Fetching Fido is a Weekday Job

By: Mr. Wilson on August 24, 2006
Animal Control no longer offers services on weekends except for bats and bites. The department's budget and staff were finally cut to the point that weekend hours are no longer possible. Department personnel are making a big deal about the change, as is expected. But it will be interesting to see how much the lack of weekend services really affects us. Hopefully somebody plans to collect data about the quantity and nature of unanswered calls so we can decide if this is a change we want to stick with.

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MattF
August 24, 2006 at 1:53PM

Strays and hit-by-cars don’t generally care what day it is - I expect that over the long run 2/7ths of these calls will not be answered. Those are the obvious (at least to me) services that will not be available; what others am I missing? Does the city do welfare checks or does the Humane Society handle those?

MattF
August 24, 2006 at 2:11PM

...And on reading that again, 2/7ths sounds a little too obvious, but I really expect the distribution of calls to be fairly constant. That would mean 28.6 % of the previous volume of calls will not be answered. Dart said in the article that an avaerage weekend is 82 calls; he (or LJS) didn’t give enough information to compare to the balance of the week. I’d like to see those numbers.

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