Today's Rescue

When you go to the shelter and see dogs who have low impound numbers on their information cards, that means they are shelter returns - dogs who were adopted out and brought back. When the numbers are very low, like some of the dogs on today's rescue page, it means that years have passed between adoption and return.

Sometimes the previous owners had serious health issues or were elderly and could no longer care for their animals; sometimes the owners died and had no one to pass their dogs to. And sometimes it's just owners for whom dogs were never really a part of the family, and giving them up was something they did en route to the shopping mall. Because really, if you cared about your dog, you wouldn't give "getting a divorce" or "can no longer deal with shedding/digging/barking/escaping" as reasons to dump him in a shelter. Perhaps people don't realize that they're most likely dooming their dogs to death. Mostly, I think that people just don't care. Not really.

I like to pretend those people don't exist.

Adopt a returnee today!

UP FOR IMMEDIATE ADOPTION AT L.A. ANIMAL SERVICES' NORTH CENTRAL SHELTER:
(Clockwise, from top left)


BLACKY
Female German shepherd mix
10 years old
ID#: A172115

WHISKEY
Male American staffordshire terrier
13 years old
ID#: A122325

PAPI CHURRO
Male rottweiler mix
8 years old
ID#: A435408

DONNA
Female German shepherd
12 years old
ID#: A141107

DIALE
Male labrador retriever mix
8 years old
ID#: A215698

KATRINA
Female Siberian husky
8 years old
ID#: A482321

*To put the impound numbers in context, a dog admitted to an L.A. Animal Services shelter today would receive a number in the high 800,000s.

North Central Shelter
3201 Lacy St.
Los Angeles, CA 90031

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For more information, call 888.452.7381 or go to www.laanimalservices.com