Sentences with phrase «say animal control directors»

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

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.

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.

«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.

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

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

Not exact matches

«Often, consumers don't realize that the spraying and scratching problems of a cat can be brought under control,» says Sonny Singh, director of marketing, animal health, for Central Garden & Pet.

Former Animal Care and Control Director Carl Friedman said, «Fewer pit bulls are being abandoned to the pound because fewer are being born, thanks to the spay and neuter requirement.»

In addition to listing tobacco smoke as a toxin dangerous to our domestic pets, the medical director of ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, Dr Sharon Gwaltney - Brant says that our furkid's nervous systems are also affected, «This is because environmental tobacco smoke has been shown to contain numerous cancer - causing compounds, making it hazardous for animals as well as humans.»

More than 20 dogs, cats and birds, some dead and others diseased, were seized by animal control officers Wednesday from a house that was described as resembling a scene from a horror movie.Officials said the call was one of the worst cases of animal abuse they had ever encountered.A search turned up two dead chickens and one dead guinea fowl inside the house and a rotting carcass on the kitchen counter that could not be identified as a dog, cat or anything else, said Clara Gundy, executive director of the Humane Society of Central Brevard.

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.

Albers said the board wanted a more experienced animal control officer named as acting director and believes the department should be taken from under the authority of the health and human services department.

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 shoulderAnimal 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 shouldecontrol 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 shoulderanimal 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 shoulderAnimal Control Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shouldeControl Director Frankie Thorp.Deputy Charles J. Thompson noted that the cat had suffered a large laceration to its neck and right front shoulder area.

Lonnie Strickland, Lake County health and general services director, said the tranquilizer has a potential for human abuse and should not be used by animal control workers.

The animal was so weak it could not lift itself from the mud where it had lain for two days, said Clark Newcombe, director of Osceola's animal control unit.

Within a month after publishing the number -[phone] - the Volusia County Animal Control Board was deluged with calls about colonies all across the county, director Bill Foster said.

«The top two tips to keep your dog from chewing inappropriate objects would be to control the environment and offer many acceptable alternatives for chewing,» says AKC Canine Good Citizen Director ® and Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, Mary Burch, Ph.D..

DAVID GENDREGSKE, Clare County MI Animal Control Director «In my opinion they appeal to the most irresponsible pet owners and to younger people,» he said.

Vicky Shook, director of the city's animal control department, said she began looking into regulations more than six months ago to prevent negligent pet shop owners from operating in the city.

Ray Newman, evening program director at the center, said Thursday a formal training course for active and prospective animal control officers should begin by Oct. 15.

«All lilies belonging to the plant genus Lilium are considered highly toxic to cats,» says Dr. Steven Hansen, board - certified veterinary toxicologist and director of the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center.

«If it's dangerous, we don't mess around,» Osceola County Animal Control director Lee Radebaugh said.

Veterinary toxicologist Dr. Steven Hansen, director of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center in Urbana, IL, said, «Yes, that is a very, very high number.

Seminole County's animal control agency has not noticed an outbreak of distemper countywide, said director Ron LeFebvre.

«Last year, 10,000 animals were put down in Volusia County,» said Becky Wilson, director of Volusia County Animal Control.

«This program won't fix everything, but it has been a great step in addressing this overpopulation problem,» said Becky Wilson, director of Volusia County animal - control services.

The family that owned the animals fell into financial difficulties and was no longer able to care for them, said Lee Radebaugh, director of Animal Control.

However, as director of Lake County Animal Control, she said she never will stop being upset about having to kill stray dogs and cats when owners don't accept responsibility for their pets.

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.

Capt. Susan Canny, director of Hampton Animal Control, said that Hampton has four registered cat colonies.

More than 100 pit bulls were brought to shelters in the Los Angeles area after an animal control officer there was badly bitten by a pit bull, said Barbara Cassidy, director of animal sheltering and control at the Humane Society of the United States.

«He just lays around the computer, in the chair, up on the desk,» said Buddy Famous, acting animal control director.

«If there's a snake in the house and you have any questions about what it is, call animal control,» said Lee Radebaugh, the animal control director.

SANFORD — To help Seminole County's animal control department cut through bureaucratic red tape, director Bob McIntosh will now report directly to county administrator Ken Hooper, rather than to the county health director, Hooper said Monday.

