“Bringing these animals in from out of state, it’s just propagating [the] pet overpopulation problem and adding numbers, lots of big numbers, to the pet population and then causing this burden on our state,” said Mancuso, founder and chief executive of the 12-year-old organization Social Compassion in Legislation. “Taxpayers are the ones that pick up the tab. We pay for these animals to be sitting in shelters.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times