Animal rescue says dogs injured during massive L.A. County animal enforcement operation
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The animal rescue at the center of Friday’s massive seizure says Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control workers injured several dogs as authorities swarmed a property in rural Lake Hughes in what officials called one of the largest animal rescues in county history.“That dog is friendly.There’s no need to choke him like that,” an unidentified woman can be heard saying in a video posted Saturday on the organization’s Instagram, where she also claims to see blood on one of the dogs.Photos and videos posted on the Rock N Pawz animal rescue Instagram show Animal Care and Control workers in hazmat suits removing the animals from the property.
They can also be seen walking through the property carrying nets and catch poles.The rescue, owned by Christine De Anda, also said officials on the scene confiscated a phone, preventing full documentation of the seizure, and that authorities used catch poles to drag the dogs.California Investigators with the L.A.
County district attorney’s office and workers from Animal Care and Control had initially expected to find as many as 700 dogs and cats at the property in the 46000 block of 266th Street.The unidentified woman says she tried to take photos of each dog as officials took them off the property, but was pushed back and not permitted to do so, according to a separate video.“I wanted to take pictures of each dog as they removed the dog to prove that the dogs were not emaciated or in bad shape as they keep saying they are,” she says in the video as she records workers carrying dogs to the trucks.The Department of Animal Care and Control did not respond Saturday to requests for comment.But the agency previously said in a statement that the animals found at the property were being inspected on-site by veterinary staff and would be sent to nearby veterinary hospitals if they needed assistance.The seizure was sparked by an inves...