Rochester Has Spoken. Is Mayor Malik Evans Listening?
Locals turned out this week to demand changes at Rochester Animal Services after years of neglect.
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It’s October 25, 2024. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, the people of Rochester spoke.
On Tuesday, weeks after a whistleblower video revealed dogs living in their own waste at Rochester Animal Services, locals staged a rally outside City Hall to demand improvements for animals at the city-operated kill pound.
The people turned out. As did the press.
“The person who released the video was brave enough to do it to show the point is, it was nothing against the people who worked there, but to show that, like, that day was a Monday, they had at least 60 dogs in different kennels, two people cleaning,” Voiceless of Verona Street co-founder Maggie Cain told
