Dawg Squad Owner Blames L.A.’s ‘No-Kill’ Policy for Animal Shelter Overcrowding

‘It’s a pipe dream,’ says Carole Pearson, who is unabashedly ‘not no-kill’ when discussing the overcrowding of animal shelters.

“The shelters are overcrowded because of our ‘no-kill’ mentality,” she tells Los Angeles magazine during a conversation on the overcrowding crisis.

“There’s three dogs in kennels meant for one, there’s dogs in hallways in crates, because we can’t kill anything,” she says, “because it’ll bring the euthanasia rates up. It’s inhumane.” 

Pearson feels it’s more ethical to “let them go,” rather than keep them confined in unhealthy living conditions for most of their lives.

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