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  2. Paulding Co Animal Control ~ no longer rescue friendly.

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    Posted · Edited by benji

    I do have one question - I can't help but wander - Was the rat problem they had due to the folks who wanted to run a 'no kill' facility trying to re-home the rodents?

     

    There were 2500 animals euthanized in 2009 and here are the March 2010 figures Animal Control March

     

    The humane society and the former manager never tried to be no kill if you will look at the numbers they've always posted. They just tried to take care of animals the best they could while there and find a place for them to go if they could.

     

    The rat problem was reported and the county exterminator came many times.

  3. Paulding Co Animal Control ~ no longer rescue friendly.

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    Posted · Edited by benji

    I believe it was a big mix up from the employees that are working with the full temporary pens not knowing that someone had said they were interested in adopting the puppies took by the rescue. When it filled up they had called the rescue because space was needed and they took several dogs and this is now not allowed and another dog taken ended up being chipped but the owner hadn't been found. They were took back.

  4. Paulding Co Animal Control ~ no longer rescue friendly.

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    Posted · Edited by PUBBY

    The immediate rescued animals aside, my perception over the years is that the Paulding Humane-Paulding County Animal Control public-private partnership was essentially a model operation that involved key compromises - i.e. the Humane Society accepting that animals must be euthanized - particularly when ill or when the numbers become too massive; that the integration of the two organizations in promoting spay and neuter was absolutely the best idea from the get go as it minimizes the issue in the long run and the confidence that the public has that the animals are treated as humanely through the process with a strong emphasis, not only on adoption, but on responsible pet ownership.

     

    The point is that it did not appear to most or even many in the community that this public-private partnership was at all broken. Oh, there were problems and certainly perfection eludes us all. But the co-existence of the two groups - each overseeing the other - created a natural check and balance that instills confidence that the operation was being operated in a way that balanced the interests and eliminated the presumption that the county was not employing sociopaths whose thirst for animal blood was the motivator.

     

    The costs of maintenance and personnel were not a point of contention and the animal control officers and humane society volunteers seemed to be working in unison. In short, the old adage, don't fix it if it is not broken comes to mind.

     

    Still, we're told that it is being fixed ... anyway ... with leadership being transferred from those who have a history and experience in running a model animal shelter with a high-adoption rate and low rate of euthanasia to a police/law-enforcement model with emphasis switched to what we are to presume is enforcement.

     

    This would make sense if the record showed that animal control officers were, because of incompetence in terms of evidence, losing 50 percent or more of the cases that go to magistrates court. Maybe they are but that is not an element of the published record and has not been put forward as a justification.

     

    This might even make sense if there were not literally hundreds of citations for animal control violations every month issued by the current animal control officers.

     

    Indeed, the goal of increasing the number of citations (and resulting fines paid) by ten, twenty or one-hundred percent, has not been put forward as a justification. If it were, it would be an issue of interest to the public particularly in this election year.

     

    But, again, no one is making those arguments.

     

    I've been watching this and no one has answered the question of what really is broken.

     

    Hee Haw, we are all innately conservative - i.e. we naturally resist change - and this is a change and we want to know why and have a right to know why. It is the public's business.

     

    If this is indeed, as you hinted, an effort to destroy the long-standing and succesful public-private partnership that is the Humane Society/Animal Control operation in Paulding, we deserve to know what the justification is?

     

    About all we've heard so far is this is a bureaucratic desire to streamline the organizational chart of the county.

     

    The bottom line, though, is that a clean-looking organizational chart for the county is a stupid reason to destroy a model public-private partnership.

     

    Of course I've heard other reasons rumored for the change, but frankly, they are even more stupid than that.

     

    Bottom line, if that or any of those other reasons I've heard rumored are the 'real reason', our elected officials are letting us down on their job #1, which is to protect us, the public, from bureaucrats enacting private agendas.

     

    pubby

     

    :clapping: :clapping:

     

    Ha you must have heard the one about the big time dog selling business going on by employees and rescues. They have made millions from what I have heard. Ha

  5. Paulding Co Animal Control ~ no longer rescue friendly.

    in Paulding County NEWS

    Posted · Edited by benji

    Heehaw did you know that working together saved the county alot of money and the control of the population has improved every year. The goal looks to be the same to me. If you are worried over money you may need to see what all the humane society does there. From what I have heard this happened because of employees being in different locations and not knowing that their new policies were.

  6. Is This What Happens When You Disagree With Paulding Co? (Animal Control)

    in Paulding County NEWS

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    Well, now, Paulding County ain't the ONLY county in GA to have an animal shelter and I'm not hearing about RAT INFESTATIONS in other counties..and lots of other counties have Buildings a lot older then the one we have here so they should have more of a problem then WE have...now I'm not a rocket scientist but don't need to be to see that SOMETHING wasn't being handled right here that got us into this mess....I'm just sayin...

     

    I think you just have not heard about it because all animal controls have to deal with rats and a lot of them have to do this very same thing.

  7. Is This What Happens When You Disagree With Paulding Co? (Animal Control)

    in Paulding County NEWS

    Posted · Edited by benji

    Animal Control was originally under the Paulding Department of Public Safety along with E-911 and the Marshal's Office. The DPS was absolved a couple of years ago and the public safety agencies were reassigned, that left AC as a solo entity and they did not really 'report' to anyone. Apparently in those two years the situation took a dramatic turn for the worse so the BOC determined the proper course was to place them under the Marshal's Office for accountability.

     

    There was not a dramatic turn for the worse. The building has rats that are always very hard to control especially in an old building. They have been working understaffed for two years while still improving complaints, strays and adoptions and the cost to the taxpayers. Its about time somebody finally decided to put some money and more help into the place.

    Does anyone know

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    The house is listed with Prudential Georgia for $599,000.00 last week. Was told it is the result of a divorce. The price is being dropped to below $550,000.00 this week is what I was told. I peeked in the windows..It is beautiful......

    I am very frustrated

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    Yesterday when I was in the Verizon store a girl came in and said her phone keeps cutting on and off. The worker there asked her how many texts she does a month and she said around 30,000 !!!!!! The lady said WHAT, are u kidding, and she said nope. The lady asked her how old she was and she said 15. She said she usually texts around 2000 a day but the worker checked her phone and she already had 500 texts and it was only lunch time. While the worker was checking her phone, she got a text.

     

    The girl was told that the cell phone is much like the computer, when you use it alot, it freezes up. She was told to let her phone rest some, it was just tired.

     

     

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