San Diego Humane Society checks the rescued chinchillas for health and well-being. Photo: San Diego Humane Society

San Diego Humane Society checks the rescued chinchillas for health and well-being.
Photo: San Diego Humane Society

by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~

In a rescue operation that required eight hours and four teams of trained personnel, a local animal protection group removed more than 400 chinchillas from a north San Diego county business yesterday.

San Diego Humane Society reports that it responded to a request from PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] to rescue the 420 animals from a business in Vista, one of the cities under the humane society’s animal services contract.

SD Humane will house and care for the animals on its three San Diego campuses while evaluating each one’s health and behavior in preparation for adoption.

Please check Animal Issues Reporter (AIR) again soon for more detailed articles on this chinchilla rescue operation and on the chinchilla farming industry.

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Katerina Lorenzatos Makris is a career journalist, author, and editor. Credits include hundreds of articles for regional wire services and for  outlets such as National Geographic TravelerThe San Francisco ChronicleTravelers’ Tales, NBC’s Petside.com, and Examiner.com (Animal Policy Examiner), a teleplay for CBS-TV, a short story for The Bark magazine, and 17 novels for Avon, E.P. Dutton, Simon and Schuster, and other major publishers.

Together with coauthor Shelley Frost, Katerina wrote a step-by-step guide for hands-on, in-the-trenches dog rescue, Your Adopted Dog: Everything You Need to Know About Rescuing and Caring for a Best Friend in Need (The Lyons Press).

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