Wednesday, October 15, 2008

CAAT is

not the cats meow when it comes to the animals of Labrador.

For anyone taking notice I pulled the CAAT link [from the top right of page] several days ago.
It was a preemptive gesture on my part having the intuition that CAAT was not going to go through with their promises of a clinic in Nain this year.

I wont go into the details of what happened for CAAT to come to this decision except to say several local volunteers, plus the community, have received the bums rush from CAAT.

I feel sorry for the local volunteers who put many hours and much effort to make this clinic happen. In essence CAAT are not the do gooders as their web site indicates.

CAAT in their wisdom have decided that they can not do the promised Nain clinic until next spring at the earliest. Given their behavior I would not hang by the short and curlies on that date either.

The good news is that a veterinarian from Quebec and an assistant will be coming in on the 20th [as advertised] to hold a much scaled down version of what was intended.
The vet was going to be one of the CAAT team but feels that an obligation is an obligation.

He will come in on the local volunteers promises that fund raising efforts will provide some if not all his expenses.

So as of this date the vet clinic will go ahead from the 20th to 26th of this month.

2 comments:

Shammickite said...

well, I voted, but my man lost. Lost by only just over 400 votes. And only 56% of the riding bothered to get out and vote.

Brian said...

My girl finished second, not bad for a ‘parachute’. Only 44 % of eligible voted here so winner has some work to do to motivate interest, amazing how some crow about ringing endorsements with such low voter interest. What’s 70% of 44%?