First, we blasted our Hollywood and record industry entertainment across the nation. Then our Mexicans went to exotic places like North Carolina to work the tobacco fields. Now L.A. is shipping its pets to far-off American destinations.
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Why? Because we're idiots:
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A cat that had its snout and paws covered in red tape was having trouble breathing when it was abandoned at an L.A. area animal shelter today. (See a disturbing photo of the cat bound up after the jump).
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Vets from the county's Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control quickly got the tape off,but officials are still astonished at the level of cruelty displayed by the animal's tormentor(s):
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After the head of L.A.'s city animal shelters proposed leaving dogs, cats and other animals home alone overnight at the facilities to save money, the animal-rights world (and unionistas worried about jobs) had a field day.
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And they were victorious:
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Labor and animal rights activists joined hands to fight a proposal that would leave cats and dogs home alone overnight at L.A. city shelters.
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The proposal to end overnight supervision by animal care technicians was much-needed in the face of budget woes, said Los Angeles Animal Services general manager Brenda Barnett. But then she backed off in the face of opposition:
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Activists are targeting theUniverSoul Circus today because it apparently uses captive wild animals as part of the entertainment. The show says the animals are well-treated.
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The production has been on the Inglewood stop of its "Mash It Up" tour since March 16, but Animal Defenders International (ADI) is asking you to stay away:
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Busy day for rescues by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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And not a one of them, at least among the incidents publicized by the LAFD, involved a human in need of help. Nope, first the department revived a pair of cats following a fire, then they rescued a dog who had been stranded on the side of a Hollywood Hills cliff for nearly three days:
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Updated at the bottom: The head of Animal Services is putting the idea off until at least next month. First posted at 9:08 a.m.
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Pets staying the night at L.A.'s city animal shelters might be left home alone.
A proposal to nix graveyard-shift "night care" at the shelters has some labor leaders and animal-rights activists snarling.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721 will hoof it over to City Hall this morning to demand that stray dogs and cats ...
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You've heard of people who need seeing eye dogs.
But how about dogs that need other dogs to help them around? Rescuers in L.A. say that's the case with a pair they're calling Isaac and Isabella.
The duo, a blind Husky and a small terrier who was guiding him around, were found ...
More »An independent investigation has been launched into the death of a shark that was being used for the filming of a Kmart commercial in Van Nuys, the American Human Association tells the Weekly.
PETA first revealed the death this week after whistle blowers let it know that the whitetip shark died in what AHA says was an above-ground, 60,000-gallon tank in Van Nuys that was set up as part of the commercial shoot.
PETA says the shark was flown in from New York ...
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After more than two years of being without your best friend, you'd probably just give up and assume she's moved on to better fire hydrants.
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But one Eagle Rock family held onto hope and were reunited with their long-lost American Eskimo-mix dog named Aka this week.
The L.A. County Department of Animal Care and Control gave credit for the find to ...
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Los Angeles isn't a so-called "no kill" city when it comes to unwanted pets that end up in public shelters._jennieMarie / Flickr
But it's getting closer, says the group Best Friends Animal Society.
The organization boasted this week that far fewer public shelter animals were killed in January compared to one year ago:
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The city of Burbank appears to be joining the movement against retail pet sales.
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The local City Council gave its initial approval this week to a ban that would cover the retail sale of dogs and cats.
The aim, of course, is to prohibit ...
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An animal rights group says it rescued 15 dogs from a Palm Springs home where unsanitary conditions and close quarters added up to a hard-luck life for the pooches. (See video of the rescue after the jump).
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Because the Labrador and shepherd mixes were held in a small space, rescuers say, they ended up fighting each other to the point of injury and scarring.
The rescue went down ....
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It always makes our eyes roll when a Beverly Hills debutante mentions her side career in dog rescuing, which is usually a much more self-congratulatory way of saying you paid too much for a used dog (shots and all that), usually one with breeding. Rarely do these "rescues" seem to involve Eastside Rottweilers or the South L.A. pound.
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But what three LAPD officers did recently, now that's a rescue. Listen up:
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The Humane Society is sounding triumphant today because, it says, 80 L.A.-area pet stores have signed a pledge to stop selling puppies. (The concern among animal-rights activists has long been that retail pooches come from inhumane puppy mills.)
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The thing is, selling puppies at retail stores has already been outlawed in the core of L.A. -- in the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.
That didn't stop the Society, however, from ...
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If you're hungry for publicity, all you have to do these days is renounce your formerly sinful ways, get naked and embrace PETA.
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That is, if you're a hot reality star.
Such was the case for Evelyn Lozada, four-season star of VH1's Basketball Wives, who has switched teams more in love than Dennis Rodman did in basketball, it seems. (Possibly NSFW money shot after the jump):
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All the cool City Hall kids are doing it -- banning retail pet sales in an attempt to squeeze out puppy mills accused of breeding cats and dogs in brutal and inhumane conditions.
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The L.A. City Council passed a pet sales ban this fall after the city of West Hollywood did so in 2010.
The thing is, there's always the internet:
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Animal rights activists are concerned that a baby elephant born at the Portland zoo could end up in the hands of Hollywood animal trainers accused of past abuse (video after the jump).
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The Seattle Times reported this week that the Riverside County company Have Trunk Will Travel has rights to the 300-pound Asian female born to mother Rose-Tu Friday.
Matt Rossell, campaigns director at Animal Defenders International, explained to the Weekly that ...
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Within the next six months, you will no longer be able to buy a pet from a pet store in Los Angeles. You won't be able to shoot a porn without the actors sheathing up. And plastic bags? The city council has banned those too. 
Svenstorm Elephants in traveling shows could join condoms and plastic bags in the list of things L.A. wants to ban.
So what's next?
Elephants. Specifically, circuses with elephants.
Spurred by the Los Angeles-based Animal Defenders International, or ADI, the L.A. City Council's Personnel and Animal Welfare Committee voted Tuesday to send the full Council legislation banning the use of elephants in traveling shows and exhibits that stop within city limits.
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Updated at the bottom with a statement from Butterball, which says the action caught on tape was under investigation. First posted at 12:03 p.m.
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Pretty soon animal rights activists will be decrying the suffering of corn -- all that slow grilling and hot butter. The humanity.
For now, however, the movement is slowly approaching everything on your dinner table, even the sanctity of America's Thanksgiving meal.
That's right, turkey abuse is a thing now. Is anything sacred?
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