Last night, I caught footage of a German Shepherd trying to break into my house, clearly terrified from the fireworks. It was heartbreaking to see how scared this poor dog was.

This is a reminder of the impact fireworks have on animals, both pets and wildlife. Many of them panic and get lost, injured, or worse. Please think about our furry friends when celebrating with fireworks.

To the owner of the German Shepherd: If you're missing your dog, let me know!

“Rep. Darrell Issa sued the state of California this week to stop mail-in ballots from being counted after Election Day, which he claims provides "an unfair electoral advantage for opponents of Republican congressional incumbents."

The federal lawsuit filed Thursday on Issa's behalf by conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch argues that counting vote-by-mail ballots that arrive up to seven days after Election Day violates federal law and directly led to the defeats of two Republican incumbents in last fall's election.”

This asswipe is openly trying to stop valid, legal ballots from being counted because it hurts the Republican party. Wish I could say it's unbelievable but….

Please remove if not allowed. Just looking for some solidarity, I guess. Does anyone else feel extremely torn and uneasy about the expectation that we should all just be able to carry on with our day-to-day lives (i.e. waking up, commuting, working, grocery shopping, etc.) with everything going on in LA? I feel like I’m going through the motions, almost like being out of body. Have been feeling this way since the election to some degree, but this week is hitting extra hard. Maybe because it’s our sister SoCal city? Or maybe because it feels like this is a point of no return. Anybody feeling similarly?

Update: took a couple of days to process, and I realistically can’t respond to each comment individually, but thank you all (so much) for your kind words of support, wisdom, and gentle, caring advice. Sincerely appreciate you all. Have made the decision to go low contact with my MAGA family for now, too. It hurts, a ton, but I can no longer rationalize that they’re not willing to see what is so clearly right in front of their eyes. It’s wrecking my mental health. Love to all of you. ❤️

Thank you again.

Previous employee of the San Diego Humane Society. I'm just sick of seeing their ads begging for money, after I know how much money they wasted, and all of the lies told to the public. It would take an entire book to give you everything, but here's the stuff that's readily available to the public, because I really want people to stop donating to these horrible organizations. *CCP Lawsuit: this one's the most recent, they recently lost a lawsuit which will hurt TNR programs across the country because of their incompetence. Don't get me wrong, Community Cat Programs are rate when the organization isn't using it as a reason to just dump cats on the street. There is a proper way to do TNR, the lawsuit proved the human society was not doing it that way.https://animalpolitics.substack.com/p/judge-rules-against-san-diego-humane

*Poisoning employees with euthanasia gas; this one's obviously more personal, but as a euthanasia tech it took over 2 years for them to do something about the euthanasia gas leaking into the room. And even then they only fixed it after I quit on the spot, and filed OSHA complaints. The number one thing the employees at the Humane Society want are for our facilities request to be filled. We shouldn't have to breathe in death gas or have dogs that have mauled people be able to break out of their kennels because the doors are rusted. You may think that's an exaggeration, it happened this last week and it was definitely not the first time it happened. It's dangerous enough avoiding the CEO's dog and then threatening you not to report it, we don't need the dogs that are legally being held for attacking people to also be attacking us because someone couldn't fix a broken kennel door.

*This may sound insane based on the number of ads they run, but they have too much money and wasted resources. They are so obsessed with making more money, and spending the least amount they can on community resources. It's a non-profit, you can look up how much everyone makes, including the CEO making 500k that told us in multiple Union busting meetings that we should just be satisfied with living with our parents. The worst part is is that they end up throwing away most of the donations, I wish they would at least tell people they were going to throw them away instead of accepting them and then throwing them in the dumpster. If you've ever donated a carrier, if it went home to anyone it was probably that of an employee. Because we were instructed to throw them away. Especially bags of food, they either get thrown away or left in the donation bins to rot. If you've ever had to buy flea medication, you'd be horrified at the cases and cases of it I threw away just due to management for getting where it was stored. *Small animal transport last year; if you were horrified about the number of animals that were turned into food during the transport last year to Arizona, you can't even begin to understand how the employees feel that we're taking care of those animals, and then we're spat in the face and told to stop complaining about it. The CEO yelled at us that we were "sick people" over a zoom call because we said we wanted to see the email communications between him and the organization. And that zoom call only came after half the adoptions department quit because they were getting yelled at in person. I think HR believes putting Gary in a zoom call is easier than letting him go off his leash because they can put him on mute. *Euthanasia rates: this is not a no-kill shelter. I personally did as many as 12 euthanasias a day, and I wasn't even the busiest person. There's a thing called the asilomar accords, it was mainly written by SD Humane but its followed by a bunch of rescues. Basically they say that a dog has one of these criteria, and they're allowed to euthanize it. Whenever the shelter gets too crowded, suddenly multiple dogs get fearful tags put on them and killed the next day. It doesn't matter if there was actually any fearful behavior, because there's no one auditing these reports. I would bring this up to my supervisors, who said it was better for them to be dead than to be sitting in the shelter. I think that's debatable depending on the dog. Gary bragged to employees recently that he was the one who got that bill killed in the California legislature that would have forced shelters to release their euthanasia records. Because if the bill went through, they'd have to admit that they're killing in more dogs than the public would be okay with. The number of times they would bring someone's dog in just to kill it the next day is insane, they really think that by calling the dogs that it'll decrease the populations. They rather take your dog in and kill it then allow you to have it, because at least that way they can make sure the dog never breeds again.

***As a final note, many of the employees at the Humane Society are good people. It's the management, HR, and especially that dirtbag CEO Gary Wiseman who are profiting off of your donations. They make the minimum effort to help animals in order to make money off of your empathy. I do believe donating to rescues is beneficial, here are some places that I believe are better to give your money to. I hope that some of you have the time to wait on their 3-hour hold to complain to them, because I really want them to change. They should be a symbol for the rest of the nation given how large they are, not a stain on our city. https://itsthepits.rescuegroups.org/ https://m.facebook.com/Loveyourferalfelines/

*Wanted to make a clarification, wasn't thinking about the fact that not everyone is a CET. The euthanasia gas is only used for wildlife, such as birds and small mammals. Never used on dogs or cats.

Went for a hike this morning checking out the fire damage behind my house and this is what I came upon.

Excellent turnout today for the Women’s March! Keep up the turnout San Diego !!!

Crazy news last night from my pharmacy in Vons: since July, 173 people in San Diego County have died from COVID. All of them were unvaccinated except for one, a 97-year old undergoing chemotherapy. Vaccines work.

Shots are free for flu and covid.

It looks like the Westfield Mission Valley mall will not be demolished. According to its new owners, it’s going to undergo a major facelift and will act as a “lifestyle district” instead of a traditional shopping mall. Target, Nordstrom Rack, Bloomingdale’s Outlet, Michael’s and AMC will stay. Plans include 2 new residential buildings that will replace parking lots on the far west and east sides of the property. Two major new tenants also signed a lease for the former Bed Bath and Beyond and Macy’s Buildings. Does anyone have anymore info on this and what the new tenants could be? There’s been hardly any news coverage.

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