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Service Improvements Made at Animal Shelter
Press Release
July 29, 2005
La Marque – For two years the Galveston County Health District has been
working with community partners to improve the services provided at the
District’s animal shelter in Texas City. As part of these efforts the
District announced today that changes will be made to the hours of operations
and fees charged for services.
“We have had many residents request that we be more available for adoptions and
other services on weekends and evenings and we are going to do this by
increasing these hours beginning the week of August 15,” says Michele Reynolds,
Manager of Animal Services at the District. “We would like to provide the
public every opportunity to be able to visit our shelter and we hope that with
the addition of weekend and weekday evening hours we will meet their needs.
”Effective August 15 for residents needing services such as animal redemptions,
adoptions, pet surrenders and purchasing of county animal licenses the shelter
located at 3412 Loop 197 North in Texas City will be open: Tuesdays, 11 a.m. – 7
p.m. On Wednesday through Saturday hours will be 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The shelter will be closed on Sunday and Monday.
In the event assistance is needed with stray animals or response to a dog bite
Animal Control officers will be available Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. –
6:00 p.m. On Saturdays this assistance will be available 10:00 a.m. – 6:00
p.m.
The daily activities of the Animal Control officers such as patrolling the
community and monitoring the stray animal population are conducted every day of
the week with the exception of Sundays. Monday through Friday Animal
Control officers will be available 7:00 a.m. – 7 p.m., and Saturdays from 10:00
a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Local animal control officers routinely assist residents and local law
enforcement officials that may be dealing with vicious animals or other
situations. While the hours listed are for routine services, staffs are also
on-call to assist after hours with stray animals or animal bites. For after
hours assistance, residents should call local law enforcement.
To continue making these improvements the Galveston County United Board of
Health recently updated fees for services provided at the shelter. The fee
charged for impoundment of a resident’s animal will now be $35. The charge for
daily boarding of an animal will be $10, and the adoption fee is $20.
Other fees are also being updated. For a complete list of services provided and
shelter fees readers may visit the shelter’s web site at
www.gchd.org/animal_shelter, or
call (409) 948-2485, Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00
a.m. – 6:00 p.m. According to Reynolds, “We are serious about working with
the community to make sure we have a quality animal services program and have
already made improvements. We hope these changes will continue moving us
in the right direction.”
For More Information Contact:
Kurt Koopmann
Public Information Officer
Galveston County Health District
(409) 938-2211
kkoopman@gchd.org
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