and animal siting. in the evenings after work and on weekends i spent most of the time with other peta employees and volunteers educating the public on various animal welfare issues. during the cold months in d.c. i spent weekend volunteering for the animal project in norfolk, virginia where peta's headquarters is located. we he drove around in impoverished areas where animals live outdoors [speaker not understood]. we delivered straw bedding to dogs chained in backyard or fenced in small enclosureses. we educated their guardians on how to properly care for their dogs, encouraging them to bring their dogs inside especially during winter and summer. we spoke to them about making sure their dogs had fresh clean water at all times and encouraged them to sign up for peta's free spay and neuter vaccination program. we also rescued abused animal. one of the things i learned working for and volunteering is how to effectively communicate people and open eyes to the importance of animal welfare. one rainy day [s

humans related to animals, but also for animals. over the past ten years we've seen an increase in the number of -- not calls. there have been peaks and valleys a little bit, but an increase in the investigations that come our way. investigations can mean anything like abuse, neglect, dangerous animals, things like that. those kind of investigations take a lot longer than standard calls, which can be anything like a stray animal, animal in traffic, dead animal, things like that. but the calls for -- the matters involving investigations take significantly longer. it can be interviewing witnesses, gathering evidence, so on so forth, working with the da's office. so those kind of matters take significantly longer and we're seeing an up tick in those kind of calls. we have an administrative process where if we seize an animal from someone because we suspect abuse or neglect we have administrative hearings and try and determine whether or not the person should get their animal back and under what circumstances. all of those things take a

animals and we are trying. that kind of goes to the information about where we are in terms of the services we're providing, but i -- if you have other questions i'm happy to answer them and certainly ly adam can speak to the budget issues. >> good afternoon. adam from the city administrator's office. just going to take a few minutes to walk through the process that we went through to develop the budget proposal and then talk about some of the specifics of the proposal. we reviewed the literature that was available for the standards and guidelines to basically determine what are the recommended levels of staffing for animal care and field services. what were smart, best or emerging practices in the field and from that we looked at a number of the major organizations, such as vets, national animal control a association and we basically found the lit erature for guidelines on animal care are pretty robust. there are lots of add viesz about vice about how to take care of animals well. there weren't a lot of materi

to dangerous animal calls. a lot of times they will hold the dog at bay until animal care and control can respond and those are long minutes and that usually happens at night and to have a better staffed officers out in the field that can respond quicker and in better numbers, sometimes it takes more than one officer. there was a tragic incident in golden gate park where they needed two officers and they only had one. the second officer was called out of bed to get there, but the staffing would just -- it's very important and it affects the police department of public safety in general. i'm a huge fan of animal care and control and i see the wonderful things they do everyday. thank you. any >> any additional public comment. >> thank you. my name is jane and i'm the copresident of friends of san francisco animal care and control. we are the non profit that supports san francisco care and control raising funds for programs that really fall outside the city's budget for acc. over the years as expenses have increas

. >> animal rescue league, can i help you? i'll be there soon as i can. >> i feel like i'm saving these dogs. >> yeah. >> what are the fishing nets for? >> cats. >> every vision you have a dog catcher, like here i am. ah, i've got you. got you. ♪ >>> in most american households it's a rite of passage to get your first pet. pets help teach us responsibility. they're our best friends. and members of our family. >> as americans we spend more than $60 billion a year on our pets. whether that be on the perfect purebred puppy or a hyperallergenic designer breed or even one of these adorable little guys. most of these guys will likely find a good loving home. what about the millions of dogs every year who aren't so lucky? each year about 7 million cats and dogs end up in shelters across the united states. like this one, the animal rescue league of berks county in reading, pennsylvania. so why are there so many homeless animals, and what happens to them once they're in a shelter? most of us don't want to think about it, but this week

. >> animal rescue league, can i help you? i'll be there soon as i can. >> i feel like i'm saving these dogs. >> yeah. >> what are the fishing nets for? >> cats. >> every vision you have a dog catcher, like here i am. ah, i've got you. got you. ♪ >>> in most american households it's a rite of passage to get your first pet. pets help teach us responsibility. they're our best friends. and members of our family. >> as americans we spend more than $60 billion a year on our pets. whether that be on the perfect purebred puppy or a hyperallergenic designer breed or even one of these adorable little guys. most of these guys will likely find a good loving home. what about the millions of dogs every year who aren't so lucky? each year about 7 million cats and dogs end up in shelters across the united states. like this one, the animal rescue league of berks county in reading, pennsylvania. so why are there so many homeless animals, and what happens to them once they're in a shelter? most of us don't want to think about it, but this week

