Brenda Barnette's Animal Services Mishaps

This is a really good exposé on LAAS conduct and on Best Friends Animal Society. There is a LOT more, dig it up. 

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Since the shelter sat generally empty it was not serving anyone. The city has a history of not fairly asking for and analyzing RFPs. This should have been done and ALL groups who were interested and had the budget should have been looked at. The other issue that should have been included is the shelter should have been limited to taking animals out of other city shelters that were due to be euthanized or owner turn ins (thus keeping them out of the shelters.) Public departments partnering with private organization have a long history of success all over the country and can serve the public and the animals well.

Those in the animal rescue community who opposed the Best Friends arrangement did so because it will essentially be recreating what Madeline Bernstein did at spca/LA: cherry-picking animals and leaving the rest to take their chances.

However, I would rather have Best Friends in charge than Bernstein. The thought that she will ever run a city shelter makes me shudder. ANYONE would be better than her. She only wants to get her face on TV and her quotes into newspapers.

She set up a system at Long Beach that required all impounded animals to go through Long Beach Animal Control. Then her staff would cherry-pick the most adoptable animals and transfer them to the spca/LA side of the divided shelter. The rest were left behind to be killed in the Long Beach Animal Control side.

Even those chosen for adoption weren't necessarily safe. If they weren't adopted or rescued, they were killed too.

It took years but finally Long Beach Animal Control has its own website and posts animals rejected by spca/LA so at least they stand a chance of getting out. Before, when Bernstein operated her go left and you live, go right and you die method of selection, the only way people could find their lost animals was to go to the shelter in person.

"Koretz's personal staffer Jeff Ebenstein, who handles many Animal Services issues, said the plan came from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's personal staff and city chief administrative officer, Miguel Santana, and was endorsed by Animal Services chief Barnette."

The plan came from the Mayor's office. Mayor's girlfriend, Lu Parker handpicked Barnette and pushed her through. Parker's "pet" animal organization (no pun intended) is Best Friends. Connect. The. Dots.

It's too bad that other groups were not given the opportunity to bid for control of the Northeast Valley Shelter, but Best Friends is an amazing organization that has completely changed the face of animal adoptions in this country. Their efforts have resulted in millions of pets being saved, they are not an extremist group, and I have 100% confidence they will do an amazing job with this shelter. As for Ms. Ferdin, extremism is never a good idea, and it's a damn shame she thought it was okay to cut down trees for her signs. Clearly, this woman gives animal rights activists a bad name.

None of this surprises me, I have been following the Breeder Barnette fiasco for about 4 years now. She was part of a group in Seattle who were trying to undermine animal control there. They almost succeeded except for a lawsuit filed by the ACO Guild. When Barnette was confronted with showing her emails to back up the theory of the ACO Guild of a conspiracy, Barnette suddenly resigned and was hired in LA. She didn't come here to help LAAS, she was hired to destroy it so then the Mayor could yell "let's privatize". We can run her out of LA just like they did in Seattle. Barnette has to go, Mayor, suck it up and get rid of her.

It's not that Mssrs Garcetti or Koretz didn't know what was going on. We specifically called these matters to their attention. There was no reason for the City Council to move forward with the vote that day; especially considering the fact that they finally came to learn that no RFP was ever issued.

But this is what happens when you have a dog BREEDER (yes, Brenda Barnette is a dog BREEDER), to allegedly help curb the never-ending population growth of unwanted animals in Los Angeles. $200,000 per year to someone who previously made a living BREEDING MORE animals; who has boldly declared that she does not believe in mandatory spay/neuter, which is the LAW in the City of Los Angeles; and who neither has experience nor desire to do licensing, cruelty or s/n enforcement.

It's too easy to blame it all on Villaraigosa. It's also on a City Council which simply rubber stamps issues because they feel they know better, even though it's quite obvious that in numerous things, they don't....such as selling off a valuable property without competitive bidding. Knowing this, is it any surprise that the City is so far in debt and dealing with billions in pension losses and Housing Authority scandals.

Shamefully, these mistakes mean more dead animals in more shelter dumpsters than we had before. Yes, by her own stats, killing is up 11% in Barnette's time here. And that assumes that the animals she is shipping out en masse actually get adopted. We'll never find out, though, since she's not keeping track of that, either.