Old Police Station to Serve as Animal Shelter
The City Council on Friday agreed to convert a building that once housed a temporary police station into a temporary animal shelter to relieve overcrowding at the city’s South-Central shelter.
The three-acre site on St. Andrews Place, which once served as the Los Angeles Police Department’s 77th Division facility, can accommodate 200 kennels.
Although there are only 54 kennels at the current South-Central shelter, nearly 1,200 dogs were impounded there in February, leading to a staggering euthanasia rate. In recent weeks, a number of workers at the facility have been attacked by animals.
Officials anticipate that the new facility could be ready in six months. The move to ease crowding is one of several steps taken by officials in recent weeks to deal with the city’s pet overpopulation problem.
The council on Friday also approved spending $220,000 on five animal collection vehicles to pick up stray animals. Officials estimate that there are 26,000 dogs roaming the city’s streets.
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