ANIMAL WATCH-Prior to rescuing animals becoming big business, Los Angeles Animal Services and other municipal sheltering agencies focused on rescuing strays from the streets, investigating reports of cruelty, abandonment, or neglect;
assuring Pit Bulls were not being used for fighting and that animal-care laws were enforced by officers and shelter staff with the best training available. Now the emphasis is on saving every animal regardless of behavior or condition. Shelters became the enemy and emphasis was taken off holding pet owners responsible and placed on clearing the shelters.
This opened the world of rescue as not just as a humane act but as a full-time job. Mayor Garcetti approved all the steps to allow rescue kennels in residential zoning and release of shelter animals to unmonitored individuals/groups with no requirement for experience with animals, no background check, no training or license required. By becoming a 50l(c)3 tax-exempt organizat
Former LA Pit Bull Rescuer/Trainer Arrested Again, after Failing Drug Test Details
ANIMAL WATCH-Steffan Baldwin, former Los Angeles Pit Bull advocate/rescuer and dangerous dog trainer, flunks drug test, violates bond, according to an Ohio MJT headline on December 17, 2020.
Baldwin, founder of Save Them Dog Training and co-founder of Underdog Alliance was originally taken into custody on July 24, 2020, by the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department and held for arraignment on 42 felony and misdemeanor charges 13 of which involve animal cruelty. All stem from alleged criminal activities in Ohio and California.
Baldwin was a hero among No Kill advocates. When Los Angeles Animal Services GM Brenda Barnette, announced the 2018 opening of Weingart Center for the homeless and their pets on downtown LA s Skid Row, the LA Times stated that Steffan Baldwin had been selected as the dog trainer for the facility.