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Rescuing a raccoon from a tiny, dirty cage from a boat

by Mary Cummins on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 3:59pm

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Raccoon in his tiny dirty cage. Four year old male not neutered with cataracts in both eyes. He can see a little out of one eye. He was kept in this cage for four years on a boat by a mentally ill person. He only ate dry cat food. He broke his teeth chewing on his cage. They put a chain around his neck, don't know why. We removed it. Mary Cummins

Mary Cummins received an email this morning from Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue. He said the Los Angeles County Sheriff had impounded a boat that had a raccoon in it in a tiny dirty cage. Mary Cummins assumed someone had trapped a raccoon and just forgot about it. I drove to the Sheriff station to take a look at the boat. Peter agreed to meet me there to help.

The raccoon lived in that 2' x 2' x 2' cage. The cage door didn't open. When we finally took off the front of the cage we realized he was living on top of four inches of feces. He had no water. The boat was impounded. Sheriff called me when they saw the raccoon. Mary Cummins

Mary Cummins met Sheriff Office McSchwab who told me about the raccoon. He said it wasn't in a trap but a cage like a pet. It had a chain around its neck. He took me to the boat to take a look. This is what I found. A four year old male raccoon in a 2' x 2' x 2' cage. There were four inches of feces on the bottom of the cage and no water. There was no door as it looked like the owner never opened the cage. The cage was in an awkward spot and had been assembled in the boat which would make transfer to the carrier more difficult. Fortunately Peter Wallerstein showed up to help. Unfortunately so did the "owner" of the raccoon.

We had to take the cage apart to get the front off. Then we placed the carrier in the cage with the door off. I wedged the carrier over the raccoon and pressed it against the back wall. Peter and the Sheriff then replaced the carrier door on the other side. The raccoon was in the carrier. We went inside to wash up.

As I went to get my car to drive it around to the dock to pick up the raccoon the owner started following me. He's an older man whom I believe is mentally ill. He said "why did you put the raccoon in that small box when I had him in a big cage?" I ignored him and went to pick up the raccoon. 

Because he was a pet raccoon and could be unpredictable I thought I'd take him to Dr. Kenneth Jones in Santa Monica to get the chain off his neck and look him over. The raccoon had shown no aggression at all, just a little cage craziness. I gave him some water out of a sippy bottle because he looked dehydrated. He was very gentle and thirsty.

At Dr. Kenneth Jones giving the raccoon anesthesia. We wrapped the pet carrier in a plastic bag. This is the safest way.

Dr. Jones' staff gave the raccoon anesthesia so we could examine him. The easiest way to anesthetize an animal like this is to wrap the carrier in a big trash bag then use gas. After he was under they removed the chain. He had cataracts in both eyes though one cataract was smaller. He could probably see a little out of one eye. He had a cracked canine probably from chewing on the bars of his cage. He had some matts and was dirty and smelly.

This is his new enclosure, 6' x 6' x 4'. It has a padded cage and is smaller than my other enclosures. He's never climbed or walked before so I need to start him in something small. UPDATE: I just added a ramp in his cage. He cannot climb at all and can barely see anything.

I took him home and put him in a 6' x 6' x 4' cage with a padded floor. He came out of his carrier then I realized he couldn't really walk. He walks on the back of the "wrists" on his forelegs and on the heels of his back feet. I don't think he's ever stood up all the way. He cannot climb at all and has very little vision. He was relaxed and sweet. I can easily hand feed him food. I had to add a ramp to his cage so he can get to the lower level. I have him  next to the baby raccoons so he won't feel threatened by my injured adult females. He is a bit smaller than my adult females, probably from malnutrition.

This is how he walks. He walks on the back side of his wrists. He also sleeps with them in this position. Obviously some metabolic bone disease. The pads of his feet look fine.

Thanks to the Los Angeles County Sheriff http://www.lasd.org/ and  Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescuehttp://www.marspecialists.org/ I wouldn't have been able to rescue the raccoon without their help. I will add updates on his progress.

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Mary Cummins - Real Estate Appraiser - Animal Advocates

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Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate Services has been in real estate since 1984, over 25 years. She is licensed by the California Office of Real Estate Appraisers. She was an agent and broker licensed with the California Department of Real Estate selling residential income, commercial buildings, raw land and homes for Merrill Lynch Realty in Beverly Hills and Westside Properties in Los Angeles before forming her own business and concentrating on appraisals.

Cummins currently provides real estate appraisals, expert witness testimony, historical research, legal real estate research for mortgage brokers, banks, lawyers, insurance companies, financial consultants and private individuals.

