The city of Banning implemented local management of animal control services Thursday, ending a contract with Riverside County. The Banning City Council opted not to renew its three-year agreement with the Department of Animal Services after the 2020-21 fiscal year, believing local control was sufficient to serve residents’ needs. The new fiscal year started Thursday. […]
On Wednesday, at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day, in the middle of a record breaking heat wave Riverside County animal control officers spotted a dog in the middle of the street in Mecca. “Officer Marquez saw a dog flopping around in the road … they picked up the dog […]
Hailey Morinico wasn’t really thinking when she confronted the black bear that wandered into the backyard of her California home on Monday — she just knew she had to protect her dogs. “I had about, I’d say, two seconds to think and the first thing that popped into my head was to push the bear […]
A new dining experience recently opened in Palm Springs and it’s like no other place in the Coachella Valley. Why? You, ask? Well, it’s because this is a place where dogs bring their humans! In this NBCares Silver Linings, Sandie Newton speaks with a Boozehound co-creator who knew a dog-friendly eaterie would take off in […]
An elderly Asian woman was stabbed to death while walking her dogs Saturday morning in Riverside, California, police said. But investigators say they don’t think it’s a hate crime. Riverside police received several calls about a woman suffering from stab wounds on Golden Avenue in the city’s La Sierra neighborhood. The woman, 64-year-old Ke Chieh […]
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday is slated to authorize the Riverside County Department of Animal Services to initiate revisions to an ordinance specifying how dangerous or potentially dangerous dogs should be handled, improving methods of monitoring owners of the canines for public safety. Agency Director Julie Bank said in documents posted to the board’s agenda […]
Riverside County animal shelters are celebrating. “Everything is empty, not one animal in kennel b, and it was full before all of this happened,” says a happy Marisa Sanabria the supervisor at the Riverside County Animal Campus in Thousand Palms. Kennel b is empty, the cat kennels are empty, and most of kennel a is […]
