Simi Animal Shelter Found Not Negligent
Simi Valley’s animal shelter is crowded, but employees are doing what they can to care for animals, the Ventura County Grand Jury has reported.
Jurors urged that the shelter either be expanded and modernized or closed.
But jurors said they found no evidence to support charges by some animal activists of widespread inhumane treatment of animals and of inadequate efforts by employees to unite lost animals with their owners.
In its annual report, the grand jury said the county animal facility on East Los Angeles Avenue was “clean but overcrowded. . . . The animals were in as good a condition as possible under the circumstances.”
County officials say that crowding at the shelter will be relieved when a new Camarillo shelter opens in July.
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