Presnal attacks
pet food industry
Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, took a
swipe at the $2 billion-a-year pet
food industry, telling animal control
officials meeting at Texas A&M Uni
versity that the industry’s advertis
ing fails to stress pet owner responsi
bility.
“The dog has become a sacred
cow,’ Presnal said at the 6th annual
Animal Control Personnel Develop
ment Prodgram at A&M.
The House Appropriation chari-
man said owner education and re
sponsibility are the only answers and
that animal control services can’t ex
pect tougher laws until the general
public — including owners —
strongly supports usch regulation.
Presnal said more pet shelters and
more euthanasia are not solutions to
the animal surplus, which he said
would require the death of 26 million
cats and dogs each year just to reach
a no-growth situation.
Presnal defended the decision not
to fund an oral rabies vaccine prog
ram by saying the medicine was not
scientifically proven effective, and
he applauded a new law that takes
effect Jan. 1 requiring local and
county authorities to pen and hold
animals suspected of having rabies.
Another speaker at the three-day
conference, Dr. Ted Baker of the
Center for Disease Control in Atlan
ta, said recent studies show that 80
percent of all dog bites involved
owned dogs, not strays.
Baker said territory, the feeling by
the dog that he or his owner is in
danger, prompted most of the
attacks, some of which were fatal.
A&M animal behavior expert Dr.
Bonnie Beaver said a dog’s response
to a pre-school child as a different
species, rather than just a small hu
man, may have been a factor in
aggressive behavior.
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The new Bryan fire station, under construction on Briarcrest Drive,
should be completed by March, Bryan City Fire Chief Paul Philbin
said Monday.
“It looks to me like they are ahead of schedule, although the weather
could change that,’ Philbin said. “But the contract states they will
have it ready by March.’’
Presently there are two fire stations operating in the city, one on
Bryan Street, and the other on Cavitt Street.
Basically, Philbin said, the need for a new station is determined by
the expansion growth of the city and the distances that have to be
covered to respond to calls. He said the department tries to limit its
response time to fire calls to less than three minutes, with five minutes
being the maximum.
Philbin said Bryan needs the additional fire station because there
are some places in the east part of the city that cannot be reached by
firefighters in less than the five-minute maximum.
“The first five minutes of a fire are the most critical,” Philbin said. “A
fire can get away from you.”
He said about one out of every four calls comes from that area.
Philbin said the insurance companies claim Bryan needs five sta
tions to adequately cover the city, and they might penalize insurance
buyers.
He said Bryan is considering building one more station next year, in
the north end of the city, bringing the city’s total to four.
Philbin said the north part of Bryan, which like the east part aver
ages about one out of every four calls in the city, also does not have
adequate coverage.
Citizens will be able to vote on a bond issue in January on building a
station in that area.
An $85,000 fire truck for the Briarcrest station has already been
purchased and paid for by the city, Philbin said. It will be operated by a
crew of three people, the minimum number it takes to man a fire
station.
Philbin, who has only been Bryan fire chief for the past two months,
said the fire department had a “turnover rate of 28 people from
November to November’ last year.
“As far as experience, we re hurting,” he said, “but I guarantee you
by this time next year, we ll have the finest fire department in Texas. ”
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Briarcrest Drive will be completed. Marion O.
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