Feud continues between San Diego and Southern Arizona Humane Societies ...250 "missing" pets.

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Feud continues between San Diego and Southern Arizona Humane Societies as internal investigation launched into 250 "missing" pets

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - What began as a partnership, has turned into a heated feud between the San Diego and Southern Arizona Humane Societies.

Now, HSSA's Board of Directors has launched an internal investigation and suspended its top two executives as it looks into what happened to 256 small pets.

HSSA announced in a press release that CEO Steve Farley and Chief Programs Officer Christian Gonzales were suspended as the Board consults a third party investigator to conduct a review of what occurred.

Newly hired Communications Director AJ Flick would not arrange an interview with our Chief Investigative Reporter Chorus Nylander Monday after repeated requests but within the same time frame gave an interview to KNSD, the NBC station in San Diego.

“To be transparent, to find out if any of our policies were violated to see if there’s anything we could do better," she said about the internal investigation.

[ChazInAz]

1. About time.

There was a period when Tucson's animal shelter and Humane Society were taken over by PETA, which had infiltrated the staff. It became impossible to adopt animals from the establishments, resulting in horrendous levels of euthanasia. It took a coalition of independent shelters and veterinarians to get the city's TNR program in place and make a dent in the feral cat population.