L.A. County has been touting their “new” website for awhile now but I must say that it looks and functions a lot like their old website when it comes to the art of actually displaying the dogs. The only thing different about this website seems to be the color of its framework.

Why are we still getting results like this?

If you can’t see this clearly enough it displays no picture where there should be a picture displayed. And it starts not 1 but 5 template sentences and then fails to finish each line with any speck of descriptive text whatsoever. This specific post fails to list a name, age, sex, type of dog, sterilization status, which shelter they are at, what day they were impounded, what day they are to become “available” and finally their current kennel number.

It looks like this: “and I’m approximately . I am . I have been at the since . You can visit me at my temporary home at .”

It should look like this (see below): “My name is _____ and I’m an approximately 10 month old female Pit Bull. I am not yet spayed. I have been at the Carson Animal Care Center since September 3, 2013. I will be available on September 11, 2013. You can visit me at my temporary home at C325.”

Individual notes should come below this, they hardly ever do.

So why is such a lack of minimal effort put forth, for even the most basic of duties? How does a dog or cat’s picture fail to make it onto the website? Truth be told, many animals do not get their pictures put on this website at all. But further, how is the blank template uploaded with no descriptive information? Who’s job is it to enter this information? How are they failing to do a basic thing that every impounded shelter animal deserves to have? What is this and how is it helpful?