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ANIMAL WATCH-Prior to rescuing animals becoming big business, Los Angeles Animal Services and other municipal sheltering agencies focused on rescuing strays from the streets, investigating reports of cruelty, abandonment, or neglect;
assuring Pit Bulls were not being used for fighting and that animal-care laws were enforced by officers and shelter staff with the best training available. Now the emphasis is on saving every animal regardless of behavior or condition. Shelters became the enemy and emphasis was taken off holding pet owners responsible and placed on clearing the shelters.
This opened the world of rescue as not just as a humane act but as a full-time job. Mayor Garcetti approved all the steps to allow rescue kennels in residential zoning and release of shelter animals to unmonitored individuals/groups with no requirement for experience with animals, no background check, no training or license required. By becoming a 50l(c)3 tax-exempt organizat