The City of Dallas has increased pay and started offering incentives to attract more job candidates for vacant animal control positions.
- 5-year-old Kavaughn was walking home from the school bus on his birthday in February when a dog roaming his Dallas apartment complex lunged."The dog was shaking him like a rag doll," recalled Abrienne Brown.
Data provided by Dallas Animal Services shows that's a big jump from previous years when the number never topped 620. But DAS reports its been ill equipped this past year to tackle the challenge because of one clear reason. That's resulted in fewer people available to respond to calls from concerned neighbors and no one at all to patrol areas where loose dogs are known to be a problem.
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