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By STEVE CRITCHFIELD
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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
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“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.”
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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.
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