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Residents urge action on stray animals; commissioners set workshop to study county shelter
Summary
More than a dozen residents urged Liberty County Commissioners Court to address a growing stray-animal crisis. The court agreed to direct staff to schedule a public workshop to study legal, logistical and cost implications of an animal shelter and related programs.
Scores of residents urged Liberty County Commissioners Court to act on an escalating stray-animal problem in and around Cleveland and Colony Ridge on public comment Wednesday, describing dogs and cats found injured, shot, abandoned or left in litters and pressing the court to place the issue on a formal agenda.
The speakers pressed the court to consider building a county-run shelter, adopt stronger animal-control laws, allow mobile spay/neuter clinics and fund enforcement. “I have trapped, spayed, and neutered at least 2,000 cats, in Cleveland, and I have rescued, fostered, adopted out at least 500 more cats,” said Alexis Allred, who described eight years of volunteer rescue work. Amanda Jordan, who has attended multiple meetings on the issue, told the court, “In 2024, there were 214 animal bites.…
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