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Bill Bruce (not the West High principal) looks nothing like a rock star.
Far from it. The bureaucrat from Calgary looks a lot like our own homegrown bureaucrats, middle-aged and somewhat, er, rumpled.
Given the awed reaction to his methodically delivered PowerPoint Wednesday evening, though, he could have been wearing leather pants, strutting across the Kern County Board of Supervisors chambers bare-chested, belting out a sweaty encore of “Emotional Rescue.”
The audience — mostly women — was riveted.
It was a long presentation so I’ll cut to the heart of Bruce’s Jagger-esque magnetism: Calgary, population 1.1 million, euthanized a total of 419 dogs and cats in 2008.
Here in Kern County, population 827,000, we killed 19,742 dogs and cats last year.
That’s beyond crazy. It’s warped, sick, horrifying and it has to stop.
Wednesday’s audience — and many in the community who care for animals or just hate waste...
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