Animal control requests dry pet food donations.Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard Lane County Animal Regulation Authority is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. donations of dog and cat food after kennel employees were forced to throw out the shelter's entire supply. Supervisor Tom Howard
Tom Howard (born Thomas Merrett Howard December 26, 1969 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, kickboxer and actor. said that he discovered bugs in the food, which was kept in plastic bins and bags in a shed behind the agency, at 3970 W. First Ave., Tuesday morning and began throwing kibble kibble baked dough that is crushed or cracked. Prepared usually by extruding and then heating-drying the dough. Used as dry food for dogs and cats. out immediately. Between 800 and 900 pounds of food was tossed, most of it previously donated by the public. "We have nothing left," Howard said. "All we have left to feed on is the food donated today." The shelter has enough to feed its 30 to 40 dogs and 40-plus cats for four or five days, he said. The bugs found in the storage shed "looked like some small type of weevil weevil, common name for certain beetles of the snout beetle family (Curculionidae), small, usually dull-colored, hard-bodied insects. The mouthparts of snout beetles are modified into down-curved snouts, or beaks, adapted for boring into plants; the jaws are at the ," similar to those that get into opened containers of flour, Howard said. The agency is making several changes in its food storage policy to help prevent future infestation infestation /in·fes·ta·tion/ (-fes-ta´shun) parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites, or ticks; sometimes used to denote parasitic invasion of the organs and tissues, as by helminths. , including placing the bins on platforms inside the shed so they can be swept underneath, and regularly rotating ro·tate v. ro·tat·ed, ro·tat·ing, ro·tates v.intr. 1. To turn around on an axis or center. 2. the bins to ensure aging food is served first. Those who wish to donate are asked to bring unopened bags of food, if possible. The food will be checked against the list of recalled pet food. "We've decided it's safest not to take food that's been opened," Howard said, but that if people bring in open bags, the kennel will use them first to prevent infestation. DONATIONS NEEDED Lane County Animal Regulation Authority is in need of dry food for dogs and cats To donate: Bring any donations to the agency, 3970 W. First Ave. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call: 682-3645 |
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