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’ll undertake or foster animals in want. Wholesome, adoptable canines and cats are nonetheless being killed for house in services that ought to be lifelines, not final resorts. Moreover, Bass can save hundreds 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 in regards to the fiscal troubles at present saddling town, and that these realities are additionally negatively impacting our animal shelters. Nonetheless, we’re additionally conscious of the essential have to proceed high-functioning spay and neuter companies to curb the overpopulation of canines and cats, a problem that requires town to go away its six shelters open.
With euthanasia charges on the rise, on account of overpopulation and layoffs presumably on the horizon, these issues will simply mount. It’s subsequently considerably of a reduction to study that Bass is conscious of those circumstances and has promised to allot essential funds to shelters.
Elaine Livesey-Fassel, Los Angeles
