February WAO Financial Report

The WAO's financial income and expenditures report was posted last night on line.  After careful review of this report, I discovered several interesting expenditures.  First take a look at the report:

Bankruptcy Court - February WAO Operations Report - 2011

As I read through the report, I noticed that the big cats received a mixture of red meat and chicken (What?  No added vitamins or minerals?).  Apparently the non-human primates and chimps (all of them were present in February) received only monkey chow as their regular diet.  Except... on February 4, 2011, two trips were made to the local grocery stores (HEB and Wal-mart) to purchase produce and water for the animals.

You may recall it was on February 1, 2011 when I contacted the USDA/APHIS to inform the agency that the San Antonio area was under a severe winter warning.  I requested a visit by the USDA to check on the animals living at Talley and Leslie Road to ensure they were okay during the hard freeze.  Since I never heard back from the USDA, I concluded investigators visited the property to make sure the animals were properly cared for during the freeze. 

I find it interesting that even though the now defunct WAO failed to make any produce purchases in January, suddenly two runs to the grocery store was made to buy water, produce, and bananas, three days after I sent my emergency appeal to the USDA. 

Sadly, there were no more produce purchases made after that date for the animals.  I guess the produce was only for show while the USDA was in town? 

As usual, the gas purchases were rather high in February.  It appears that on at least three occasions where gas was purchased for a WAO truck and a smaller vehicle (requiring less gas than the truck) on the same dates (2/1/11; 2/14/11; 2/28/11).  Interesting...

What was not surprising was to see that the WAO paid for "dinner" prepared by Pizza Hut.  Something tells me the pizzas were not for the chimps.  This is a non-profit business going through bankruptcy due to the inept ability of the employees and board of directors to protect the WAO assets.  So, these people get pizza and the primates/monks get monkey biscuits.  Is that fair?

Then there's the food and snacks for the animals journal entry.  Yeah, sure it was for the animals.  Was this produce?  No?  Then what?  Sugary snacks for the primates?  Chips? Sodas?  What was purchased, Myer?  You were specific on other journal entries, but somewhat vague with this particular item.

Walgreens still seems to be the place of choice to purchase office supplies (what??) and of course there's the mystery check (#1143) that Kim Myer, after over a month it was cashed, has no idea where the check was written nor does she know what the check was used for.  For a paid WAO "accountant" this is unacceptable and it leads me to believe, that once again, Kim Myer is covering for someone at the WAO making unidentified purchases--whether it be for $3k or for $28.  Is the court keeping track of these mystery purchases?

So this month alone, IFAW paid the WAO $21, 800.  I wonder how long IFAW plans to continue carrying the WAO seeing how paypal donations are almost non-existent now that the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays have passed.

Next month's statement should be just as entertaining as this month's seeing how the weather is starting to warm up some.  What's next?  WAO treats employees to a lake resort party? 

Would not surprise me in the least.

Later:  It struck me late last night that from November 2010 - February 2011, the WAO has not paid for the services of a veterinarian--no visits and no medication.  This leads me to believe that either (1) the WAO is no longer providing any medical care to its remaining 120+ animals and Mary/Michelle Reininger are once again forced to practice vet medicine without a license or (2) someone else is receiving and paying for all the WAO veterinarian bills.  I am praying for option '2' for I cannot believe the USDA/APHIS would allow the WAO not to give pain and inflammation medication to the older animals (such as Lance, Lady, Sabu, and Dobbins) or medical treatment for the monks that sustain injuries from fighting, falling, etc.  I am greatly concerned animals such as Lance, Lady, and Dobbins may have been killed by the WAO simply because it would cost the now defunct organization too much money to provide them medication to keep them confortable during the cold weather. 

I guess I will only find out the truth once the Cryers are out and a new facility director takes over or from USDA FOIA documents.