Q&A
Barriers to pet ownership and reasons for animal surrenders
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Council Member Brewer inquires about the barriers to pet ownership and reasons for animal surrenders. Alexandra Silver from the Mayor's Office of Animal Welfare provides insights into the complex and interrelated factors leading to animal surrenders.
- Cost and housing are identified as major barriers to pet ownership
- Factors leading to surrenders are often interrelated, such as job loss, housing issues, and cost of care
- It can be difficult to isolate a single reason for surrender, as multiple factors often contribute
- The council member emphasizes the need to address barriers that fall under the city's responsibility
Gale A. Brewer
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Okay.
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Finally, I know you're going to meet with this chair who's fabulous about some of these barriers.
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Cost is a barrier.
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That barrier has to be addressed.
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In terms of the spay nootter, etcetera.
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What are quickly some of the other barriers that you see that end up with so many individual animals in the shelters?
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What are some of the other barriers?
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Oh, let's go.
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Housing.
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Housing.
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Okay.
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In other words, people have the housing that is not appropriate or they don't have housing to be able to have their animals.
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Is that what you're saying?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Anything else?
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Cost, housing?
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Come on.
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There must be others.
Alexandra Silver
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Howlers are inter interrelated a lot.
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Finance finances can be losing a job, can be having to find a more you know, not finding affordable housing.
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I know when ACC does intake reasons, it's sometimes hard to select just 1 or 2 because, again, they overlap so much.
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You almost have to choose, like, what's the primary one?
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You know, if someone loses their job and they have to move somewhere again, it could be 3 different reasons.
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It's a cost of care for pet.
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It's lost job.
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It's moving.
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I'm not sure.
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The current categories are.
Gale A. Brewer
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So those are not things we can necessarily address, but we can't address the cost for sure.
Beth Powers
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I love you.
Gale A. Brewer
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And look at barriers that are The city's responsibility, which would be different than an individual's response.
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Housing is a big Alright.
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But in other words, maybe as an example, you need some kind of care while you're moving.
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That's something that would be an example of able to deal with.
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Obviously, the the care is expensive also.
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But that would be an example.
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To me, those of us I know my sister always traveling puts the dog in some kind of care while she is traveling.
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Example.