The Los Angeles City Council has declined a donation for two police dogs after one city leader raised concerns that the canines were trained by a company that shares its name with a Nazi military hideout used by Adolf Hitler. Blumenfield said his main concern was that the Riverside County company that supplied the animals, Adlerhorst International, shares “the name …
Tamela Kerneghan camps with her dog on a sidewalk near Grand Park in the shadow of L.A. City Hall. The motion also asks U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, who is presiding over the 4-year-old case, to order the city to produce plans within 30 days to clean up what it describes as two “high-acuity areas,” Skid Row and avenues …
A dog waits to be adopted in a cage at the Chesterfield Square Animal Services Center in Los Angeles. Two L.A. city councilmen called Friday for more resources for the city’s struggling animal shelters following a Times article about crowded kennels, shelter dogs that go for weeks without walks and staffing shortages. “Angelenos deserve the services we pay for,” said …