>> i used to be a police officer in a different city and saw a lot of animal abuse that went on, animal cruelty. some animals were abused so bad that they had to be put down because of the abuse. it was just horrific what people could do to animals. and if i can help in any way to get knowledge out there to the community, let people know if they are unable to take care of their animals, what is the main thing to do with the animals. whether it's evictions or just like issues that they're no longer able to take care of the animals. i have a cat that's 22 years old. like when i was a police officer, [speaker not understood] chopped off her foot and fortunately she's been a wonderful cat. and i want people to know that there are options. there are [speaker not understood] if you take on an animal, you need to know that it's a privilege and what you need to do to, to take care of those animals because they're dependent on us. and i just want to make sure that in san francisco that we're enforcing laws and giving people knowledge to know how to take care of them in the city boundaries. there

i've worked with animal care control on volunteer training for [speaker not understood] animal response team volunteers. i also am the secretary of the san francisco veterinary medical association and on a state level i serve on the disaster preparedness committee for the california veterinary medical association. >> okay. supervisor tang? >> great to see district 4 as well thank you for your service through the avenues pet hospital as well. again, i'm just going to ask some of the same questions especially for the people being reappointed. potentially get a better sense of some things that you've learned from your time serving as a commissioner and what would -- any specific goals or things that you'd like to zim proved or to be worked on. >> i would agree with commissioner fortier, it take a bit of time to understand how the process works. i've never been on a commission before. i agree that public outreach seems like an important topic we should address as far as more turnout and more involvement from the public. i also agree with one of the previous candidates about supporting our m

. >> experiments on animals, animal enclose user? >> susan, zoos. a bit about her ally days. >> i fell in love with tarzan and married the wrong jane. >> a new book about plants. can you draw the line for us between plants and chimpanzees? >> without plants, none of us would be here, chimpanzees, people or anything else. everything lives on plant food or lives on creatures that live on plant food. like honestly the plants put little roots into my brain and said, jane, you spent all your life helping animals: it's our turn now. so the book took its own life. you talk about the love affair between humans and plants. where did your love affair with plants begin? >> it began when i was a little girl growing up in my england. i climbed the trees there. one beach tree was so special to me i made my grandmother sign it over to me. i wrote out a little will for her. it wasn't a good garden for growing things. soil was too acidic, but we tried, and then we were surrounded by wild cliffs over the sea and that's where i used to roam with my dog, rusty. >> you

who serves as the animal law director for people for the ethical treatment of animals. eight states with the right to hunt and fish ballot measures this year, if they all pass, 24 states total will have constitutional amounts protecting the right to hunt and fish. what has been peta's response to this effort to enshrine hunting rights? >> these constitutional amendments are entirely frivolous. all they're serving to do is to clutter the state's most mportant charter of government with special interest group political statement. as it is, these states allow hunting. all these constitutional amendments expressly recognize that the state continues to have the right to regulate hunting and this is purely a political statement. hunting is -- there are less than 6% of the population is currently hunting in this country. and hunters realize that that number is only going down and the constitutional amendment is t going to change people's minds and stop them from choosing more ecologically responsible activities. host: our radio listeners, we just showed a chart with the states

working with an animal.ou are a team. and you build a relationship together, and you both understand the goal, and you help each other. >> i've been with this whale since i was 18 years old. i've seen her have all four babies. we've grown up together. >> that's the joy i got out of it is a relationship like i never had. >> i have to know, are you nervous? >> i'm scared. >> no. >> nice hair, jeff. [ laughter ] >> jeff ventre will go over there. >> that's dawn. >> wow. >> i'm going to be a supervisor one day. >> i knew dawn when she was new. she was a great person to work with, and she obviously blossomed into one of seaworld's best trainers. >> this is dawn brancheau, the senior trainer here. >> i guess you can say i knew dawn in a past life. >> it's a tough job, isn't it? >> we do go through a lot of physical exertion. you do a lot of deep water work, breath holds, high-energy behaviors with the animals. they are giving out energy, too, but we're working together and having fun. >> she's beautiful, blonde, a

