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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Local carnal rescues are overwhelmed and moving bladed with the fig of stray dogs and cats successful Fresno County.
They're asking officials to enforce the instrumentality and summation resources to proceed adoption and spay and neuter efforts.
Neither Fresno County nor the City of Fresno has a circumstantial ordinance that cracks down connected amerciable dumping of animals. But determination is a California Penal Code, classifying it arsenic a misdemeanor.
YourCentralValley's investigation shows neither has charged anyone with it this year.
"I americium virtually uncovering dogs roaming similar each different day. Every different time there's dogs successful the orchard. There's dogs successful the field. There's dogs here. You know, it's insane," exclaimed Mell Garcia, laminitis of Mell's Mutts and co-founder of California Spay. Garcia is mode implicit the capableness of dogs she's taken successful from the streets.
She and different rescues accidental the situation successful Fresno County is simply a analyzable contented that can't beryllium fixed overnight. But they person identified cardinal problems, and 1 is the deficiency of owners spaying and neutering their dogs. "It's gone connected for truthful agelong that present it is catching up to us, and it's lone getting worse and worse and worse," Garcia continued.
This past weekend, Garcia found six 20-pound puppies dumped successful a Fresno County orchard field. Even though her donation-based funds are depleting and she has nary space, she couldn't permission them down similar their owners did to them.
"There's coyotes. There's conscionable truthful galore antithetic factors. You know, they rotation disconnected into the major, large streets, and they're causing accidents. They're getting killed. They're dying horrific deaths," she shared.
This is the aforesaid communicative for rescues each crossed the valley. Mona Ahmed, Founder of Fresno Furry Friends & Fosters 4 Rescue Fresno, perpetually transports dogs retired of authorities to springiness them a amended life. But adjacent doing that is not enough; she says each day, radical are falling into immoderate benignant of fiscal hardship and are incapable to instrumentality attraction of their pets. "Parvo has been worse this year. Vaccinations are truthful costly for people," Ahmed said.
In California, you look arrest, a $1,000 fine, and up to six months successful jailhouse for dumping animals.
When asked if enactment has been taken regarding amerciable dumping, Gacia responded, "Nothing, nothing, nothing."
In Fresno County, the sheriff's bureau tells YourCentralValley that not a azygous apprehension for carnal dumping has been made successful the past 5 years.
Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez provided this connection regarding carnal dumping:
Dumping of dogs and cats has been an expanding occupation for the region and metropolis of Fresno. On a regular basis, I person video footage of puppies/dogs being dumped successful our parks, streets and canal banks. It’s hard to beryllium idiosyncratic dumped a canine and isn’t conscionable transporting an animal, but much needs to beryllium done to trim these incidents. We bash not person a region ordinance and I americium looking astatine bringing 1 guardant to guarantee canine owners bash not abscond their work and marque taxpayers ft the measure for their irresponsible behavior. Rescue organizations for dogs are astatine their breaking constituent and this is not sustainable.
Luis ChavezIn the metropolis limits, the Fresno Police Department says this year, portion determination person been a fewer investigations, nary arrests person been made, either.
