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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Visionaries:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Apologies in advance for any typos – I had hand surgery after Thanksgiving & am still in the recovery process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>It breaks my heart to share this information, but the University of Idaho has continued its unconscionably cruel campaign against campus cats </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546A'>L</span><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>As some may remember, the UI rightly earned itself a PR nightmare when the disturbing secret actions of Dr. Death (Peter Autenried) & the Facilities Killing Cabal were exposed. Those actions included trapping, tormenting, gassing, and eventually killing – as a first response rather than a last resort – a wide variety of animals on campus, including campus cats. That anyone with connected brain cells would think it appropriate for the UI to condone the construction and use of an inhumane (in case you missed the factually correct comment from WSU, <b>don’t</b> believe Dr. Death’s lie) homemade gas chamber on cats in the 2st century is unfathomable, but there you have it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Thousands of people from around the world – including nearly a thousand from Idaho alone – were rightly outraged when the details of the “Vermin Control” policy and the UI Killing Cabal’s actions were discovered, and they signed a petition calling on the UI to do better. The petition was delivered to President Staben back in October. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>AFAIK, the UI has done <b><u>nothing</u></b> positive to address the situation of campus cats since, a situation it created and has ignored for <b>decades</b> and instead indirectly dumped on faculty, staff, students, and community members to humanely handle. Individuals have spent thousands and thousands of dollars -- and untold hours of unpaid time -- doing what the UI has failed to do for decades. In fact, if you talk to really old-timers, they can tell stories about how cats used to be welcome on campus and even inside buildings when rodents were discovered. Campus cats used to be valued working members of the UI community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Indeed, the very fact that the campus isn’t overrun by cats is testimony to the <b>success</b> of those individual efforts over the decades and to humane campus cat management that includes TRN, rescue, and adoption as well as kindness and <b>humanity</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Flash forward to this week and the bitterly cold temps we’re experiencing in the midst of this holiday season. While we’re enjoying the season and hoping for a white Christmas while trying to stay toasty, life becomes much more difficult for campus cats with the extreme cold.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>And, as a compassionate person aware of the situation would do, someone placed a very small “shelter from the storm” in a hidden area on campus where a cat had been spotted. Who knows if the cat was owned, lost, stray, recently dumped by a departing student, or what </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546A'>L</span><span style='color:#44546A'> Heck – we leave our boat-less “boat garage” door cracked overnight when the weather is bad like this, and we also make sure unfrozen water is available in multiple places on our property because everything needs access to water even in the dead of winter. So I can definitely understand the motivation behind someone who had seen a poor cat outside with the frigid temps approaching.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Reportedly at the direction of Charles Zillinger, the UI’s Director of Landscape and Exterior Services and evil non-genius behind the initial extermination plan, that lone shelter from the storm was destroyed earlier this week. Happy Holidays, eh?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Frankly, I cannot fathom the depraved degeneracy behind such an unspeakably cruel command to destroy a lone little shelter during this bitter cold that could well condemn a sentient creature to <b>intentionally freeze to death, but that’s definitely</b> <b>not how I expect my tax dollars to be spent</b>. However, I have to believe in karma either in the here & now or in hereafter. If Zillinger isn’t held accountable for his unspeakable cruelty now, I have Faith he’ll spend eternity in the Fires of Hell, as well he should. There is simply <b>no excuse for such intentional cruelty</b>, and he ought to be ashamed. I suspect, however, that he lacks that particular capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>So, while we’re safe, warm, and hopefully healthy this holiday season, please remember the barbaric command of the King of the Killing Cabal Zillinger. There is a lot to be concerned about in the world, but that we have such a monster intentionally inflicting unnecessary suffering right here at the UI is a local horror story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Scroll below my signature for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ui4nokill/">Facebook post</a> that tipped me off to this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#44546A'>Compassion is the basis of all morality.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#44546A'>~ Arthur Schopenhuaer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'> </span><img border=0 width=481 height=227 style='width:5.0104in;height:2.3645in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D25267.D32397C0"><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>