It's been nearly two months since the San Diego nonprofit transferred 318 small animals to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona in Tucson; over 250 remain unaccounted for
The San Diego Humane Society is planning to hire a private investigator to find out what happened to hundreds of rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and hamsters it transferred this summer to its Arizona counterpart — even as the Tucson shelter suspended two of its leaders over the ongoing mystery. The San Diego nonprofit is also looking to pursue legal action. “We will pursue this as far as we need to find out where our animals went,” Dr. Gary Weitzman, its president and CEO, said this week.
Even so, Weitzman remains skeptical of the entire transaction. Though the incident has garnered publicity in both San Diego and Arizona, Weitzman pointed out that no adopters have come forward to say the animals are safe. He also noted that although the roughly 70 rabbits his organization transferred to Arizona had microchips, none of those that were allegedly adopted have updated the owner information — which adoptive families would typically do with new pets.
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