Cummins was born and raised in Southern California. She attended Beverly Hills Good Shepherd Catholic School and Beverly Hills High School. Besides being a member of Junior Mensa and on the Dean's list, she was a top ten national swimmer and competed on the men's water polo team. She began college at the age of 15 attending the University of Southern California on scholarship, majoring in Psychology/Sociology.

Cummins started a non-profit organization in 2002 by the name of Animal Advocates. Animal Advocates rescues ill, injured and orphaned wildlife for release back to the wild. She is licensed with the California Department of Fish & Game, was licensed with the USDA and is licensed with the city of Los Angeles to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife. Cummins speaks to local community groups and students about respecting wildlife and humane wildlife control. She is also a Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator. She has written manuals on small mammal rehabilitation besides numerous other articles on wildlife.

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Mary Cummins gives expert witness testimony in legal case

"As events unfolded, though, it became questionable if Jimmy was actually living on Union Pacific property. The LAPD, for example, was unsure if the homeless man lives on railroad land, and L.A. City Councilman Greig Smith's office, which represents Northridge, told the Weekly that Jimmy lives on "county property."  Longtime real estate expert Mary Cummins, in fact, said that she had no doubt Jimmy resides on county land.

Since two of the three charges against Jimmy involve trespassing on Union Pacific land, the findings were a major blow to the city attorney's case. Incredibly, the private/county property question came as a surprise to Atteukenian, whose boss is Carmen Trutanich.

When Atteukenian was confronted with Cummins' findings during one of Jimmy's court hearings this summer, the prosecutor was caught off guard, said he would make some calls, and asked for a continuance. Atteukenian obviously hadn't done the basic homework of finding out if Jimmy lived on private or county property -- if justice, in fact, was being properly applied to the homeless man's case.

Atteukenian's less than exemplary work as a prosecutor only got worse from there.

At another court hearing on August 3, Atteukenian started to realize the impact of Cummins' and City Councilman Smith's findings. Before the hearing started, the prosecutor approached Jimmy and his friend, Edward Muzika, holding out a business card. With his fingers purposefully obscuring most of the card, Atteukenian used it as proof that he had a contact with the county's Department of Public Works, and said that the unnamed official wanted Jimmy off county land."

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2009/09/is_la_city_attorney_carmen_tru.php

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Mary Cummins gives expert testimony in legal real estate case

LA Weekly. "Jimmy on the edge of town."


"Mary Cummins, a longtime real estate assessor, has independently deduced that he is, indeed, on county-owned land. But she questions whether or not Union Pacific issued a valid citation for trespassing. If Jimmy is living on county-owned property edging the railroad spur, Cummins’ logic goes, then the railroad company may not be able to charge him with “trespassing” on the railroad’s “private property” or of “lodging without [their] permission.”

As an expert real estate assessor for more than 25 years in the Los Angeles area, Cummins knows how to read tract maps. Just recently, for example, she was hired to testify in court over a major real estate dispute at the Ambassador Hotel. Feral-cat activist Muzika started looking into Jimmy’s case, and he asked Cummins, a friend from animal-rights circles, to help.

Cummins, who normally charges $100 per hour for her expertise, took up Jimmy’s cause for free. She looked up Jimmy’s location on Google Earth, found an L.A. County Assessor’s map, and placed the Google map on top of the county’s map. “You can clearly see Jimmy’s on the L.A. County flood-control channel” land, Cummins says. She is also “absolutely certain,” and would testify in court, that Jimmy is on county-owned property, not the railroad’s.

Cummins sent her findings to Muzika, who e-mailed the maps information to Councilman Smith’s office, and alerted the city attorney at Jimmy’s court hearing on July 1 in the Los Angeles Superior Court in the small town of San Fernando, in the far northeast Valley.

In court that day, the prosecutor handling the case, Apraham Atteukenian, looked surprised when Muzika, with Jimmy near his side, offered up the disputed land-ownership evidence. It’s clearly very basic land-ownership homework that Los Angeles city prosecutors should have done before hauling a man into court for trespassing on railroad property. The prosecutor promised to “make some calls.” Jimmy is defending himself pro per, having dumped a Los Angeles County public defender who advised him to plead guilty to trespassing against Union Pacific. Jimmy is now facing trial August 3, yet, Cummins says, even now, the city attorney and Smith’s office have not responded to her finding that Jimmy is not on railroad land."


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"So Jimmy, along with his animal rights friends Edward Muzika and Mary Cummins, took a trip to the Los Angeles Superior Court courthouse in the city of San Fernando to fight back. It had been an interesting few days for Jimmy, whose story was featured in last Thursday's issue of L.A. Weekly, titled "Jimmy on the Edge of Town."

After the article came out, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department came by his tent for a quick visit and several new friends, who apparently read the piece, dropped in and offered him food and money.

