PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Maddy Samaddar Johnson from Park Slope Cats
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3 min
Maddy Samaddar Johnson, representing Park Slope Cats, provided testimony on her extensive experience in animal rescue and the urgent need for city-funded, high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter services in New York City. She emphasized the challenges faced by individual rescuers and the importance of preventing animal overpopulation at its source.
- Highlighted her personal background in rescuing various animals across multiple countries
- Described the physical, mental, and financial toll on individual rescuers working without sustainable support
- Stressed the importance of compulsory spay/neuter programs and building a support network for funding, education, and problem-solving
- Called for equitable distribution of resources to all who need them, not just to lobbyists
Maddy Samaddar Johnson
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Thank you, council members for this opportunity.
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I'm Maddie, Samadara Johnson.
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I'm a triracial multilingual woman who lives in District 39.
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I've been rescuing animals, cats, dogs, birds, squirrels from the time I was a little girl and continue to do so even today, though it has focused more on cats and dogs in the past 2 decades.
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Whether in Envise or in the several other countries I've lived and worked at, including helping animals in India, Canada, the UK, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Madagascar, and several others on my own and with rescue groups.
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I run the newly launched group, Park Slope Cats, which was the cover story of the local mag.
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Recently, I also successfully resolved a forty count holding situation within 2 weeks after their eighty five year old human passed away, and it should have been the Department of Health issue.
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A simple Spain neuter of the original 2 cats 25 years ago, but have prevented the situation.
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All the issues have already been covered by others, so this is just more of an appeal.
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Those in the rescue world, especially the individual ones like myself, without a big volunteer network, had zero funding and have been working without a break depleting our finances mental and physical health and running on dry but never giving up.
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Despite insurmountable odds in low sleep, we have kept going every day I receive innumerable calls and texts to help our dumps trade, feral, injured animals, and step in as individual rescuers.
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We have to work several hours day and night along with our day jobs.
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I work in architecture and urban planning, and I think you should get designers who have hands on experience with animals when you design the facilities.
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No.
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We are not crazy cat, ladies.
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We are ladies who rescue animals due to the compassion in our heart and are getting driven crazy due to the lack of sustainable support.
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The stories, I could say, bottled babies have used seniors, but similar to many have already heard before, so I'll spare those.
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We all know we cannot cannot adopt, foster a way out of homeless cats suffering.
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The only way is dedicated extensive compulsory, Spain neuter, and building a support network, which can help in funding, educating, and solving.
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The best way to prevent suffering is to stop it at the source.
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Why do we do this?
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Are they massacres?
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And wrapping up Don't worry.
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No.
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The real reason is that someone has to.
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Throughout the world, the ultimate suffering imparted through human cruelty, apathy, and destructive activity.
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Regardless of the human's race, geography region of the globe is always owned by innocent animals.
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And I suppose as much as a cynic or a realist as I am to keep going behalf to focus on finding the kind ones, the compassionate ones of the human species among you.
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Those who help the most innocent and the most vulnerable, the voiceless animals.
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New York City, we can do this.
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Please institute city funded high volume, low costs, Spain Newton.
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I understand by saying that even if the human rescuers, pet owners, and I have
Lynn C. Schulman
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to wrap up.
Maddy Samaddar Johnson
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Yeah.
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Make crowds scratch, his fist gets territorial with each other.
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We are all united in one front.
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We want the city to help us with high volume, low cost Spain Newton in a functional, honest, efficient way, and equitable way to all the ones who needed, not just to the lobbyists.