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New Policy - City Council Votes to Hug Coyotes
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 At long last acknowledging the real owners of L.A.'s wildlands, the City Council has voted to cut back on trapping wild animals that pose no threat.
Maybe now we can see an end to those interminable, melodramatic Channel 13 (or 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 or 11) news reports of hapless coyotes, cougars and the occasional bear wandering through the McMansion streets where they used to hunt - only to be treed, darted, netted, doped up, probed, dragged into a truck, tagged, and ( if they're lucky) released a few days later (shaky, hung-over and out of shape) - in some godforsaken canyon nowhere near their customary turf.
This is a good thing:
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Says a BusinessWire report:The Los Angeles Animal Services Commission yesterday unanimously approved a new wildlife policy for the city. Under the new policy, the department will allow wildlife rehabilitators licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game to respond to calls from members of the public, and take ill, injured and orphaned wildlife from city animal shelters. Additionally, the department will only issue trapping permits to trap animals that are ill, injured, orphaned, or pose an immediate threat to public safety. Animal Services will no longer issue permits to trap healthy wildlife that pose no threat. As per Fish and Game regulations, all healthy trapped wildlife taken to the shelter legally would have been killed.
LA Animal Services Commission Vice President Alex Rubalcava said, "Animal Services' new wildlife policy reflects our desire to teach city residents how to co-exist with the native wildlife in their communities, and minimize the flow of animals into our shelters. It's a humane measure, but count on at least a few worried homeowners screaming blue murder the next time their cats disappear - and blaming it all on the "lax and irresponsible actions of the L.A. City Council."
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 10:10 PM
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