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Mission Statement:

Our Mission is simple:

Saving Animals. Paw Protectors Rescue was founded in 2011 with the dedicated goal of helping to alleviate the problem of overcrowding and euthanasia in the Southern California Municipal Shelters. Paw Protectors Rescue is a non profit, no kill, all volunteer animal rescue. Paw Protectors Rescue is dedicated to rescuing animals that have been left homeless

, abandoned, neglected, abused, the animals that are at most risk in the high kill California municipal public shelters. Paw Protectors Rescue is also dedicated to Shelter Reform in So. Cal, helping high kill shelters, animal advocates and rescues in Southern California reform their local municipal tax payer funded shelters. Paw Protectors Rescue is the game changer that ushered in Shelter Reform at OC Animal Care. Paw Protectors Rescue also dedicates our time and resources to helping low income families in Orange and LA County become responsible pet parents, we offer free spay and neuter services, pet food, flea medication and grooming to low income families. Adopt, Rescue, Advocate, Educate.

The hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society, SDHS PR machine keeps portraying themselves as a Beacon in Animal She...
06/19/2025

The hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society, SDHS PR machine keeps portraying themselves as a Beacon in Animal Sheltering, they are not.

We don't always agree with Nathan Winograd, but Wow!

From the architect of the Real No Kill Movement.

Gary Weitzman and San Diego Humane Society tried to spin this and claim victory.

San Diego Humane Society has not mastered the art of caring for animals but have mastered the art of spinning, lying, and deflecting.

Remember Folks, Real Animal Advocacy works!💪💪👊🏼👊🏼



In a victory for animals and those who care about them, a California Court issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the San Diego Humane Society from refusing to provide shelter and care to kittens and lost cats and instead abandoning them on the street.

While the ruling supports the legality of community cat programs, including for feral cats, it requires shelters to comply with state laws regarding abandonment and animal care.

In a bid to recast the Court’s ruling against it, the San Diego Humane Society claimed victory in the case — a claim echoed by apologists for “shelter” malfeasance — even though the Court ruled against SDHS and prohibited them from making any changes to the program that would reduce protections for kittens and for adult cats who are social with people.

CBS originally wrote an article regurgitating SDHS’s false claim of winning. They quickly removed the article when presented with the truth. CBS subsequently reported that “A judge found the Humane Society’s Community Cat Program violated state law…” In fact, it wasn’t a community program; it was a program that turned its back on kittens and lost or abandoned friendly cats.

Learn what the ruling means for kittens, social cats, and feral cats, and why we need to continue insisting on — and passing laws that mandate — No Kill policies: news.nokilladvocacycenter.org/p/court-prohibits-shelter-from-dumping

We don't always agree with Nathan Winograd, but Wow! From the architect of the Real No Kill Movement. Gary Weitzman and ...
06/19/2025

We don't always agree with Nathan Winograd, but Wow!

From the architect of the Real No Kill Movement.

Gary Weitzman and San Diego Humane Society tried to spin this and claim victory.

San Diego Humane Society has not mastered the art of caring for animals but have mastered the art of spinning, lying, and deflecting.

Remember Folks, Real Animal Advocacy works!💪💪👊🏼👊🏼



San Diego Humane Society community cat program restricted by court

The Hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society! Momentum Is building and the truth Is coming out.                    ...
06/19/2025

The Hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society!

Momentum Is building and the truth Is coming out.



No more return-to-field dumping of kittens or cats with clear signs of ownership orders judge

People are finally learning the truth about San Diego Humane Society.It’s been a long haul but hard work fromall the ani...
06/19/2025

People are finally learning the truth about San Diego Humane Society.

It’s been a long haul but hard work from
all the animal advocates is starting to pay off.

More people are questioning and that is how change starts.

Remember Folks, Real Animal Advocacy works!



SDHS Misled the Public—Again. Here Are the Facts.

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many posts to catch up on. Bravo!!San Diego Humane Society makes the front page news on Jun...
06/17/2025

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many posts to catch up on.

Bravo!!
San Diego Humane Society makes the front page news on June 1st 2025, and not in a good way in the Sunday Edition of the San Diego Union Tribune.

San Diego Humane Society tries to pass themselves off a Beacon in Animal Sheltering, nothing can be further from the truth, no other animal shelters or animal welfare groups should be taking any kind of direction, advice or recommendations from SDHS.

