Don't forget, today, from 3-4 CST Kansas City, MO Mayor Mark Funkhouser will be on Paw Prints Radio discussing a variety of pet-related topics in the city.
You can listen live on KCTO 1160 AM -- or you can listen on their website.
They are also taking live call-ins - so this is a great opportunity to express your opinions and concerns aout different pet-related issues going on in the city.
Possible topics:
- The city funded, privately run animal shelter with Half Way Home Adoption running the show now.
- Weekly Animal Control Sweeps searching for unlicensed pets
- Kansas City's Mandatory Spay/Neuter of pit bulls law that has been leading to the killing of hundreds of animals per year.
- KCMO AC's quota system requiring animal control officers to impound a minimum number of animals each month.
- Why a city continues to ignore constituents when it comes to building dog parks.
More ideas (and more details on these) can be found here.
Join the conversation -- politics is not a spectator sport.
I tried to listen, but turned it on a few minutes early and got treated to some crazy right wing talk, so I changed the station and when I returned after 3:00 the quality of the sound was so poor and I couldn't quite understand how what they were talking about related to pet issues, so I gave up :( As an NPR junkie I guess it's just hard to switch to AM.
Posted by: Alana | July 27, 2010 at 07:27 AM
Funny, I don't hear much about animal welfare on the NPR stations in my town. That sort of thing is usually on the AM talk radio stations. As for sound quality, ever try to actually listen to Dianne Rehm? Whether referencing content or delivery, that's right up there with Sean Hannity.
Posted by: Ted | July 27, 2010 at 05:28 PM
Yes Alana, the mayor was late to the studio (he got lost en route) and so he didn't come on until about 15-20 minutes into the program. The first part of the program was then used to call a guy that is apparently walking across country with his dog to raise awareness for something -- and he was talking on a cell phone from eastern Colorado and it was pretty poor sound quality. It was a lot better once the mayor came on.
Posted by: Brent | July 27, 2010 at 05:36 PM