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Testimony by Latonya "Sassee" Walker, Independent Animal Rescuer from Brooklyn
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Latonya "Sassee" Walker, an independent animal rescuer from Brooklyn, shares her experience and challenges in animal rescue work. She emphasizes the need for more support and resources in low-income areas, particularly for spay/neuter services and enforcement of breeding regulations.
- Walker highlights her exhaustion from constant rescue work while maintaining a full-time job
- She calls for increased enforcement of breeding regulations in apartments and stores
- Walker stresses the need for accessible spay/neuter services in her neighborhood
Latonya “Sassee” Walker
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Hello.
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Hello, everyone.
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Hi.
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First, I wanna thank you guys so much of having this platform for us to speak.
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I've done this before a few years ago.
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Nothing came out of it.
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And but this feels different.
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This feels like you guys are listening, you're asking the right questions, and I just have a really positive feeling about it.
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Thank you, and thank god for us all being here healthy.
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A big shout out to all the rescuers here that made it.
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I know a lot of them, so you're gonna hear some great testimonies.
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I want to first say my name is Latanya Sassy Walker, better known as Sassy.
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I am a one woman show.
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I am in Brooklyn, in Brownsville area.
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I'm rescued in Karnarcy in East New York.
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They're at lower income.
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I'm a night trip resident.
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So I see it all.
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I get it all, and I feel it all.
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I don't have my notes because I'm too busy today.
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I had to drop off at that ASPCA.
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Yesterday, it was cat cafe, Flatbush cats.
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Like, you know, I'm just everyday.
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Just and I work a full time job for New York City Healthcare Hospital.
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So I work there to support the cats.
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Right?
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I've found so many checks.
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I've been I I was gonna bring you my bag of all the paperwork for just this year alone so you guys could get a kick out of it, but I was rushing, and I forgot it.
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So I just wanna say, you know, I'm coming from the heart.
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Like, you know, I am the cat person, the dog person, the bird person, the rabbit person.
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I am bored every day all day.
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I am so exhausted.
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I am so exhausted that sometimes I say I am running and leaving.
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I am leaving New York.
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I speak to people all over the world.
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They have free Spain noodles.
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They don't go to all of this.
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It's like, why do I have to Look, I don't even have my nails done.
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I don't dress up.
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I don't go nowhere.
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You know?
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All I do is cats.
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Cats, people be like, what's your word?
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Like, cat food.
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Cat food.
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Anything.
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You know?
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And it's like I want a little bit of a life.
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I would love a little bit.
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Just a little bit of me time.
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Go to the gym.
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Just do something nice.
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So this is all I do.
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And I'm also the feeder.
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I have to help 20, 30, 40 people who feed.
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The elderly are my specialty.
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They call me for everything.
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I would never tell them no.
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I will drop whatever I'm doing.
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Give them my last.
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I also help the straight population.
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You know?
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So I'm gonna sum it up and say what?
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The solutions for me would be for nature.
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I would like for them to start going to the apartments and seeing what is being done with these dogs, and the breeding is out of control.
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You have to go into the apartments and see what's going on because it is ridiculous.
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I am dealing with the dog because out of control.
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Also, I would like to see the Department of Health.
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I used to the stores used to let me fix the cats.
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Now they all breeding and selling the kittens.
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Department of Health used to come to the stores.
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They used to give their tickets.
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Now no one wants me to even fix the cats.
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They gotta get back on board with that.
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I've called millions of times.
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Animal cruelty department.
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I called them all the time.
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I got all their numbers.
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I'm not seeing chain.
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I need more help from them as well.
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ACC has always helped me from the beginning.
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I've been doing this since 2011.
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ASPCA, they help me.
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They do the best they can do.
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We all do.
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We're to the max.
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We're maxed out.
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So I just wanna say that.
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And thank you, and I look forward to free spade noodle in my hood because they can they not go on the cat cafe, and they not go on the flatbush cat's way I live at.
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You gotta put it in front of their door so they can walk right out and say here, fix my bed.
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So yeah.
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So Right.
Evril Caesar-Mason
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Thank you.