LA Animal Watch

. I have been looking at various shelter stats cross the country. Not many publish their outcome statistics of impounds, adoptions or kills....

. By its inaction, Santa Monica is setting the stage for yet another round of squirrel killing in July. You may remember Lefty Ayers got pai...

. A simple question: Can anyone—anyone—tell me why LAAS impounds decreased by double digits between 2001 and 2004 (a total of 24%), then ess...

. Ed Boks placed a shot across the bow of generic no-kill movement gurus a, b, and c, which in my opinion refers to Nathan Winograd. Boks st...

I talked to Ed Boks yesterday. The future looks bright for LAAS, or so he says. He thinks we may have 120,000 spay/neuters by the end of the...

. In a recent post I suggested that the time of rapid improvement in save rates at LAAS is past and that new technology was needed to bring ...

. If we examine the shelter systems that actually publish statistics—and I am aware of only a few who do so on their websites—we can see tha...

. The 2006 LAAS statistics are in. I did a brief analysis. The most significant positive change was increased adoptions, overall 6.6%. This ...

. The ADL has adopted Guss' nonsensical criticism of Boks ' expression of his beliefs which they claim are are in violation of the ...

. Dan Guss's latest attack on Ed Boks is the mark of a moral barbarian. He states that Boks ' sermon-like post on compassion is a ...

. ADL is afoot again with its cesspool politics, now claiming Boks is having sexual liaisons with yet another set of rescue women who he wil...

. The blog wars may be at an end with the appointment of Debbie Knaan as Assistant General Manager of LAAS. Debbie, who has deep roots in bo...

. There is amazing news coming out of Winograd’s No Kill Advocates/Solutions. These are very partial statistics and I would want to see the ...

. Several people who read my last post were very concerned and said whomever sent the email hated cats and was dead wrong. May I remind you ...

. Vangordon et al may expect to hear from me again soon. I have taken down most of the posts about her on this blog, but they can go back up...

. There are two new websites dedicated to watching and reporting on public shelters in Southern California: www.sheltertrak.com and www.she...

. Below is one volunteer’s response to the ADL misinformation email about allegedly cancelled mobile adoptions. If any volunteer or employee...

. Can you imagine Stuckey or Greenwalt being able to put this event together? Imagine, partnerships with Amanda and Best Friends as well Dow...

. Yesterday’s ADL sent an email about purportedly cancelled pet adoptions. One of the email sources is named Mike. Which Mike would that be?...

. The new "Stop the Killing" bulletin is a classic example of the ADL propaganda machine trying to pass itself off as being credib...

. Below is an ADL email about LAAS impound, adopt, rescue and euthanize stats with a very biased opinion that they demonstrate Boks’ incompe...