For Immediate Release
October 26, 2007  

"Muffin"

LAAS CRUELTY TASK FORCE USES CRUELTY ON ANIMALS!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Muzika

May I make a suggestion?

Check my blog on the LAAS hoarder bust. They told the press that 12 of Mason's kittens had panleukemia identified in a filed test, which turned out to be a false positive, and they were killed.

There is no filed test for panluk. They lied.

They also said all of his animals were diseased. They were not. I have seen many of those remaining. One was ill and was being treated by Mason with anti-biotics.

The Daily News published this horrible picture of an orange tabby being strangled at the end of a catch-pole. He is being hung in the air with a noose around his neck. This is against dept regs. Volunteers are warned never to do this.

I just found out the cat's name is Muffin.

Since I posted about the lies LAAS told Dana, LAAS removed the press release about Mason's bust from the LAAS website. They know they got caught libeling Mason.

Muffin and Mason can become a real cause celebre against the brutality of the dept. We are trying to get volunteers together to help him as LAAS should have been doing, rather than killing 12 kittens who proved not to be ill.

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----- Original Message -----
From:
To: <adlla@animaldefense.com>

Subject: RE: Animal Control Trucks
The animal control trucks are hard at work. Three groups of dogs were brought in today (Monday) to South LA. The first group consists of just two dogs; the second group, four dogs; and the third group, three dogs. They dispatch four or  five trucks each day to apprehend as many animals as possible. That's how the dog pounds get filled up. Many of the animals are not homeless or strays; but the dogcatchers go out and seize animals which they imprison and then kill. Today there may have been one or two dogs turned in by owners, all the rest came from the dog catchers like Ed Boks, who began his career in "sheltering" by dog nabbing.

Read "Redemption" by Nathan Winograd. You will see that Henry Bergh was trying to reform the dog pounds in the 1800's. They were doing the same thing back then - and there's no change 200 years later. They were grabbing animals right and left from anywhere and anyone - and killing them. This is how the animal pounds procure many of their animals - and then they turn around and lie that the animals are "unwanted." And LAAS makes little to no attempt to find the owners. In fact, the LAAS seems to do everything to PREVENT the reunion of owners and animals. When shelters work to actually reunite owners and animals, the statistics show that over 56% of animals brought in as "strays" are redeemed or not even impounded at all!

LAAS blames EVERYTHING on public negligence. The truth is that a high percentage of animals are impounded at LAAS because the mind set inside LAAS is an "institutional mass murder of animals" - reminiscent of Nazi death camps. Even the search for animals to kill is carried out SS style. Animals are hunted down in their neighborhoods, in their homes, on their porches and in their yards. They are stolen by the Gestapo goons (whose antics are funded by our hard-earned taxpayer dollars) to go out with their trucks, guns, and metal poles to force terrified animals into the animal control vehicles, and transport them for imprisonment and execution. And make no mistake about it - those animals are the "raw material" from whose deaths the sadists get their kicks along with delivering them to the rendering plant to be converted into fertilizer, dog food, farm feed, counter tops, and lipsticks.

The real problem at LAAS under Ed Boks regime, is the acceptance of institutionalized mass murder of pets and necessary and then to blame everyone but those responsible for overseeing the Death Camps. Ed Boks is very effective at turning his fan club apologists into bashers of the public, while he is perfectly accepting of all the killing. But what is never looked at or objected to is the INSTITUTIONALIZED killing. The people of this country - and, of course, most especially the "humane community" - exist and operate in a pea soup fog, happy to persecute the public and approve of any atrocity perpetrated by their "shelter" pals. It's not just all the killing, but also the treatment of the animals and conditions that they would never tolerate in an individual but with which they are in perfect accordance when perpetrated by the institutional apologists.

The problem is ultimately institution worship and is what Nazism and any other police state tyranny is about. It is precisely negation of the individual and subjugation by the institutions - protection from which this country was supposedly founded.

(Below is an excerpt taken from a longer e-mail that the executive of a rescue 501 C3 sent to Ed Boks.)

----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Subject: Problems with New Hope Redemptions

I'm writing regarding a very frustration situation in the hopes that changes can be made for the future.