>> all these animals smell. >> our last animal -- >> good-bye. to you. >> our next animal, most people call it a peacock, but it is actually -- this is a female. think of a peacock. you know what a peacock looks like. >> we work at nbc. >> so this is -- this is the juveniles and the females look like. only the males have the beautiful coloration. in the bird world, the females have to nest and be camouflaged. they have this sort of very dull coloration they have a little bit of that iridescence on the neck. the males are the ones with the bright, beautiful fancy colors and use those to attract the females. kind of a little wit of the opposite with how humans typically do it. >> look at that mohawk. >> she's not that old. only 6 months old. >> is that a mullet? >> it may be a mullet. >> another beautiful animal. they live in asia. when they come out, they look just like baby chickens. but all these animals need our help, we want everybody to join the national wildlife federation so we can make sure we have these beautiful animals. >> thank you. >>

under more scrutiny for its treatment of animals. and response to requests for animal services. kron 4 went out to investigate today. after a viewer told us about the body of a dog. which sat for days on a busy neighborhood sidewalk. and just last week, pet owners in oakland rallied. calling for the police department to relinquish its control of the city's animal shelter. kron 4's jeff bush reports on the latest incident. yvette rivera says this pit bull was hit by a car last week and has been lying on the ground in front of her house all that time. yvette says she called the autorities to have the animal's carcass taken away. yvette rivera i called the police the next morning because the neighbors started knocking on my door asking if it was my dog and i had to explain to them that it is not our dog. yvette says she tried to get someone out to take the dog away but no one from the city responded. rivera the police never came. the animal shelter never answered. i left messages and messages every day. nothing happened until kron four got involved. rivera till today, that i got kr

here with yet another pack of wild animals -- from animal planet, dave salmoni.ase join -- and a new installment of "mean tweets" as well. join us for that tomorrow. >> jimmy: our first guest tonight is perfectly fine with others but a bonafide danger to himself. he is the co-founder of the vast empire known as "jackass." >> sir, can you help me get these beers to my car. i'm sorry. >> no problem. >> how are you doing today? well i have been better. my wife just died recently. so working myself through it. i'm so sorry. i apologize. >> is that a dead person in your trunk? >> it's my wife, elle. "jackass presents bad grandpa 0.5." ava available for download june 3rd and comes out on blu-ray july 8th. please welcome, johnny knoxville. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very good to see you. always glad when you come here. i know you are still alive. >> that is very sweet. thank you. >> jimmy: you are alive. you have a pulse and everything. how are you? how you doing? >> i am doing wonderful. thank you for asking. >> jimmy: you have been on the show a couple of tim

a lot of animal hoarding calls.'s our number one call. oftentimes they fail to spay and neuter. the other scenario is folks who sort of started out trying to rescue animals and they've just sort of lost the ability or never had the ability to sort of determine what's an appropriate number of animals for them to have. >> whatever the reason for hoarding, the effects on the animals are devastating. >> the number one thing that we see in these cases is a real failure to provide proper veterinary care. when there's so many animals and not enough people to care for them, what happens is they may be providing sort of the basics of food and water to some extent, but they don't have the ability really to go through and monitor the population. you see injuries that have not been treated properly, that have either gotten infected or healed improperly. you often see disease from overcrowding. >> people with animal hoarding tend to want to be caregivers. they want to take in the defenseless animal. be an advocate for these crea

those are still seaworld's animals, and they are responsible for those animals.sn't have a good reputation. people that work in the business know the reputation of places. and loro parque doesn't have a good reputation. they didn't spend the same amount of time as the seaworld trainers, didn't go through the same regimen the seaworld trainers went through. and alexis really was the best trainer. and i did say, i said, you're the only trainer there that can hold his own with a seaworld trainer. but i said, you know, you need to be careful. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> anywhere along the line it could have been stopped because everyone knew it was a tragedy waiting to happen, but no one ever did anything about it. and in the end, it was the best trainer who lost his life. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> those were seaworld's whales. they were trained using seaworld's techniques. and their training was being supervised at the time of the fatal accident by one of their senior trainers from san diego. ♪ >> for somebody to get up and say in a court of law they h