Under Gary Weitzman's helm at San Diego Humane Society there have been two grand jury investigations and most notably a newly released scathing grand jury report released just weeks ago, found that SDHS routinely failed to meet its contractual obligations for animal control.

Let's not forget SDHS is now also a court sanctioned San Diego Humane Society.

Thank you to all the real animal advocates and animal advocacy groups who continue to shine the spotlight on San Diego Humane Society and Gary Weitzman.

Little by Little all of San Diego Humane Society's DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS are coming to light and being exposed.

What goes on behind closed doors at San Diego Humane Society is being revealed, the Veil has been lifted.

Remember Folks Real Animal Advocacy Works.

SDHS continually fails the animals and the communities they serve.



The nonprofit that provides San Diego’s animal control services is facing increased scrutiny, particularly from the advocates who share its goals.

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many posts to catch up on. The hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society! San Diego Hum...
06/17/2025

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many posts to catch up on.

The hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society!

San Diego Humane Society tries to pass themselves off as a beacon in animal sheltering fir the rest when in fact they've been hiding DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS!

Thank you to all the animal advocates and animal advocacy groups who continue to shine the spotlight on San Diego Humane Society and Gary Weitzman.

CBS 8 News San Diego reports on THE 2024-2025 San Diego Grand Jury Report against San Diego Humane Society.
Besides being a court sanctioned municipal tax payer funded animal shelter, San Diego Humane Society can also claim the title of being investigated by the San Diego Grand Jury and the subject of two San Diego Grand Jury Reports.

The 2024-2025 San Diego County Grand Jury Report found that San Diego Humane Society failed to meet its contractual obligations for animal control.

Remember Folks Real Animal Advocacy Works!



A new Grand Jury report claims San Diego's leash law is not properly enforced, finding a 90% drop in citations over the past year, compared to the previous year.

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many postings to catch up on. The hits keeps coming for San Diego Humane Society. Another W...
06/17/2025

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many postings to catch up on.

The hits keeps coming for San Diego Humane Society.

Another Win!

The California animal system is awful but our real animal advocates are the best in the country.

Thank you Gina L, for the article regarding the truth about San Diego Humane Society.

Via Julie Virga:

SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY BROKE THE LAW—AND CONTINUES TO LIE ABOUT IT!

A California court just ruled that San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) VIOLATED STATE LAW by turning away cats and dumping them back on the streets—even when they were clearly owned, healthy, and friendly.

💥 The court found that SDHS’s so-called “Community Cat Program” illegally abandoned animals, especially vulnerable kittens.

💣 SDHS didn’t just reject animals—they systematically ignored legal duties, then tried to cover it up. They only changed their policy after being sued. Then they misled the public, falsely claiming the court "approved" their actions.

🚫 The truth?

• The court found violations of Civil Code §1816 and Penal Code §597s.

• It declared SDHS's past policies "unduly restrictive" and unlawful.

• And it confirmed: returning a cat with signs of ownership to the street may be a crime.

🐾 Signs like a collar, a microchip, recent vet care, or sterilization without ear-tipping require shelters to take the animal in. SDHS ignored all of that.

💔 This isn’t a shelter—it’s a publicly funded abandonment operation with a glossy PR machine.

📌 Let’s be clear: This ruling wasn’t a win for SDHS.
It was a warning to every shelter in California: you are not above the law.

Read the TRUE STORY HERE: https://ieac.substack.com/p/a-friendly-cat-is-not-a-throwaway?subscribe_prompt=free

If your shelter is turning animals away, rejecting kittens, or calling dumped pets “community cats” to manipulate data—you’re next.



Paw Protectors Rescue has so many postings to catch up on. The hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society. Excellent ...
06/17/2025

Paw Protectors Rescue has so many postings to catch up on.

The hits keep coming for San Diego Humane Society.

Excellent article calling for accountability and transparency of San Diego Humane Society.

The corruption of Large Animal welfare organizations that include terms such as the Humane societies and the society of prevention of cruelty to animals, and the tragic results for the animals in their "care".



Meeting Its Mission—or Mastering the Art of Misdirection?

