LA Animal Watch

. Finally, maybe this action by Animal Commissioner Atake will force the Mayor to really take a close look at Boks and LAAS. August 31, 2007...

. For the past few months there have been 1100 dogs, 1000+ cats and 1100 others in the shelters almost all the time. For the past few weeks...

. I had stated that LA County was less transparent than most shelter systems, including LAAS . Brad Jensen opined that County’s figures were...

. As you know, Boks is being sued by the author of my sister blog, LA Animal Lover. She filed a lawsuit against him and he may recently hav...

. Got this today from Yaroslavsky . Maybe when I get Mayeda's response and my rebuttal, I can send it to Ed Boks for his review and co...

. Rick Orlov Daily News: Even more telling, perhaps, is the number of workers who have left Boks' department. The department has 69 vaca...

Death in the shelter doubles under Boks . Interesting statistics for those who are interested or who can understand them. During the past th...

. ABC pulled the story about Boks' national honors as relayed by the Mayor. Robin Kramer and Jim Blackman make the Mayor look like an id...

. For those of you who want to check my numbers, the following are the official and unofficial sources by URL. Notice that you can get nothi...

. Which hospital would you rather go to, one where 90% leave alive, or one where only 60% leave alive? Same with prison; which would you rat...

. Mike Bell, little devil he is, passed on my email where I challenged Boks' claim that LAAS was the largest adoption agency in the coun...

. August 21, 2007 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on the steps of City Hall that Los Angeles Animal Services was the number one and lar...

. O.k. here are the numbers for Boks claim to be the largest adoption agency in the US.. This is for LA Animal Services for FISCAL 2006-07, ...

Boks lies to the Mayor, the Mayor lies to a reporter, and the reporter repeats the lie, representing it as fact. AND, KABC wants to copyrigh...

. Boks has set out Clifton Merritt’s statistical analysis of shelter killing in the US. Merritt is an anti-disciple of No-Kill who has argu...

. Since everything in cat food seems to be a poison unless you make it yourself, I looked for a good site for guidance. I found several, but...

. Remember good the old days when cat food had chicken, beef, and turkey, and there was no "With gravy?" Remember too when kidney ...

. I have known Mary Cummins for about 18 months now. We met a total of four or five times, once at Boks office planning how to best suppor...

. This is a comment received from my last post, expressing my sentiments exactly: Any veterinarian in the world will tell you Dr. Eric Jones...

. Pia, Tia and Eric Jones. What do they have in common? All had fat, cushy contracts brokered by Boks , two of them operational even before ...

. The July numbers for LAAS are in—Except for neonate kittens, where even the June numbers are not up yet. An analysis for the July numbers...

. Monday Ed will present a progress report on the Eric Jones operation at SLA. Supposedly he performed 600 spay/neuters in May-June. That...

. An anonymous email was forwarded to me as follows. It was not very well written so I abstracted the essence. The full email is below my su...

. As you are now aware, the other pro- Boks blogger is Mary Cummins . Both she and I defended Boks against all critics and were given insi...

. The 6 parolees have been fired. Personnel decided Boks didn't have the authority to hire them. Too bad, too bad. I think it is a good...

. Email fromMadeleine Fisher-Kern Councilman Weiss: As my councilman, I would like to put before you an issue that has been a problem for ma...