Although fosters are way up during the coronavirus crisis, L.A. Animal Services officials worry that growing financial hardships will force more people to surrender their pets at city shelters.
We’ll bring you the latest news, our best stories and what they mean for you — plus answer your burning COVID-19 questions.The pandemic threatens to roll back progress at the city’s Animal Services Department, which has brought down the euthanasia rates of its shelter animals over the last decade. In 2012, about 18,000 cats and dogs were euthanized. By 2016, the number had dropped to 3,236, an 82% reduction. Last year, 4,886 cats and dogs were euthanized at city shelters, according to city data.
Christine Gamez returns Tyson, a fostered pit bull mix, to the Chesterfield Square animal shelter. Surrendering the dog was emotional for Gamez, who said her neighbors had complained about his barking and crying.Animal shelters across the county are facing “an immense amount of stress” because of COVID-19, said Matt Bershadker, chief executive of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The shelter closures and appointment-only hours at the facilities alarm Lisa Lange, senior vice president at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The city’s shelters “need to be seen as the essential service that they are,” Lange said.PETA sent a letter last month to Mayor Eric Garcetti saying it had received complaints that the city was turning away animals, including sick and injured ones, at its shelters. In one instance, a staff member at the West L.A.
Barnette called the drop in funding for sterilization concerning. The department is also asking that some types of Animal Services workers be exempted from the furloughs.
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