Wait until you get the rest of the story and the newest incident with yet another animal suffering at the hands of a Lieutenant.

I am very sorry to read that this occurred. I have forwarded this craigslist posting to the following people and organizations. Maybe this issue will be addressed promptly and thoroughly.

humane@aspca.org
info@cacda.org
legislativeservices@aspca.org
comments@whitehouse.gov
first.lady@whitehouse.gov
laura.richardson@mail.house.gov
dana rohrabacher fax 714-960-7806
diane feinstein fax 310-914-7318
barbara boxer fax 202-224-0357

Isn't craigslist a great way to communicate?......Watch Oprahs show today, it is about the horrific puppy mills......Tell all your friends......Program your DVR.

Where was the supervisor while all this was going on? Was he outside the door watching things unfold? Did they try to help with the dog when they saw it in trouble.

I'm sure Laura Bush will get right on it.

More abuse and neglect at The Long Beach Animal Shelter

The department thinks Kristina Vet tech sent out her report and that guy Victor will probably been fired for the incident. The department now can say, "We reprimanded this employee" The person responsible is Wesley Moore. He hired Sgt (SP), who watched the dog being mishandled and did nothing. We are so disgusted. I think the city council would love to know that the shelter animals are without medical care with the absence of the vet techs, who are both gone. Here is another animal abuse/neglect story. Another animal suffered neglect and abuse in the euthanasia area. A cat was brought in 3/27/08 and "apparently" euthanized by Lt.Quig late afternoon. The Cat was said to be "suffering" by MQ, who is not a Veterinarian. She left the cat in the carrier with the impound card on top of the carrier. The card stated she killed this cat with some type of put to sleep medicine. The cat was found alive the next morning in the same carrier in the euthanasia area ( 6-7am) 4 different employees had seen the cat and the card on top of the carrier and told other employees about it. The cat was still alive and starving in the morning. It had a severe case of mange. The cat had suffered all night long with no food or water and a "irremediable" medical condition. The impound card is missing now. I wonder what happened to it. Poor cat. Maybe the cat was not suffering at all like the card said. Who is she to decide that. Is she a Veterinarian? No ? Why are animals put to death because she thinks they are sick or injured? She should be charged with animal cruelty. Why are employees at fault for cruelty and supervisors can get away with it. 4 + people seen this cat in this situation but do not want to speak up because they will be punished. Who actually euthanized this cat that morning after it was found? Wesley Moore? Did He do it and cover it up like everything else? I would not be surprised. Shame on you Wesley Moore!!! Ignore this issue like everything else. Please Mr. Report sender guy. Send this to your contacts. You really have some good ones! Lets see if they fire the person who impounded this cat to blame someone.

Disappointed and afraid of punishment at the Long Beach Animal Shelter

Ummm... I think the greater problem is the fact that they Kill !!!! animals each week !!!!! . Spend the energy on saving the rest in the cages who and the ones who are on death row. Or on the ghetto-ass people who get dogs and can't even take care of there own children, let alone the dogs. ( the pit was most likely one )

Yes a mistake was made, and he should be punished but don't piss on the shelter people, theses guys are dealing with stupid humans an they are doing a great job cleaning up after them.

Where the F is Bob Barker when you kneed him!!!!

Hey " The Price is Wrong" , the stupid humans work for the city of Long Beach and SPCALA. Animals cannot get out of the Shelter unless SPCA takes them. The rest die because of a stupid contract between SPCA/Long Beach. Blame the SPCA for all the deaths then. Try to go against the SPCA. No one will touch it.

As long as humans keep making more unwanted animals, there will alwasy be an issue as to what to do with them. The point is there is a right and humane way to do this and there is a wrong way. Sounds like heads need to roll as we residents of Long Beach have a responsibility for our population of animals and the persons whom we employ. Time to change hands. There is no accountability and far too much coverup, time to revamp Animal Control and whomever is responsible for putting those people in charge. They had blatant disregard for the laws regarding a veterinarian and knowingly did nothing. I hate to think this dog suffered in vain if nothing is done but it seems to have been the vehicle which these other issues rode in on. I think we should pay a little visit to this "village" and see just how many idiots run (or don't run) the place. Sure the Spca is there, but it's not their fault. Granted the Long Beach Spca is run by ammatures that sweep even more under the carpet, overall in the larger piture they do good things. Management on both sides do work together to do dammage cotrol and cover each others butts, but I don't think they are aware of that at a higher level of the Spca. Lets get a group together that they can not ignore and make them take notice. We will not stand by, we are going to dig into every crevice possible, even if it feels a little too personal.

Desiree, forget the spca just create a task force like the " Guardian Angels " and walk around the neighborhood and stop the influx of animals going to the spca. You can take action yourself of blame others.

How about another Noah's Arc ? oops

"The Price is Wrong" don't forget that the SPCA walks around the shelter everyday and watchsLBAC neglect the shelter animals. You should of took action last year when the shelter cats were being cooked well done in their stainless steel cages. Blaming others is taking action.

