The office still will financially assist pet owners who want to sterilize an animal which has just had a litter, said
animal control director Frankie Thorp.
SANFORD — Seminole County
animal control director Bob McIntosh is on paid suspension and could be fired this week — only nine months after being put back into the job he held for eight years.
March 2015 - IAWTI provides and sponsors lectures and trainings for the «Large Animal Abuse, Identification, and Rescue for the Animal Welfare Professional» workshop during the Animal Care Conference (collaborative conference between the California
Animal Control Directors Association, the California Veterinary Medical Association, and the State Humane Association of California; workshop held at Center for Equine Health).
On Sept. 28, Hooper accepted the resignation
of Animal Control Director Bob Young and fired Chief Animal Control Officer David Murray after repeated charges of mismanagement and animal neglect.
Tuesday's Feral Cat Task Force meeting has been postponed until Sept. 16 because of the recent rabies outbreak in Volusia County.In a letter to task force members, Chairman Michael Brim said «because of the current rabies problems,» he and County
Animal Control Director Bill Foster «feel there is a lack of support from government agencies toward the needs of feral cats at this time.
Acting Animal Control Director Tom LaCrosse said he appreciates the volunteers» help, but that bringing in eight to 10 untrained workers without supervision does little good.
Former animal control director Bob McIntosh was later rehired to run the troubled department and a series of reforms were instituted, including plans for a new shelter.
In the past several weeks the county
Animal Control Director Dr. John Lauby has received more than 18,000 emails from people protesting the adoption ban.
Also Tuesday, Bob McIntosh, who served as the county's
animal control director for almost eight years before resigning in May 1986 to go into business, returned to the position.
Animal Control Director Dan Parmer said off - leash dogs are allowed only in fenced dog parks where owners have county permits proving their dog is healthy.
«No one would mistreat an animal in front of me - including after death - or I would fire them on the spot, and they know it,» said
animal control director Carol Davis.
«Our shelter stays full, so we don't have the resources to take in this many animals at once,» said Hardin County
Animal Control Director Debbie Nowicki.
For Immediate Release: August 28, 2015 Today, Cass County
Animal Control Director Michael Grice announces that «The agency will stop using the euthanasia machine effective January 1, 2016 or sooner.»
For instance, reported Deuce Niven of the Fayetteville (North Carolina) Observer on August 11, 2015, «A pit bull, accidentally let loose inside the Columbus County Animal Shelter on Sunday, killed a cat and 13 kittens before the shelter staff arrived Monday morning,
animal control director Rossie Hayes said.
Meanwhile, the animal control advisory board will meet June 10 to consider an appeal by J. T. Dunn, the owner of the dogs, of a determination
by Animal Control Director Xan Rawls that the pit bulls that attacked Julie are vicious.
Under fire for having killed the pit bull who bit her CHICAGO, Illinois ----
Chicago Animal Control director Susan Russell, among the most prominent pit bull advocates in the animal care and control field, was herself «rushed to a hospital over the Christmas holidays after a pit bull she was walking took a chunk out of her arm -LSB-...]
Or so hopes Seminole County
Animal Control Director Ron Lefebvre, who is overseeing the move to the county's new $ 1.4 million animal shelter.
Vicky, from 2000 to 2006, was a Board Member for the California
Animal Control Directors Association; their mission is to provide guidance and direction to animal control agencies throughout the state of California and to provide leadership on animal related legislation.
County administrator Ken Hooper fired Murray and accepted the forced resignation
of animal control director Bob Young on Sept. 28, after an internal investigation into complaints of animal neglect, cruelty and administrative mismanagement.
Legal questions prompted the county agency last week to decide to provide only backup help to police in cities with conflicting animal control ordinances, said
animal control director Don Westfall and other county officials.
On October 3,
Animal Control Director Dr. Lauby, DVM, CVCP and the Animal Control Board recommended a ban on adoptions from the shelter by county residents of pit bulls, Rottweilers, chow chows, Presa Canarios «or any mix of those breeds».
«Spaying and neutering is the only way to avoid the large numbers of unwanted pets that we must euthanize each year,» said
animal control director Frankie Thorp.