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What Mike Kaviani doesn't mention is the shelter is currently at 220% capacity. And as OC Animal Care has been doing for the last 20 years, this new shelter director is also still attempting to mislead the general public by creating false statistics regarding the live release rates of dogs, In December of 2018, Kaviani posted a 98% percent release rate for the dogs, now six months later, he is claiming a 95% percent live release rate for the dogs. Both live release rates are false. According to one of our attorneys: What OC Animal Care is currently trying to imp' . _ ROL ,host of abandonment, and if there are abandonment laws against the general publre, those laws should also apply to OC Animal Care. There are most certainly abandonment laws in CA. It's also a misdemeanor in California to abandon pets. One law simply says that it's illegal to purposefully abandon an animal (Cal, Penal Code 4 597s). A more general statute criminalizes leaving animals without proper care and attention in any building, enclosure, lot, street, or other public place (Cal. Penal Code 4 597.1), In this case, there's no requirement that the abandonment or neglect be purposeful. Cal. Penal Code 4 597s. Abandonment of domestic animals. (a) Every person who willfully abandons any animal is guilty of a misdemeanor. CAL. PENAL CODE g 597.1. Failure to care for animals; misdemeanor; powers and duties of local officers and veterinarians; hearings; liability for costs; forfeiture. (1) Every owner, driver, or keeper of any animal who permits the animal to be in any building, enclosure, lane, street, square, or lot of any city, county, city and county, or judicial district without proper care and attention is guilty of a misdemeanor. So what happens when an animal shelter is doin, ,n —11c, - h this case OC Animal Care. This is what we need the general public to do: if you see volunteers driving in your neighborhoods, communities, near schools, fields or malls, and they stop open their cars and you see cat kennels or grey bins, and you witness these volunteers dumping cats back into the communities, please videotape and photograph these actions. We have established a hot line the community can call and report these actions to. You can also pick up the stray cats and return or take them back to OC Animal Care. Our hotline number is 714-454-0813. Unfortunately, OCAC has lost their focus on animal welfare and under Mike Kaviani is focused solely on the live release rates and save rates so OC Animal Care and Mike Kaviani can look better than they really are. This is not what sheltering is supposed to be about. Sharon Logan has foz ehtfor close to a decade for shelter reform at OCAnimal Care. She and her attorneys successfully sued the co snty animal shelter as the Plainti�'in the ground breaking lawsuit, Logan vs. OCAnimal Care. Opinions expressed in editorials trctun, cr,e authors and