WILD CRITTERS NO MORE LLAMAS, ALPACAS NOW ARE FARM ANIMALS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer Llamas and alpacas are now officially livestock instead of ``wild animals'' in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County, legitimizing their breeding in rural areas of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and elsewhere in Los Angeles County. The change came about in part because of an Antelope Valley couple who wanted to raise alpacas but found that the county classification of the South American mammal mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. as a wild animal prohibited them on their agriculturally zoned property. ``We listed them as wild animals WILD ANIMALS. Animals in a state of nature; animals ferae naturae. Vide Animals; Ferae naturae. in the county code. The state does not list them like that,'' county planner Leonard Erlanger said. ``We took them off and are treating them like horses and cows.'' The board voted to approve a new ordinance that will establish new standards and procedures for the keeping of alpacas and llamas in certain residential and agricultural zones. The ordinance will come back to the board for final approval in a few weeks and take effect 30 days after that, planning officials said. The board also set up new standards for animal rescue operations, or rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. facilities, for small sick, injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. or orphaned or·phan n. 1. a. A child whose parents are dead. b. A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted. 2. A young animal without a mother. 3. wild animals in certain residential and agricultural zones. ``This will allow the temporary care of small wild animals that have been injured or sick on a single-family lot by the person who lives there. It's only temporary. It allows them to temporarily care for the animals until they are well,'' Erlanger said. ``We didn't have anything in the zoning code on that. Anytime that's the case, the use is essentially prohibited.'' The new procedures for animal rescue organizations was prompted by the operator of a Los Angeles-based animal rescue group, Animal Advocates, who pointed out that the state now requires animal rescue groups to show proof that they have zoning clearances in the local jurisdictions in which they will operate prior to licensing by the state, and there was no mechanism for the county to provide such clearances. The ordinance approved Tuesday will allow animal rescue operations in areas zoned residential, residential agricultural and all agricultural zones subject to an animal permit and certain conditions. Conditions include allowing a certain number of animals depending on the lot size. Up to six animals would be allowed in lots sizes measuring 5,000 to 5,999 square feet; lots of 10,000 square feet or more can have up to 20 animals, a staff report said. Other conditions were: animals would be limited to a weight of 30 pounds, animals must be indigenous to the county and dangerous animals would be prohibited. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Llamas and alpacas were considered wild animals until Tuesday, when the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. voted to term them farm animals and thus OK for breeding and maintaining in designated county areas. (2 -- color) These llamas grazing grazing, n See irregular feeding. grazing 1. actions of herbivorous animals eating growing pasture or cereal crop. 2. area of pasture or cereal crop to be used as standing feed. See also pasture. in a Leona Valley field were designated farm animals by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. (3) These llamas grazing in a Leona Valley field were designated farm animals by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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