To the editor: Thanks, Mayor Karen Bass, for restoring $5 million to maintain L.A.’s animal shelters open (“L.A. mayor says animal shelters won’t close. Rescue groups are still on edge,” Might 1). I additionally applaud the various residents who confirmed up at hearings and demonstrations; your advocacy labored.
But our shelters stay overwhelmed, and too few Angelenos know the place they will undertake or foster animals in want. Wholesome, adoptable canine and cats are nonetheless being killed for area in amenities that must be lifelines, not final resorts. Moreover, Bass can save 1000’s of lives with out spending a cent by lifting her maintain on the Hanoi sister metropolis decision, tied to banning the brutal canine and cat meat commerce in Vietnam.
Fleur Dawes, San Rafael
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To the editor: Most L.A. residents are nicely conscious of and exceedingly involved concerning the fiscal troubles at the moment saddling town, and that these realities are additionally negatively impacting our animal shelters. Nonetheless, we’re additionally conscious of the vital must proceed high-functioning spay and neuter providers to curb the overpopulation of canine and cats, a difficulty that requires town to go away its six shelters open.
With euthanasia charges on the rise, as a result of overpopulation and layoffs presumably on the horizon, these issues will simply mount. It’s due to this fact considerably of a aid to be taught that Bass is conscious of those circumstances and has promised to allot vital funds to shelters.
Elaine Livesey-Fassel, Los Angeles