We have so many posts to catch up on. Scathing Sacramento Bee article regarding Staycee Dains.It is well known to so man...
06/17/2025

We have so many posts to catch up on.

Scathing Sacramento Bee article regarding Staycee Dains.

It is well known to so many that Dains abused her power in the workplace-against volunteers, employees, and rescues along with the animals in her care.

Dains failed San Jose Animal Shelter, Long Beach City Animal Services, Los Angeles City Animal Services and now she is failing at Front Street Animal Shelter in Sacramento.

Can you imagine those poor misguided animal advocates in Orange County that were desperately trying to get the illegal practice of RTF reinstated at Orange County Animal care were calling upon the Orange County Supervisors to reach out to Staycee Dains, they praised Dains and praised Los Angeles City Animal Services as a model shelter that OC Animal Care needed to exemplify.

Thank God for the real animal advocates that spoke up and out regarding Dains and Los Angeles City Animal Services.

Remember Folks, Real Animal Advocacy Works!



Public records reveal she was the subject of several employee complaints — nearly all of which were deemed credible.

We sure do love watching Bad Animal Shelters, Bad Animal Shelter Directors and  Bad Animal Shelter Policies Lose!We have...
12/30/2024

We sure do love watching Bad Animal Shelters, Bad Animal Shelter Directors and Bad Animal Shelter Policies Lose!

We have the Court Reporter's Trancript from the landmark ruling PAF v. San Diego Humane Society!

A Huge Victory For the True Animal Advocates On The Right Side Of History!!

The Truth Won!
The Facts Won!
The Law Won!
And Most Importantly The Cats Won! 💪💪👊🏼👊🏼.

Do Better San Diego Humane Society!

There you have it! Ruling that San Diego Humane Society is indeed VIOLATING California Animal Protection laws by dumping friendly cats by the thousands on our streets…while being paid handsomely by San Diego taxpayers to care for them. Deceiving the community- closed cat adoption centers and started dumping cats for the coyotes, traffic, no food or water or caregivers.

The text from the court transcript is below.
If anyone would like a copy of the transcript please email or text us.

In The Superior Court Of The State Of California
In And For The County Of San Diego
Department 63; Hon. KATHERINE BACAL, Judge
PET ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION, ) ) Plaintiff, ) )
vs. ) Case No. 37-2021-00007375
) CU-MC-CTL
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY )
and SPCA, ) Defendants. )
________________________________)
Reporter's Transcript
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Appearances:

For Plaintiff(s): Pease Law APC

3960 Point Loma Bouleverd W H-2562, San Diego, California 92110

Bryan Pease, Esq.
Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Esq.

Also present
For Defendant(s): O'Melveny & Myers LLP Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 Chris Hollinger, Esq.
Betsy Denhart (Pet Assistance Foundation)

DECEMBER 20, 2024; San Diego, California 2:16 P.M.
THE COURT: Pet Assistance versus San Diego
Humane Society. My apologies to all of you for keeping you waiting; it's not always like that. I do have a request for appointment of court reporter that I'm signing at this time. The matter is being reported.

We'll get appearances for the record, please.
MR. PEASE: Good afternoon, your Honor. Bryan Pease representing plaintiffs Pet Assistance and Terrence Higgins.
MS. IJADI-MAGHSOODI: Good afternoon, your Honor Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi also representing plaintiffs.

MR. PEASE: And we have Betsy Denhart from Pet Assistance Foundation as well.
MR. HOLLINGER: Chris Hollinger representing the defendant, San Diego Humane Society.

THE COURT: Good afternoon to everyone. Again, my apologies for keeping you waiting. I appreciated the briefing; I certainly appreciated the argument and the testimony.

This is and has been one of the most
interesting cases that I have had. This is the Court's intended decision under the Rules of Court, in particular,
3.1590(a), it will become the Court's statement of decision unless a party timely requests a statement of
decision.

If a statement of decision is timely requested, plaintiff will be ordered to file and serve the proposed
statement of decision pursuant to the Rules of Court with, under the San Diego Superior Court local rules, a courtesy
copy directly to this department.

The Court states that all deadlines in the
California Rules of Court apply unless the parties
stipulate to some other time frame in which case the Courtwould be happy to accept the stipulation. If I could accept a stipulation that would avoid anyone working over
the holidays, I would be happy to do that.
If there is no appropriate request for statement of decision, plaintiffs will be directed to prepare a
proposed judgment, serving that on the other side pursuant to the timeframes in the Rules of Court.

