Sentences with phrase «say animal control»

County spokeswoman Twis Hoang said animal control officers could not recall detaining animals in a similar scenario.

Foster said the animal control officials hope that Volusia's cities will adopt the ordinance.

Shelter spokeswoman Cindy Cole said animal control officials received more than 50 calls from people wanting to help Waddell.

Anyone spotting the reptile should call animal control at 696-5195 or the police department, said animal control director Vicky Hilburn.

Jeff said animal control officers often last only about five years on the job because «you just get tired of the death.»

One pack of strays has been eliminated but animal control officials said Monday dog packs are still a threat to residents and the city is not doing enough to control them.DeLand police Maj. Charles Thurmond said animal control is an continuing problem for the city because the police department's animal control officer, Ed Balken, must spend half his time doing other jobs, such as taking police cruisers into the shop and doing janitorial work.

However, she said animal control couldn't do anything because the county didn't ban tethering.

She said animal control officers answered 1,552 calls to collect trapped stray cats between Oct. 1, 2003, and Sept. 30, 2004.

«The incinerator is fired up as soon as possible» said Animal Control Spokesperson Teresa Clark.

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.

They are believed to be stolen, said animal control officer Becky Wilson.

They will tape the talks and critique them to improve future presentations in other schools, which have not been scheduled, said animal control clerk Jan Keef.

Although the county's animal control office has stopped helping pet owners who can't afford to have their pets neutered, it still offers aid for neutering in other circumstances.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.If a pet owner brings those puppies or kittens to the shelter in Astatula, animal control will chip in toward the cost of spaying or neutering the offspring's parent, Thorp said.

Toops said the animal control office wants to hear about a fierce dog in your neighborhood «before something bad happens.»

«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.

The priority is to find their owners, said Animal Control Supervisor Mike Wittmer.

Newcombe said animal control workers painlessly kill up to 200 stray, abandoned or abused animals a week.

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.

That means the county will be able to respond to complaints about stray animals 12 hours a day instead of the current eight, said animal control director Ron LeFebvre.

«We do really try to get these animals back home,» says Animal Control Officer Patrick Duty.

Mills said Animal Control wanted about $ 80 to get Trucker out of the pound.

Westfall said animal control officers will soon start conducting more sweeps through problem areas now that they have space to house more stray animals.

Dogs owners who are irresponsible and allow their dogs to run free are the problem, said animal control officers.

'' [We had] hundreds and hundreds of hundreds of kittens pouring into the shelter,» said animal control director Kim Staton.

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.

Conklin, who doesn't own a pet but has owned dogs in the past, said animal control efforts at the complex have been fruitless.

So, I've always cared about animals and their well - being,» says Animal Control Director Larry Dampf.

Although some urged changing the ordinance to exempt dogs in obedience classes or shows from wearing tags — the metal tags hurt concentration, they said — commissioners said animal control officials would have to use discretion in enforcement.

Not exact matches

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.

The increased awareness and control made possible by symbolic thought enriches human experience to such an extent that it can be said to represent a difference not merely in degree, but rather in kind, from the experience of other animals (BSI 212 - 13).

It also said 37 of those incidents related to issues where there was no direct animal welfare impact «but instead were problems with control, traceability or auditing arrangements».

Bacteria found in humans, animals and food continue to show resistance to widely used antimicrobials, says the latest report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

The Sultan admitted that he is a patron of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeder Association of Nigeria, but explained that the group had no control over the Fulani herdsmen, whom he said were preoccupied with their animals in the bush.

«New York City Animal Care and Control has experienced budget cuts, she said, that have had an effect on staff and services and forced it to «make reductions in day to day care.»

Highway Superintendent Thomas C. Jones II said his crews also take dead animals to the SPCA Serving Erie County for proper disposal when a dog control officer is not available.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

«We're trying to control these animals so much, they're no longer useful,» says Joseph Garner, a behavioral scientist who runs a program to improve the value and welfare of lab animals at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity in animals, scientists say.

It may be that non-linear sounds are produced if an animal loses control of its vocal system when upset, says Simon Townsend of the University of Zurich in Switzerland — we just don't know.

«Unlike many other things people can't quite define but «know when they see it,» identification of dogs as pit bulls can trigger an array of negative consequences, from the loss of housing, to being seized by animal control, to the taking of the dog's life,» she said.

She said the strategies to control animal and plant pests, if implemented, could also increase food production in the area by up to 10 per cent.

Domestication is a gray area encompassing the point at which a hunter stops being interested in simply killing and eating an animal and starts being interested in controlling the animal, Outram says.

The potential strategy — which targets metabolic pathways that are active only during intestinal inflammation — prevented or reduced inflammation in a mouse model of colitis while exerting no obvious effect in control animals with healthy, balanced bacterial populations, said Dr. Sebastian Winter, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and co-corresponding author of the study published online today in Nature.

«The most cost - effective measure we could take is the control of feral pigs at a cost of $ 2 million per annum in targeted location across the Basin, as they have a negative impact on both native plants and animals,» she said.

«Since it's quite difficult to track microbial exposure on a daily basis, especially with humans — who move around a lot — we're exploring new animal models to see if we can ask the same questions we would about humans and get answers in more rigorous, controlled ways,» Gilbert said.

Six - hour - a-day access is long enough to cause escalation of intake and tip animals over from having controlled intake to more uncontrolled, binge - like behavior, Jones said.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

«Any flying animal larger than a large insect will need to use some kind of controlled stall or hover mechanism to land,» he says, but the new track «does not give us any new information about launch».

The discrepancy may be a result of how the feeding was implemented in control animals in the NIA study, say the Wisconsin researchers.

As the scare widens, so does the probe: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it is considering regulatory changes to tighten controls and is investigating whether any of the contaminated wheat gluten — which is implicated in more than 100 animal deaths — made it into food consumed by humans.