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According to Santa Barbara County Animal Services, just 17% of strays are reunited with owners.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. While most people had fun watching fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend, plenty of pets had a tough time.
Santa Barbara County Animal Services director Angela Yates says that her shelter always experiences a massive increase in runaway animals around this time of year.
“Animals will break out of fences, screens because they’re trying to get away from the noise,” she said. “That often results in them becoming lost and separated from their owners.”
This year was no different, as they’ve already picked up 129 stray animals a mix of dogs and cats since the start of July.
Santa Barbara Co. Animal Services opens Pet Resource Center in Lompoc
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and last updated 2021-05-27 00:39:26-04
Santa Barbara County Animal Services (SBCAS) along with a handful of local non-profits have opened up a pet resource center in Lompoc to offer assistance with pet food, supplies, and veterinary services.
Lompoc Mayor Jenelle Osborne, along with non-profits like C.A.R.E. 4 Paws and many others, came together Wednesday to celebrate the opening of the center which aims to help those who are finding it difficult to provide for their animals. We ve gone from helping about 7,000 pet owners in 2019 to helping more than 20,000 in 2020, C.A.R.E. 4 Paws co-founder Isabelle Gullo said.
California firefighters release 1,000 small birds that were trapped in chimney
By Alexi Chidbachian
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - It looked like a scene out of a horror movie. A thousand small birds were trapped in a chimney of a house in Santa Barbara County.
Firefighters were called to a home in Montecito Sunday night and found about 1,000 small birds trapped in the chimney, the fire department said in a social media post.
Firefighters and staff with the Santa Barbara County Animals Services worked together to safely free the birds. They had hoped for the birds to fly out of the flue on their own overnight, but when they returned in the morning the birds were still trapped at the base of the fireplace.
The hundreds of birds were finally freed from the fireplace.(Instagram) County Animal Services worked diligently throughout the day to design a chute system to funnel the birds out of the fireplace and release them through the home s back doors. We are grateful for the positive outcome to this unusual call and the opportunity to problem-solve with our partners at Santa Barbara County Animal Services.
Zookeepers imitate their animal friends