Sentences with phrase «animal control laws often»

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Also, animal control and law enforcement are often not trained to shoot so that consciousness is lost instantly, and many times the animal is shot repeatedly.

Animal control officers are important decision makers when laws and policies are developed that impact community cats and Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) programs, and policymakers often look to them for guidance on best practices.

Local authorities, often in the form of an animal control agency are charged with enforcing laws related to the control and impoundment of animals — including laws that may affect the feeding, spaying and neutering, and care of outdoor cats.

Over the past two years, more than 100 municipalities across the USA have overturned bans and other restrictions that target dogs in the pit bull family, and opposition to BSL comes from sources as diverse as the American Bar Association, animal rescue groups, the Center for Disease Control and even President Barack Obama, who said in August that the laws are largely ineffective while doing nothing to improve public safety, and are often a «waste of public resources».

All cases have the potential to be connected to other forms of violence or dysfunction in the home, and animal control officers and humane law investigators are often «first responders» and the first point of contact for a family in need of assistance.

The laws also encourage animal control officials to confiscate dogs from owners if the dogs have not been altered — causing the dogs to go into the shelter and often killed in the shelter.

Publicly funded animal control agencies also operate under a range of policies, but because they are charged by law with protecting the community from dogs that are nuisances or dangerous and because they do no fund - raising around humane issues, they are often denigrated as animal killers.

A recent CNN Money article titled «Dogs killed over unpaid fines» is a scary commentary on how some local animal control agencies hold pets for what amounts to a ransom over leash law violations and other minor offenses, with the animals often ending up dead.

Most often, state law requires that this quarantine be carried out in an approved animal control facility at the owner's expense.

«Too often, well - meaning American lawmakers looking for answers to animal control problems have fallen prey to attractive quick - fix solutions and feel - good laws offered by activist groups.