Animal Rescue Advocates Accuse Shelter Manage Has Increased Kill Rates

BALDWIN PARK-Animal rescue advocates on Tuesday accused the manager of a Baldwin Park shelter of hindering adoption and rescue efforts and unnecessarily tagging dogs as “aggressive” in order to euthanize them. 

They called on the Department of Animal Care and Control to fire manager Pat Claerbout before the end of a probationary employment period. 

“It’s imperative that she be fired before that period ends,” said Holly Browde, who works with Bark Avenue Foundation and wore a volunteer T- shirt from the Department of Animal Care and Control.

Browde and a small group of women representing various rescue organizations targeting dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens and ducks rallied outside the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration today. 

Browde said kill rates at the Baldwin Park shelter had “skyrocketed” since Claerbout came on board, in part because of red tape making it harder to rescue animals. 

A spokeswoman from the county said there had been no jump in the number of animals euthanized as a result of Claerbout’s hiring and that policies related to adoption and rescue were set by the department as a whole. (Read the rest … including what Chief Deputy Webster has to say … here) 

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CityWatch

Vol 12 Issue 100

Pub: Dec 12, 2014