Ed Boks, LA shelter director, has a new piece in his blog that is a rebuttal to an op-ed piece in the LA Daily News. The link to Susan Taylor's op-ed is:
http://www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_6726449
The link to Ed's rebuttal is
http://laanimalservices.blogspot.com/2007/08/actors-and-others-ignore-obvious.html
I'm not an Ed Boks fan, but Susan Taylor is not any better. Here's a quote from her article that strikes me:
"Aggressive dogs are often put in kennel runs with frightened, docile animals that are attacked if they attempt to eat or get a drink of water.
This happens so frequently that the department's medical expenditures have skyrocketed in recent years from sewing up helpless dogs who've been ripped apart.
Apparently, Boks finds this preferable to euthanizing - and adding to his kill numbers. "
Wow! Read that last line again. She seems to be annoyed that Boks finds providing veterinary care for an injured animal preferrable to euthanizing that animal. She is saying that an animal with a treatable injury incurred at the shelter itself should be euthanized.
What am I missing here?
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Another comment that is questionable is her issue with the intake staff telling people who are dropping off animals that they will be killed. It is critical that shelters tell people the truth about what can happen to animals left at their facility.
Any organization promising care and adoption when the shelter staff is killing half of the animals coming into the shelter, would not be providing people with a true picture of what could happen. Sadly, that is often the case. The truth is important.
Great blog!
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