Campaign Launched To Save Animal Worker’s Job

Counties around the Southland are cutting costs, and that includes lay-offs.

Now, some animal lovers are trying to prevent one Riverside County employee from losing her job.

Priscilla Dewing works at the Coachella Valley Animal Campus.

She sends animals from the campus to shelters who won’t euthanize.

The shelters protested outside the campus over the weekend.

They’re also encouraging everyone to write the Riverside County Board of Supervisors and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack.

The shelters worry euthanasia rates and tax dollars will both go up, if she leaves.

?This employee is so incredibly wonderful,? said volunteer Janet MacAfee. ?She actually saved 1,251 dogs and cats so far this year. And had it not been for her efforts those animals would have been euthanatized.”

We asked the county for comment, but they didn’t get back with us.

Dewing’s last day is Wednesday.