Currently, when a New Hope animal that our group has adopted gets lost and winds up at the shelter, the only notification the rescue group gets is a written notification which arrives about a week after the animal is impounded.  This happened early this year.  We received a written notice about a week after the impound date saying one of our cats was hit by a car and brought to the shelter.  By the time I received the letter, the cat was already killed rather than sent to a private medical facility, which I would have done at my expense for any of my animals.  A simple phone call would have given me that option.  Today I received written notice that two of our dogs have been at your shelter (six days).  Again, no telephone calls were made.  Just a letter sent a week after the fact which is often too late. 

The problem now is that even though ______________________is a New Hope Partner, and even though ____________is the representative who rescued, rehabilitated, paid for, fostered and then placed two dogs, the shelter is requiring ME PERSONALLY to take time off work and drive to the shelter to retrieve these dogs during regular shelter hours. Anyone from__________________or anyone designated by _____________, should be permitted to redeem these dogs. It should be EASIER than the standards for who can take on a new dog - these are dogs who already have a home.

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: ADLLA
Subject: I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!

Dear Mr. Boks,

I am unfortunately not getting any answers from your staff concerning my questions and concerns. Below is my email exchange with Bob Perino regarding updating the LA Animal Services website.

I also have not received any response whatsoever from Nancy Moriarty on my question concerning the whereabouts of the mother and missing kittens pulled from the East Valley Shelter on 5/18(as you recall, "mom" turned out to be a feral unneutered male and 2 of the 4 kittens in the litter were mysteriously "missing" when we went back to pull thru New Hope).  I have sent Nancy a follow up email (after your email to her) and she has not responded. 

  The mission statement for LA Animal Services reads:

"To Promote and Protect the Health, Safety and Welfare of Animals and People in the City of Los Angeles".

I don't understand why LA Animal Services is not living up to this statement as far as the health, safety and welfare of the animals are concerned.

Re: updating the schedule for volunteer orientation Bob Perino tells me that the coordinator is currently out on leave due to STRESS). What about the STRESS put on these animals?  I fail to understand why no one can fill in for someone as valuable as the volunteer coordinator, instead of losing precious months for volunteer solicitation and training.

I know LA Animal Services is a huge job and cannot work unless we all help.  We cannot help you if our input is ignored.  PLEASE help us help you.  PLEASE help us help the ANIMALS.

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: "ADLLA" <adlla@animaldefense.com>
Subject: Fwd: KILLING DOGS who can be placed

Begin forwarded message:

Mr. Blackman:
The senseless killing of animals at South Central and the other 5 L.A.
shelters is now seen as deliberate slaughter.  Under Mr. Boks, who is
now tampering with numbers, more animals are being needlessly put down
instead of being rescued, fostered, or found homes. There has to be
more that can be done to find these perfectly placeable pets before
bumping them off.  PLEASE, PLEASE find it in your heart to put people
who truly CARE in these expensive job positions and adopt Nathan
Winograd's NO KILL SOLUTIONS. OR, make NO KILL a LAW.

  Owner, Pit Bull rescued from South Central 5 years ago
  Santa Monica, CA

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: ADLLA
Subject: Boks

I understand this guy had a background as a salesman, and a preacher? I don't think that qualifies him very well. I wonder if the mayor knows about this?  Maybe not. 
Can anybody list this guy's background and do a comparison chart so that we can email it to the mayor?  Along with a comparison of the many local people who are qualified? 
(perhaps at the bottom of the chart, a list of the number of lawsuits being filed against the city on animal related matters because of the hiring of unqualified people being hired (and lack of people being transferred) and chaos going on in the shelter system).

Perhaps the mayor is not quite aware of what is going on - it is possible.  Maybe somebody helped picked this guy for the mayor and maybe a polite letter to the mayor to advise him what is really going on and to watch out - thank him for his efforts but say hey, what's going on? The mayor needs to get a grip on this Boks guy and get control over the situation instead of letting things slip under his feet. It looks like the mayor doesn't know what he's doing - or rather, what his hired help is doing. 

