Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals Rescue

[5] In 1979, while driving to Bakersfield, California, Grillo rescued a black Dobermann which had been abandoned in the Angeles National Forest.

In 1989, Grillo set the first traps in a campaign to remove feral cats that for decades had lived on the beachfront rocks along the promenade outside Holiday Inn in Ventura.

Grillo's eco-friendly straw bale construction technique has been promoted by such animal rights activists worldwide as Maneka Gandhi.

Rescue has a total of two state-of-the-art hospitals that include dog and cat intensive care units, physical therapy and rehabilitation, deep-tissue ultrasound, electrostimulation, treadmill and hydrotherapy.

'"[2] To date, the UC Davis Veterinary School has provided dialysis treatments numbering in the thousands to hundreds of dogs and cats which probably would have otherwise had only days to live.

"The contributions that Leo [Grillo] has made have been instrumental in making animal dialysis a reality today," said Cowgill.

It was established in 1988 for the purpose of saving the lives of wild horses and burros slated for wholesale slaughter in North America.

In 2007, a bill was introduced to the 110th Congress aimed at restoring prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild, free-roaming horses and burros.

On September 28, 2009, Grillo distributed a nationwide press release, calling for a federal probe into circumstances that led up to the blaze.

Grillo blamed a lack of air support for the wildfire, which became the largest blaze in the modern-day history of Los Angeles County.

On 30 September 2009, U.S. Forest Service officials announced a review of the initial multi-agency response to the 160,000-acre (650 km2) Station Fire amid complaints from Grillo and other residents that the early firefighting effort was poor.

[13] Video shows staff and USFS during this sand fire of 2016 In 2009, Grillo brought the idea of a pet tax exemption to the attention of fellow actor Robert Davi.