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Joshua Animal Services outlines trapping, disease control and inventory fixes
Summary
Animal Services Manager Tommy Miller told the advisory board the shelter restructured quarantine, began trapping in multiple neighborhoods, found one-quarter of tested trapped cats positive for FIV/FeLV, and asked the board to endorse budgeted operational and vaccination changes.
Tommy Miller, who introduced himself as an Animal Services staff member, told the Joshua Animal Control Advisory Board that on taking the post he found inconsistencies between the shelter’s recorded and physical inventory and multiple disease and sanitation problems that required immediate changes.
Miller said the shelter’s software showed 76 animals in the system while only 42 were physically at the facility; staff reorganized space to create a quarantine/sick room and an adoption-only room to keep adoptable animals separate. He said the shelter began active field patrols (10–25 hours per week) and…
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