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Flores, Dora From:W Gifford <wgifford813@yahoo.com> Sent:Wednesday, To:eComment Subject:City Council Public Comment, Orange County Animal Care Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. OC Animal Care has not restored pre-COVID access to the shelter and the dog kennels. All other animal shelters have done that. Look at the table of kennel viewing in other SoCal shelters, showing that OCAC is near the bottom. The three lowest are: OCAC with 21 hours of kennel viewing per week; SEAACA with 20; Mission Viejo with 28. But OCAC doesn’t show all available animal. The other two allow full access. SEAACA even allows holds to be put on not-yet-available pets. (At OC non-available pets are not visible to the public, either in person or on the web.) A research paper on OCAC appeared in the journal published by the ASV (Association of Shelter Veterinarians). It shows that COVID restrictions choked adoptions, and re-opening boosts adoptions. https://jsmcah.org/index.php/jasv/article/view/85 Who is behind this? Is it County Supervisor Katrina Foley? Her district is not served by OC Animal Care, but she’s been pushing bad policies on our shelter. Maybe getting the county shelter in trouble is her way of making the municipal shelters in her district look good. Why is this Supervisor stopping the rest of the county from having a good animal shelter, like the cities in her district have? Are we not equal citizens of the county in Katrina Foley’s eyes? Shelter Walk-In Adoption Total Notes Hours OC Animal Care Daily from 2– 5 21 Appointments daily 11 am – 5 pm 714.935.6848 pm hours/week Walk-thru shelter daily 2 – 5 pm If I see a dog I like between 2 and 5, customer service told me I can usually make an appt. that same day to see the dog T – Sat: 12 pm – 4 20 The days/times listed are for walk-thru and pm hours/week adoptions; if a dog is available, I could see it then and possibly take it home (if approved by SEAACA (Downey) clinic) 562.803.3301 In-person adoptions T – Sat: 8 am – 5 pm If I had put a hold on a dog, they would call me the day before and if I answer the phone and am #1 or next on the list, I could pick the dog up during this time Mission Viejo Daily 12 – 4 pm 28 Can browse in person daily 12 – 4 pm; if I find Animal Services hours/week a dog I’m interested in, volunteers can bring the dog out (if a volunteer is available, which they usually are); if no volunteer available, they might have me fill out an app and schedule an appointment 3