If you reduce the quality of the care, then on top of everything else, you’re also going to increase the death rate,” he added. “By having so few volunteers you dramatically…reduce the quality of the care. When the shelter is killing as many animals as it does, Gardner said, it makes it harder to get volunteers to care for them. “Just the worst shit that you’ve ever seen in your life.” The documents include advice on how many animals to put on table at a time when killing them, he added. Almost nothing on how do you make marketable to the people,” Gardner said.

While the shelter has many documents and policies about how to kill animals, “they have almost nothing on how do you care for animals.

Lake Forest Councilman James Gardner, who is active on animal issues, says the high euthanasia rate is an indicator of major problems with the way Orange County shelters animals. If Logan and her team find violations, they can notify Superior Court Judge David Chaffee, who as part of Logan’s settlement agreement has the power to issue sanctions against the county. The law requires a waiting period of four to six business days before shelters can euthanize animals, with three exceptions: animals that are suffering from a serious illness or severe injury that can’t be cured newborn animals that need maternal care and have been impounded without their mothers or if an owner turns in their pet for euthanasia because it’s irremediably suffering or has a documented history of aggression. “OC Animal Care is committed to continuing to follow state law regarding the euthanasia of animals impounded at the shelter and we intend to continue to fully comply with the criteria outlined in the settlement agreement,” said Katie Ingram, a spokeswoman for the county animal services department. Meanwhile, county officials say they are only euthanizing animals for reasons allowable under state law, and that the shelter’s euthanasia rate has dropped significantly in recent years. In particular, Logan says she’s concerned about the number of dogs that are immediately euthanized after being delivered by their owners. Logan and her attorney, Howard Finkelstein, have put together a team to review monthly euthanasia datasets and follow up with getting documents from shelter officials detailing why specific animals were killed.

Orange County Animal Shelter's Kill Rate Has Advocates Sounding Alarms Close

Orange county animal s vices