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“Please understand that we're doing this in a time of crisis,” she said. “This is not how we want to manage populations going forward. This is what we must do, in this moment, to bring our shelters back to a state of operating safely.”But the move was met with almost immediate backlash by a group of shelter volunteers who requested an emergency meeting with L.A.
“The new policy essentially limits our access to many dogs we have relationships with and to new intakes who will clearly benefit from our working to enrich their stay with us,” the letter states. “The result is a conveyor belt pace of killing happy, healthy dogs falsely labeled as unadoptable.” “We are sure, Mayor Bass, that your constituency, of whom we are members, will not sit for this barbaric approach,” the letter states.
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