"Boston animal shelter found in crisis; City moves 35 animals to other shelters" by Andrew Ryan | Globe Staff July 11, 2014
Boston’s city-run animal shelter is meant to be a sanctuary for abandoned and abused animals, a refuge for forsaken creatures. But late last month, the Animal Rescue League discovered such troubling conditions in the Roslindale pound that it warned the city the shelter was in crisis.
One brown dog named Camilla, rescued in 2011 from a dog-fighting ring, was gaunt, dehydrated, and had open sores on her body. Other animals howled incessantly. Cats lay on single sheets of wet newspaper.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s administration launched an investigation, moved 35 animals to other shelters, and suspended the city’s director of animal control and prepared to fire him.
The city pound is on Mahler Road, a dead end near Arnold Arboretum in Roslindale. The cinder-block building is decorated with a vibrant mural of a golden retriever, a parrot, and other healthy-looking animals.
But inside, the Animal Rescue League found a startlingly different portrait....
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Boston’s city-run animal shelter is meant to be a sanctuary for abandoned and abused animals, a refuge for forsaken creatures. But late last month, the Animal Rescue League discovered such troubling conditions in the Roslindale pound that it warned the city the shelter was in crisis.
One brown dog named Camilla, rescued in 2011 from a dog-fighting ring, was gaunt, dehydrated, and had open sores on her body. Other animals howled incessantly. Cats lay on single sheets of wet newspaper.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s administration launched an investigation, moved 35 animals to other shelters, and suspended the city’s director of animal control and prepared to fire him.
The city pound is on Mahler Road, a dead end near Arnold Arboretum in Roslindale. The cinder-block building is decorated with a vibrant mural of a golden retriever, a parrot, and other healthy-looking animals.
But inside, the Animal Rescue League found a startlingly different portrait....
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