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YVAS "Tour" (Updated, For The 2nd Time)
Posted by: jn at 8:25PM MT on July 18, 2009
One of our Animal Crackers members found the following posted on the Gazette yesterday, a video, which presents new YVAS director Chris Anderson giving a "tour" of the YVAS.
Animal Shelter Tour. There is no accompanying article. The same video is linked at the YVAS website. (Update 8:20 P.M.: I've been informed there is a story to accompany the video to be posted soon on the Gazette. The video was inadvertently posted early. Update July 20: the Gazette included the story last night)
In the 2 1/2-minute video, Anderson takes the reporter through the cat room and explains cage cards and makes mention of hand sanitizers. Then she moves on to the "intake room", where new strays or feral cats are kept. Next, to the entry hall where she points out there are 4 types of pamphlets for visitors to read. She then goes on to the treatment room where pets are awaiting or recovering from spay or neuter surgery. In the surgery room, she explains it is set up for two veterinarians to spay and neuter. The tour ends at a single dog kennel, where she explains more cage cards. Is it just me, or would it be appropriate just to say...so what? I'm not criticizing the reporter for filming the tour. Rather, I'm more concerned why no one has, more importantly, bothered to introduce the new director to the public. A brief interview perhaps? In fact, a month ago, I asked a Gazette reporter to consider just that, based on a few concerns I had, which I posted about here and here. I never got a response to that request from the reporter. Maybe he was busy. Maybe he didn't think it was newsworthy. The new director has been in position for 7 weeks. Yet, attempts at contacts, emails by myself and others, have not been very well received in terms of asking for information regarding the new director (or any other information for that matter). Who is she, what are her qualifications, what are her goals for the YVAS and how does she intend to follow through on those goals as well as terms of the contract? Why hasn't the board of directors considered a formal introduction to the public? Why doesn't the website have staff profiles, particularly listing qualifications and experience? Why wasn't the public informed directly when the director was hired, nor given her qualifications as a shelter director?Whatever happened to that promised transparency? Hey, I'm just asking! |
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