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The last time I wrote about Kern’s animal overpopulation problem (back in June) I was frustrated. At that point, things had not improved despite more than two years of meetings by the Animal Control Commission and “urgent” edicts by the Board of Supervisors. We were still killing about 18,000 cats and dogs each year. In fact, our kill rates had gone up after a slight decrease. The commission was mired in arguments over a proposed county ordinance, a county-run, low-income spay/neuter program seemed permanently stalled and in August Supervisors again put off recommendations for more enforcement teams. Well, things still aren’t “great” by any stretch. But there has been progress and, however incremental, it should be celebrated. Yay. (That's me celebrating.) The commission recently OK’d, for the most part,  a draft ordinance to send to Supervisors, the low-income spay/neuter program is finally under way and Animal Control has...
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