General (06)
Susana Barrios
From:Michael Mavrovouniotis <michaelmavrovouniotis@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, October 1, 2024
To:Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Public Comment for the next City Council meeting
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I’m hoping the citizens of Anaheim can see how the county bureaucracy is failing your city.
Your city contracts with OC Animal Care (OCAC), which kept COVID restrictions well into 2023. They blocked your access to dog
kennels. They finally ran a pilot program on visitor access in 2023. My meticulous study shows that more dogs were adopted when
visitors had access to the dog kennels:
https://jsmcah.org/index.php/jasv/article/view/85/134
Shockingly, the shelter insists on its website that keeping visitors out is better. OCAC falsely claims that its old adoption visit model
“resulted in 200% more adoptions as compared to the pilot program”: https://ocpetinfo.com/DailyAdoptionOptions
That’s absurd. Virtually all good shelters allow visitors to walk through the kennels. Why is OCAC sticking with the bizarre claim that
COVID restrictions were somehow good?
If OCAC doesn’t face the facts, how can it fix its problems?
A recent op-ed in the OC Register goes through a myriad other problems at the shelter:
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/24/county-managers-failed-our-animal-shelter/?share=2opwholwe04gnaisaeiw
Another opinion piece in Voice of OC looks at the misrepresentations made by the shelter's director.
https://voiceofoc.org/2024/09/mavrovouniotis-the-oc-animal-shelter-director-is-all-image-and-no-substance/
You can find more on OC Animal Care's troubles on OCShelter.com
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