Preston Roland holds the stray dog from Pike County that he adopted.
Group earns Humane Society designation
Friends of Pike County Animals chairman Don Bailey informed commissioners the group now has a Humane Society designation from the state and has established five committees to address animal issues in the county, including spay and neuter, fostering, adoption, shelter and supply and legislative committees.
Susan Goodwin, chair of FCPA’s adoption committee, said more volunteers are always needed but the committees help those already there to meet local needs. The next meeting will be held Thursday, Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. at J. Joel Edwards Library. Contact Don Bailey at 770-884-0414 or email Friends of Pike County Animals at friendsofpikecounty
animals@hotmail.com.
Gwen Roland is in charge of the spay/neuter committee. She says adopted animals need to be fixed or the problem with strays will continue to get worse. The committee is raising money to cover costs for people who can’t afford even a discounted surgery and volunteers will be needed to help the day of the surgeries.
“Fixing those critters is the front-end step to our problems with abandoned pets in Pike County,” she said. “Right now the only pet population control for many residents is to shoot them or dump them on someone else’s dirt road. We can change that.”
For more, read the Wednesday, August 25 print/eEdition of The Pike County Journal-Reporter.
animals@hotmail.com.
Gwen Roland is in charge of the spay/neuter committee. She says adopted animals need to be fixed or the problem with strays will continue to get worse. The committee is raising money to cover costs for people who can’t afford even a discounted surgery and volunteers will be needed to help the day of the surgeries.
“Fixing those critters is the front-end step to our problems with abandoned pets in Pike County,” she said. “Right now the only pet population control for many residents is to shoot them or dump them on someone else’s dirt road. We can change that.”
For more, read the Wednesday, August 25 print/eEdition of The Pike County Journal-Reporter.
animal control does not prevent animal attacks. ask the 3 counties in georgia in the last few months where dogs have attacked.
all 3 counties had animal control.
i bet your still waiting for odummer to pay your house off too.
don't agree with what they say and have no valid, logical argument to counter with?
CALL THEM A BIGOT THAT'LL FIX EM.
worthless
see the two comments above mine?
if you dont want to be humane that make you inhumane. mistreating animals is a trait linked, with serial killers, rapists, and other people with mental disorders. who in there right mind would be against caring for animals?
INHUMANE adj cold-hearted,cruel,hard,hard-hearted,heartless,inconsiderate,insensitive,uncaring,uncharitable,uncivilized,unfeeling,unkind,unsympathetic.>INHUMAN opp HUMANE.
no i am not describing fat bas--tard. although it does sound like him!!!!!!
if you are going to buy your precious little child a pet, take care of it.
don't come here and call me cruel because i don't want to pay to take care of your pet.
in the words of the well spoken v smith:
"Idiot"
That's about how much sense your arguement makes.
i guess it must be all your unwanted pets running around pike county.
and as far as the children go, shut down the board of education and stop taking tax money from me and I will be MORE THAN HAPPY to send mine to private school.
I didn't want that forced on me any more than you want the expense of animal control forced on you. The difference is, I didn't have a choice.
amazing.
Pet daycare? All I ask is get em off the streets.
i own rental property. do you think i set the rent below what i pay for property taxes? or do i determine my profit based on my costs?
that's a VERY TIRED old argument and one quite often used to support SPLOST. Is this Don Collins?
I would hazard a guess that I pay more in property taxes on my 8 rental properties than you pay on your house and therefore, they also pay more in property taxes.
My total on my home and two rental properties is several thousand dollars a year.
Then there is tax on a Spalding County office to the tune of $2500. Never had any kids going to school there either. But at least there is animal control. Pike is a better county in which to live though.
The posters on the PJR seem to be against anything and everything. Even the Feel Good articles get trashed by the comments. The worst was the story of Laura Geiger's award in Jekyll Island. Pitiful.
I'm through now. Enjoy your lives.
now is it the fact that people breed dogs and make thousands a dollars a year. is it the fact that dogs are not only certified as police officers and given a badge to save the department money and time in finding people and apprehending criminals. is it the fact that dogs can be used to find trapped and injured people also saving time and man power. or maybe its the fact that dogs assist blind people and other people with disabilities. dogs are quite important and crucial to assisting people and saving lives. if you have a television and get some reception in your cave, tune in to a dog show and watch some folks laughing all the way to the bank with their dog in the passenger seat. just because your dog just poops on the rug, gets a drink out your toilet, and then gives you a big lick on the face,dont assume they are all like that. dont fell sorry for me,all is good on this end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i would without a doubt save my neighbor, his children and then his dog. so stop being stupid.
what i don't want to do is pay for the WORTHLESS people in this and surrounding counties to house their animals because they are 1 - too sorry to take care of them and 2 - too gutless to put them down themselves.