CITY ANIMAL AGENCY TO BE OVERHAULED.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Troubled that the city puts to death 43,000 cats and dogs Cats and Dogs A slang term referring to speculative stocks that have short or suspicious histories for sales, earnings, dividends, etc. Notes: In a bull market analysts will often mention that everything is going up, even the cats and dogs. each year, the city Animal Regulation Commission proposed a major overhaul of the Animal Regulation Department on Monday. The new approach will seek to make sure more dogs and cats are spayed spay tr.v. spayed, spay·ing, spays To remove surgically the ovaries of (an animal). [Middle English spaien, from Anglo-Norman espeier, to cut with a sword and neutered neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. , through a combination of additional low-cost clinics and possible increases in the licensing fee that owners of unneutered animals pay. To drive home the point that the agency is changing, its name will be changed to the Animal Services Department, Commissioner Gini Barrett told a City Council panel Monday. ``In large part, we think it begins in shifting the view from animal regulation and animal control to animal services,'' Barrett told the council's Public Safety Committee. ``Frankly, we think it's a realistic vision.'' In 1995, about 60 percent of stray dogs and 79.3 percent of stray cats The Stray Cats are a rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer (Bloodless Pharaohs/Brian Setzer Orchestra) with school friends Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker) and Slim Jim Phantom (born James McDonnell) in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York. had to be euthanized because they were not claimed by owners or adopted. The new approach will provide more vouchers for low-cost spay spay v. To surgically remove the ovaries of an animal. spay, spey to remove the ovaries. See also ovariohysterectomy. spay hook see spay hook. and neutering neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. , reducing the age of neutering from three months to eight weeks, stronger leash-law enforcement and installing microchips in animals to better track their ownership. The commission also has agreed to work to reduce the number of animals who languish in shelters for months because they are in legal limbo limbo In Roman Catholicism, a region between heaven and hell, the dwelling place of souls not condemned to punishment but deprived of the joy of existence with God in heaven. The concept probably developed in the Middle Ages. between when an owner turns an animal over for temporary shelter and when the owner gives up ownership. The commission will go to the City Council in future months with proposed changes in policy and budget requests to allow the department to fulfill its new mission. ``This shift in expression of philosophy and intent will lay the foundation for the hundreds of changes in laws, policies, operations and facilities that need to follow over the next several years,'' the mission statement said. Commission President Steve Afriat said the cost of the goals set by the mission statement could be about $10 million, but much of it would be covered by fees. |
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