Oakland Cat Town’s Ann Dunn To Be Oakland Animal Services Executive Director
ONN – Oakland Cat Town’s Ann Dunn To Be Oakland Animal Services Executive Director
Oakland – On Tuesday, Janaury 21 Cat Town will announce today that its founder and Executive Director, Ann Dunn, will leave to assume the helm of Oakland Animal Services (OAS) as its new Director, effective January 21, 2020 In her place, Cat Town has selected Andrew Dorman as its new Executive Director.
The announcement underscores the close and unique working relationship between Cat Town, the first of its kind animal rescue organization that finds homes for Oakland’s most vulnerable shelter cats, and OAS, the municipal shelter. This uncommon partnership has been instrumental to Cat Town’s success since Dunn, a former OAS volunteer, founded Cat Town in 2011. Together, the two organizations have worked to reduce the cat euthanasia rate at OAS from 42% in 2011 to less than 10% today.
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