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They showed up to Tuesday’s county supervisors meeting and accused officials of providing false data on the shelter’s kill rate. Meanwhile, officials point to evidence that things are improving.
An online petition drive, calling for the dog, named Karma, to instead be transferred to a wolf sanctuary in the Mojave Desert, has generated over 300,000 signatures worldwide.
The documents reveal the severity of an earlier attack by the dog and conflicting opinions by county officials as to whether he should have been declared vicious.
A pit bull that attacked a Huntington Beach woman in her ninth month of pregnancy had been declared a “vicious dog” earlier in the year, but county officials reversed that declaration, according to documents.
This situation is so bad at the 74-year-old facility that the panel recommends a housecleaning of top management. The report, the second in less than a month on problems at the shelter, reveals bad employee morale, mistreatment of dogs in kennels, and rat infestations.