LA Animal Watch

On February 5, I posted a chart of the horror of the Kern County shelters. They are now being sued by rescue individuals with evidence based...

. As everyone knows, I was an enthusiastic supporter of Ed Boks last year. However, by June the LAAS kill and save numbers started to go sou...

. As George Orwell’s pig in Animal Farm stated, some animals are more equal than others. Cats get the shaft at LAAS. They are held a shorter...

. The numbers below are for total intake, Oct 1, 2005 to Oct. 1, 2006 (healthy, injured, sick, unweaned) cats and dogs and their disposition...

. 18 cats “rescued”and 14 are killed? According to a press release today, on October 4, 2006, LAAS impounded 18 cats from a “hoarder.” All w...

. Truly horrifying euthanasia statistics from the LA County shelters. For 2005, cat kill rate 79% and dog kill rate of 46%. That year, 46,57...

. I had a long talk today with Patty Adjamine, a rescuer in New York who knows Boks well. She said NYACC improved a lot while he was there, ...

. Boks hase not had a post on his blog in 20 days. Over six weeks have passed since January 1, and there is no GM report. The LAAS website h...

. Dogs are held much longer in the shelters than cats leading to their much higher live release rates. If you look at the animals on hand in...

. ANIMAL SHELTER: Lied ending its 'low-kill' policy; after 72 hours, animals will be euthanized . Lied Animal Shelter officials said...

. Several emails were sent to me regarding the Rancho Cucamona shelter. Operations were taken over by the city from county supplied servic...

. Ed Boks is transforming the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services, or so I am told, to be more efficient, responsive and caring. Th...

Gopi . April 1994--------------------------------January 29, 2007 . This little girl was my life. She died in surgery from intestinal cance...

. Boks investigated the use of immuno -contraceptives when running the NYC shelters, but abandoned the approach when advised that the produ...

. The article below refers to the work of Julie Levy whom Winograd opined was doing the state of the art research in cat contraceptives. He ...

. Status of Current Approaches ACC&D Press Releases Media Coverage of ACC&D and Non-Surgical Contraception Publications · ...

. 160 people, among them animal shelter and humane society members, veterinarians, technicians and cat rescuers from around the United State...

(This is in a response to an email I sent to Nathan re applyig for Michelson's Found Animal Friends CEO position.) Hi Ed, I did not appl...

. A few weeks ago I suggested it was time for new thinking regarding saving animal lives through the use of contraceptive drugs or non-surgi...

How are these stats for Kern County AC&C? 81% euthanasia rate for cats. 7% adopted, 3.5% tp rescue groups. From: www.sheltertrack.com

. I am very, very sorry to have to publish this post. The numbers show LAAS has failed to cut euthanasia rates during 2006 when they had bee...

I keep harping on the idea that we need to understand cat and dog population dynamics and social behaviors before we break through the 55% l...

. During the past year I have never said one word about ALF. I have strongly opposed the ADL attacks on Boks and LAAS during the past year. ...

. 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...