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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1979)
vs Roving rovers bund at pound been con ned by the ate profes- Knowledge i By STEVE CRITCHFIELD J Battalion Reporter ClVCll Nine dogs sat quietly on the con- ete floor of the 10-foot-by-30-foot locker and ryan dog pound. Some were of ry at Texas icognized breeds — a German irranged in lepherd and an Irish Setter — but who fail to ie rest were mutts. All but one, a esmansaid edium-sized female with traces of Is to renew jagle from past generations, ea ts are fora Jrly watched passers-by in hopes of Bing their lost masters. The Hale sat alone in a corner seem- j gly disheartened, without hope. TICCL Hhese dogs are only a few of the any stray dogs of the United ~es. The National Humane Soci- estimated in a 1978 pamphlet more than 5 million stray dogs fill the nation’s dog pounds and ntingpro- ifnal shelters. 00 tuition f§°g er Gerzik, an animal control ?xas A&M Ifcer of the Bryan Police Depart- ties. Sixty ien h sa *d recently only 10 percent ers, Texas UPl stray dogs are claimed and re- illege Sta- Hed to their origional owners. "erzik said, “Ten percent doesn’t !ly sound like many at all. Really In’t — it’s a very small number — Hour claims (returned strays) rate Higher than most other pounds in le state.” ■The national rate average for city Hnds is just higher than 6 per- Ht,” Gerzik said. " Hhe Bryan Police Department iree other U p 30 s t r ay dogs every depute Qerzjk said. Most are col liery and B ec j b ecause of complaints called Ho the police, and some are found Hing routine checks by the animal Htrol unit, Gerzik said. Hhe Washington-based Animal Bifare Institute, along with the [ational Humane Society, esti- Hes the number of stray animals H increased steadily at rates of 2 to lercent per year nationally, fcerzik said Bryan-College Station not been exempt from the in- |ase. “Three years ago, 20 dogs a ek was quite a few strays, but y we call that a slow week.” Iryan Police Department records | indicate the increase. In 1977, 43 stray dogs were placed in the jid, compared to the 1,574 cap- ?d in 1978. Jerzik said the number of cats in Bryan-College Station area also m uck while erstorm n g selling a art fraud uen were vhat they ita Jesu. ospective ih of the suspects who cur- iy lor, 31, 'stigation ther ring has increased over the years. “Cats are everywhere you look,” he said. “We don’t bring too many in because they’re so hard to catch, but there’s at least half again as many stray cats as there are stray dogs.” Cats are usually caught in a box trap, Gerzik said, which do no harm to the animals. “Dogs are a lot easier to catch,” he said. Dogs can usually be cap tured by calling them to the de partment’s truck. Mean or vicious dogs are caught with nooses (rope loops attached to long, wooden poles) and sometimes with tran quilizer guns. Health hazards and public distur bances are the two main reasons strays are picked up, he said. He said disturbances are the most common. “The majority of our phone calls are complaints about excessive noise, turning trash cans over and things like that,” Gerzik said. “Health reasons include those for picking up vicious or diseased ani mals,” Gerzik said, “We get very few of them..” The only way to decrease the number of strays, both in and out of the pounds and shelters, according to the National Humane Society, is to decrease the birth rate of domes tic pets. The society stresses the need to spay or neuter dogs and cats to slow their population growth which, in turn, could reduce the number of strays. The animals are held for the own ers to pick up for five days and after that, the animals are put up for adop tion until the eighth day, Gerzik said. “If nobody picks them up by then, our animals are sent to the Texas A&M Veterinary Research Center,” he said. The fate of the animals is uncer tain once they leave the pound to be involved in research. “I guess you could say our unclaimed animals are lucky,” Gerzik said, “Most dog pounds don’t have a research center to send their animals to. Most put their animals to sleep after 10-14 days because they can’t hold them anymore.” W ns wont a 4,241- ntly was a major lice said d Satur- ice said, y "in an >og flips for master, mses plane to flop )tna •s a bill bv a s 48-46, oted to But the p. Bill Hitler’s ition ol ?e rape to the I United Press International || '9RGIA, Vt. — When the dog jE hn Kissane’s plane coming in H~ |— nding, he dashed out on the H to greet him. ane, 64, of Georgia, told au- |« ues he pulled up to avoid hit- ( the dog Saturday as he was p t to touch down at a private j,. ,ng strip. I hen he did, the plane snagged a ■ y line and crashed upside down I nearby field. I issane and a passenger, Werton s ling, 64, also of Georgia, suf- id minor injuries and were treated at a St. Albans Hospital and later released. “That dog used to fly with me all the time, and when he saw me com ing, he dashed out,” Kissane said. Now you know United Press International When three men named Bradley, Voorhees and Day founded an underwear firm in 1876, they im mortalized both their initials and their product which came to be known as BVDs. We’ll buy the Gas ran in ^reign e Ira- o the states Dt was ssy in . . Boy Bn$ ■Ceith Ta)'! 01 e Burro^ t Cornell’s 0 * | „g Gratia# im, Carol)* iane ett, W son iren - pendleto* ug Gratia# eschper J* -nn Blanoj ay Cock' til Calhoi) .profitM by fieu)spQp^\ r the ed^l shellenberaer's IS LOCATION IMPORTANT? NEAR CAMPUS HOLLEMAN STREET APTS. 1 bedroom unf. $165. SUBURBAN Speeding cars claim the lives of many stray dogs and cats. 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