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From:
To: councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org ; padilla@council.lacity.org ; greuel@council.lacity.org ; reyes@council.lacity.org ; zine@council.lacity.org ; Labonge@council.lacity.org ; cardenas@council.lacity.org ; parks@council.lacity.org ; perry@council.lacity.org ; smith@council.lacity.org ; garcetti@council.lacity.org ; MOfarrel@council.lacity.org
Subject: Bok's

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I don't understand how a city like Los Angeles doesn't get it's animal shelters under control. This mess has been going on for years and it looks like there is no end to it.

Instead of hiring competent and caring animal lovers from the outside (they really exist), you keep on promoting those incompetent, uncaring and lazy employees that are partially responsible for this existing mess WHY??? Do you hope they'll change with a promotion? NO, they'll become even more lazy, incompetent and uncaring with the undeserved reward.

If the animals could talk most employees would be in prison by now!

I think it's more than time to put these oh so stressed shelter employees into different positions far away from the animals. Since most of them don't seem to want to do what they are paid for, wouldn't they be better off behind a desk? They can sit all day and be replaced with people that WANT to work with animals. People that WANT to help make a difference. People that actually CARE and treat animals in a caring way! People that try to find adoption homes, educate the public in regards to spay and neuter, and and and...

This issue is either not important enough for you or you are really just that overwhelmed and helpless with that brutal reality...all this tax money thrown out of the window for overpaid employees and plans that are already subject to fail before they are being implemented.

It's sad, it's unreal, it's ridiculous! But it's reality.

Why not finally be open minded and AT LEAST listen to what Nathan Winograd has to say. Maybe he could get this mess under control (nobody else seems to be able to) and we, the animal lovers, would finally be satisfied and stop bothering you. Wouldn't we all be happy!!!

Regards,

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: <adlla@animaldefense.com>
Subject: RE: Five years to No Kill?

Boks lacks passion and real conviction. I don't think he believes he can do
it. I know I want to hear him say "this current situation is a travesty,
and I'm going to change that in the shortest time possible", but  he doesn't
have it in him to decree it. Five years is a long way away, his job is safe
for 5 years if they buy his timetable.

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: adlla@animaldefense.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Ed Boks

Dear Mayor,

Over the past year I have left several phone messages with your staff, Jimmy Blackman's staff and Robin Kramer's staff regarding the animal shelter situation in this city and I never receive a response.

How much longer are you going to ignore this massive out of control spiraling down a path to hell situation at the animal shelters in this city? I am at this point almost speechless as to how you have absolutely no compassion for any of those animals that are being killed every single day. This city makes no effort to be pro adopt or pro spay/neuter, all they think about in those shelters is killing not adopting.

During your campaign you PROMISED that you would hire someone that would make Los Angeles NO-KILL, instead you hired Ed Boks whom was FIRED from New York Animal Services for being INCOMPETENT.

Why are you so against terminating Ed Boks and hiring someone that actually truly cares about the animals?

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: ADL-LA
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 1:23 AM
Subject: the likely reason for the giardia outbreak at SLA

The staff at SLA throw the dog food onto the floor of the kennels without using a bowl.  This is the same place the dogs take a shit and piss of course.  The dogs have also peed in their water bowl....I can't imagine they take the time to disinfect the floor and the bowls if they figure they will just be killing the dogs later anyways!  This lazy way of feeding is surely at least part of the cause of the giardia outbreak.  I've seen this at the other shelters, as well.

The head vet, Dr. Feldman, sent out a nicely written letter to the community about all the wonderful treatment the dogs are receiving, and he even stated that LAAS does not view giardia as a reason to "euthanize".  He needs to communicate that to the SLA staff who don't seem to know this- or who aren't following his orders.

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: <adlla@animaldefense.com>
Subject: RE: Brenda
Hello,

My name is David. Back in February we adopted a 1 yr. old German Shepard mix female. We adopted her at the West Los Angeles Animal Shelter. When we filled out the paperwork for her, they told us she had been given all her shots and was spayed. A few weeks ago, "Brenda" (our pet's name) had 4 puppies.