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Implementing the No-Kill Equation
LA Animal Services has long been committed to making Los Angeles a “No-Kill” community for animals. “No-Kill” is defined as getting LA Animal Services to the place where only dangerously aggressive and terminally ill and injured animals are euthanized. In other words, no animal will be euthanized, or killed, because the community lacks the space or the resources to properly care for and place an animal in a loving home.
Over the past several years LA Animal Services has implemented numerous programs and policies to achieve No-Kill with some remarkable success. To help hasten LA’s progress, some have asked LA Animal Services to consider a purportedly new approach called “The No Kill Equation”.
Proponents of “The No-Kill Equation” claim it provides a revolutionary formula to help local animal care and control agencies achieve “No-Kill”. In fact, the "No-Kill Equation" is actually comprised of ten commonsense, long-standing practices embraced and implemented to various degrees by LA Animal Services.
To help better familiarize concerned Angelenos with LA Animal Services’ efforts to achieve “No-Kill” and at the same time gather input and feedback on how we could do better, we are scheduling a series of public workshops to focus on the ten tenets of the “No-Kill Equation”.
The schedule below will be updated and posted on our website as the workshops are scheduled and confirmed. We will do our best to get the word out to the community. We appreciate your assistance in helping us publicize these workshops to anyone who may be interested in attending.
(Click on the Workshop title below for more details as they become available)
1. High Volume/Low-Cost Spay/Neuter I (CD 8 - Parks - August 6th)
2. Rescue Groups (CD 13 - Garcetti - August 20th)
3. Foster Care (CD 2 - Greuel - September 4th at 6:30 pm
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4. Adoption Programs (CD 10 - Wesson - Week of September 15)
5. Pet Retention (CD 1 - Reyes - October 15 at 6:00 p.m.)
Workshop #6: Medical and Behavioral Rehabilitation (CD 6 - Cardenas)
Workshop #7: Feral Cat TNR (CD 15 - Hahn)
Date: POSTPONED
Workshop #8: Volunteers (CD 11 - Rosendahl)
Date: November 6, 2008, 6:30 PM
Location: Westchester District Office Community Room, 7166 W. Manchester Ave., Westchester, 90045
Workshops will resume after the Holidays in January 2009. We appreciate your support of this series.
Workshop # 9: Public Relations/Community Involvement (CD 4 - LaBonge)
POSTPONED (TBA 2009) – Our apologies for any inconvenience caused to those who tried to attend.
Workshop #10: High Volume/Low-Cost Spay/Neuter II (CD 7 - Alarcon – TBA 2009)
Workshop #11: Creating a Humane LA (The Mayor – TBA 2009)
Any organization who would like to set up an information table at any of these work- shops to explain your role in legitimately and meaningfully helping LA achieve No-Kill is invited to contact LA Animal Services at 213.482.9530 to determine if we can accommodate you. If you or your group would like to be part of the Work Shop panel discussion, please contact me at 213.482.9558 to discuss your involvement.
Be watching for additional updates!
If you would like to review what is currently happening in LA with respect to the ten components of the No-Kill Equation, click here
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