VERY IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ – REGARDING NORTH CENTRAL SHELTER – LOS ANGELES, CA

Forward to ADL-LA from source(s) who want to remain anonymous.

“I’m writing you about the massacres that are happening at the North Central shelter on Lacy St. On Saturday there were at least 50 empty kennels, and the employees were told that the staff can’t care for all the animals (which is B.S.) So in anticipation of budget cuts and closing “shelters,” Davis and Barth are telling us that animals have to be put down. You should see what a ghost-town shelter looks like; ‘it looks post-nuclear.’ The latest killing spree took out around 25 puppies and 40 small dogs. Yet, Davis keeps insisting that euths are down this year and only aggressive and irremediably ill animals are put down. What a liar she is. Some of the more sympathetic employees are very upset about this, but Davis and Barth are forcing the vet tech’s to put down animals even though we have lots of empty cages.

Animals are now being put down on a regular basis for “time and space,” despite empty kennels. And what’s really sad is that often on Saturdays and Sundays when people can get to the shelter to look for a pet, volunteers and the public witness many dogs being pulled from their kennel by an employee to go to their death mid-afternoon, not even affording them a few more hours in the day to be seen and have every chance to possibly get adopted. Can’t the staff at least wait until after the shelter closes?

Also, the “Love Plaques” the city shelters are offering to hang on dog kennels and cat cages for a $300 donation, do the donors know that those very kennels/cages may be only a short stay for hundreds of innocent animals who won’t make it out of the shelters alive?

And, lastly can you find out what the volunteer coordinator Jaren “do-nothing” Sorkow’s salary is? I’ve yet to meet one volunteer who can stand him, and the majority don’t even know who he is. Even staff at East Valley, where he has his office, say he does nothing all day. Think of how much advertising can be bought for what the city pays this jerk.”

Those who have given ADL-LA this info wish to remain anonymous, since they do care about the animals and fear they will either lose their jobs or their status and not be able to help the animals at all.

If as proposed under current budget cuts, one of the six shelters is in fact closed down, this is even MORE reason why we need a new GM ASAP that knows how to implement progressive, humane polices that will drastically cut the number of animals being killed and dramatically INCREASE the adoption rate; and implement creative advertising that will bring more people into the shelters to adopt.

*Jennifer Conrad, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, figured out that if just ONE PERCENT of the residents living in Los Angeles would ADOPT from LAAS instead of buying their pet(s) from a pet store or breeder, LAAS would be NO KILL! (By the way, Jennifer Conrad DVM was also one of the impressive candidates who was REJECTED after the first round of interviews for LAAS GM candidates !)

Your task this week is to call and e-mail the mayor of Los Angeles, and insist that he choose the most qualified of the candidates interviewed and SOON. mayor@lacity.org (213) 978-0600

There is a Holocaust going on in our city shelters and we need a new GM that can get in there and begin to implement proven, humane and progressive life-saving programs, policies and protocols.

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