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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1977
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By KATYE KOWIERSCHKE
Many persons love dogs, some
persons lose dogs and dog catchers
usually catch dogs. But a dog
catcher is really more than just a dog
catcher.
At least that’s what Billy Rich,
College Station humane officer, told
me as we got into his 1967 blue pick
up with “CSPD” printed on the
side, and headed for Southwood
Valley to answer a dog call.
We rumbled along for several
miles then turned a corner and saw
a lady waiting by her front porch.
“IVe got him in the garage,” she
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The officer nodded, going to the
back of his truck for a short-looped
rope.
“I don’t think we’ll have any trou
ble,” Rich said, recognizing the
animal. “Prince belongs to a family
around the corner and they’ve been
tiying to keep him penned up.”
The black and white terrier
greeted Billy joyfully, jumping into
his arms and licking his face.
“Hey,” I said, “Aren’t you afraid
of rabies?”
“Naw,” was the reply, “he’s just
friendly. ”
I couldn’t help comparing the
scene with like situations in larger
cities. Animal control officers in El
Paso, for instance, treat all dogs as if
they have terminal rabies (which
some do.) A jump and a lick isn’t
allowed—friendly or not. But then.
El Paso is entering its fourth year of
a rabies epidemic.
Things are different elsewhere,
though, says Edwin Beckcom,
executive director of the Dallas
SPCA. He finds nothing strange
about a small dog jumping into an
officer’s arms. He says most animal
control people have a special em
pathy for their charges and stretch
the rules to keep from destroying
someone’s pet.
BY THE TIME my thoughts
changed, Prince was being pushed
gently into the large security cage
on the bed of the truck. He stood
with his tail between his legs giving
us the old shiver trick.
We ignored his ruse and climbed
back into the cab, where Billy sat
thoughtfully behind the wheel.
“What’s the matter?” I asked.
“I’m trying to decide which op
tion to take,” he replied. “I can
either put Prince at my place until
the pound opens tomorrow or see of
his owner is home.”
The College Station pound is lo
cated at the Scarmardo Veterinary
Hospital and is closed on Wednes
day afternoons.
“Let’s try the owner,” he said,
turning the key. We drove around
the corner to the dog’s home. The
owner of both Prince and a new six-
foot cedar fence, was astounded his
dog was loose again. He showed us
the repaired holes Prince had dug at
irregular intervals under the fence.
“I’m terribly sorry,” he said.
UNDERSTAND, said Billy,
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taking out his ticket book and be
ginning to write. “What I’m doing is
issuing you a warning. There won’t
be any fine this time, but I have to
write it.”
The man was pleased and further
surprised when the dog catcher of
fered to come back on his day off to
help him fix the fence so Prince
couldn’t get out.
“If folks keep their pets on their
property or with them, I leave them
alone,” the officer said. “But if an
animal is loose in the street or a city
park, I pick it up. If it’s tagged I try
to find the owner.”
Last year 376 tags were sold in
College Station and 435 dogs were
impounded. Of these, 136 owners
were fined and 63 dogs destroyed.
Between January and October,
1977, 300 tags have been sold, 412
dogs impounded and 30 destroyed.
Impounded animals are held
three days before being destroyed.
Most of the time dogs are taken to
the Texas A&M College of Veteri
nary Medicine where students use
them for experiments before taking
their lives.
“Occasionally I have to kill one
myself,” Billy said, “because it is
unacceptable to the school. Most of
the time, though, I try to find
homes for those I know they won’t
take.”
“Pickups are greatest right aft#
semester ends,Rich said.
I couldn’t argue the point sin#
knew three other campuseswitlj
same problem.
However, Capt. Edgar Feldiu
College Station Police Depart©!
says his experience is different!)
Billy’s. “I find most students^
extremely good care of their t
mals.”
Besides, most students want
avoid paying the pound-fee wkii
$7.50 per head plus a
city tag. This is the price ifanmj,
can prove the animal has been
cinated for rabies. Otherwises^
are given and that cost is ad
the bill.
Billy chuckled when he
tioned the per-head figure, b
he says the price can get prettyliJ
if a farmer or rancher is fined fo;}
or 30 animals.
“1 had a situation like
cently, ’ he explained. “There%
hole in a fence that the
wouldn’t fix. The cows keptgetti(
on the highway, posing a
menace. Each time I came out ltd
him to fix the fence and he ig
me. The last time I said if I
again,I’d issue a citation for ea|
cow individually and it would bej
fines to pay. I haven’t had any
complaints so I guess he re]
it. ”
Besides cows and dogs, Ridis®
he also chases cats. College Statia
has an ordinance against cats |
ning loose, so the city has trapsjf
in trouble areas. But felines area
harder to control than canines
1976 only 82 cats were impoundd
and 20 destroyed. January to
tober 1977 already shows63ta
and 13 killed.
The officer believes College St eplete
tion has few animal control]
lems. So does Capt. Feldman,
However, Dr. AT. Flowers,Id
of Public Health at the College! y, a pre
Veterinary Medicine, isnotsorp 977, wil
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Twenty-year-old Billy Rich, College Station humane officer,
finds animals are easy to work with if treated correctly. He
doesn’t plan to keep this job forever, though, because he
wants to attend college and pursue a degree in sociology. He
believes that will lead him to a future in law enforcement.
THOUGH HUMANE, these ac
tions mean stretching rules. Rich
told me as he drove to the city
dump. There was a neat tin shed
where he keeps dogs whose time
has run out at the pound. The sole
occupant was a gold labrador male
with a wagging tail and friendly dis
position.
Now t
keep their pets confmti ame will
then let them out to roam alteripth swe
p.m. He further believes the am
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“He’s so well-trained I know he
belongs to someone,” Billy said.
We left the dump to cruise some
more and Rich said Wednesdays
were always light. The number of
calls he gets depends on the day of
the week, the weather and
“whether the Aggies are in town.”
Students bring pets with them
and desert them when they leave.
sometimes instead of days.
But what’s so dangerous aboult!*
after-five releases? Animals letb
in the evenings quickly run togetk onghon
to form packs, he said.
And pack animals cancausea
problem. One rural resident
nine lambs killed by such a gi
last April. She saw the attack
said most of the pack were obvious
pets wearing tags.
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