tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post3060197286427159393..comments2024-03-16T04:40:25.964-07:00Comments on LA Animal Watch: Ed, where are we Going?Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-36429736485348810292007-02-14T10:29:00.000-08:002007-02-14T10:29:00.000-08:00I didn't write the post about cat licensing but I ...I didn't write the post about cat licensing but I think there would be associated spayneuter just like with dogs. Sterilized cats would be cheaper to license. That's the only way licensing can reduce populations.<BR/><BR/>I would think that feral cats would in essence be treated like unlicensed stray dogs. They could be taken in to the shelter. Or the colony guardian could license the cats with collar and tags. All my cats are sterilized so I wouldn't have a problem. I think it would be problematic for ferals unless there were some great colony guardians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-41591598688212034602007-02-14T10:22:00.000-08:002007-02-14T10:22:00.000-08:00I am not sure I understand the argument. Are you s...I am not sure I understand the argument. Are you saying spay neuter does not work until there is licensing? If this is the case, can't we deduce that spay neuter does not work and the real cause is licensing?<BR/><BR/>I would like to have it explained why licensing would decrease cat impounds unless there were a spay/neuter requirement attached to the licensing.<BR/><BR/>What about feral cats? They are not licensed and are not feral cats a big part of the impond equation?<BR/><BR/>"Cats are the problem with their impound numbers continuing to rise every year. Spay/neuter is getting to the dogs but not the cats. Why is that? A lot of it has to do with the fact that dogs are licensed and cats are not."Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-65469050400024428962007-02-14T10:14:00.000-08:002007-02-14T10:14:00.000-08:00Interesting that Boks says you have to take respon...Interesting that Boks says you have to take responsibility then blames the city for the failure of his programs. Were not his programs his, and at least part of their falure his fault?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-40258547759832668912007-02-13T17:54:00.000-08:002007-02-13T17:54:00.000-08:00You asked if the impounds can go down with spay/ne...You asked if the impounds can go down with spay/neuter. In San Bernardino County, since the inception of their spay/neuter program, their dog impounds have gone down 50% in five years. They have managed to keep the cats at a 15% growth over those five years and considering the people growth the county experienced this is even more remarkable. But cats are the problem with their impound numbers continuing to rise every year. Spay/neuter is getting to the dogs but not the cats. Why is that? A lot of it has to do with the fact that dogs are licensed and cats are not. Cat impounds have gone down since Lake Elsnore started their cat licensing. They learned how it worked when the city council stopped canvassing for cat licenses for a year or so and the numbers shot right back up. As soon as they started canvassing again for cat licenses, the impounds for cats started dropping. I know this is not what people want to hear, the public has always hated the idea of licensing cats. But if it can save lives, why can't it be considered? There was no run to dump cats at shelters because of licensing in Elsnore and that has been the number one excuse used to stop licensing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-58996673447267449832007-02-13T14:59:00.000-08:002007-02-13T14:59:00.000-08:00I just saw this. Boks didn't meet his goals in NY....I just saw this. Boks didn't meet his goals in NY. Why do you think he will meet them here? We're supposed to be noKill by 2008 too. <BR/><BR/>New York magazine<BR/>The Doggie-Doom Disparity<BR/>An animal-euthanasia-free NYC is further off than promised. Let the growling begin.<BR/>By Arianne Cohen<BR/>The mayor’s alliance for NYC’s Animals, a pet project of Mayor Bloomberg’s, is an umbrella group of rescue organizations created in December 2002 with the stated goal of “No Kill 2008”: eliminating euthanasia of healthy animals in the city by next year. It’s not going to happen. The city killed 17,966 animals in 2006 and is not on track to be anywhere near zero in ’08. Now there’s backtracking on the 2008 agenda, which was trumpeted in a press release when the alliance was created. “That was never a policy of the mayor,” says Bloomberg spokesman Jason Post. “The story of euthanasia in the Bloomberg administration is a happy one. Euthanasia is down 37 percent since 2003.” Ed Sayres, the president of the ASPCA, the alliance’s primary spay/neuter organization, says, “Our timeline is 2010.” Jane Hoffman, the president of the Mayor’s Alliance, says, “The goal really has been 2015. We have never used 2008 as a start date.” (On the alliance’s Website, Hoffman stated otherwise: “In December 2002, City Hall and the Mayor’s Alliance signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding. The goal is to create a no-kill city by the year 2008.”)<BR/><BR/>So what happened? Animal workers unanimously point to former Animal Care and Control director Ed Boks, who served from 2003 to ’05. One alliance member snipes, “Boks’s programs had catchy names, but they had no substance and weren’t sustainable.” Boks is remembered for his attempt to address the overwhelming number of pit bulls (over 6,000 per year) coming into ACC by renaming the breed “New Yorkies”—much to the ire of Yorkshire-terrier owners. “It’s unfortunate that in the animal-welfare arena, it’s so easy to throw stones rather than take responsibility,” says Boks. “The problem isn’t that the programs failed but that the city failed the programs.” The city declined to renew Boks’s 2006 contract. Boks’s replacement, the well-liked Mary Martin, won’t be solving things either—she’ll be resigning in March. “New York City is a tough place to work,” says Hoffman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-80087109050492628232007-02-13T13:22:00.000-08:002007-02-13T13:22:00.000-08:00I was lucky to have someone like Gopi--very lucky....I was lucky to have someone like Gopi--very lucky. She was far, far more to me than my lap cat. We were inseparable.Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-87142021147578285532007-02-13T13:11:00.000-08:002007-02-13T13:11:00.000-08:00I certainly look forward to some response from Mr....I certainly look forward to some response from Mr. Boks this. There was a lot of hoopla for the "no kill" weekend--BUT do they normally kill animals on the weekend, anyway? I trust not.Jeff de la Rosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889029614977747240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-6718664923123886032007-02-13T11:56:00.000-08:002007-02-13T11:56:00.000-08:00Good questions, Muzika. I'm a lot more interested ...Good questions, Muzika. I'm a lot more interested in why the euthanasia rate did not go down than in the small increase in dog adoptions. We need to know what happened. What went wrong, what went right. What is he going to do to get LA to noKill. He needs to make some major changes because there was no improvement in 2006.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to hear about your cat. Your cat was obviously very lucky to have someone as caring and loving as you for her guardian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com