Osceola County
animal control officers are putting their traps away after Health Department officials
decided last week to halt a practice of trapping and killing wildlife when a rabies case is discovered.Before Friday, whenever a rabies case was confirmed, traps were set in the area where the rabid
animal lived.
Animal control officers who cited a man for holding a cat by its tail and repeatedly beating it with a board had not deciding Friday whether to file criminal charges.Millard Odom, 73, of Bassville Park, was issued a citation for animal cruelty and neglect Wednesday after a neighbor called Lake County deputies to complain that a cat had been severely beaten in his front yard, said Lake County Animal Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulder
Animal control officers who cited a man for holding a cat by its tail and repeatedly beating it with a board had not deciding Friday whether to file criminal charges.Millard Odom, 73, of Bassville Park, was issued a citation for animal cruelty and neglect Wednesday after a neighbor called Lake County deputies to complain that a cat had been severely beaten in his front yard, said Lake County Animal Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulde
control officers who cited a man for holding a cat by its tail and repeatedly beating it with a board had not
deciding Friday whether to file criminal charges.Millard Odom, 73, of Bassville Park, was issued a citation for
animal cruelty and neglect Wednesday after a neighbor called Lake County deputies to complain that a cat had been severely beaten in his front yard, said Lake County Animal Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulder
animal cruelty and neglect Wednesday after a neighbor called Lake County deputies to complain that a cat had been severely beaten in his front yard, said Lake County
Animal Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulder
Animal Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulde
Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulder area.
Osceola County commissioners will consider changing the county's
animal control ordinance during Monday's meeting to make it easier for
officers to win cases against negligent owners.As written, the ordinance requires a jury trial for an owner who
decides to fight a charge; an example of such a charge would be a citation for a barking dog, said
animal control supervisor Clark Newcombe.