To the editor: As one who has rescued and owned cats and canines her total life, I’m past upset and disgusted by the dearth of companies for the canines and cats at a number of L.A. metropolis animal shelters. (“Top leadership in flux at troubled L.A. Animal Services department as general manager takes unexplained leave,” Aug. 16)
It’s past perception that some shelters can’t even meet minimal humane requirements of care and find yourself euthanizing one animal simply to make room for a brand new canine or cat. How can the workers flip away gives of help from residents providing to volunteer? It’s clear that workers don’t need anybody telling them what must be modified.
There are such a lot of rich people who help animal organizations. Let’s hope very massive donations to shelters are made in order that managers who’re skilled, compassionate and revolutionary may be employed to show them round.
Folks ought to ask themselves how their personalities and attitudes would change in the event that they lived in a single room, had been by no means allowed to go exterior and barely had sufficient to eat. Don’t blame the cat or canine for changing into scared and enraged; change the system.
Judy R . Martin, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Carol Mithers’ piece on the role poverty plays in the surrendering of pets in L.A. was insightful and informative. Having learn the article, I discover myself having a bit extra compassion for individuals who should make the gut-wrenching determination to surrender a beloved pet.
One solely has to drag up photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans displaying pets perched on rooftops awaiting rescue. Many residents had been compelled to go away their canines and cats behind as a result of shelters wouldn’t settle for pets.
Now, homeless shelters are beginning to take pets with displaced households. My gratitude to Downtown Canine Rescue for all they do to maintain unhoused individuals and their pets collectively.
Too many points underlie the issue of overpopulation at our animal shelters, however I don’t imagine poverty is on the core.
A working example: A separate article highlights the failure of our mayor to enhance the circumstances of L.A.’s animal shelters. She vowed to repair this drawback when she took workplace in 2022. However two years later, many shelters are at greater than 200% capability, and canines are dying on daily basis on her watch.
Oh, by the way in which: I’m a type of individuals who would most positively “sleep on the road as an alternative of giving up my canines,” if I needed to face that alternative.
Rosemary Chiaverini, Sherman Oaks