After nearly one year, Orange County animal rights activist Rose Tingle provides a progress report for the new regional animal shelter which opened in March of 2018.
Author Archives: Rose Tingle
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Tingle: Good News, OC Animal Care Turns the Page
Rose Tingle, along with her colleagues, has spent years trying to improve the Orange County animal shelter. Their work is paying off and Rose provides a progress report.
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Tingle: Animals Also Need a Voice
Animal rights activist Rose Tingle writes about the importance of speaking up for animal welfare here in Orange County, noting that the Op-ed platform offered by the Voice of OC offers residents a real way to get involved, add their own voice, on critical quality of life issues in real time.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Tingle: Costa Mesa Officials Should be Wary of the Humane Society of Orange County
For Costa Mesa residents worried about the city’s animal sheltering contract with the Humane Society of Orange County, Orange County resident Rose Tingle warns they need to show up on Nov. 7 city council meeting as city leaders take a look. She also urges city leaders to add public members to animal care oversight committees to enhance independence.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Tingle: Transparency and Oversight Continue to Plague County Leadership
Longtime animal rights activist and Laguna Woods resident Rose Tingle argues that the group charged with oversight for the OC Animal Shelter – the City Managers Association Animal Care Committee – lacks the needed expertise in animal welfare and lacks transparency. Tingle wants public oversight of animal shelters.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Tingle: Time is Now to Address Solutions and Stewardship
While county supervisors just ushered in a new animal shelter, Rose Tingle calls on the rest of OC to step up, wondering why there are four nonprofit humane society campuses offering adoptions and teaching humane education to children in San Diego vs zero campuses in Orange County currently.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Supervisors’ Promise on Animal Shelter Rings Hollow
The Board of Supervisors meeting today includes a closed session a possible site for a new county animal shelter, but animal activists want the discussion in the open and a move toward city-run shelters.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Supervisors Continue to Extort Money From Contract Cities Over Animal Shelter
When the Board of Supervisors meet tomorrow about the county’s animal shelters they need to look beyond the one solution they’ve come up with and find a more humane fix.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Tingle: Cities Aren’t Waiting for County Anymore to build Animal Shelter
OC Animal rights activist Rose Tingle writes that given the county’s total lack of focus on the animal shelter, cities are finally waking up and leaving the county board of supervisors behind taking up for themselves the task of a new shelter.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Tingle: Grand Jury Report Confirms, Cities Shouldn’t Wait on County for Compassion
Orange County’s Grand Jury once again blasted the county animal shelter again this week in their 2nd report of the year, making it the 5th Orange County Grand Jury Report on […]
