Last week, in yet another act of direct defiance of the
Pasco County Board of Commissioners directives, PCAS Director John Malley murdered
25 dogs, two of whom were VERY adoptable black lab mix puppies that should have
been placed in adoptions. Two more were
purebred labs. When asked by Commissioner Pat Mulieri if there were any dogs on
the euth list, Malley insisted that there were NO dogs on the ‘euth list”, the
term for the list of animals scheduled of euthanasia. To be clear euthanasia as
defined by Webster’s Dictionary is “painless killing to relieve suffering, OR
the act or practice killing somebody or an animal who has an incurable illness
or injury.” Then he killed all 25, ALL of who he insisted to Tampa Bay Times
Reporter Lee Logan, he had personally evaluated, meaning that ALL 25 would have
had to be aggressive or sick. Those two lab puppies were neither, and neither were
several others that were killed. He's also started the killing again; based on HIS evaluations of the dog's behavior, if he has even looked at them at all...I fear many more dogs who just have a treatable cold will be killed. Could it be that Mr. Malley is trying to justify these acts for other reasons?
On November 7, 2012, the Pasco County Board of
Commissioners, approved the SAVE 90% rule in reference to the Shelter, in which
it was agreed upon that they would save 90% of the animals and ONLY sick or
aggressive dogs and cats would be euthanized. This was voted on and PASSED as LAW by the BOC.
On November 26, 2012, John Malley ordered the killing of 25
animals, which, in addition to the two VERY adoptable puppies, included those two
purebred labs as well as several younger, adoptable dogs. This was 21 days
AFTER the SAVE 90% was adopted by the BOC on November 7, 2012. It was passed as
an addendum to agenda CS 13-009.
How many were “sick”? How many were “aggressive?” How is John Malley making a determination
that a dog is aggressive and not just scared at a shelter that has chaos going
on 24/7, barking dogs and the constant smell of feces, urine and death? John Malley has NO qualifications as an animal
behaviorist; NONE.
According to the
Pasco County government website, the jog requirements for management position as
Animal Shelter Director REQUIRE a minimum of FOURS years experience to be
considered for the position. John Malley, according to his resume posted with
Pasco County government, has literally ONE year and a half stint at the
Executive Directors position at the SPCA of West Pasco. He states that he was “Chief
Executive Officer for All Operations” but there seems to be some discrepancy as
to his actual duties and the reasons for his departure.
Prior to that position, Malley worked as a VP of Sales at
Nutrition Research Center in Largo; before that he worked for Goodwill
Industries as the Center Manager.
How, may I ask ANYONE, are ANY of these jobs, with the exception of the one at SPCA,
where his reasons for leaving have been questionable, does this make John
Malley CAPABLE of determining behavior in an animal, especially one who is
scared confused and often injured or starved for both food and attention?
It does NOT and he is not qualified for the position he
currently holds at PCAS, BY THE ACTUAL STANDARDS SET BY THE COUNTY.
So how is he there? In a conversation with one of the
volunteers, a retired reporter, by the way, “he contends that he formulated it (NO Kill Nation) well before NO
Kill Nation Nathan Winograd but contended it wasn't workable. He also declared
that portions of Wino grad’s plan were items that Malley himself had written.
Malley says that he is an expert at managing a shelter, that he will not make
any changes there under duress or pressure, that the Pasco Animal Advisory
Board and the County Commission listen only to him, that he has the media in
his pocket, that he has the legal right to restrict people (meaning those of us
who dare to criticize him) from coming into the shelter as well as to forbid
the taking of pictures. He also told this person that “he was a lawyer.”
I can find
no John Malley on the Florida Bar website, nor had he stated that he was an
attorney on his resume.
So here
we have a man, who in DIRECT DEFIANCE of the Pasco Board of Commissioners,
deliberately KILLED 25 dogs... he also kills cats by the dozens, but that will
be covered in another post.
The public
should be outraged, the BOC should be outraged and he should be fired for his
direct acts of insubordination. There are several viable, BETTER candidates for
the position of Director at PCAS; one is a former
police lieutenant with 22 years experience with a canine task force, John Crosby,
who was the Division Manager for Bay County Animal Control in Jacksonville. He
is a registered dog trainer, animal behaviorist and behavioral consultant. He reduced
the euthanasia rate at Bay County from 84% to 55% and more than doubled
adoptions rates in two years. He consults regularly with law enforcement,
animal control agencies and veterinarians on dog attacks and dog aggression. Another has run Shelters in New York and has a lot of experience as well.
THIS is
the kind of person that should be running PCAS... THIS is the kind of person that could turn it
around.
PCAS
needs to clean house... Starting at the top. A person who DIRECTLY defies a
directive from their boss should be fired. End of story.
Look
for the next post about all this soon... there is a LOT more to this story that
needs telling.
