Angry in the city
On May 22 at 5 a.m. a cat was hit by a car near the intersection of College and Richland. The cat was obviously someone’s pet since it had a collar. Employees at Bickel’s called 911 to report it and to ask for assistance. The call was sent to a city police officer who apparently told the caller that nothing could be done. Meanwhile the cat was crying in pain. At 7:30 a.m. another call was made to 911. This time the call went to West Manchester Township police. They apparently did respond and the cat was finally taken to the SPCA at 9 a.m.
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Mark McCartney, the city’s animal control officer, went on duty at 5:30 a.m. that day and was not informed about the cat.
I would like to know why the city does not respond to these calls or, at least, ask another police dept. to help with them. It took 4 hours for that poor creature to get to help while in excruciating pain.
What if that had been your pet? It is a good reason to keep your cat’s indoors. You can’t depend on the kindness of the city police to help them.
Margaret A. Reis
York
YDRWatcher · June 12, 2008 7:49 AM
How come people depend on the police to do jobs like this? No one else could take the time to do something on their own, especially after watching a suffering animal for 4 hours? How about check the tag on the collar and call the owner? Why was the cat out by itself anyway? People need to get some initiative and do things on their own instead of expecting public services to do everything.
Mark Foreman · June 12, 2008 2:40 PM
This was an abuse of the 911 system. Two calls to 911 for a cat hit by a car?
dash · June 12, 2008 10:06 PM
Mark and Mr. YDR, A cat is a life also but York City has more important things do do like stop smokers, write parking tickets, tax the hell out of you, etc.
Mark Foreman · June 13, 2008 7:17 AM
I didnt see anywhere where Animal Control or the SPCA was called! Just and abuse of the 911 system!