Animal Summit Should Lead To Positive Change

The Galveston Daily News
Published 04/07/04

Thank you, Dr. Mark Guidry, Health District staff, and elected officials who attended the first animal summit on March 30.

Also thank you to all of the interested people who spent three lively hours offering suggestions for improvements to the existing animal services.

Note, the first big step was to call it Animal Services, not Animal Control.

The room was filled with volunteers who are already spending thousands of hours and thousands of dollars to help the county’s animals. When members of this group combine their energy with the existing staff, I believe positive changes will happen.

Good luck to Ronnie Schultz, into whose capable hands this task has fallen. Without the enormous efforts of Joe Vickery, who brought us out of the dark ages, we would have no animal shelter.

A big thank you to him, and a hope that now we can carry on his vision for humane and professional care of animals.

Everyone in the room, I am sure, longs for the day when people will understand that pet ownership requires responsibility and that spaying-neutering is as important as feeding and watering.

Barbara House
Dickinson

For More Information Contact:
Kurt Koopmann
Public Information Officer
Galveston County Health District
(409) 938-2211
kkoopman@gchd.org

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