Overview
- The rescue, which followed a Friday search warrant backed by district attorney investigators, removed 250 dogs and 66 cats from a Lake Hughes property.
- To create room, all seven county centers opened for extra hours Sunday and urged people to adopt or foster pets already in shelters.
- Facing crowding, LA agencies arranged an out-of-state transfer, with 32 dogs set to fly to PAWS Chicago on Tuesday to open kennels for the seized pets.
- Many of the rescued animals must stay in custody as evidence in the active case, and officials reported no arrests as of Monday.
- Officials cite years of complaints and call this the department’s largest seizure to date, after revising early estimates to a confirmed total of 316.