cats. So much for no enforcement powers.

Imagine what the USDA could do if it chose to investigate something worthwhile like food safety. But, golly, I’m ever-so-glad that the United States Department of Agriculture is protecting all of us from many-toed cats on a South Florida island. Now I can sleep at night!

What a sick joke our gov’t. agencies have been turned into. The next election can’t get here soon enough.

By: Debbie4747

Debbie4747 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:02:06 +0000

Okay, let me get this straight too. USDA isn’t really protecting us from bad foods but they want the Hemingway cats to be caged after their “performances”? When did they become food? These cats have been a terrific tourist attraction for years with no problems, and now the USDA want to control it?

If anyone needs to be caged after their “performance” I’d say it’s the USDA, FDA, FEMA and the Bush Administration. Then again, no one pays to see them.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:17:27 +0000

I’ve got a better idea: let’s confine the USDA to working on REAL problems.

Who’s the idiot who put these cats on the USDA “task” list? Does no one know how to prioritize by damage impact in the USDA? Do they not “get” that pets and people getting poisoned is more of a disaster than some cats that really aren’t doing anything wrong?

The stupidity of our government never ceases to amaze me.

By: pat

pat — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:38:01 +0000

i want to know what kind of pull schultz has that can divert vital resources from the real job of protecting the public and animals who are truly living in abusive conditions and devote them to bullshirt like this. when the average citizen contacts usda to express concern that animals and people are being poisoned because of a total lack of corporate responsibility in agribusiness, that’s ignored. when some wooly-headed be-otch complains about a tom cat that got loose, the federal government sends experts on fact finding junkets to beautiful key west…. hmmm.

By: wescott20

wescott20 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:19:09 +0000

Beyond belief. The incompetent USDA, which constantly fails in their duty to keep the US food supply safe (spinach, anyone?), is now bullying and attempting to destroy one of America’s most beloved historical institutions to the detriment of the well being of the Hemingway cats because of the vindictive complaints of one moron- that “animal rights” hypocrite b**tch Debbie Schultz (the woman who already betrayed the museum’s trust by destroying the bloodline of the Hemingway cats…thanks to her, only one male remains who can breed), even though this is against the wishes of the city of Key West, the museum caretakers who know and love the cats best, the American public, and even members of Congress.