Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department has been repeatedly spotlighted since circa 2010 for housing & rehoming high-risk dogs ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Yet again an Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department employee has suffered a severe dog attack on the job. Yet again observers who should know better are often looking in the wrong places for the reasons why. Reported […]
Albuquerque sued again for allegedly rehoming dangerous dogs
Earlier cases allege rehoming dangerous cats, too ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Already sued half a dozen times in under four years over issues pertaining to rehoming dangerous animals, the city of Albuquerque was in the fourth week of October 2018 sued yet again, this time by former Albuquerque Animal Welfare employee Victoria Murphy. Murphy in her filing […]
L.A. County tightens dog policies; Albuquerque drops the ball
New animal control boss in Albuquerque caught repeating the old boss’s errors ALBUQUERQUE, LOS ANGELES––Los Angeles County Animal Control marked Dog Bite Prevention Week 2017, April 9-15, by moving decisively to try to ensure that only dogs deemed safe for adoption leave the county shelters. Albuquerque Animal Welfare fumbled to explain why a staff […]
“Pit Bull Awareness” day & month mark 33 years of exponentially accelerating pit bull mayhem
Miami, Albuquerque, and Charleston incidents illustrate the cost of pro-pit mendacity Pit bull advocates will on October 24, 2015 celebrate the ninth annual “Pit Bull Awareness Day,” founded in 2007 by Jody Preis of the Tennessee pit bull rescue Bless the Bullies, and subsequently expanded by many pit bull advocates into an entire “Pit Bull […]
Albuquerque city shelter released dangerous dogs
Office of inspector general’s report confirms allegations ALBUQUERQUE––A newly released 38-page investigative report by acting Albuquerque city inspector general Peter Pacheco confirms allegations issued in February 2015 by city Animal Welfare Department second-in-command Jim Ludwick and animal welfare program manager and behavior specialist Carolyn Hidalgo that, in the report’s wording, “Dogs with problematic behavior […]
Albuquerque pound broke city’s own dangerous dog law
City withholds details about consequences ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––A City of Albuquerque internal investigation has found the city’s Animal Welfare Department to be “only partially in compliance” with the city dangerous dog ordinance, including in rehoming dogs who should have been classified as dangerous. What the cost has been to public safety remains unclear, since […]
Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department #2 and behaviorist allege neglect of public safety in pushing pit bull adoptions
“Practices that put the public at risk from dangerous dogs” ALBUQUERQUE––City of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department second-in-command Jim Ludwick and animal welfare program manager and behavior specialist Carolyn Hidalgo have alleged in parallel written complaints to Albuquerque city inspector general Peter Pacheco that Albuquerque animal welfare director Barbara Bruin has boosted the “live release rate” […]