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LAAS GM Barnette Undermines Animal Cruelty Case, Bashes Animal Control Officers on Facebook Details ANIMAL WATCH-In a hostile and childish Facebook rant on September 26, Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Brenda Barnette publicly attacked the integrity and insulted the competence of her own animal control officers, who made an experienced and professional determination that an animal needed to be removed immediately from its owner for its health/safety and to receive immediate veterinary attention. GM Barnette had no experience in law-enforcement before becoming the head of this agency, and publicly expressed aversion to LAAS engaging in animal-protection activities at her confirmation in 2010. Yet, she posted the following on a public Facebook page, and it can be seen on Friends of the West Valley Animal Shelter: ....
Freeways Stained with Blood Dispel LA Animal Services No Kill Myth Details ANIMAL WATCH-Since 2010 the seminal obligation of Los Angeles Animal Services to maintain animal-law enforcement and protection has been intentionally destabilized by General Manager Brenda Barnette in her mania to achieve the Best Friends Animal Society mythical No Kill goal. The results are now tragically obvious and graphic as huge and small blood stains are increasingly seen on freeways winding through the city s highly populated downtown and semi-rural Valley areas the evidence of lost and stray animals being hit by speeding traffic and dying terrifying and often painful deaths. (No, that is not red paint spilled by Cal-Trans workers.) ....
LAAS GM Barnette’s Plan for West Valley Shelter ‘Handled by Vendors’ Faces Legal Questions Details ANIMAL WATCH-Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Brenda Barnette is determined that she will not open the West Valley Animal Shelter for the intake of strays and lost pets this shelter has one of the highest intake rates in the City. Instead, Barnette is insisting that the City Council allow this vital animal facility to be turned over the private rescuers so they can adopt out animals from other areas of the City. The following (and there have been prior and will be more articles on this) is primarily a profile of the question of whether Brenda Barnette and her management team should be in charge of a $42,922.34 budget for 2020-21 and whether they are competent to have responsibility for six vital Animal Services shelters to serve the needs of taxpayers and their animals in this city, and particularly in the Valley. ....
ANIMAL WATCH-On January 27, Los Angeles County Sheriff s Bloodsport Team seized 70 roosters in an investigation of a possible cockfighting operation in LLanos, California, an unincorporated area southeast of Palmdale in Los Angeles County. Detective Joel Bronson told reporters that suspects were identified but no arrests made, pending the outcome of the examination of the birds by LA County Animal Control veterinarians, according to the Los Angeles Times. The sheriff s department typically launches investigations based on complaints about noise and sanitation from neighbors, according to Detective Bronson, who added that, Prior to coronavirus restrictions making it harder to raid suspected cockfighting operations, sheriff’s officials typically executed a search warrant every month or two. ....
ANIMAL WATCH-When Los Angeles General Manager Brenda Barnette received approval by the Los Angeles City Council for an estimated $60M Citywide Feral Cat-TNR Program in November 2020, she did not publicize that the new ordinance would also require pet owners with more than three (up to five) indoor cats to pay a registration fee for their extra pets. Under that program, the City is now obligated by law to provide annual spays/neuters for 20,000 unowned/stray/feral cats living in the streets of Los Angeles, which will be done primarily by volunteer TNR (trap/neuter/release) caregivers. All of this will be paid with City money either tax dollars or donations. ....