For four years, Kansas City Pet Project has overseen the city’s animal control services, and the results have been catastrophic for animal welfare. The system, once flawed but improving, has deteriorated into chaos, with more animals suffering from neglect, abuse and lack of enforcement. The defenders of this failing model lean on outdated audits, ignore expert recommendations and refuse to acknowledge the grim reality playing out in our city’s neighborhoods.
The truth is clear. Kansas City Pet Project has failed at its most fundamental responsibility: protecting the animals of this city.
KCPP and its supporters frequently cite a 2018 city audit to justify the nonprofit’s takeover of animal control. What they don’t tell you is that by the time KCPP assumed control in 2020, the city had already addressed nearly all the issues raised in that audit. The only remaining concern? That animal control and the city-run shelter should work together more efficiently…