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The Death of a Pet Does Not End their Love
He sleeps most of the time as he approaches his 14th birthday, according to the record of the Los Angeles County Animal Care Center, where I could not leave him behind after a 2008 animal shelter adoption event where we fell in love.
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Remembering LA on Fire -- Evacuating Pets with Two LAAS City Shelters Closed
ANIMAL WATCH-As California wildfires rage near Los Angeles borders, reviving vivid memories of LA's 2017 "largest fire in history" declared…
Volunteer Sues LA Animal Services for Negligence After Another Brutal Dog Attack at City Animal Shelter
ANIMAL WATCH-On September 10, a lawsuit was filed in LA Superior Court by former Los Angeles Animal Services volunteer Kelly Kaneko, who wa…
LAAS GM Barnette's Post-Covid Plan Features Pit Bulls, Fundraising, Ignores Public Safety
ANIMAL WATCH--General Manager Brenda Barnette has unveiled her latest plan for Los Angeles Animal Services on the official City site as a "…
Is Best Friends-'No-Kill' LA - Abandoning the Pit Bulls in Los Angeles Animal Services' Shelters?
ANIMAL WATCH-Since August 16, 2011, shortly after Brenda Barnette was appointed GM at Los Angeles Animal Services, Best Friends Animal Soci…
First Lawsuit Filed Against LA Animal Services to Open West Valley Animal Shelter
ANIMAL WATCH-A Woodland Hills non-profit animal rescue, Ady Gil World Conservation, reports that it has filed a lawsuit demanding the two C…
Stop GM Barnette's Bullying Tactics at the West Valley Animal Shelter - Say ‘NO’ Now!
ANIMAL WATCH-Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Brenda Barnette is using bully tactics and her usual doublespeak to rush approval…
Cockfighting, COVID-19, and Newcastle Disease – A Deadly International Trio
ANIMAL WATCH-On Monday, August 3, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies raided a Chatsworth property in the San Fernando Valley to investig…
LA Pit Bull Trainer/Rescuer Awaits Extradition on 42 Charges, including 13 Counts of Animal Cruelty
ANIMAL WATCH- Pit Bull/Dangerous Dog Trainer Steffen Baldwin, 39, of “Save Them Dogs” and co-founder of Underdog Alliance, was taken into c…
Was the LAAS Commission Duped by GM Brenda Barnette's West Valley Shelter Giveaway Plan?
ANIMAL WATCH-Did GM Brenda Barnette dupe the Los Angeles Animal Services Commission into believing animal care and control services would b…
GM Brenda Barnette and LAAS Commission: Infected by City Hall Corruption?
ANIMAL WATCH-LA GM Brenda Barnette's recent shelter statistics make us wonder where the thousands of homeless, unwanted and stray animals t…
Heroic LA Animal Control Officer Climbs through Window to Capture Pit Bull after Vicious Attack on Adopters
ANIMAL WATCH-Los Angeles Animal Services' ACO Hugh Briefman, a veteran animal control officer with almost 30 years of experience, responded…
Gov Newsom Reneges On $50M for Shelters, Feral Cat-TNR - Should LA Animal Services Be Defunded?
ANIMAL WATCH-On January 13, Best Friends Animal Society proclaimed, "No-Kill" California Closer than Ever Before," praising CA Governor Gav…
Dog Attacks on LA Mail Carriers Soar in 2019 as Animal Services GM Brenda Barnette Plays 'Political Influencer'
ANIMAL WATCH-A Pit Bull crouches in a yard as a mail carrier approaches in the photo on the USPS National Dog Bite Awareness Week News Rele…
Pit Bull Mauls Adopter, Attacks LA Animal Services Shelter Employee --Their Lives Matter!
ANIMAL WATCH--Another brutal dog attack on an adopter by a Pit Bull from a Los Angles Animal Services shelter received no public expression…
Marc Ching - Another Dog Rescuer, LA Animal Activist under Federal Investigation
ANIMAL WATCH-As Los Angeles animal activist Ed Bucks awaits a 2021 federal trial for providing drugs resulting in the death of two black me…
Best Friends Animal Society - from Pit Bulls and ‘No Kill’ to Real Estate Mogul
ANIMAL WATCH-Shortly after being appointed Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager in 2010, Brenda Barnette insisted that the City Cou…
L A City Official Posts Nude Photos of Melania Trump on Public Facebook Page
ANIMAL WATCH-As part of her campaign to get Pit Bulls adopted and unweaned kittens fostered—especially during Mayor Eric Garcetti's COVID-1…
LAAS' Spay/Neuter Fund Drops from $5M to $400,000 - Is GM Brenda Barnette Clueless or Crafty?
ANIMAL WATCH-Without an aggressive, well-funded spay/neuter plan in place for Los Angeles when COVID-19 seclusion ends, two animal populati…
Man, 21, Shoots and Kills U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier After Vicious Dog Warnings Issued
ANIMAL WATCH-During tensions over COVID-19, a conflict which began over USPS dog warnings about an aggressive Chihuahua, heightened to a…
Dog-Bites Soar at LA Animal Services – Will Shelter Donations Become the Mayor’s New Slush Fund?
ANIMAL WATCH-GM Brenda Barnette let Assistant GM Tammy Watson announce the bad news at the LA Animal Services Board of Commissioners meetin…
Fostered Pit Bull Attacks LA Dog - Animal Services GM Barnette Plans $1.5-Million Website
ANIMAL WATCH-While LA Animal Services’ General Manager Brenda Barnette was gushing over the success of her COVID-19 Fostering Campaign and…
Pit Bull Attacks at LA Animal Services Shelters: Did City Attorney Try to Hide Reports?
ANIMAL WATCH--Los Angeles Animal Services' General Manager Brenda Barnette shared a public on-line 'message from Brenda' on April 10, expla…
China Moves Closer to a Ban on Eating Dog Meat
ANIMAL WATCH-"Dogs should be treated as pets, not livestock," the Chinese government announced in a public document on April 8, filling the…
Chinese May Declare Dogs Are Pets and Not for Eating – Let Them Know You Agree
ANIMAL POLITICS-Two weeks ago, Shenzhen became the first city in China to ban the production and consumption of dog and cat meat. See: “Chi…
China's Animal 'Wet' Markets Reopen - Veterinarian Missing on Trump's C0VID-19 Task Force
ANIMAL WATCH-On March 16, when Animal and Coronovirus - What are the Real Dangers? appeared in CityWatch, it was already obvious that the C…
COVID-19 - Animal Experiments on Monkeys Infected with Virus Begin at California’s UC Davis
ANIMAL WATCH-Primate-center scientists have found that rhesus macaques, human-like monkeys, can be infected with SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus be…
Cat Tests Positive for Covid-19 - Keep your Pets Safe
ANIMAL WATCH-In what is believed to be the first human-to-cat transmission of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Brussels Times reported on…
Dog Attacks on USPS Mail Carriers Could Increase Under COVID-19 ‘Shelter-at-Home’ Order
ANIMAL WATCH-Lacey Cassidy, a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, is recovering physically from severe injuries to her arm and hand caused by…
