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It's been three-and-a-half years since I wrote an award-winning package of stories called Throwaway Animals that chronicled the fate of thousands of animals who are killed by the taxpayers of Kern County. The Californian printed, with the story, a photo of 55-gallon barrels of dead dogs and cats in the freezer at the Kern County Animal Control shelter on South Mt. Vernon Avenue. That photo made some people very angry. They called us a tabloid. They ripped us for exposing children to the shocking material. They bashed us for going for the shock value. Well folks. Fair warning. We're doing it again. On Sunday. (Actually the story is up on the bakersfield.com home page now) We have to do this. Despite studies and commissions and more money and more staff and thousands of animals rescued by loving adoptive parents and dedicated animal rescuers, the kill rates in Kern County animal shelters are climbing again. Why? Because this county and its citizens have done a lot to fix the...
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