Unbelievable Numbers of Cats Killed Their First Day in LAAS Shelters: 5,258!

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These are the unbelievable first-day cat kill statistics supplied by LAAS as a response to a citizen's Request for (public) Records. As you now know, the Hayden Act requires a hold period of four days AND the day of impoundment before it starts killing cats, dogs or other animals such as rabbits or wildlife. The only exemptions are animals that come in injured to the extent they are not treatable. Even feral cats are given three days after impounding to see if the are feral or just frightened. Sick cats must be treated first, and held long enough to determine how ill they are before killing.

I have obtained a further breakdown of the DAY ONE Kill:

HEALTHY CATS euthanized on the DAY OF IMPOUND by age group. This is just for the first 9 months of 2006.
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100 (0-4 wks)
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47 (5-8 wks)
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21 (9-16 wks)
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77 (over 16 wks)
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272 (no age documented)
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517 TOTAL Healthy Cats Killed on the first day of impound during just the first 9 months of 2006.
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E Valley, North Central & South LA shelters were responsible for about 86% of these cats being euthanized.
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In addition, an enormous number of cats, not labeled as apparently healthy were killed on their first day.
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2,990 unweaned cats
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1,145 sick cats
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100 cats from litters
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506 injured cats
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To show you the how shoddy the department’s statistics are, also in violation of the Hayden Act, 5 cats were supposedly euthanized because they were dead!

Total Cats Killed on Their first day in just the first 9 months of 2006: 5,258!

As I stated in a previous post, more cats are killed than dogs, they are killed faster than dogs, and are held for a shorter length of time.

Boks, after my post that he was failing to respond to my questions of why 517 apparently healthy cats and 180 healthy dogs were killed on Day One of impoundment, and another 300 over days 2, 3, and 4, in violation of the Hayden Act, said we were not given the total statistics and the department is looking for the more “refined” numbers.

However, when I sent this email to the expert who received and analyzed the statistics involved, he replied to Boks and CC'd to me that he had repeatedly asked Boks for ALL of the raw statistics 5 different times and was never acknowledged by Boks.
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