Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:54 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Karl Mitchell From: Laurie Duvall Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:14 PM To: threaityDahrumD.com ; ikoenlgRPcäsbcalobaLnet; ath2&pucihafencom ; goodearchitectIive.com; [email protected] ; citvmQr1()Qrflail.com ; lmvlckv(ThaoI.com ; aboraskvconvenv.us Subject: Karl Mitchell Mitchell, who has no respect for animals j, or for the should not be allowed to keep exotic animals in Pah rump! Please take those animals and give them a chance to live a better lite...the life they deserve to live.There really should be no question. The man is clearly NOT an animal lover. PLEASE PLEASE do NOT let this man have ANY animals. Not even a dog or cat. They do not deserve to suffer. They are living beings who do suffer when hurt. Please...as a fellow Las Vegas resident...please do not allow this man to torture these precious animals any longer. Thank you for your time, Laurie Duvall 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:54 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Karl Mitchell - Exotic Animals From: Liz French Sent: FrIday, August 10, 2012 11:53 AM To: threaItyoahrumD.com ; ikoeriiaRPCcS)sbcglobal.net; aoodearchitectöIive.com ; 1seatonmccalk)vmail.com; cltymgrl(ö)amail.com ; imvicky()aol .com ; [email protected] Subject: Karl Mitchell - Exotic Animals I am sending this email because I am a concerned citizen living in the Las Vegas Valley. I urge you to, not approve, a permit for Karl Mitchell to have exotic animals of any kind. It’s bad enough to have these animals in captivity let alone giving a person the right who we already know does not take care of animals. These animals deserve better than that. If this person were convicted of child abuse in the past and applying for an adoption or to be a foster parent it would never be considered. Neither should this person ever be allowed to take care of animals. Once an abuser always an abuser. Sincerely, Elizabeth French 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:54 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Mr. Karl Mitchell Original Message From: Kathy Bongiovi Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:30 AM To: threaltypahrump. corn Cc: jkoenigRPCsbcglobal.net ; gth2pucihafen.corn ; oodearchitectlive.com ; 1seatonmccallvmail.com ; citymgr1gmail.com ; irnvickyao1.com aboraskyco.nye.nv.us Subject: Mr’. Karl Mitchell I writing on behalf of the animals who are unable to speak for themselves. Please take a moment to think of how the situation regarding Mr. Mitchell being allowed to keep exotic animals would change drastically if the animals could actually speak for themselves. My email to you would not be needed as they would be allowed to address the issue themselves and speak about their mistreatment. However, we know this will not happen. Yet, if Mr. Mitchell wanted to “keep” an individual who was unable to speak, your office would not grant Mr. Mitchell his request unless the “deaf-mute” received proper representation so that their concerns, fears and complaints about Mr. Mitchell could be heard. But that is not the case. These are animals whose are unable to communicate directly with you and therefore people like must speak on their behalf. We, as humans, have the intelligence and should have the compassion to understand our need to protect all who are mistreated solely because they are incapable of speaking up for themselves. We owe them our respect and we have a responsibility to ensure that these animals are not mistreated and are given the quality of life they deserve. All of you are in a position to stand up for their rights. Just because you all won’t hear them cry out about their mistreatment is not reason to pretend it doesn’t and won’t occur. Please, do what is right. Politics, money or lack of compassion should not be the ruling force regarding the above-stated issues. Sincerely, Kathy Bongiovi 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:54 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Karl Mitchell Permit Original Message From: -ianellcoopercox. net Sent: Friday, August 18, 2012 11:20 AM To: threalty@pahrump. corn Subject: Karl Mitchell Permit Please do not issue a Permit to Karl Mitchell to keep any animals. He is cruel to big cats and other animals. No one who is known be treat animals cruelly or neglectfully should ever be allowed to keep these precious creatures. Looking for your wise vote. Sincerely, Janell cooper, Henderson, NV. 