At 8:30 a.m. a friend of mine was driving into work. She drove down Spring Street and turned onto Carlton where she immediately saw a young boy slamming two puppy pitbulls into the concrete. One was running away and he'd chase it, catch it and slam it into the concrete. This is no joke Folks!
911 was called immediately and they told her there was nothing they could do but refer her to Animal Control. If "ANY" of you happen to drive in that direction today, (just to keep an eye out to make sure this doesn't happen again, of course) after you turn onto Carlton from Spring it was the third house on the right.
Now what this child was doing home at this time is the first question? Secondly, why can't the Police respond to such an emergency? Apparently this family received regular visits as the female is chained up with no cover throughout the year.
I was going to stop into the County Council Meeting but instead I think I'll go make my own visit to this neighborhood. Aparently this child is only around 8 years old!
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Do you mean Spring Ave. and Carrolton Ave. over off of College?
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, that is one of those areas that is part county/part city...and the emergency services people don't know who is supposed to respond half the time.
The best thing to do in that situation is to call the Humane Society and tell them that the SPD are being idiots again. They fairly regularly(IMO&E) refuse to forward calls to the animal control guys.
The Salisbury City Police have their own animal control officer on duty M-F during daytime hours. This area in question is completely within the city limits. Joe did 911 transfer her to either the city police or animal control. Just curious.
ReplyDeleteSPD animal control is supposed to be on call for emergencies 24/7. That is why the officers take their vehicles home with them. The procedure is SUPPOSED to be that dispatch calls them, no matter what time, to deal with animal emergencies within city limits.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, some of the dispatchers did not get that memo. A few months ago I had to deal with this because of a neighbor's dog - the animal control officer was TICKED that SPD refused to call him and the Humane Society had to come out instead. (it's archived over at JFA, I think July)
Sally,
ReplyDeleteSo you know, I did go there "immediately" after I received the call and I found nothing. No kid, no puppies and no mother. I knocked on doors and I asked everyone there if they knew where these puppies were and everyone acted like they knew nothing. There were prostitues on every corner and it was not a nice neighborhood.