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DOGS $78.50
CATS $50.50
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BE IN THE KNOW: DOG RESCUE HAMPERS PROSECUTION
NEWS RELEASE
City of Los Angeles ı Department of Animal Services
221 N. Figueroa Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, California 90012 / www.LAAnimalServices.com
For Immediate Release Contact: Brenda F. Barnette, General Manger
September 1, 2010 Email: Brenda.barnette@lacity.org
Phone: (213) 482-9558
DOG RESCUE HAMPERS PROSECUTION
Los Angeles – On August 27, 2010, many people in the community watched the news as Los Angeles Animal Control Officers and Los Angeles Police Department Officers went to a residence in South Los Angeles where neighbors reported that two dogs were abandoned at a residence. The neighbors had been providing the dogs with food and water.
LA Animal Control Officers responded to the location to investigate the allegations. They observed one dog in the garage and one dog in the house and found them to be in fair condition. Officers provided them food and water and left a notice on the door stating the dogs would be impounded in 24 hours.
A Good Samaritan, Hans, heard of the incident and arrived on the scene to help the dogs. He went past the officers and entered the house and came out carrying one dog. “While Animal Services has a protocol for responding to these situations, I understand why people like Hans are motivated to help. People are tired of animals suffering at the hands of the people who abandon them” said Brenda Barnette, Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager.
In this situation, the dogs were safe and the interference in this case compromised the ability to prosecute the guilty person(s). The attention to the incident also resulted in another Good Samaritan breaking in and taking the second dog later that night.
The L.A. Animal Services Department is committed to protecting the people and animals in our community and to following protocols that will result in collecting evidence that will lead to prosecution of people who abuse or abandon animals.
If you want to get involved, the L.A. Animal Services Department will begin a training program for Reserve Animal Control Officers (RACO) in November. These volunteers will receive the same training as animal control officers receive and have the same authority. The program requires a one-year commitment to volunteer 16 hours per month as a RACO, following a six month training course.
ACTIVATE: 61st DOGS OUTREACH FOR SENIOR DOG IN HARBOR SHELTER
This DOG’s ID#: A1119486
I am a spayed female, brown and white American Staffordshire Terrier mix.
The shelter thinks I am about 8 years old.
I weigh approximately 55 pounds.
I have been at the shelter since May 29, 2010.
Adoption fees include spay/neuter surgery, all animals will be sterilized prior to release.
For more information about this animal, call:
Harbor Animal Care and Control Center at (888) 452-7381
957 N. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Ask for information about animal ID number A1119486
NOTE FROM LORI WEISE – Downtown Dog Rescue:
Please cross post this older female English Bull dog -Staff TerrierX. She was one of 21 dogs that came into to LA Animal Services as Evidence Dogs. When she was taken by the animal cruelty task force, she was badly injured, her body covered in bite wounds, presumably from being attacked by the other dogs. The owner signed her and the rest of the dogs in this pending case over to the Dept of Animal Services. Now they are all up for adoption. The other 20 dogs are being held at North East shelter. I met this dog on several occasions (before the owner was arrested) and she is social with people and other dogs.
Here is a link to the CBS report about the arrest:
I will personally donate $250 to any qualified rescue that saves this old girl. Join the Facebook group
“61st Dogs” to help network the dogs from this caseBE IN THE KNOW: Los Angeles picks new Animal Services Chief
Brenda Barnette, left, Melanie Ramsayer, L.A. Animal Services commissioner, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hold three puppies that are being adopted by Much Love Animal Rescue and will be available to the public in the next 10 days. Barnette is the mayor’s choice to head the L.A. Department of Animal Services. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times / June 17, 2010)
L.A. mayor picks new animal services chief
The City Council must approve the selection of Brenda Barnette for the embattled department.
By Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times
June 18, 2010
Brenda Barnette, chief executive of the Seattle Humane Society, has been chosen to lead Los Angeles’ Department of Animal Services, which has had no permanent head for a year.
To a background chorus of dogs barking from their kennel runs at the North Central shelter, the newly appointed general manager, in her first public appearance, promised to meet with animal welfare advocates, rescuers and community leaders before laying out plans for increasing adoptions and decreasing euthanasia.
“It would be really arrogant for me to tell you this is what we have to do. I have to talk to the stakeholders and see what we can do together,” she said.
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Barnette, who was introduced at the news conference by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, inherits one of the most difficult stewardships in city government. Provided that she is confirmed by the City Council — which is expected to hold hearings next month — she will run a municipal animal shelter system teeming with cast-off pets and strays while dealing with vocal animal welfare advocates insisting on more adoptions and fewer killings.
Her embattled predecessor, Ed Boks, stepped down from the post a year ago amid criticism on all fronts.
To introduce his new department head, the mayor put on a full court press, with appearances by dog whisperer Cesar Millan (who was part of an informal group that brainstormed with the mayor about the position); City Councilman Paul Koretz, who also advised the mayor; and several of the city’s Animal Services commissioners.
As the group toured the shelter, the mayor and his new general manager stooped to pet furry heads and lament one dog’s fly-bitten ears.
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