. >> animal lovers protested against the decision to put down a healthy animal. but the zoo stood its ground. there was no alternative since having the cub raised by hand in another zoo was not an option. >> we tried a number of times to separate them. but it was too stressful for all concerned. >> the director of the zoo decided not to keep the bear cub's fate a secret. >> the more discussion forums, newspaper articles, and television segments, the more attention is focused on the relations between animals and people, the more rational those relations will be. we can't treat all bears as though they were cute little teddy bears. >> but many visitors only want to be entertained. that is why they love the small monkeys and particularly bears. the bear has been the heraldic animal for centuries. animal rights activists say the bottom line is money. >> they breed bears because they have a special significance here. they attract visitors to the zoo. we are talking about profits. >> that is an accusation that has also been leveled at copenhagen zoo, which killed a hea

animation. >> oh, geez. well, one of us is going to have to change. >> to live action plus computer animation. >> oh. ♪ how do you like me now how do you like me now ♪ >> to his latest live action minus animation. ♪ the story of the guy behind "a million ways to die in the west" begins back east. in small town new england, quiet kent, connecticut. he's the eldest of two kids. who's this guy? >> that is jonathan winters. no, this is me as a child. what was i, like less than a year old. >> what do you have on? >> like overalls and pulled the straps down to be sexy. >> adorable. the hair is still the same. >> it's exactly the same. >> like a lot of tots, baby seth loves cartoons. >> i would watch woody woodpecker and fred flintstone. >> yabba-dabba doo. >> unlike a lot of tots, baby seth can draw them. >> it's -- yeah, the flintstones. these were from when i was 2. for some reason fred is waving the american flag. >> i'm blown away by this but barney is spelled wrong. >> i'm embarrassed. >> if this isn't the ul

fox home to the simpsons gets a look at animated short. >> i'm steve.og in case you're, well, stupid. >> fox invites him to shoot a pilot so long as he does it on the cheap. >> they weren't going to give me a million dollars to make a pilot so they said, listen, if you can do this for 50 grand we'll give you a shot at a prime time show. >> he titles his program "family guy." >> don't touch the thermostat. >> man. >> it's a twisted take on the nuclear family complete with mattress idol talking baby. >> stuie, i said no toys at the table. >> is this a grape or a cherry? >> seth voices several characters from stuie to dad peter griffin. >> alcohol is trouble. i feel kind of guilty i ever gave chris his first taste of beer. yeah, but you turned out okay, didn't you, pal? >> i'm going to go get wasted. >> look both ways. >> the voice came from a security guard where i went to college and had this just impossibly thick loud boisterous wild a rhode island accent. >> fox green-lights the show. >> put it behind the super bowl which that is the biggest piece of r

animals.pe cod, massachusetts. a potential environmental tragedy is unfolding. scores of dolphins are washing up on shore. to the dismay of local residents and scientists. researchers brian sharpe and c.t. harry work with the international fund for animal welfare and coordinate marine mammal rescues. the team brings cameras out to document the rapid spike in strandings. >> it escalated extremely quickly. >> this is ten. >> we couldn't keep pens writing fast enough in order to collect all the information about where animals were. >> i would just go ahead and say get on the road. >> i felt like at one point i was questioning were there any dolphins left in the ocean to respond to? >> cape cod's hook-shaped geography make it a hot spot for animals to get stranded. >> has to are offshore animals. they are not used to tidal flats. they come in close to shore and the tide slips out underneath them and they're left stranded not knowing what happened. >> every year dolphins get trapped in the area's s

and somewhat like the animal was in a large cage. in any event, it stayed under the vehicle and a -- someone from the game state game came in with a tranquilizer gun. went in short time ago. tranquilized that animal and it is being taken away. don't know where, but somewhere far from mountain view after the ordeal here in town today. >> all right, thank you, terry. good news. more than five hours from the apartment complex off el camino. >> that is the best possible outcome for the animal and everyone in the neighborhood as well. >>> now our micro forecast, which includes a lot of wind lately, jeff. >> yes. anyone crossing the bridges, take a look at the wind gust. all the way up to 48 miles an hour. we will have details of the improving wind story coming up p. but i will take you outside. it is cool, even get together cold category here. at least for the bay area this time of year and north bay. close to 40s right now. mainly clear skies across the bay. not as windy throughout the east bay. temperatures at 58 degrees and check it ou

and just always remember that years from now, the animals that you have early on in your life continue to live on in your memory and in the person that they make you, and, so, in that way, they'll always be with you. >> beautifully put. thank you so much. for some more suggestions on coping with the death of a pet, check out the a.s.p.c.a. they have a special pet-loss program that you'll probably find helpful. >> what do santa claus, the easter bunny, and the photos of young women in magazines all have in common? they're not real. for years, it's been common practice in magazines to retouch photos of women and girls to make them look more attractive. experts say these altered photos give girls a distorted image of reality. trying to look as perfect as those in photos can ruin one's self-esteem, and that can lead to serious problems, like depression and eating disorders. but that may be changing thanks to a teen from maine. julia bluhm started petitions to get magazines to stop altering the photos. the first magazine to change its policies was seventeen. while they still do some retouch

