To the editor: We animal activists — who spend our time, power and cash loving this metropolis’s undesirable and misplaced pets — deserve an animal providers funds that works for us and the pets we look after. As a substitute, we’re getting cuts. (“Bass’ funds proposal for Animal Companies is way lower than what division requested,” Could 1)
Years in the past, when cuts to the Animal Companies division had been proposed, I went to a Metropolis Council assembly to talk towards that concept. I drove to Metropolis Corridor from Pacific Palisades and waited for hours deep into the night time to talk. After I received to the rostrum, I exclaimed, “Hold chopping their balls, however not their funds.”
Although the Metropolis Council voted towards the cuts, issues haven’t gotten higher for our animals.
Frankly, most individuals don’t deserve pets. However a civilized society should deal with its underdogs, even when they’re truly canine.
Let’s get a funds that works. Let’s get a normal supervisor who actually cares concerning the discarded, misplaced and in poor health pets coming into the shelters, and let’s admire the volunteers who commit their money and time to caring for animals that so few others even take into consideration.
The Occasions might do its half by refusing adverts from breeders. You’re a part of the issue.
Patty Shenker, Woodland Hills
Editor’s observe: This letter was written earlier than Mayor Karen Bass named a brand new Animal Companies normal supervisor on June 1.
