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Loews Hotels in Orlando Florida has refused offers of humane help in relocating feral cats but claims they asked for public input but the facts don’t support their claim. Their reply is a cleverly worded farce to hide what they are really doing.

There is too much evidence to the contrary. Please go to this web site and also if you are on Facebook or Twitter go there and read the rest.

http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/i-drove-four-hours-to-protest-loews-hotels-and-sneak-their-starving-outdoor-cats-food

Canned email from Loews in response:

Thank you for contacting us. We hear your concerns and understand there are many reports circulating of inhumane trapping. These are not accurate. We continue to re-locate feral cats to the Orange County Animal Services Center and are working closely with the team there. Everything is being handled with the utmost care by experts. Orange County Animal Services was on-site with us for a detailed review of everything we are doing and advised us that they had no concerns with our process.

To provide you with more background, please understand that we reviewed our practice involving feral, free-roaming cats and talked with numerous agencies, including Orange County Animal Services. We met with a local feral cat group to seek their assistance in the re-location, but they felt they could not support this change. For more than two months, we sought input from the public on a solution for re-locating the feral cats. No viable option emerged, after weeks of diligent outreach.

It is important to note that the Florida Department of Health states that feral cats pose a continuous concern to communities due to the persistent threat of injury and disease. The priority at our hotels is the health and safety of our guests and team members.

We would encourage you to review the Florida Department of Health’s Rabies Advisory Committee position statement on this issue. You may access it here:

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/rabies/Documents/RabiesGuide2011Binder.pdf
Page vii (near the bottom) and continuing on page viii.

Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando

http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/i-drove-four-hours-to-protest-loews-hotels-and-sneak-their-starving-outdoor-cats-food

People to Contact at Loews to Tell Them How You Feel About the Trapping of Their Managed TNR Outdoor Cats

by Save Loews Cats on Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Here is a list of upper management and executives at Loews. Please feel free to contact them and let them know what they are doing is wrong. When you speak to them, it is important to make sure they know that everything they are saying about these feral cats is wrong. All of them have been spay/neutered, vaccinated and are scared of people and stay away from them (hence “feral” cat). They pose NO THREAT of disease or attack to hotel guests, as Loews is stating.

Thank you everyone for your support with this! Keep calling and posting. They need to hear it.

Tom Roditus, Regional Manager
TRODITUS@LOEWSHOTELS.COM

Ellen Gale, Regional Director PR Loews
EGALE@LOEWSHOTELS.COM

Diane Petit, General Manager Loews Portofino
407.503.1000

Tom Williiams Chairman CEO Universal Orlando
407.363.8220

Tom Shroder VP Public Relations Universal Orlando
407.363.8220

Larry Beiderman General Manager Loews Royal Pacific
LBEIDERMAN@LOEWSHOTELS.COM407.503.3000

FOLKS THESE PEOPLE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND ARE CHOOSING TO DO IT ANYWAY. THEY CLAIM TO HAVE SOUGHT PUBLIC INPUT BUT THEY ARE REFUSING TO TAKE CALLS, REFUSING TO RETURN CALLS, REFUSING TO RESPOND TO EMAILS AND IN THE RARE CASES WHEN THEY DO RESPOND IT IS WITH THE SAME CANNED REPLY PRINTED ABOVE.

IT’S TIME TO HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS. IN THE WALLET!

SPREAD THE WORD:

BOYCOTT LOEWS HOTELS!

THAT’S RIGHT ALL OF THEM. THE WHOLE CHAIN!

I AM MERLYN KITTY AND I APPROVE THIS POST!!!!!!

YODA HAS A MESSAGE FOR HUDINI, THE POOR KITTY WITH THE BATTERED FACE IN THE PICTURE…