One measure of animal shelter safety is the number of animal bites. OC Animal Care (OCAC) and OC Community Resources (OCCR) flagrantly lied about their numbers, to keep kennel areas closed. They have now been exposed through county Public Records.
The shelter doesn’t take data seriously but we should. The correct number of bites we’ll give is based on Public Records. We’ll use a spreadsheet from the county-wide database of thousands of animal bites and a second one OC disclosed only after months of delay and obstruction. This Public Records information allows us to debunk the county’s false claims.
OCAC-OCCR lied to the public and the Community Outreach Committee in April 2023. Here is a portion of the presentation slide they used. We added the necessary corrections in red. The real number of bites is about double what OC claimed.
OCAC gave false information to the Grand Jury (p. 19 of the Grand Jury Report, which can be downloaded in full here). Here is a section of that page with the information the county gave for 2022. There is no conceivable explanation for understating the 2022 bites to the public by a whopping 78%.
The OCAC “Fact Checker” document, among its other false claims, says that “after implementing the adoption-by-appointment model the shelter bite rate to visitors decreased by 87% when comparing 2021 to 2019”. That’s another lie, fabricated by under-reporting the 2021 bites.
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