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Coming Soon: Exposing Dog Abuse Beyond Skid Row

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Julio Rosas
Apr 21, 2026
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — I returned to southern California this past weekend to do a follow-up report on the animal abuse crisis in LA County with my friend and YouTuber James Klug.

In the time since my first report in February, the rampant abuse on Skid Row has gotten a lot of national and local media attention. The problems are no longer being seen just by local animal activists.

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While it is great more people are being made aware of the crisis on Skid Row, it is unfortunately not the only place in the metro area where blatant animal abuse and neglect are taking place. We went to other locations far from downtown. It was not hard to find these cases.

It is without exaggeration that there were a few times where our safety was not a guarantee because these abusers view the dogs as objects to make money off of or think they are taking “good” care of the dogs. They do not like it when people come to end their income stream, no matter how vile it is or if the dog clearly needs urgent medical attention.

The report will be on James’ YouTube channel and should be out later this week. I will be sharing the video here on Substack as well, so stay tuned.

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