As a lover of animals and a volunteer at the Baldwin Park Animal 
Care Center it is frightening to think that we have a governor who is hell-bent on repealing the Hayden act and seems to think that killing pets faster is a great way to balance our state’s budget. Our shelter has made a huge transition from ten years ago where it was the norm to kill 100 dogs a day (!) to now where the shelter goes days without killing anyone. However we have not licked the problems that face us completely. Our shelter, like our sister shelter the Downey Animal Care Center, services a financially and educationally challenged service area – where all too often people think of pets as fungible objects who can be discarded at will, rather than as valued families to be nurtured, treasured and respected for life.
Consequently, despite our recent success, we still are in a constant panic mode, and the California Governor’s attempt to balance his budget on the carcasses of dead pets is only adding to our despair. No one with any historical perspective or personal experience in dealing with the hardened bureaucrats who run the Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control can honestly expect or trust them to hold to the status quo, a status quo which is already far from acceptable. Anytime a pet dies in a shelter it is a tragedy which hits all of us, shelter worker and volunteer alike, not to mention the dead animal extremely hard.
To avoid this volunteers from the Baldwin Park Animal Care Center and the Downey Animal Care Center have joined together to network their pets. Every week at least one of these shelter’s volunteers will gather at the shelter to photograph and video their phenomenal pets and put out a networking list.
To see the latest Downey Animal Care Center networking list please click here:
To see the latest Baldwin Park Animal Care Center networking list please click here
