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Residents Show Appreciation for Animal Services Department

June 30, 2017 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

Contributed photo – From left, Andrea Dillard, Jennifer Holder and Sarah Pherigo of Animal Services were presented a little gift from grateful residents recently.

Recently, East Ridge Animal Services were called to deal with feral cats in a neighborhood.

Andrea Dillard, supervisor of Animal Services, said that in the Kenton Road area several women had helped a resident tend to more than a dozen feral cats. Dillard said the resident didn’t understand the city’s policy of capturing the cats, sterilizing them and getting them up to speed on vaccinations. Jennifer Holder helped explain the policy in terms the man could understand and he complied.

The crew from the city did such a great job that two residents in the area had to reach out and give a special thanks to the staff.

Becky Gentry and Aundie Witt said they want to thank Andrea, Jennifer and Sarah for the professional service our neighborhood received concerning our feral cat problems.

We appreciate the East Ridge Animal Service staff. Thank you for what you do for our community.

_ Aundie Witt

Filed Under: Community, FEATURED POSTS, SLIDER

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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