Advocates speak out against LA Animal Services’ dog transfer policy

The Brief

LOS ANGELES - A controversial new policy at LA animal shelters has volunteers and advocates sounding the alarm, as some are calling it a death sentence for dogs.

The new transfer initiative from LA Animal Services will take dogs who've been in one shelter for more than three months and then move them to a different shelter. The idea is to increase their exposure to new potential forever homes.

What they're saying:

But opponents say it takes an incredible amount of time and work for these already stressed-out pups to feel comfortable and to show their true personalities, and just moving them to new environments with unfamiliar people erases the progress that they've made at the shelter they're currently in.

Opponents also say some shelters euthanize at higher rates than oth