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<br /> <br />Orange County Animal Services <br />501 W. Franklin St, Suite 106, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 968-2287 <br /> <br />Animal Control <br />PO Box 8181 <br />304 Revere Rd <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />(919) 245-2075 <br /> <br />Robert A. Marotto, <br />Director <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Animal Shelter <br />1081 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br />(919) 967-7383 <br />Monthly Report <br />Orange County Animal Services <br />March 2006 <br /> <br /> <br />Departmental Highlights <br /> <br />1. In a new program, Animal Services Department staff made presentations about their services to <br />fourth grade (and other) classes in Orange County Schools. Sarah Fallin, Animal Services <br />Program Coordinator, organized these presentations to educate the children and to raise <br />awareness of the Animal Services Department by providing them with informational materials to <br />take home with them. <br /> <br />These presentations are age-specific and interactive and they consist of two parts. In the first <br />part, an Animal Control Officer facilitates an exercise in which children identified what kinds of <br />things an Animal Control Officer does and does not do. In the second part, Ms. Fallin and/or a <br />volunteer facilitated an exercise in which children helped to design a shelter for the animals in <br />their community. <br /> <br />The presentations reached several hundred fourth grade children and they were very well received <br />by students, teachers and school administrators. All indications are that Animal Services staff <br />will be welcomed back in coming years to do similar sessions. In addition, it is hoped that in the <br />future it will be possible to do presentations about more specific topics such as animal safety (or <br />dog bite prevention) and the importance of spaying and neutering pets. <br /> <br />2. Two low-cost rabies vaccination clinics were held on Saturday, March 25th, 2006. At the clinic <br />held at the Hillsborough Courthouse, a total of one hundred and nine (109) animals—ninety-one <br />(91) dogs and eighteen (18) cats—were vaccinated. At the clinic held at Piedmont Feed and <br />Garden Center, a total of seventy-nine (79) animals—fifty-eight (58) dogs and twenty-one (21) <br />cats—received their rabies vaccinations. <br /> <br />To ensure the continuing availability of low-cost rabies vaccinations for County residents, a work <br />team of staff planned two more clinics for April. These upcoming clinics are: <br /> <br />• Wednesday, April 26th, 6:00-7:00 p.m., Efland Cheeks Elementary School, Efland <br /> <br />• Thursday, April 27th, 6:00-7:00 p.m., Hillsborough Courthouse Parking Lot, Hillsborough <br />