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Residents press council over animal-shelter care and distemper outbreak; staff says disease is driving temporary changes
Summary
Multiple speakers urged San Bernardino officials to improve animal-shelter services, including hiring a full-time veterinarian and coordinating with rescue groups after a distemper outbreak. Director Watson replied the shelter is confronting distemper and working with temporary measures; several speakers described rescues stepping in.
Several residents used the council public-comment period to press the city on animal-shelter conditions, disease control and coordination with rescue organizations.
Multiple speakers said the city shelter lacks a full-time veterinarian and that animals have been left untreated or abandoned at the shelter. One commenter said a group of rescuers retrieved a dog a caller reported and criticized the shelter for failing to act. Lidia Zavala and other public speakers…
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