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AC&C, a non-profit corporation, has a 5-year, $51.9 million contract with the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to provide shelter, examine, test, treat, spay, neuter and assure the humane care and disposition of animals in shelters located in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, along with drop-off centers in Queens and the Bronx.
VCA was founded in 1986 by three health care company executives, [4] Neil Tauber and brothers Robert and Arthur Antin. [3] [5] The name is an abbreviation of Veterinary Centers of America, though VCA no longer uses this full name. VCA acquired its first veterinary clinic, West Los Angeles Veterinary Hospital, in 1987. [4]
The center began in 1906 when Ellin Prince Speyer founded the "Women's Auxiliary to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals". The first major activity organized was the Work Horse Parade held on Memorial Day in 1907 in New York City.
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An animal control officer (then known as a dog-catcher) restraining a stray cat in a net. An animal control service or animal control agency is an entity charged with responding to requests for help with animals , including wild animals , dangerous animals, and animals in distress.
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Norfolk holds a strategic position as the historical, urban, financial, and cultural center of the Hampton Roads region (sometimes called "Tidewater"), which has more than 1.8 million inhabitants and is the 37th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with ten cities. [5] Norfolk was incorporated as a town in 1682, borough in 1736 and city in ...