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:55 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Animal abuse Original Message From: Ashley Rodriguez Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:32 AM To: threaltypahrump.com Subject: Animal abuse I am a citizen of las Vegas & do not want this Mitchell person to have any rights to animals. Please put the animals first. Thank you. Ashley Rodriguez Sent from my iPhorie 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:55 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Karl Mitchell From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:16 AM To: [email protected] ; jicqniaRPC@sbca(obaLnet; gth2Ducihafen.com ; [email protected]; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; imvickvaoLcom ; aborasky)co.nye.nvus Subject: Karl Mitchell Karl Mitchell has no respect for animals or for the law, should not be allowed to keep exotic animals in Pahrump. Mitchell has been fined thousands of dollars and had his U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) license revoked for violating the Animal Welfare Act by, for example, cruelly withholding water as a training technique, forcing animals to live in enclosures filled with their own waste, failing to provide animals with veterinary care, and keeping large cats in cages too small for them. Mitchell is also currently under investigation by both the USDA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for continuing to exhibit animals after the USDA revoked his exhibition license and for illegally transporting a tiger across state lines. He even shot a tiger who became nervous when Mitchell was transporting him because he could not manage the tiger. 7øe’o 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 5:27 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Karl Mitchell From: Michelle Lord Sent: FrIday, August 10, 2012 5:23 PM To: threaltv(Dahrumo.com Subject: Karl Mitchell Please do not let Karl Mitchell keep wild cats in Pahrump. He’s a cruel law-breaker. Thank you Michelle Lord 1744 N. Decatur Blvd., #9 Las Vegas, NV 89108 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 8:10 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Exotic Animals From: MM Green Sent: FrIday, August 10, 2012 7:18 PM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; th2oucIhafen.corn ; goodeartectãlive.corn; lseatonmccal1)vrnail.com; [email protected] ; imvickvcaoLcom ; [email protected] Subject: Exotic Animals Dear Chairperson Hand and Pahrump Regional Planning Commission members, On Wednesday, August 15, the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission will decide whether to approve a permit that would allow serial animal abuser Karl Mitchell to keep tigers and lions, and I am respectfully requesting you deny this permit. Mitchell has been fined thousands of dollars and had his U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) license revoked for violating the Animal Welfare Act by, for example, cruelly withholding water as a training technique, forcing animals to live in enclosures filled with their own waste, failing to provide animals with veterinary care, and keeping large cats in cages too small for them. Mitchell is also currently under investigation by both the USDA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for continuing to exhibit animals after the USDA revoked his exhibition license and for illegally transporting a tiger across state lines. He even shot a tiger who became nervous when Mitchell was transporting him because he could not manage the tiger. When I try to imagine what possible motive animal abusers entertain for subjecting their animal victims to such neglect and acts of brutality, I fail, but I am thankful for a lack of cognitive understanding and rationalization. To engage in such behaviour absolutely suggests negative tendencies and demonstrates an incontrovertible lack of morality regarding other living beings and a gross disrespect for the law. In fact, a person who shows such a remarkable lack of compassion towards animals has, disturbingly enough, the ability to show such indifference towards humans. Mitchell, who has no respect for animals or for the law, should not be allowed to keep exotic animals in Pahrump. Please deny this permit. Thank you for your attention to this urgent message. Megan Speight 1 Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 8:11 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: Mr. Mitchell From: moritch735 Sent: FrIday, August 10, 2012 7:31 PM To: threaItycoahrumD.com ; ikoeniarocäsbcolobal.net; gth2oucIhafen.com ; [email protected]; lseatonmccall(ã)ymalicom ; citvmar1)amail.com ; [email protected] ; aboraskyco.nve.nv.us Subject Mr. Mitchell Mr. Mitchell is a serial animal abuser. Please do not allow him to keep exotic animals in Pahrump. Jennifer Pritchard Henderson, NV 89074 I Steve Osborne From: Terry L. Hand [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 8:12 PM To: Steve Osborne Subject: Fw: issuance of permit to Karl Mitchell From: Lore Adams Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:33 PM To: tIirealtvoahrump.com Subject: Issuance of permit to Karl Mitchell Dear Chairman Hand, I am writing to request that a permit not be issued for Karl Mitchell to keep exotic animals.