VAN NUYS \u2014 As part of a desperate effort to make room in local shelters for some of the more than 300 cats and dogs rescued from a property in the Lake Hughes area amid allegations of animal cruelty, an animal-rescue group flew about 100 animals from LA to the Chicago area early Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Paws for Life K9 Rescue and the air-transport nonprofit Wings of Rescue plan moved nearly 100 dogs \u2014 many of them mothers and puppies \u2014 out of a Los Angeles Animal Services shelter and flew them to the Chicago area where they can be placed for adoption.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy flying these at-risk pets from severely overcrowded shelters to communities with open kennels and adopters, the two groups are creating urgently needed space for the hundreds of dogs and cats seized in the recent historic hoarding case, while giving the transported animals an immediate chance at safe, loving homes,\u2019\u2019 according to a statement released by organizers of the flight.<\/p>\n
Alex Tonner, founder and president of Paws for Life K9 Rescue, told KTLA5 during the early morning operation at Van Nuys Airport said her group worked with Wings of Rescue to arrange the flight within about 48 hours. She said the operation was needed to clear shelter space for the roughly 300 animals seized by county officials during a raid at a Lake Hughes property on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn order to make room for those animals \u2014 kennels don\u2019t appear magically, so they (shelter officials) start to euthanize the animals that are currently at their shelters,\u2019\u2019 Tonner said.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control took the unprecedented step of opening its Animal Care Centers on Sunday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. to help more animals find homes, and hoping to clear shelter space to make room for the recently seized animals.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, all seven of our care centers are supporting a large- scale animal seizure \u2014 an effort that is placing significant demand on our staff, space, and resources,\u2019\u2019 according to the department. \u201cCreating space is critical so we can continue to provide care for animals coming into our system. Adoption is one of the most immediate and impactful ways you can help.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Roughly 250 dogs and 66 cats were found during the raid Friday in Lake Hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VAN NUYS \u2014 As part of a desperate effort to make room in local shelters for some of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[286204,286203,17969,3425,27561,1582,276,4654,106906,286205,194516,194517,194520,2961,224,5337,7926,17860],"class_list":["post-680630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-animal-ethics","tag-animal-rescue-group","tag-animal-welfare","tag-animals","tag-bioethics","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dogs","tag-domesticated-animals","tag-domesticated-canids","tag-human-animal-interaction","tag-humans-and-other-species","tag-issues-in-animal-ethics","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-pets","tag-zoology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116289637377611602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}