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Glen Howell has been the Director of Oakland Animal Control since 1994. "Our goal has always been to reach out and work with everybody we can," Howell says. "One of the first things I did when I arrived was contact the Oakland SPCA to see how we could work together". Over the next six years, the Oakland SPCA took 1,500 to 2,000 animals per year from Animal Control and is currently altering all of the city shelter’s cats and dogs prior to adoption. "We trade back and forth", Howell says, "when they have space and I don’t, I give them some of my animals and vice versa." The no-kill Hopalong Animal Rescue is another major partner. "Hopalong has grown along with us," Howell says. "They started out as a small, all-volunteer grassroots organization and now they have two paid staff and dozens of volunteers. They take at least 1,000 animals from us each year, many of them kittens or hard luck cases, and get them all altered prior to placement. I have to say, collaboration is where the movement is going. Management is now more open to it and ultimately that’s the only way we’ll solve the pet overpopulation problem. The more groups collaborate, the more others will follow."
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