11/09/2024
As we monitor Hurricane Francine approaching New Orleans, we are reposting the below as the original was removed. We won't stay silent.
REPOSTING: Dear LASPCA CEO, Please do not send an officer to check on Max today. You had 16 months to prevent this day from ever coming. Max is going to have to ride out the storm in his cinder block-filled pen and hope the water-logged, ripped up tarp that you deemed suitable shelter will protect him over the next 24 hours. This "important bond between an owner and his dog", as you referred to Max's life in your email, will be all this dog has to rely on for the storm.
The LASPCA had 16 months to prevent this day from ever coming.
Neighbors who've agonized hearing Max bark and whine provided the LASPCA with concrete evidence at the exact time you needed it to legally impound Max. They risked run-ins with the owners and got the proof you requested. But instead of acting on this evidence in a timely and effective manner to benefit Max right then and there, you did what we've come to believe is your modus operandi in many cases just like Max- you keep moving the goalpost, muddy the waters, tangle us in red tape, and ask for documents you already have. I guess you hope that we'll give up and go away. We bring you time-stamped photos, you ask for video. We bring you video, you ask for video real-time. We bring you a drone shot, you don't respond. Councilman Giarrusso sends you the drone shot personally, you still don't respond. And when you do send an officer for Max and others just like him, you don't instruct the officer to get a visual or location of the dog before they check a worthless box and leave.
LASPCA CEO, if you spent 1/10 the time actually "working" these cases intelligently, efficiently and humanely as you do writing emails to appear to do so, your organization and ours would save hundred of vital man hours, and most importantly, Max and thousands of other dogs like Max with the unfortunate fate of being dogs in need while you're in charge, would actually have a fighting chance.
So when this storm has passed and along with it the good will you manipulate from the community during a disaster, please do not send anyone to check on Max. At this point it would be cruel to give him hope. And the last thing real animal advocates need right now is to read another self-serving, worthless email. We have a community to serve and it's a lot of work to do your job for you.
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