Annise Parker released her plan to improve Houston’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, also known as BARC. Parker offered the plan, entitled “Houston Is Better than BARC,” as part of her campaign for Mayor of Houston.
“BARC’s failures impact our public health, public safety and quality of life – and for the many Houstonians concerned with animal welfare, BARC’s failures are just plain cruel,” said Parker. “As an animal lover myself, I deplore the conditions at BARC.”
Parker noted she has been a strong advocate for reforms at BARC. She served on one of the committees of the Mayor’s Task Force for Animal Protection in 2005 and, as City Controller, later led an audit of BARC that highlighted additional problems and inefficiencies. Many of the recommendations from both reports have yet to be implemented.
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Weekly words of wisdom from our resident yoga dog, Tiki from Joy Yoga Center!
Hello to all my yogi and yogini friends! I hope you are all having a wonderful 4th of July weekend!
Independence Day is a perfect opportunity to celebrate independence of all kinds: the independence we enjoy in this country, as well as the individual independence we each have that allows us to choose any path that we like in life. Each of us enjoys a freedom that allows us to live in a way that rings true to us, no matter what anyone else has to say about it.
Even I got a chance to enjoy my independence last week! You see, my mommy took me to the dog park so that I could play with the other doggies. But they were wrestling with each other and generally being way too rough - not jumping around and running happy laps the way I like to play. So I asserted my independence and went off on my own to play in my own way, doing a couple downward dogs and leaping around in the grass. Now some of the other doggies barked at me because I chose to be different; I was acting in a way that was unusual and weird to them, and this made them feel uncomfortable. But I knew that I had the freedom to follow my heart and run around in the grass, no matter what those other dogs said, and I found this to be much more enjoyable than if I had rough-housed with them just to fit in.
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