How come the animal shelter cannot adopt out animals? Scpa should let Long Beach Shelter adopt animals. I don't understand why the animals have to die just because Scpa can't take them. Where are all the rescue groups? Isn't there some kind of law or something protecting these animals from being put to sleep? Someone should look into that. No doggy or kitty should have to die because of a stupid contract. I think that it is illegal to put adoptable animals to sleep. Is someone looking into this?

Where was Tonya Elliott, Senior Animal Control Officer during all of this? Isn't she management? What was her schedule for that day? Who's butt did you have your head burrowed in? How come nobody is talking about the rescue Chow she killed?

I failed to mention that she submitted her resignation the same week. She ran with her tail between her legs. She knew what was going to happen to her by upper management considering her past disciplne but no one is talking about that.

"Concerned" -- what happened to the rescues? Hmmm -- let's see, do you read the papers? Michelle Quigley has been on a crusade to drive numerous good rescues out of Long Beach. Michelle Quigley HATES rescues (unless it's Shirley at the city's own 501C-3...how the hell does that work by the way? They have a stellar adoption record -- something 34 animals in one year!! Whoo hooo! FOLBA really gets the job done!)

After working closely with groups like Noah's Ark for years, she turned on them and then tried to kill all the animals she took saying they were on death's door when they were seized. Thanks to a restraining order, most of them were allowed to avoid Quigley's killing needle and LBAC was pressured by the media exposure to do the right thing and find the animals homes. However, lots of them went missing and remain unaccounted for. Christine Culhno botched her testimony during the trial of Alex Kirkland and Gloria Ramos, and Lt. Elliott outright lied on the stand. But that wasn't a problem, Judge Jesse Rodriguez was already in on the deal so he let her perjure herself without any ramifications. Long Beach is one of the most corrupt cesspools in California!

Justin Rudd keeps trying to have it declared the most dog-friendly city (of course he wants to run for office) but Quigley's empire has one of the highest kill rates in Southern California. Thousands of animals pay the highest price for Quigley's maniacal need to kill.

While we're at it -- since LBAC isn't making money on adoptions because they barely do any, anyone know how they managed to make $70,000 two years ago? It's on the public documents...if you can get a copy...but the source of the revenue is mysteriously blank. Where is that profit coming from???? D & D Rendering most probably....so you can feed those dead dogs and cats back to your own pets! Or medical testing labs so they can be tortured in the name of safe cosmetics.

Madeline and her SPCALA crew are just as bad. First the citizens of Long Beach grant the land for Pitchford Village and now the SPCA CHARGES THE TAXPAYERS in the form of rent to LBAC for their space at Pitchford. PD Pitchford is none too happy that his name is on the place -- he knows what a hypocrite Madeline her team are! Also -- if the SPCA workers just can't be bothered to get an animal a home after 6 months, they are quietly dropped off at the Carson shelter who routinely violates the Hayden Act and kills animals in 3 days. But you probably hadn't heard about that. In cases like Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts, once the news cameras went home and SPCALA knew no one was looking, all those animals they were "helping" were transported to Carson and killed.

Oh -- and for all of you out there who lost an animal and were told by Quigley that your pet was found mortally injured or dead....yeah, that's a lie. Quigley continually pressured contract vets to put animals to sleep that she didn't like and routinely violated the Hayden Act herself which says that animals must be made comfortable and owners must be given 5 days to find their pet. Dr. Saleh knows the truth, but he's been threatened in person by Elliott to keep him from talking. Maybe now he'll be brave enough.

Here's an interesting case: A 6 month old chihuahua had been found with a broken leg. Quigley told a vet to kill it. The vet knew this wasn't necessary and found a rescue to take the dog and they even raised the money for it's surgery. During the surgery, Quigley happened to stop by the vet's office, realized that this was the dog she wanted dead and made the vet euthanize the puppy on the spot. Then she took the body with her. Can't have any of that incriminating evidence laying around.

Aren't you all glad you're paying for Lt. Michelle Quigley to run your animal care and control department? Now she's going to put in for a stress/disability claim so you all can continue paying her salary while she does less REAL work than she does now on your dime. You might want to work some overtime hours, you're going to be paying for Quigley with your tax dollars for a long, long time.

Way to go Long Beach!

You can requst to hear the LB Fire dispatch call the day of the raid where Tonya Elliott lied and did WHATEVER she could not to have to get off her butt to respond to the Noah's Arck call. And how is fresh feces smell "sweet". What an idiot, she was supervising the kennels at the time that's why she didn't want to respond she knew it would mean work for her. That would take away from her blogging and interenet surffing. She stayed around for oh a month then went off work for three months leaving the rest of the staff to do her real job. The animals where actually in more harm with her there anyway, so kuddos to the staff that took the challenge and did a great job despite her continuous efforts to sabotauge LBAC.

