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Pet compliance checks in unincorporated Lancaster, Palmdale starting Oct. 4

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PALMDALE – Animal care and control field officers will be enforcing pet licensing and spay/neuter laws in the unincorporated areas of Lancaster and Palmdale next week, authorities announced.

The enforcement teams will fan out in unincorporated Lancaster (zip code 93536) and Palmdale (zip codes 93551, 93550 and 93552) starting Wednesday, Oct. 4, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control (DACC).

“Field enforcement efforts are designed to ensure that residents’ dogs and cats are in compliance with mandatory licensing requirements, spay/neuter, and microchipping,” the news release states.

Dog and cat owners in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, including Quartz Hill, Littlerock and Lake Los Angeles, are required to license and microchip their pets. Dogs and cats must also be spayed or neutered, with some exemptions for competition, breeding and service dogs and pets with health problems.

State law also requires that all dogs at least 4 months old be vaccinated against rabies. The county requires the same vaccination for cats.

“Residents not in compliance will be subject to license fees, delinquency charges, and a $40 field enforcement fee (to offset the cost of the Department’s field services),” the news release states.

The Department of Animal Care and Control offers low-cost vaccination and microchips and financial assistance for spay and neuter surgeries.

More information and license applications can be found online at www.animalcare.lacounty.gov or at any county animal care center.

[Information via news release from the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control.]

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30 comments for "Pet compliance checks in unincorporated Lancaster, Palmdale starting Oct. 4"

  1. I’m ignorant of local Lancaster politics, so I ask in all seriousness:

    Did they regulate pit bulls?

    • http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/lancasters-dog-ordinance-is-cited-in-helping-to-drive-down-gang-crime.html

      Under Rex, thousands were rounded up and killed. Between that and the Eye in the Sky, you’d think Lancaster would be a safe place? Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

      Chapter 6.04 in the code. A lot of good it’s done, right? Crime is up. You can’t go to the BLVD without getting hit up for money. Have you been inside the Library? Yuk.

      What a joke. Do yourself a favor. Every other Tuesday, get yourself a nice adult beverage, some good eats, and pull up a chair to watch the Greatest Freak Show on Earth——-Lancaster Council live.

        • There aren’t 1,000 vicious pit bulls in a hundred mile radius, but Rex saw to it that twice that were killed.

          There is something wrong with a person who cannot differentiate between the concept of all or none. Not all pit bulls are vicious. Not all Dobermans are vicious.

          Not all who support Rex are like him.

        • This was idiot Mike White, who usually only responds when I post…so when I haven’t he pretends to be me. It is sad that a grown man is so fixated on someone he has never even met, but there ya go.

        • Hi Mike White. If you are gonna pretend to be me you might want to not have a one or two minute difference in the time stamp from your other inane posts.

  2. How will the enforcement team know if owners are in compliance? They gout to walk up to people door and ask for papers?

    • They look for dogs they can see from the street, then they use their tablet/smart phone to access the database and see if there is a license issued to that address. If you have moved since you licensed your dogs be prepared to produce the paperwork.

    • “Unincorporated areas of the city” is a contradiction, and technically meaningless. But I’m guessing since they mention zip codes that they mean places that are not in the city limits but still have a Lancaster or Palmdale address through the post office.

      I’m sure that if you sent mail somewhere like Desert View Highlands, which is county but completely surrounded by Palmdale, all of the addresses would say Palmdale. Probably half the residents don’t even know that they don’t actually live in Palmdale.

      • I live in desert view highlands. If this is t Palmdale then where is it that I’m living? Haha

        • In an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County that is completely surrounded by the city of Palmdale. Since you asked.

          There have been a couple times, at least, where annexing Desert View Highlands into the city was discussed. Bringing the infrastructure up to the standards of the city would be a big expense, so the city has never been really strong in favor. I don’t know if the residents have been strongly in favor either.

  4. I was mauled by a Collie, when I was a child. The dog got the owner’s son, then me and then the owner,s son. The grandfather put the dog down after that. I wish he had put it down after it bit the owner’s son the first time. Then I would not have been mauled. Sad that some dogs no matter how they are treated turn into CUJO. Some are just so friendly and sweet, others turn mean and not always because of the owner.

  5. Any dog can be vicious owners dictate an animals behavior my pit bull is well behaved with people and other dogs. I have raised my animal properly. Any aggressive pit bull is that way due to the way it was raised.

    • True that. Then I would truly love your pit bull (better than some people, lol). I’m just afraid until proven differently cause I love my doggy so.

      Best to you and your dog

    • I was hiking alone one time and some cholo with typical prison attire comes along with a pit bull straining on the leash to get at me. I had my hand on a weapon in my pack.

      He says: Don’t worry, he just wants to play. I paid X thousands for him and plan to breed him. He’s has a champion bloodline.”

      I said with a straight face: “If I were you I’d cut his nuts off and quiet him down some.”

      The veins in his neck stood out and the top of the guys head almost came off, LMAO.
      I said

    • Rex and his followers cannot comprehend the concept of how you raise a dog affects how the dog will behave. With Rex, it’s all black and white. Pit bulls bad. Raymond Lee Jennings guilty. Johnathan Ervan gang candidate. Dead terrorists dangerous. Bird sounds lower crime. ‘The Gays’ and Asians lower crime. War on Section 8. Lancaster is Christian Community. Must grow pot. Bangladesh will be destroyed. Yada yada yada.

    • Don’t like pit bulls. They scare me cause I have a sweet Weimaraner without a mean bone in her body, and I worry. But I have plenty of mean bones in my body, and a .38 special.

  7. “To offset the cost of the departments field services”? Yeah right. More like, “to rake in extra snack money for their gun-toting fat a$$e$.

    • If it cost them $40.00 to get to each place in the unincorperated area. Then I hope they are going to buy some hybreds. It’s only to rake in mucho $$$.

      • It’s not a five minute job to issue a citation, so they aren’t going to be issuing them every 5 minutes. The other part is they can’t do it solo anymore, because sometimes going to shoot them for getting in their business. Just going to make up some numbers here: suppose they get 20 an hour, and they’ve got to have at least a second officer on hand when they knock, plus deputies in the area, and it takes at least half an hour to do one citation, but there other half of an hour they are just checking off compliant for the compliant pets. The 40 fee isn’t going to come close to paying for the operation.

        • The animal control agent showed up at my place all by his lonesome. We had a nice conversation and I got my ticket for not having tags for the cats. Took about 20 minutes overall as he looked at my vet records for the cats, verified the dog had passed away and had me sign.

    • After animal control puts them down, they will no longer be a dog.
      Spay/neuter, chip and license.
      Protect your pack mate!

    • I once told a friend that is a psychologist: “You’ll probably think I’m crazy but I like dogs better than people”. She responded: “You just came to that conclusion?

    • I nominate “If their license lapses does that mean they are no longer a dog?” as the best quip of the month. That was funny.