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Resident recounts delayed animal-control response after injured raccoon; council hears calls for clearer contact procedure

5465769 · July 24, 2025
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Summary

A resident described an incident involving an injured raccoon and said callers were bounced between 911 and county animal-control; he asked the city to provide a direct animal-control contact or a community-service alternative.

Resident Paul McCarthy described an incident two to three weeks earlier when a raccoon struck by a car was left at the curb and callers were routed through 911 and a county animal-control line that would not respond for an incorporated municipality.

McCarthy said he called 911 and was…

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