ANIMAL WATCH

ANIMAL WATCH - Last week, on October 26, WBTW in Abbeville, SC., announced that Kyleen Waltman, 38, was arrested and booked at the Abeville County Detention Center “pending charges, after a traffic stop where she was found in possession of methamphetamine.” 

ANIMAL WATCH - Los Animal Services’ shelter workers have recently been criticized for using the City’s COVID-related leave policy as a reason to not come to work,

ANIMAL WATCH - The unpardonable, inhumane overcrowding at Los Angeles Animal Services rivals that in third-world countries.”

ANIMAL WATCH - Pit Bull Awareness Day will be celebrated on October 22, 2022, according to the American Society for the Protection of Animals (ASPCA), as the emotional wounds of our nation and beyond are still fresh from the horrific mauling and deaths of two small children in Memphis, TN, by the family’s beloved Pit Bulls. 

ANIMAL WATCH - Anyone who has volunteered or otherwise worked with Los Angeles Animal Services is especially grateful to see the L.A. Times coverage of the overcrowding problems that have been increasing for years under GM Brenda Barnette and Councilman Paul Koretz, but have now become a “ticking time bomb,” according to a former-California shelter director. 

ANIMAL WATCH - There is undoubtedly more than one Pit Bull-attack victim who won’t applaud the recent announcement that-a new Ohio Pit Bull “Dog Friendly” license plate has been issued on September 9 and that Best Friends Animal Society sees this as “a step in the right direction.”