Dead cat
found in the rain, on the sidewalk at the corner of NJ and Q St on the Ward 2 side of the street, so don't walk your dogs over there.Yes, I called the city's 311 number.
No, nobody answered because I found the tuxedo kitty after 4:30pm, when phone calls go straight to a machine.
Yes, I called animal control. They don't do dead. I was told I should call DPW.
At this point, I gave up. I'll file a report which someone will get to it when they get to it.
Labels: animals, city services
posted by Mari @ 4.6.09
5 Comments:
DPW has a dead animal unit.
Do not please please please call them for dead rats in your alley. There is, like, a bazillion rats in DC, and they only live 3 years each.
They should pick up a cat/dog/deer thought.
311 is the number. Ask for the dead animal unit by name.
DCGuvGuy
I should have signed that
"DCGovGuy who types while tipsy"
Damn typos.
Action 1- Stood in rain looking at dead cat while trying to bring up the City Wide Call Center on PDA.
Action 2- DC.Gov site took too long to load, and feet got wet, went home.
Action 3- Set down bag from Penn Quarter Farmers Market (Cherries in season WOOT!) turned on computer to get DC.gov.
Action 4- DC.gov website pointed to calling 311. Called 311, got phone tree and told humans went home.
Action 5- Searched DC.gov for Animal Control. Called Animal control. Told to call DPW.
Action 6- Back to DC.gov to look up number for DPW. Site says call 311.
Action 7- Blog.
Action 8- On DC.gov site fill out city service request for dead animal.
Done. Considering the animal is small, and not near my house, my incentives stop at Action #2, and in other situations have stopped at that initial attempt to contact the city. Because out of sight, is out of mind, and by the time I get to where I'm going I've forgotten all about the (cat, rat, vandalized car, spray painted building, etc).
That is just a bummer. I watched a bird fall out of the sky and die on my sidewalk this afternoon.
Killed my evening. I hate to see things like that happen to animals.
I once had a similar problem: I found a dead cat on the sidewalk in front of a neighbor's house.
Action 1 - Got my shovel.
Action 2 - Buried the dead cat.
Done.
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