L.A. Animal Services to increase fees

The City Council on Friday approved an ordinance that would allow Animal Services to increase fees for services such as pet adoptions and breeding permits.

The new fees are set to begin at the end of June or July, after approval from the mayor, according to a department official. The pet adoption fees would jump from $91 to $117 for dogs, $68 to $76 for cats and $40 to $46 for rabbits.

Also affected by the increases are hundreds of rescue groups, which will now pay a $40 fee, an increase from $28, for each animal that must be spayed or neutered.

-- Ruben Vives 

Comments

[Jeff de la Rosa]

Idiots!

Council should mandate that before any fees are raised, the Department must make a real effort (any effort) to enforce the licensing law and collect the millions of dollars which are due to the City from people who either have not licensed their dogs OR don't even know that there is a licensing requirement. There are thousands of the latter. Go get the money and stop making it more impossible for the animals to escape murder in the pounds. Did I say" Idiots" already?

[Pam Holt]

Adoptions are already down, so this will lead to the the city killing many more life-loving animals WAY before their time. Nothing like taking it out on the innocents!