City animal rescues plummet in May

While the Clovis Police Department continues to evaluate how much control to exercise over animal rescue groups, rescues have ground to a near halt.

“Right now our animal rescues really slowed up quite a bit since this story broke,” Police Chief Steve Sanders said.

According to data from the city’s Animal Control office, seven animals — down from an average of 60 per month —have been rescued from the Clovis shelter since early May, when it was learned rescue groups had signed animals out from the Clovis shelter and taken some of them to Albuquerque shelters where they were signed in as strays.

In the same time frame, euthanasia rose from an average of 98 dogs and cats a month for the first four months of the year to 167 in May.

Those higher numbers are in part because the warmer months traditionally lead to an influx of kittens, but the lack of rescues has contributed, said Animal Control Officer Marty Martinez.

“This is our busy time of year,” he said. “It does make a difference (that there are no rescues but) we get more animals this time of year.”

News of the transport of animals from Clovis to Albuquerque shelters brought ire from officials with the state’s largest city — their own shelters euthanized more than 14,000 animals last year because they couldn’t find homes — who said they would start billing other jurisdictions if it was learned animals were brought in from outside Albuquerque.

According to five receipts accounting for 39 animals taken from the Clovis shelter in 2011 by animal rescue groups, only nine of those animals were listed as going to specific facilities. The remainder were identified as having been taken into rescue “networks” with no destination specified.

Shelter records indicate in the same time frame, 240 animals were rescued from the facility. That figure is more than 200 over what were documented through receipts.

Officials have said only 12 animals ended up in Albuquerque shelters.

Sanders said his department is still evaluating if policy should be changed or if the policy it had was sound despite the issue that arose.

Rescue groups are supposed to be verified by a city rescue and transport committee and those who sign animals out sign a contract that they will take the animals to a recognized shelter or rescue group, he said.

The shelter also required groups bring receipts back to show where the animals ended up.

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