Andrea Rosebrock 
Sabbath Memorial Dog Rescue Center Inc. is a non-profit organization under 501C3 status, located in Miami and dedicated to rescuing abused, neglected, and abandoned dogs from the streets, giving them care and love, then placing them in with loving families. Under founder Robbie Coy, 9 years in operation, more than 2500 dogs rescued and saved, Sabbath has never needed a kennel license and should have been grandfathered in.
Now Miami Dade Human Society Director, Sara Pizano, who could have grandfathered the license in but chose not to, has placed a $5k lien on the property because of the kennel license violations. The owner of the land has refused to fight the citation, reportedly due to intimidation and now Sabbath has until about the end of August to be off the property with approximately 150 dogs, many of them long time residents. If they have not moved and removed the dogs, animal control will step in and that will most likely be a death sentence for the dogs left the the rescue.
HELP STOP THIS EVICTION!!!!!
Contact the Mayor’s Office to STOP Eviction of Sabbath Rescue! Over 100 dogs there and they have been there 9 years! Contact Mayor Carlos Alvarez
Stephen P. Clark Center
111 N.W. 1st Street, 29th Floor
Miami, Florida 33128
E-mail: mayor@miamidade.gov
Phone: 305-375-5071
Fax: 305-375-3618
Unfortunately I have no more information than this to pass along but thought this was important enough that I wanted to get the word out and hopefully get some action taken on this! Not sure why the director has chosen eviction when she could have made sure that this rescue and the dogs there were safe but if you’ve even been involved in rescue, shelter works, ect., there is alot of BS and politics involved and this may sadly be a case of that with the innocent victims being, as usual, the dogs.
Please take the time to call and write!! Time is of the essense!!
Please share and crosspost. If you are on Facebook, you may be able to contact the OP – HERE
UPDATE – Some additional info. This is a response that was received from Sabbath Rescue about the current situation.
Dear XXX:
I rec your email to Drew _____. Here is the current situation. We are on a farm of 9 acres that you could hardly find with a map. We are buried miles into the Redlands just on the edge of the Everglades and The Mayor is backing up the Zoning dept that says this land is not zoned for a dog rescue or kennel. How absurd. Until the zoning matter in resolved the Animal Svs dept and Zoning have told the owner of the land that to make this land zoned for dogs would require stacks of paperwork and many hours of meetings and approvals. They claim without the zoning change we are in violation and will come and take our 150 dogs and kill them. Sara Pizano head of Animal Svs does not care and will not support us even thou over the years we have probably intercepted over 2000 dogs to go to them.
The mayor can order Zoning to issue a License and in 5 minutes this ordeal is over.
FYI…….There are hundreds of dogs for sale in the classified section of the Herald and everyone of these sales is totally illegal as these backyard breeders have no license of any kind and pay no sales tax and pay no income tax. They sell dogs unneutered to the best offer and care less what happens further to the dog and Animal Services does not go after them. The go after us.
Please help us by keeping pressure on the Dade Commission and Mayor Alvarez to let us be as running a rescue with 150 dogs is difficult enough.
Thank you…………..
Sabbath Dog Rescue
Danny Kresky
DKresky8@xxx.com
This is absolutely repulsive. But then Dade County AC has had a terrible record as dog advocates in the past. I had heard that they had started to clean things up, but I surely do not think this can be considered as part of the "clean up". I see this everywhere. BYBs, millers, people who breed their pets to make a couple of bucks, pet stores with abysmal policies and records of animal abuse and nothing happens. But let someone who really wants to help, is not hurting one person, is not located in a heavily populated area where the dogs are noisy and a disturbance but does not have some ridiculous piece of paper, and bang…down comes some slap happy, power hungry person with a bit of control and tells the rescuer they have to shut down, and that the dogs will be seized and likely euthanized.
Let's see if we can get as many as we can to contact the Mayor's office to get him to make this simple zoning change. Sounds to me as if someone with some pull or something to grease the wheels wants that land.
if you go to blog this post and copy then past to your FB then all your friends can get the whole story. Please everyone do this on Twitter, FB and MySpace. This man needs our help. Between all of us I know that we know a LOT of people. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Moe, it's actually easier than that, there are Social media link right under the post and you can post it to Facebook or Twitter or numerous other ones very easily. Just click and sign in to your acct and post!
Thanks for pointing it out tho, yes, this needs all the attention possible!!
D.
I sent them an email asking if they could help this rescue by giving him the permit. That if the animal control got those dogs, as many of them as there is that they know they will just kill them.
I sent a polite email to the Mayor, hoping I will get a response. There has to be another place these animals can go in case it turns into an emergency, evicting innocent animals is inhuman and cruel.