they are the cells of over 10,000 individual animals. >> this isn't exactly your traditional zoo.you say the definition of zoo have changed with this type of technique? >> zoos have greatly expanded from menageries. they are now conservation organizations. the zoos of the future will have activities like preserving these samples as part of their mission. >> the cells of many endangered species, like the panda, none closer to the heart than the northern white rhino. >> they are amazing. as big as they are, i think they are more like ballerinas than anything else. they are exquisite products of nature. what an amazing creature a rhino is. there may be seven white rhinos left but how many productive individuals are there? those are four and very highly related. inbred cannot survive as well as those with higher genetic diversity. that's the goal of genetickic rescue comes in. >> the goal of genetic rescue is to restore the species to full genetic health. the cells at the frozen zoo. could be used to reproduce healthy offspring. remarkable new and easy way of creating stem cells from

the animal wandered in there this weekend.his picture from the mountain view patch was taken by one of the people who first reported the mountain lion. the animal was wearing some sort of tracking collar, and fish and wildlife officials are trying to determine if the animal was part of a scientific study. we are staying on top of the developments. we'll bring you any updates as they become available. >>> two investigates tonight claims that dirty water in a public fountain can make you sick. a student claims he got a bacterial infection. jana katsuyama questioned city officials about whether the fountain poses a public health threat. >> reporter: julie tonight i walked around the fountain and in one spot saw a pile of human waste. people around here regularly say they see people bathing in it, and using it as a toilet. jacob says on april 25 says his wife took these photos. he went to the oakland va clinic. >> they just told me, i had an infection in my eye, and that i needed to go get a cat scan. >> reporter: doctors put him

the animals are pretty smart.hen you go out and he wasn't and try to take on your traditional human role as a predator. you will understand it is a lot more difficult than it looks like sitting in your armchair at home. host: marianne in troy, michigan on our line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning, and thank you four season. i would like to make two points. one is that the speaker has been allowed to call groups of radical and other names just because they advocate for animals. athink there should be balancing voice here because c-span is dedicated to that policy. thatecond, i believe civilized societies can find humane ways of funding conservation without slaughtering the innocent animals who are living on the tods that he claims to want conserve. that is their home. but he is saying that he needs to kill them, torture them. that right on one thing in people do not know a lot about hunting. they do not know the gruesome, bloodletting, the death throws. if they follow these hunters into the wild

welcome back to our show with a a variety of animals, large and small, here's our animal expert.ou. congratulations, man. roots, my boys. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: they're not -- they're not your boys. >> the saga continues. get on the desk. get on the desk. get on the desk. lay down. get up. get on the desk, please. get up. lay down. hurry. >> jimmy: what are you doing? >> just lay on the desk. hurry up. lay on the desk. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what are you -- what are you talking about? >> time's going. no, the other way. the other way. belly up. yep. like you're in a coffin. yep, good. [ laughter ] no. good. so cool. because sloths do everything upside down, but the babies do everything right side up, okay? [ audience aws ] so, you have to keep -- there you go! and then you feed them, and i'll see if she'll eat. oh, there you go. look at it. she'll eat. and jimmy will eat -- >> jimmy: no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy. >> jimmy: what's wrong with you? you're freaking the sloths out. >> no, they have living organisms that live all over them, and the living organisms will live on

the animal wandered in there this weekend. this picture from the mountain view patch was taken by one of the people who first reported the mountain lion. the animal was wearing some sort of tracking collar, and fish and wildlife officials are trying to determine if the animal was part of a scientific study. we are staying on top of the developments. we'll bring you any updates as they become available. >>> two investigates tonight claims that dirty water in a public fountain can make you sick. a student claims he got a bacterial infection. jana katsuyama questioned city officials about whether the fountain poses a public health threat. >> reporter: julie tonight i walked around the fountain and in one spot saw a pile of human waste. people around here regularly say they see people bathing in it, and using it as a toilet. jacob says on april 25 says his wife took these photos. he went to the oakland va clinic. >> they just told me, i had an infection in my eye, and that i needed to go get a cat scan. >> reporter: doctors put hi

