NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of the heating units at Metro Animal Care and Control has a defect part, acccording to councilwoman Joy Styles’s Facebook update. They discovered the issue this morning. Metro maintenance and Lee company have been out to the facility, and depending on the weather, Lee will be back tomorrow with the […]
Letter: Heat shows need for county to revise animal welfare code
From: Nancy Ray Columbus As I write on July 27, 2023, it’s a perfect day to demonstrate one of the nonsensical differences between the City of Columbus Animal Ordinance and the Bartholomew County Animal Ordinance. The temperature is 95 degrees with a real-feel temperature of 108 and a real feel shade temp of 103. There […]
How animals at the Virginia Zoo beat the heat
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – It’s not just us roasting in the sun this summer. Animals at the Virginia Zoo also feel the heat. Like us, many animals sweat and pant, but they also have things at the zoo to keep cool. “We’ve got a pool of water. These are our Malaysian Tiger. They will often […]