Animal Advocates

For the locals. What to do if you see an oiled animal from the recent Los Angeles animal spill near the Los Angeles river.

Dozens of oiled birds rescued after an East LA oil spill. What to do if you see one The Oiled Wildlife Care Network said it has taken in 25 birds affected by an oil spill that released more than 2,000 gallons of crude oil into East LA.

We got some calls from people needing a place for their pets during the Gardena chemical evacuation. Called our volunteers and they’d already taken in some cats and bunnies from the evacuation area. We’ll post here shortly if we find more room or other rescues that will take evacuated animals.

Found some older photos we hadn't posted previously. Opossum baby with fly eggs. We cleaned out the fly eggs. Saw something black under the tongue. It was a fly, probably the fly that laid the eggs in its mouth. Fly was dead. Opossum was fine and released many years ago.

Man who threw a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal is being prosecuted under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Man arrested for throwing rock at endangered monk seal A Washington man was arrested and charged with throwing a large rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, with potential fines of up to $70,000 and up to one year in prison for each charge.

Wishing everyone a Happy Mother's day from Animal Advocates ! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=AnimalAdvocatesUSA&set=a.10151442545910292

Some photos of wildlife moms and their babies from Animal Advocates. These are just a few moms and babies that we've rescued. Please, share the album and ask your friends to "like" our page!

We saw from a few sources that homeless people on Skid Row may be using dogs to test drugs for fentanyl. This came from a dog rescuer and hasn't been confirmed by authorities. There are cheap fentanyl test strips that are $1-$2 which test for fentanyl. Some groups hand them out for free. We're contacting the groups to see about handing out some kits on Skid Row. If anyone has any additional information about the situation down there, please, let us know. Otherwise we'll be doing some outreach down there.