Animal Services manager tries to bring operation to heel
Ed Boks is trying to lower euthanasia rates while making friends with the animal welfare community. His success has been mixed.
By Tony Barboza, Times Staff Writer
March 15, 2007
Ed Boks says he runs the Los Angeles city department that "most people love to hate."
Taking over as general manager of Los Angeles Animal Services a little more than a year ago, he became the fourth person in four years to oversee the care of thousands of animals in city shelters.
The turnover rate alone illustrates the political pressure that historically hangs over the department as it manages the population of unwanted pets whose treatment people care about deeply even radically.
