Frisco Pets Didn’t Make the Top Ten List

Frisco, TX – At this year’s recent Winter Work Session February 2022, Mayor Jeff Cheney’s definition of a pet-friendly community is clearly different than those of his residents in Frisco. He said, there is a group of people that would lead you to believe a city can’t be pet-friendly without a shelter. He believes otherwise and even challenged his city departments and his communications team to work on the city’s optics.

Restaurants that allow dogs, paws at the pool, and wiener dog races are not the same as city-sponsored low-cost vaccination programs, spay and neuter clinics, micro chipping events, a pet-education program, TNR, and yes, a rescue and adoption center. Brian Livingston for Frisco suggested developing an ad-hoc committee that will lead to an Animal Advisory Board. Shona Huffman, Frisco City Council fought for a more humane ordinance to prevent the sale of puppy mill animals in Frisco. Bill Woodard, Frisco City Councilman Place 4 does not support either and felt that Frisco’s better fences and social media/residents are a better means of reuniting pets than a local rescue center. John Keating was quiet again on both concerns. Angelia Pelham wanted to learn more. Dan Stricklin was absent from this discussion.

Those that follow us and are most active online and privately were waiting to hear and see the list. Please do share your thoughts about the list here or at FPPTeam@friscospetproject.org. Or, leave a reply below. We tagged the Mayor and Council on their Facebook pages for this same reason. By all means, we want them to tell us we misunderstood. And please, continue to share your thoughts with the City at https://www.friscotexas.gov/585/City-Council. While you are at it, please thank Council members Livingston and Huffman.