DW-LA: “Let’s Stop Killing Animals in Shelters and Get More Adopted.” LA Times editorial, 12-18-24

Angelenos:

The wonderful Los Angeles Times has an editorial (the paper’s official opinion) today, Wednesday December 18, page A10, titled, “Let’s Stop Killing Animals in Shelters and Get More Adopted.” I can share this Yahoo link for those who hit a paywall at the LA Times website.

It opens:

“Life in an animal shelter for dogs and cats and other creatures that have the misfortune to end up there is never great. They can languish for months, waiting to be adopted out to what animal advocates hope will be a ‘forever home.’ Or worse, they can end up killed — or as shelter officials prefer to call it, ‘euthanized.'”

On the Mark Thompson Show this week, we discussed Scrim, a New Orleans mutt who has been on the run for months, evading and escaping capture. But we began the segment with a chat about the misuse of the word euthanize when referring to healthy animals, which is relevant to the opening of today’s Los Angeles Times editorial, so I will share that podcast link here too.

The paper deserves thanks for this stand and is likely to print some of our thoughts on it, so please jot off a quick note.

Yours and all animals’,
Karen Dawn of DawnWatch