Orangeburg Strays
Anthony Brooking
Issue date: 2/1/10 Section: Opinion
Twice in the last 12 months, I've encountered a lifeless kitten beside my car; unfortunately I might have backed over them. My conscious has become scarred for the rest of my life. One of the felines in particular, had a quite a questionable death. Even though it lay beside my vehicle, it was at an angle in which I could not have run over it.
I waited weeks for Orangeburg animal control to ride through. Never happened. Disgustingly, I had to scrape it up in one of my mother's old pots and carry it to the church dumpster across the street. I pray that they didn't mistake a flattened, frozen, lifeless cat in an old, rusty, black pot beside a pair of yellow gloves as any satanic symbol.
With all of the stray cats and dogs plaguing Orangeburg some sort of city funded animal control should be patrolling the streets. Where is animal control?
The only place to point the finger is towards the individuals voted into positions to run the City of Orangeburg.
Isn't city cleanliness on their agenda? Outside my residence is not the only place where I see strays; they are in the neighborhood, at my job, along the sides of 601 (often strolling through oncoming traffic). Everywhere!
Strays are making Orangeburg appear unkempt.
I am an Orangeburg resident and I'm tired of tripping over dead cats when I get out of my car. Let it not be mistaken. I was born and raised in Prince Georges County, Maryland and upon graduation I plan on returning to the place of my birth. But for now, I'm a local. As a local I am tired of seeing these animals that eventually evolve into road kill; road kill that takes months to clean. Most of the time the dual threat of weather and unforgiving tires cause the pancaked pet to be absorbed into the concrete.
Why aren't the streets of Orangeburg cleaned properly? Even after automobile accidents, the wreckage becomes part of the street. There was an accident around a year and a half ago at the intersection of Chestnut St. and St. Matthews Rd. in which the wreckage was not cleaned properly. To this day, the debris is still visible.
I waited weeks for Orangeburg animal control to ride through. Never happened. Disgustingly, I had to scrape it up in one of my mother's old pots and carry it to the church dumpster across the street. I pray that they didn't mistake a flattened, frozen, lifeless cat in an old, rusty, black pot beside a pair of yellow gloves as any satanic symbol.
With all of the stray cats and dogs plaguing Orangeburg some sort of city funded animal control should be patrolling the streets. Where is animal control?
The only place to point the finger is towards the individuals voted into positions to run the City of Orangeburg.
Isn't city cleanliness on their agenda? Outside my residence is not the only place where I see strays; they are in the neighborhood, at my job, along the sides of 601 (often strolling through oncoming traffic). Everywhere!
Strays are making Orangeburg appear unkempt.
I am an Orangeburg resident and I'm tired of tripping over dead cats when I get out of my car. Let it not be mistaken. I was born and raised in Prince Georges County, Maryland and upon graduation I plan on returning to the place of my birth. But for now, I'm a local. As a local I am tired of seeing these animals that eventually evolve into road kill; road kill that takes months to clean. Most of the time the dual threat of weather and unforgiving tires cause the pancaked pet to be absorbed into the concrete.
Why aren't the streets of Orangeburg cleaned properly? Even after automobile accidents, the wreckage becomes part of the street. There was an accident around a year and a half ago at the intersection of Chestnut St. and St. Matthews Rd. in which the wreckage was not cleaned properly. To this day, the debris is still visible.
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