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Annoula Wylderich's avatar

The best offense to bullying tactics is to expose them - continually. The bad outcomes of their influence seem to be numerous and I'm glad they're being revealed publicly. Hopefully, it sounds a warning to those shelters that are considering utilizing their guidance.

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carmen sanders's avatar

The amount of damage Hassen (in present incarnation) Outcomes Consulting has done in other communities and pet populations espousing Community Animals, No Kill statistical manipulations and abandoning volume-accessible spay/neuter outreach is incalculable.

Tomorrow Tucson's Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) is meeting to address community overpopulation/shelter overcapacity AVOIDABLE crisis in the aftermath of 2 Outcomes Consulting directors Monica Dangler and Kristen Hassen.

Now scrutinized by legal action and high-profile news reporting with a trail of shelter wreckage, Outcomes Consulting and Best Friends affiliated Mary Martin desperately need a success trophy.

The only remedy is full-scale volume spay/neuter medical outreach and legislators restricting commercial (back-yard and mill) breeding.

Otherwise you can build more kennels and expand adoption/foster but just like Tucson's PACC, we already did that with a 22 million dollar shelter expansion bond and a Maddies Fund foster program pilot now the largest in US, yet we are in crisis because volume spay/neuter was abandoned per Best Friends. Maddies and Outcomes Consulting doctrines.

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Suzanne Deal's avatar

A recently released 2024-25 San Diego Superior Court Grand Jury report about animal control services by SDHS showed data that Gary and his organization aren't meeting contractual obligations. They don't provide the MINIMUM number or patrol officers (4 to cover over 300 square miles which includes 70 miles of coast line and 400 parks), rarely write citations for off-leash dogs, and have slow response times to service calls. In the newspaper article about the report, SDHS claimed the report was full of mischaracterizations and untruths. The previous year, the Grand Jury reported that SDHS didn't follow up on dangerous dogs or dog bites. So the SDHS has chosen to do nothing about public safety in the past year...

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Ed Boks's avatar

Suzanne, I'm reviewing that report now. Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks!

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Adele Langdon's avatar

Wow so much goes on in the animal world. Thanks for all your research. Another great article!

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Judy Jennings's avatar

Wow, must admit the religious origins of the BFAS org. caught me by surprise.

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