Boks: 'I never made the same mistake twice'

He supported a bikini contest, OK'd the painting an elephant and proposed a pit-bull academy for ex-cons - all in the name of helping animals. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

But what critics dubbed the Ed Boks Show ends today as the most colorful Animal Services Department manager in Los Angeles history cleans out his desk.

Hired in January 2006 to enact a "no kill" animal shelter policy, Ed Boks became mired in controversy followed by a string of no-confidence complaints. But the outgoing ex-minister defended his record as among the very best in the nation.