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Los Angeles City Attorney's ‘Puppy Scam’ Alert – Hypocrisy or Hype?
in a repeat performance of his 2019 puppy scam warning -- that con-artists selling puppies are becoming more clever and complaints are increasing, an…

Steve Cooley Warns of Rise in Crime, Animal Cruelty, under New Los Angeles DA George Gascón
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Rats Invade LAAS Animal Shelters During COVID-19 Shutdown - Including West Valley
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LA Animal Services GM Wants LAPD to Pay Vet Bills for Dogs Shot In the Line of Duty
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LAAS GM Seeks $60M for Feral Cat/TNR Plan as LAPD Animal Cruelty Program Cut
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Pit Bull Adopted from LAAS Shelter Attacks - Victim Hospitalized in Critical Condition
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Dogs and Cats, Heroes of Wars - Was ‘Sergeant Stubby' Really a Pit Bull?
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Police Chief Killed by Rooster at Cockfighting Raid - Combating a Worldwide Bloodsport
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National Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day: Deadly Attacks a ‘Public Health Crisis’
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The Deadly Cost of Cutting Animal Services – Remembering A Child Killed by a Dog Pack
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Austin Animal Shelter Seeks to Euthanize Dangerous Animals - Will LA Animal Services Follow?
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LAAS GM Barnette Undermines Animal Cruelty Case, Bashes Animal Control Officers on Facebook
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Remembering LA on Fire -- Evacuating Pets with Two LAAS City Shelters Closed
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Volunteer Sues LA Animal Services for Negligence After Another Brutal Dog Attack at City Animal Shelter
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LAAS GM Barnette's Post-Covid Plan Features Pit Bulls, Fundraising, Ignores Public Safety
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Is Best Friends-'No-Kill' LA - Abandoning the Pit Bulls in Los Angeles Animal Services' Shelters?
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First Lawsuit Filed Against LA Animal Services to Open West Valley Animal Shelter
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Stop GM Barnette's Bullying Tactics at the West Valley Animal Shelter - Say ‘NO’ Now!
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Cockfighting, COVID-19, and Newcastle Disease – A Deadly International Trio
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LA Pit Bull Trainer/Rescuer Awaits Extradition on 42 Charges, including 13 Counts of Animal Cruelty
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Was the LAAS Commission Duped by GM Brenda Barnette's West Valley Shelter Giveaway Plan?
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GM Brenda Barnette and LAAS Commission: Infected by City Hall Corruption?
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Heroic LA Animal Control Officer Climbs through Window to Capture Pit Bull after Vicious Attack on Adopters
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Gov Newsom Reneges On $50M for Shelters, Feral Cat-TNR - Should LA Animal Services Be Defunded?
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Dog Attacks on LA Mail Carriers Soar in 2019 as Animal Services GM Brenda Barnette Plays 'Political Influencer'
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Pit Bull Mauls Adopter, Attacks LA Animal Services Shelter Employee --Their Lives Matter!
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Marc Ching - Another Dog Rescuer, LA Animal Activist under Federal Investigation
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Best Friends Animal Society - from Pit Bulls and ‘No Kill’ to Real Estate Mogul
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