The Court notes that according to the first
amended petition, there are two remaining causes of action: For injunctive and declaratory relief. In a
nutshell, the question was: Does San Diego Humane Society's policy that, with some limited exceptions, only cats with verifiable signs of ownership will be received
into the shelter and, otherwise, healthy cats, whether feral or friendly, will be back into the community violates any law.

Before I get to the heart of the ruling, I do
want to mention that it is the Court's view that everybody who came and testified in this court wants what they
believe is the best for the cat population and cats in general.

The difference of opinion as to what these
people believe is best results, at least in part, from the parties differing viewpoints. San Diego Humane Society is looking at it from a cat population perspective, maybe
more appropriately, a sheltered cat population perspective while the plaintiffs are looking at it from the perspective that the animals with which they come into
contact.

That doesn't mean that any side or either side doesn't want what's best -- or what they believe is best.

It's not the Court's obligation to decide what is best for any animals. The only obligation is to decide what is lawful.

In that regard, the Court looked at all of the
statutory authorities cited by the parties, including Penal Code Section 597(s) dealing with willful abandonment; Penal Code 597.1 dealing with the Humane
Society officers' requirement to take possession of stray and/or abandoned animals that don't have proper care and
attention; and, further, being required to provide care and treatment until that animal can be returned to its owner; and Civil Code Section 1860(c) stating that a
shelter with whom a abandoned animal is deposited is required to take charge of it.

I also reviewed closely the county -- excuse
me -- the Humane Society's contract with the county. I note that pursuant to Exhibit 310, page 5 of 16 of that
exhibit, paragraph 7, San Diego Humane Society is required to pick up and care for stray, domestic animals contained
by residents and found within the city limits.

I also note I've reviewed the exhibits that were received into evidence, again, along with the applicable case law. Domestic would seem to me not feral.

Under the statutes, feral means unsocialized to people. I would also note that I reviewed closely the testimony of the
experts and, in particular, plaintiff's -- excuse me - defendant's expert Dr. Hurley who testified that she was not aware that San Diego Humane Society requires verifiable proof of ownership.

And she noted other indicia of ownership or
abandonment might include a cat suddenly showing up in a location, especially if that cat is spayed or neutered, and that there could be other issues with regard to kittens, meaning, cats up to six months of age.

In closing brief, the defendant seemed to change the policy or at least the argument as to that San Diego Humane Society's policy from verifiable signs of ownership
to reliable indicia of ownership, but that is not the current policy.

And I will cite to Exhibit 310, Exhibit F
which states what the current policy of the Humane Society is.

The Court finds that including domesticated cats in the definition of community cats and returning to the community domesticated cat without a known caretaker would
violate the law and that the San Diego Humane Society policy as to kittens who are assessed for sociability before they are taken in is too narrow.

That's the Court's finding. Again, I direct the
plaintiff to prepare a proposed statement of decision if this is a request for a statement of decision.
Any questions?
MR. PEASE: Not from plaintiffs, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right.
MR. HOLLINGER: Nothing for the defendant, your
Honor.

THE COURT: Nice to see all of you again. Thank
you.
(Proceeding concluded at 2:23 p.m.)


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Logan vs. OC Animal Care was the game changer that brought much needed shelter reform to OC Animal Care.

Paw Protectors Rescue The Gold Standard In Rescue Is A Public Non Profit Corporation incorporated in the State of California specializing in Dog Rescue. We are a recognized 501c3, as of March 2011.

Sharon Logan and her team of attorneys successfully sued OC Animal Care as the Plaintiff in the ground breaking lawsuit: Logan vs. OC Animal Care, Sharon Logan and her team of attorneys sued OC Animal Care over their high euthanasia rates and numerous violations of the Hayden Act.

Paw Protectors Rescue is humbled by the effect, impact and the far reaching ground breaking Logan vs. OC Animal Care lawsuit has had all across the nation. Paw Protectors Rescue had an attorney from Northern California trying to initiate shelter reform in Northern California reach out to us and say, I’ve heard the story of Logan vs. OC Animal Care like 20,000 times, I would like to hear the story directly from you.