Rest assured, Fred Bergendorff, now departed and former host of The Pet Place Television Show is still watching over all the animals. And someday all the perpetrators of crimes against animals will have to look Fred in the face and answer the question: "Did you or did you not hurt my animals?"

First I would like to say God bless Ms. Reger for bringing this horror to the public's attention. If there are still any Press Telegram readers out there, you will note the absence of any commentary in that useless rag. It's high time someone in the press stood up to the powers-that-be in Long Beach and printed the truth about what really goes on at the Long Beach "shelter" Kudos to Heather Reger for publishing this! LBAC has a history of mistreatment of and cruelty to animals; disregard of the Hayden Act; failure to comply with their own policies; cover-ups, deceipt, and corruption. How many more cases are there like this one? I'm sure it is not an isolated incident--they just got caught this time. Ms. Reger, please keep up the fabulous job you are doing--the voiceless ones at the shelter would thank you if they could.

Anybody have some coke for scrabble?

Very good stuff here. The District Weekly did a great job! I am shocked that this tragedy has not made the local news. Why is this story in a local paper and not in a national publication? This is big news. I think the public has the right to know if the animal that they have adopted from the pound has been neglected and abused. If this happened to a child while in CPS, every TV station in the world would jump on it. I don't get it

I left this shelter because I was treated very poorly by management. I worked extra hard to care for the animals and got paid very little. That part didn't bother me because I liked working with the animals. We had so many cats from that raid and we didn't have enough people to take care of them. When the kennel workers would clean the cats, they had to hurry because there were so many. The cats were always grabbed by the back of the neck to clean the cages. They got so scared and would run to the back of the cage after a few months. The only attention they got was someone grabbing them by the neck and putting them in a carrier. It was so sad and I couldn't deal with it anymore. Also, most of the supervisors would make me really embarrased every time I walked into the office area. They would page me or call and hunt me down just to yell at me because it was taking too long to clean the animals. I just wanted to do a good job. I didn't have any experience and they hired me. I didn't have any training and was just learning. I don't know why those people had to be so mean. I don't think they wanted a person who was there for the animals. They wanted someone who worked fast and they didn't care how the animals were treated as long as the cleaning was done. They are not animal people. They are selfish. Poor animals! I feel better knowing that there might be a change. Maybe I will go back someday. I make more money working at fast food. They treat me better at least.

Thank god there's finally an alternative for the fluffy tripe that passes for news at the Press Telegram on this issue. Good reporting job.

All shelters have problems... but I'm not sure I've ever seen one that focuses so much on presenting a pretty picture to the public and so little on the animals. Time to clean house.

Below is a posting that is on craigslist LA

Reply to: comm-632070394@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-06, 3:05AM PDT


WOW!! I can't believe these disgruntled employees are airing all the dirty laundry on Craigslist. These are lazy, incompetent employees that had one foot out the door from day one. True, if management had more balls, he should've fired (Pill popping)Lt. long time ago to prevent all this s#$#t from hitting the fan. Too late its out in the public now. Unfortanatly you have some good people that really do care about animals working at LBAC and of course they will also be lumped in with the incompetant ones. Shame on you!! Pill popping, drunk ex Lt.Elliot Shame on you!!.

When a human being is savagely murdered, the act is never, ever referred to as "an unfortunate incident" Mr. Johnson's description of this crime is just another example of LBAC's disdain for the animals in their "care". The employee who brutally abused this dog should be charged with felony animal cruelty...but don't bet the farm this will ever happen. It will be swept under the rug like all their other crimes.

Thank you Mario, you are so right about about this shelter. They do not comply with the Hayden Act. They are all the things you say they are. It is a corrupt, horrible shelter. Ms. Reger really helped the animals by writing this story. You are wrong on just a few little things. This is not going to be swept under the rug, you can rest assure. Don't blame the employee who handled this dog, that is the way he was probably taught. Rescues are not allowed to take animals from this shelter. Hayden Act is not inforced in Long Beach

Lets not forget that a "supervisor" stood there watching this happen, If the employee was not trained nor corrected at that time, then it is on their supervisors. I sounds like the employee was set up to fail and look bad. Why didn't anyone help? They were there. Why wasn't a qualified person asked to tranqualize the animal in the cage first, that is not unheard of, they have those guns. I think there was failure to inform, assist and correct. Someone knew that the dog was unruly. What happened to the animal was horrific but has anyone considered the safety of the humans involved as well. The risk of injury or mauling, slipping in all that blood, the untrained assistants and those observing it all. Why are employees intentionally put at risk? No wonder there is such a turnover. Emotionally, physically, who helps the employees? Who trains the employees or makes those decisions because that duty needs to be retracted from those involved. It's just so ironic that they are employees of the "Health" Department. I would like to talk to a couple of these employees, past and present. That would be a good Idea for the reporters, ask them directly. Maybe they should have a deposition where they would have to tell the truth. Sounds like someone took the fall and others are being protected, I'd like to hear more, keep it comming.