LA Animal Watch

. Boks announces another successful month for LAAS: July 07 adoptions are up 21% (1,614) from July 06 (1,329). An additional 478 dogs and c...

. New stats in from Philadelphia show the live release rate for cats and dogs has fallen to about 57% for the second quarter from 66% in the...

. Preliminary statistics for the Reno shelter system are in. This includes the County shelter, and the Nevada Humane Society shelter. The s...

. A little premature, but hey, why not? Have you asked around other shelter directors for suggested successors like I have? When I have aske...

. One of Boks' memorable sayings is, "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission." Unfortunately for Ed, Council ...

. So many people smell so many rats in anything related to Ed Boks and LAAS , that because the department allegedly has received an excessi...

. Without mentioning Boks’ name, Winograd accuses the Maricopa Shelter Director from 1998—2003 (Boks) of being a fraud. Nathan from Best Fri...

. I have posted several claims by former NYCACC employees that Ed Boks, at some point, made a policy decision to exclude owner requested eu...

. I talked to one of my friends who works at one of the shelters. She says things have improved dramatically under Boks . Far fewer animals ...

. Remember, Jone is not just getting a $320,000 a year contract amount, he is also getting fees from the City for spay/neuters performed for...

. Just for your info, a lot of people have been contacting me about the Jones contract. They wanted to know where I got my info on the $1.6,...

. Two years ago according to LAAS stats, for May and June the number of neonatal puppies and kittens impounded was 2220. This year it was 15...

. Comment on my Jones post below: The City can't even hire vets for the shelters. How could they possibly recruit spayneuter vets? I be...

. Many of you have grown cynical about "No Kill." But what Ed has done here, in NYC and in Maricopa is a perversion of no-kill. B...

. No one seems to care about Jones sweetheart deal with LAAS. Almost no comments. Finally I got one from a former animal shelter director: E...

. I have two Naysayers who make regular “contributions” to this blog. One sends me every negative article about any Winograd-related shelter...

. Boks and Bickhart are continuing to say about critics as they did last year: ADL and other critics are killing the animals through thei...

. Boks failure to do his job of impounding and placing unweaned cats and dogs is paying off in terms of fewer animals killed. Of course, t...

. A comment that came in: The city already allocated those funds. If they don't use them for spay neuter , they go back to the general c...

. An insider comment was left below: Boks said he'd get the clinics up and running. Turns out the spay neuter clinics in the new shelt...

. Boks said he'd get the spay/neuter clinics up and running. He didn't say that it would be of little or no benefit to the City, an...

. Here is a rip off you seldom see. There was a motion before Council this past Friday to authorize a contract to Eric Jones DVM to pay him ...

. No one has explained to me how the $1.6 million dollar, five year contract to Eric Jones, DVM to start a spay/neuter clinic on City proper...

. In comments below, a critic opined that there was a 1/3 return rates on 2 for 1 sales of cats. The critic said this was hearsay from a vol...

. As below, one says in her experience, many seniors cannot take care of their cats and some develop horrendous medical conditions. Another ...

. Everyone is roundly criticizing Boks , mostly because he exaggerates , lies, doesn't keep promises, always proclaims himself faultles...

. There are two comments below criticizing the seniors for seniors program. I disagree with their criticisms. They only address negative wh...

. A second hearing of a plan to increase adoption of pets will be heard this Friday before Council. Generally second hearings do not allow p...

. I mentioned Ed's frequent "clarifications" and the most recent, which contradicts what the shelter sign says, not because I ...

. Remember when Boks told the Daily News writer Brandon Lowery he never intended to enforce a rule that would have sharply limited the hours...

. Philadelphia, the fifth largest city and city (vs. County) shelter system in the country, is looking for what is equivalent to the operati...

. In February I posted that LAAS may have violated the Hayden Act by killing 1,155 healthy animals within the first four days of holding, wh...

. In order to get his kill numbers down I predict Boks will soon subtract medical euthanasia from all euthanasia as a new categry. This woul...