Barking up the right tree: Local animal rescuers praise nominee for MAS head
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Topic: Memphis Animal Services
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June 2025
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City names new director for Memphis Animal Services
The city also plans on appointing a deputy director of animal services. The city fired former MAS director Ty Coleman last year.
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April 2025
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New MAS board members hope their experience can help animal shelter
City officials have appointed four new members to the newly reconstituted Memphis Animal Services advisory board, with more likely to follow. Now comes the hard work: improving the shelter and saving more animals.
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City Council takes another crack at ‘party houses’
Council Chair Ford Canale and Council member Philip Spinosa are working on a proposal they hope will not draw the attention of Airbnb lobbyists in Nashville who undid some of the regulations council members put in place in 2016.
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March 2025
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City animal shelter to remain closed to public indefinitely
MAS to remain closed to the public indefinitely as distemper outbreak still hasn’t been controlled.
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MAS euthanizes another 104 dogs after second distemper outbreak
Memphis Animal Services staff have euthanized more than 200 dogs so far this year in attempts to control a distemper outbreak that has plagued the shelter since January.
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Distemper outbreak again closes Memphis Animal Services facility
For the second time in less than two months, Memphis Animal Services is shutting down its shelter after a distemper outbreak this week has led to the euthanasia of several more dogs.
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February 2025
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Memphis Animal Services interim director lobbies for new shelter
MAS Interim Director Mary Claire Borys said the outbreak might never have happened if not for the inadequacies at the city’s nearly 14-year-old animal shelter in Northeast Memphis.
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January 2025
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Fighting distemper outbreak, MAS to remain closed for dog intake
Memphis Animal Services officials are trying to stem distemper outbreak that has led to at least 100 euthanizations already. The shelter will likely remain closed for dog intake through the end of next week.
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Memphis Animal Services euthanizes nearly 100 dogs
A distemper outbreak at Memphis Animal Services has shut down the facility temporarily. Mayor Paul Young sent a letter to concerned citizens, outlining the situation and asking that people refrain from attacking the staff.
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December 2024
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What does it take to be the next Memphis Animal Services director?
After the firing of Memphis Animal Services Director Ty Coleman, Memphians in the local animal community have differing thoughts on what attributes the next director should have.
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Memphis Animal Services director removed, city officials confirm
MAS Director Ty Coleman is out, city officials say, bringing an end to his tumultuous 14-month tenure as head of the city’s animal shelter.
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October 2024
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MAS director fired from previous job for alleged misconduct, lying
According to his personnel file, Ty Coleman was fired from a Texas animal shelter for inappropriate behavior, including “sexual acts occurring at the work-site.” Although suspended, he still receives his Memphis Animal Services pay of $120,000.
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MAS director still on city payroll amid investigations
Memphis Animal Services director Ty Coleman was first suspended in June.
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July 2024
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Report on Memphis Animal Services notes lack of leadership
The Best Friends Animal Society report comes on the heels of city interim COO telling Memphis City Council that MAS Director Ty Coleman, who was placed on leave, is facing “serious allegations.”
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Mayor Young appoints interim leader of Memphis Animal Services
Memphis Mayor Paul Young made the appointment announcement at a Thursday night meeting of his administration with more than 35 animal advocates from across the area.
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Story of Winston the golden retriever highlights Animal Services’ issues
One Memphis couple adopting a dog from Memphis Animal Services couldn’t take him home at first because the facility didn’t have the staff to sign off on the pet’s microchipping.
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June 2024
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Memphis Animal Services director placed on leave
City spokesperson Arlenia Cole confirmed that Ty Coleman, who was previously fired from an animal shelter in Texas, has been placed on administrative leave after the death of a dog left outside in the heat.
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May 2023
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90 chickens find safe place to roost at MAS
Birds rescued from a suspected chicken fighting operation are putting a strain on Memphis Animal Services’ already overfilled capacity.
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February 2023
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Memphis Animal Services debuts play yards with stadium AstroTurf
Dogs will romp on the same Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium turf that University of Memphis football players put blood, sweat and tears on, Coach Ryan Silverfield said.
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The one that ‘goat’ away: Motorists spot mystery animal from I-40
Memphis drivers have been encountering a different type of horn while driving on the interstate recently. -
City Council to focus on Tyre Nichols incident during three-hour discussion
The unusually long committee discussion comes with six ordinance proposals that would reform police policies and begins with what are expected to be lots of questions for Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis.
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January 2023
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Animal lovers hopeful about proposed changes to city ordinances
Amendments to animal welfare laws could include mandatory microchipping for pets, and modification to policies about dogs “running at large,” which animal welfare organizations see as key to stopping overpopulation and neglect.
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Warmer than 32 or cooler than 95: New rules proposed for horse-drawn carriages
The council approved the changes in the first of three votes on the ordinance Tuesday, Jan. 10. The changes are part of a larger group of animal ordinance amendments.
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December 2022
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Klondike, Sheraton projects top year’s last City Council agenda
The Memphis City Council session involves Klondike and Sheraton tax votes, as well as a look at the Dream Hotel next to Peabody Place and the city’s animal ordinance.
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