PAWS AND EFFECT: Rotan’s Animal Control Crisis Continues as Solution Slips Through the Cracks

  • These two homeless K-9s have become familiar faces around local convenience stores in Rotan. The young female pictured here appears to have recently given birth to a litter somewhere in the neighborhood.
    These two homeless K-9s have become familiar faces around local convenience stores in Rotan. The young female pictured here appears to have recently given birth to a litter somewhere in the neighborhood.

    Although city and county officials have been discussing various solutions to the county’s animal control issues since January, conversations about initiating a countywide program have stalled with no solutions to address the growing animal population.

    In the county’s municipal areas, especially in the City of Rotan, officials have struggled with stray animal issues for years, particularly with risi…