to animal adoption centers all over the state and beyond.eporting live in milpitas, amber lee, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> it would take about 80 years to completely do away with postal delivery. >>> wild weather moved through colorado today. hail blanketed some areas. some of the hail was actually the size of ping pong balls making driving very dangerous. livestock had problems of their own, trying to escape the downpour. >>> one tornado touched down southeast of denver's airport. weather watchers had a field day chasing the severe storms. there were no reports of damage or injuries. >>> it was slightly warmer out there today. temperatures have gradually been warming. the weekend was cool, monday was cool, tuesday, kind of cool, and as we head into today, we warmed up a few. we got in the low 80s in these hotter spots, or warmer spots. 82 in antioch. 81 in morgan hill. lots of 70s. a lot of fog along the coast right now, that fog is going to restrict itself to the coast, as we go into the next couple of days. that will induce warming. here's

to animal adoption centers all over the state and beyond.orting live in milpitas, amber lee, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> it would take about 80 years to completely do away with postal delivery. >>> wild weather moved through colorado today. hail blanketed some areas. some of the hail was actually the size of ping pong balls making driving very dangerous. livestock had problems of their own, trying to escape the downpour. >>> one tornado touched down southeast of denver's airport. weather watchers had a field day chasing the severe storms. there were no reports of damage or injuries. >>> it was slightly warmer out there today. temperatures have gradually been warming. the weekend was cool, monday was cool, tuesday, kind of cool, and as we head into today, we warmed up a few. we got in the low 80s in these hotter spots, or warmer spots. 82 in antioch. 81 in morgan hill. lots of 70s. a lot of fog along the coast right now, that fog is going to restrict itself to the coast, as we go into the next couple of days. that will induce warming. here's th

first, there's the horse, the official state animal. beneath that is the state seal with three plows. the goddess of agriculture stands to the right, holding a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables. on the left, the goddess liberty holds a staff topped with a cap. the cap is a symbol of freedom, from the french revolution. blue images on a field of gold represent the state's first european settlers -- the dutch. while stationed at jockey hollow during the american revolution, george washington is said to have chosen blue and gold for his troops' uniforms. today, that new jersey site is recognized as our country's first national historic park. >> the flag really represents all that is good about new jersey. it's not necessarily unique, so much as it is an appropriate image for the state. >> and it proudly displays an appropriate motto -- "liberty and prosperity." with "flag facts," i'm brandon. >> is it time to say goodbye to the dollar bill? maybe. congress is thinking about changing the one-dollar bill to a one-dollar coin. the switch co

looks like another animate gol bite out of her. >> she's so little. >> tiny. she's almost asking for help. she's coming toward the humans. >> i want to keep it. >> i know. >> even has nick wanting it. >> we're going to take you home. >> so bow's wife takes her jacket and is able to just pull this little fox into her arms look a little baby. >> it's okay. we'll get you something to eat. >> because bow and his wife are awesome people, they took this little fox home, and look at this. as they're feeding this fox, getting her back to health, look how amazing she looks just after a few days. >> already better. has her color back. >> yes. >> hi. >> so, of course, this fox, she stole their hearts in just a matter of days as they were helping her get healthy. and she acts almost like a dog, playful, scratches and rubs. they needed to do the right thing and make sure this fox had a good home back out in the wild. so they decided to take this little fox to the blue ridge wildlife center. we have this sad but sweet moment that they decided to say good-bye. >> good-bye, l

i love animals.als. >> are you finding it more and more because people are in tough economic times, they just cannot care for them because of the expense of a pet? >> yes. it has gotten much worse, but i will say because there's more awareness now, people are rallying and getting involved. and that was really why we started paws chicago, was to engage the community and solve the problem. >> and it's a unique facility, isn't it. tell us what makes it different from some of the other places. >> we have a whole comprehensive no-kill model, so it is the adoption center where the animals are not in cages. they're in rooms. they're given walks. they're given full medical treatment at our medical center which is separate from our adoption center. and then they get a guarantee. so any animal that's adopted out, god forbid something happens, we always will take the animal back and it will not be killed. >> you want to see this happen in every major city. >> yes. we're working with shelters all across the coun

care control to share various animal with the community. and, so, again we're just so shocked by her passing and really want to wish her family all the best as they deal with this difficult time. and would like to ask that we adjourn in her memory today. >> thank you, supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. today i am introducing a charter amendment that ties the mta's baseline to population grove so that a population increase he he in our city, mta funding increases, the additional funding would be dedicated to primarily to improving muni's frequency capacity, reliability and state of good repair with the smaller amount being dedicated to street safety improvements. colleague, i'll be honest that i did not want to introduce this amendment. i would prefer that we proceed with the vehicle license fee and i agree with supervisor mar in that respect. i believe that would provide long-term dedicated sustainable funding for road resurfacing, for cap pal improvementses to make muni run better and improve the safety of our s