tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post2758672397170595344..comments2024-03-16T04:40:25.964-07:00Comments on LA Animal Watch: A Viewer's Reaction to the Mason VideoEd Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-71835425593931143742007-12-17T12:26:00.000-08:002007-12-17T12:26:00.000-08:00Poster one, they were not patting themselves on th...Poster one, they were not patting themselves on the back for the Mason raid but the raid on the elderly woman. Boks got up there and said "we provide hoarders with the mental health care that they need. We treat them first and only when all else fails do we prosecute." The city never offered Mason helped even when he asked for help. Instead of help they arrested him and made him give a tour of his house while he was in handcuffs. If they think he had a mental illness, why did they allow him to let the city video team in there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-20411437654956864162007-12-15T10:33:00.000-08:002007-12-15T10:33:00.000-08:00LA To Consider Database On Animal HoardersPOSTED: ...LA To Consider Database On Animal Hoarders<BR/><BR/>POSTED: 1:21 pm PST December 14, 2007<BR/>UPDATED: 1:42 pm PST December 14, 2007<BR/><BR/>LOS ANGELES -- A database that would allow animal control officers to monitor the progress of so-called animal hoarders was proposed Friday by a city councilman, who said there is a 100 percent recidivism rate among hoarders who do not receive mental counseling.<BR/>The Hoarding Evaluation Aid Response Tracking System -- HEARTS -- would be operated by the Los Angeles Animal Services Department, said Councilman Tony Cardenas, who introduced a motion to create the database. The councilman also called for a staff psychologist to be placed in the department to help follow up on the mental care of hoarders.<BR/>"These people who hoard animals have a mental condition and they deserve, and we deserve, to get the health care they need," Cardenas said.<BR/><BR/>"If we go into a home ... and find say two dozen animals, and we rectify that situation for the moment, and if this mental health condition persists with this person, later on when we go to that home, they will have easily twice as many animals in the condition that we found them before."<BR/>Lt. Tony Lomedico with the Los Angeles Police Department's Animal Cruelty Task Force said both people and animals suffer in cases of hoarding.<BR/>"You just have to be there to understand what's in these locations," Lomedico said.<BR/>"Once you've been there, and been around the smells and the life that goes on there you never forget it. From the basement to the attic, there's filth, fecal matter, urine and trash, coupled with a smell that's horrendous and unforgettable."<BR/>Since its formation two years ago, the Animal Cruelty Task Force has investigated 400 cases of animal abuse, and has broken up 35 cockfighting and 15 dogfighting rings.<BR/>"Whether it's animal neglect like hoarding or animal cruelty like dogfighting, we are obliged to be role models to our children and teach them this is not tolerable," said Ed Boks, general manager of Animal Services. "HEARTS is another tool that allows us to go beyond protecting our animals and allows us to realize a broader mission of community ambassadors and educators."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-80883676974704393352007-12-14T15:39:00.000-08:002007-12-14T15:39:00.000-08:00This morning in City Council they were patting eac...This morning in City Council they were patting each other on the back for raiding Mason the evil hoarder. They said it was so bad that they made a motion to keep a record of hoarders just like convicted sexual predators. City Council had no idea it was a bogus raid. They said they must help hoarders get the counseling they need. They didn't offer Mason any help or counseling or anything. We lived in a messed up cityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com