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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Roaming packs of unsafe dogs successful Fresno County request to beryllium dealt with, and 1 carnal rescue radical says residents request to marque the contented known to some the City of Fresno and Fresno County.
Mell's Mutts laminitis Mel Garcia says Fresno is facing a crisis. With shelters overrun and dangerous packs of dogs connected the streets, Garcia says determination is lone 1 happening the radical of Fresno tin do.
"Call the mayor's office, telephone your metropolis assembly member, please, and explicit your view," Garcia said. "[If not] you're conscionable being complacent. You're portion of the problem."
Garcia says she has heard countless stories of packs of dogs terrorizing cats, different dogs, children, the unhoused, and others. One antheral adjacent died following an evident husky attack. Garcia says that with each passing day, the radical of Fresno's soundlessness increases the accidental of much attacks.
"I'm not saying that they're dangerous. We don't know, but they tin go dangerous," Garcia said.
According to Garcia, the City of Fresno and Fresno County bash not privation to euthanize dogs, opting alternatively for much humane forms of caring for strays successful shelters. Garcia says that creates different issue.
"Once we commencement leaving dogs connected the streets similar this, they're dying these horrific deaths," Garcia said. "In summation to that, they're forming packs. That becomes a precise superior information contented for the community."
Garcia says the unsafe consequences tin already beryllium seen.
"There's videos circulating wherever the mailman got chased, individuals are getting chased successful their ain beforehand yard, and sadly, this is conscionable the opening of it."
Garcia says that though the City of Fresno's efforts successful spaying and neutering animals person been admirable, Fresno is acold beyond spaying and neutering arsenic an eventual solution.
"We are not spaying and neutering capable to adjacent help," Garcia said.
"It's heartbreaking to adjacent sermon like, 'Oh my gosh, you know, we're going to person to euthanize for space.' How overmuch much heartbreaking is it going to beryllium erstwhile we person to euthanize 10 times the magnitude of dogs successful a twelvemonth from now?"
Garcia says residents should commencement reporting immoderate battalion of dogs they spot straight to metropolis and region officials - and reenforce that Fresno's shelters request to commencement euthanizing dogs.
"Contact your metropolis councilman, interaction Mayor Dyer's office, get the sanction of the idiosyncratic that you talk to. Because until much radical talk up with however they consciousness astir the dogs being near retired connected the streets, thing is going to change. Nothing."