"They offered me financial help and I refused," said Jimmy, taking a break from the courtroom. "I said they could give me cat food."

On Monday, the City Attorney's Office wasn't so charitable.

In the courtroom, a prosecutor named Apraham Atteukenian appeared now and then, suggesting to Jimmy and Muzika, who was acting as a kind of advisor to his friend, that the city had a slam dunk case.

Attenukenian refused to back down from his stance that Jimmy was trespassing on the private property of the Union Pacific railroad, even though Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith and longtime real estate assessor Cummins had independently concluded that Jimmy lives on county property -- a finding that would seem to hurt the City Attorney's case."

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2009/08/jimmy_nasralla_city_attorney.php

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Mary Cummins campaign contributions Los Angeles

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05/14/09	Mary Cummins   (Real Estate, Mary Cummins) Los Angeles, CA 90015	Carmen Trutanich  City Attorney 1316351 - TRUTANICH FOR CITY ATTORNEY - GENERAL 2009	A - Monetary Contribution Received  (IND - Individual)  [Period:05/14/09 to 06/30/09]	$100.00 [Election: 05/19/09]
02/19/05	Mary Katherine Cummins Cobb   (Real Estate, Mary Cummins) Los Angeles, CA 90048	Antonio Villaraigosa  1267602 - Villaraigosa for Mayor 2005	A - Monetary Contribution Received  (IND - Individual)  [Period:01/23/05 to 02/19/05]	$100.00 [Election: 03/08/05]
04/10/05	Mary Katherine Cummins Cobb   (Real Estate, Mary Cummins) Los Angeles, CA 90048	Antonio Villaraigosa  1275257 - Villaraigosa for Mayor 2005 - GENERAL	A - Monetary Contribution Received  (IND - Individual)  [Period:04/03/05 to 04/30/05]	$250.00 [Election: 05/17/05]
07/10/08	Mary Katherine Cummins-Cobb   (Real Estate, Mary Katherine Cummins-Cobb) Los Angeles, CA 90048	Dennis Zine  Council Member - District 3 1305620 - Zine 2009	A - Monetary Contribution Received  (IND - Individual)  [Period:07/01/08 to 09/30/08]	$500.00

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Beverly Hills BMW case

I worked on the Beverly Hills BMW website from 1999 to 2003. A cybersquatter obtained the BeverlyHillsBMW.com website and wanted $10,000. BH BMW decided to go with BeverlyHillsBMW.net instead.

Within a couple of weeks I found out who was cybersquatting the .com website. It was a close friend of their web designer! They'd done this cybersquatting scam to BH Ford and other clients. I told them to release the domain name or I'd tell their clients about their scam. They would buy the main domain name themselves before they got the contract to design their website. I then purchased it and offered it for free to BH BMW. I instantly signed it over to BH BMW for no money. I received a "thank you" letter from Step Jones.

Thank you letter from Step Jones of Beverly Hills BMW.

BH BMW never put the paperwork through. I received a notice that they had not paid hosting. I paid hosting and even renewed the domain name. I again signed papers to transfer ownership. They again did not file the papers. The .com extension always pointed to BeverlyHillsBMW.net The website was always live the entire time I controlled the domain name.

BH BMW was bought out by Sonic Automotive. They reduced everyone's salary and fired quite a few people including Klakauskas and Waddington. I continued to provide service for their website. I sent in a bill which they never paid.

In 2005 they realized that I controlled BeverlyHillsBMW.com and asked me to turn it over. I told them I'd turned it over three times before but they never finalized the transfer. They could pull up the old transfers and transfer it themselves. In the  meantime I'd been paying for hosting, renewing the domain and working on search engine rank. I told them to pay my bill and I'd hand over the domain name again. They refused and sued me.

Original lawsuit

http://www.marycummins.com/bmwlawsuit.pdf

My declaration
http://www.marycummins.com/mary_cummins_declaration_bmw.pdf

Statement of the AGM of BH BMW.
http://www.marycummins.com/Klakauskas.pdf

Statement of Waddington
http://www.marycummins.com/waddington.pdf

Statement of Seth Waskow
http://www.marycummins.com/sethwaskowdeclaration.pdf

My motion to strike Waskow's statement
http://www.marycummins.com/mottostrikewaskow.pdf

My motion in response to BMW
http://www.marycummins.com/mary_cummins_motion_bmw.pdf

We finally settled. I transferred the domain name again and they paid my bill. They never should have sued me. They wasted $7,900 on legal fees and still had to pay my bill. They originally demanded that I turn over the domain name but refused to pay their outstanding bill. This could have been handled with a polite phone call but instead their lawyer wanted to make some money by turning it into a lawsuit.


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