The director of Orange County Animal Control resigned Wednesday after investigators cited two of his employees for incompetence in the death of Bucksnort the dancing dog.Don Westfall, animal control director since 1986, will leave his $ 47,000 - a-year job in July, and officials said they will conduct a national search for his successor.In her investigation, Jacqueline D. Miller, supervisor of the county's Professional Standards office, said Bucksnort could have been returned to her owners if workers had followed proceAnimal Control resigned Wednesday after investigators cited two of his employees for incompetence in the death of Bucksnort the dancing dog.Don Westfall, animal control director since 1986, will leave his $ 47,000 - a-year job in July, and officials said they will conduct a national search for his successor.In her investigation, Jacqueline D. Miller, supervisor of the county's Professional Standards office, said Bucksnort could have been returned to her owners if workers had followed procControl resigned Wednesday after investigators cited two of his employees for incompetence in the death of Bucksnort the dancing dog.Don Westfall, animal control director since 1986, will leave his $ 47,000 - a-year job in July, and officials said they will conduct a national search for his successor.In her investigation, Jacqueline D. Miller, supervisor of the county's Professional Standards office, said Bucksnort could have been returned to her owners if workers had followed proceanimal control director since 1986, will leave his $ 47,000 - a-year job in July, and officials said they will conduct a national search for his successor.In her investigation, Jacqueline D. Miller, supervisor of the county's Professional Standards office, said Bucksnort could have been returned to her owners if workers had followed proccontrol director since 1986, will leave his $ 47,000 - a-year job in July, and officials said they will conduct a national search for his successor.In her investigation, Jacqueline D. Miller, supervisor of the county's Professional Standards office, said Bucksnort could have been returned to her owners if workers had followed procedures.

«I deeply regret that this occurred, but I feel good that we've been able to work with the family and help them back to self - sufficiency,» said Larry Jones, Orange County Health Director whose division includes Animal Control.

«Our partnership with the Animal Care & Control Team of Philadelphia allows us to promote pet adoptions and reduce pet homelessness in the local community,» said Jan Wilkins, executive director, PetSmart Charities.

«Our goals are to bring together both researchers and animal welfare and control professionals, to offer a safe place for open dialogue, to translate the analyzed data outcomes so that they can be used to improve or create shelter programs, and to offer effective alternatives to continue on the path to save more lives,» said Pamela Burns, chair of the NCPP board of directors.

Dr. Sharon Gwaltney - Brant, medical director of the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center, says, «Nicotine from secondhand...

Chris Newport, a deputy director for ARA, said the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control has only six or seven officers to police 640 square miles in the city.

«We have a major overpopulation of Chihuahuas here in California,» Rebecca Katz, director of the San Francisco animal control agency, said in a statement.

Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, a member of the Florida Animal Control Association and director of animal services for Pinellas County, said several legal battles over biting dogs have lasted for years, including the case of a golden retriever held for three years in West Palm Animal Control Association and director of animal services for Pinellas County, said several legal battles over biting dogs have lasted for years, including the case of a golden retriever held for three years in West Palm animal services for Pinellas County, said several legal battles over biting dogs have lasted for years, including the case of a golden retriever held for three years in West Palm Beach.

Holly Hill Animal Control officers collected the puppies — along with one dead dog — from what they called a filthy pen in the back yard of 904 New Castle Court on Monday, said Code Enforcement Director Greg Wood.

Its ability to kill and control fleas and ticks, combined with its easy application, give pet owners a new standard of care in protecting their beloved cats,» said Elizabeth Hodgkins, DVM, JD, Director, Veterinary Relations, Ceva Animal Health.

«I've never seen as many people lining up to turn over pets,» says Kumpf, former executive director of the National Animal Control Association.

Said Dr. Sharon Gwaltney - Brant, medical director of the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center:

In a small blue - grey cinderblock building on County Road 561, 6,104 killings have occurred in the past 12 months and more will die today.That doesn't shock Frankie Thorp — she's used to seeing it happen.However, as director of Lake County Animal Control, she said she never will stop being upset about having to kill stray dogs and cats when owners don't accept responsibility for their pets.

A veterinarian will examine the horses today to determine their medical condition, said Clark Newcombe, director of Osceola County's animal control unit.