LC
This is disgustong, How people like this man can work at this place and kill so man animals, he should be on the next euth list, not innocent animals. I am so sorry, but it makes me so upset that in counytu like USA we still can see completely brutgal person as a director of animal services. He should be goond from this position soon.
ReplyDeleteWe all know that management at Pasco Animal Control needs to go. I don't know what it will take to make the county wake up. They can kill the helpless animals but they will not be able to kill our voices and disgust of how they run this shelter. We will not give up until changes are made.
ReplyDeleteI am familiar with John Malley and the situation at Pasco County's Animal Shelter, and I can confirm that everything in this well written article is the truth. What makes it worse is that there are dozens of shelter volunteers and citizens who have been literally BEGGING the county commissioners office to get rid of Malley, and yet they have been essentially ignored, and Malley has continued to murder countless innocent adoptable animals -- and all at the county tax-payers' expense! If all the citizens of Pasco County could SEE his salary, and SEE the animals he has murdered, the public outcry would be deafening. How many more animals will he murder today even though he has been ordered not to? How many more innocent lives will he snuff out tomorrow even though he will tell the county commissioner he has no killings planned? How many of the ones he murders are actually lost family pets belonging to grieving Pasco residents? How would you like to find out that your beloved family dog was locked inside a filthy cage hidden inside Pasco's infamous 'Building C', terrified and alone, and then murdered with a muzzle over his face and a needle stabbed into him -With No Sedation-, and that he probably lay there dying for an hour or so while being placed inside a plastic bag, all while you were still out driving through your neighborhood desperately trying to find him? And how would you like to find out that this was all done by Mr. John Malley, the shelter director who was given strict orders to Stop The Killing, but who did not listen. How would you like to be a volunteer at the shelter watching Malley write the word "AGGRESSIVE" on a dog's cage card even though that dog had never shown any aggression whatsoever, simply because he wanted to kill it? And WHY does he want to kill so many animals? Pasco's shelter has a brand new building (Bldg A) large enough to house many dogs and cats for adoption to the public. And Pasco's shelter has a HUGE annual budget. So if the vast majority of the animals are never making it into Bldg A, where is all the budget money going? Into whose pockets? The greatest Christmas present Pasco County's citizens could receive would be the firing, removal, and prosecution of Mr. John Malley... the serial killer of Pasco County.
ReplyDeleteThank you Leigh! The citizens want a change and deserve a change.
ReplyDeleteMalley operated on an Animal at the SPCA and it died........that is why he was fired from the SPCA.
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ReplyDeleteJohn Malley is the ultimate example of what NOT to do as a director of an Animal Services if you want to claim you are a Save the 90 director. To finally become save the 90 and make bullsh!!t excuses and KILL 25 dogs. Imagine what it was like to have to walk 25 dogs to their death!!! To lay 25 dogs down and calm them down, and inject a needle 25 times!!!!! How many dogs had to witness this? What about the dog next to the euthanization room who had to watch 25 dogs be led to this room and never come back??? I don't get involved in this politics like I should but I will be d@mned if there will be another Pasco 25!!!!!!!! Explain to me how someone can flat out lie, kill 25 animals, and STILL have his job???????? We are taxpayers of this county and I was there the week before this happened looking at dogs for a Georgia rescue and many of these dogs were NOT SICK ENOUGH TO BE KILLED. Perhaps someone needs to look at the fine print where it says Severely injured or aggressive, NOT basic URI which almost any animal inside a shelter will have. Perhaps it's time to evaluate as commissioners and the administrator if this man is the key to change OR if there is a better option. If there is a better option who is willing to not kill 25 in one day, why is this not something you would be interested in?
ReplyDeleteHere is an idea, think about what you are asking for before slamming a shelter. The fact of the matter is that the shelter is not breeding cats or dogs, irresponsible "pet owners" are neglecting to fix their animals and causing severe over population. I am an animal lover, have more than my fair share, but lets be honest, no one wants to adopt every single one of these animals.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to do some good, encourage "pet owners" to take responsibility and take care of their animals instead of using the shelter as a dumping ground. Shelters do the best they can.
I am curious as to what exactly you expect shelters to do? A lot of shelters have anywhere from 200 - 300 animals at a time and with that many animals it is not humanly possible to have everything spotless, the animals don't poop or pee on a specified schedule.
Like I said, find a way to encourage pet owners to be responsible and until you start dumping your own time and money into hundreds of animals at any given time, don't judge.
This has to stop, someone has to remove him from that place, along with anyone else that is the same. i have 3 of 4 cats rescued from that hell hole they were only 4-5 weeks old and if i didn't take them they would be dead.
ReplyDeleteevery animal cat/dog deserves at least a chance for a happy loving life. get rid of them all.