Creatures
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Coyote shakedown
Los Angeles Animal Services has only one Wildlife person. That is Officer Greg Randall. (I do not know what kind of officer works in Animal Services, but it is not a police officer, because I asked him. A vet? I’m not sure. And looking into the black hole of City Hall is not for the faint-hearted. Just try to make sense of these websites and the chain of command. I dare you. ) Anyway, if you call the City of LA about any wild animal, after a very long wait on the phone, you’ll be directed towards him and only him. He is the word. I first heard Officer Randall…
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How many animals died in the Griffith Park fire?
This is the question that has been on my mind since the first hour of the fire. All day and all night, neighbors stood out on the deck watching it, and as it grew later, we realized it wasn’t going to stop that night, and some of us even wondered if we’d have to evacuate, even though we were a mile away. I turned on the air conditioner, which didn’t filter the thick smoke at all. It was like breathing through a sweater, and I wondered if I was getting enough oxygen. The LA Times had a pretty good blog up about it, that was really the only up to…
