Sentences with phrase «neuter ordinance»

Since the law was targeted only at pit bulls, the spay and neuter ordinance required a change in state law to allow cities and counties to impose «breed specific» requirements.

If your city has a spay / neuter ordinance and they refuse to sterilize their pets, report this anonymously and confidentially.

Q When the city of Waco passed a spay - neuter ordinance and set about restructuring animal shelter operations, it put down conditions that other cities had to meet if they wanted to continue to use our shelter.

MANDATORY SPAY / NEUTER ORDINANCE FOR ALL CATS AND DOGS OVER SIX MONTHS OF AGE (To be heard at 7:30 p.m. or thereafter) Recommendation: (1) Direct the City Attorney to draft an ordinance and return within 60 days mandating the spay / neuter of all cats and dogs over six months of age, excluding those that meet exclusion criteria; (2) Establish a fee differential such that a dog license for an unaltered animal is $ 60 more than spayed / neutered animals; and (3) Find that mandatory spay / neuter of all cats and dogs is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines, Section 15061 (b)(3).

The City of Lompoc has a separate spay and neuter ordinance for dogs which has been in effect for three years.

Failure to comply with the spay / neuter ordinance, failure to obtain a dog license, failure to secure the pet on the property due to a wobbly fence, a broken gate and failure to provide medical care are all reasons that pet owners come to us for assistance.

Because it was targeted only at pit bulls, the spay and neuter ordinance required a change in state law to allow cities and counties to impose «breed specific» requirements.

The spay / neuter ordinance is just one in a series of animal - related ordinances that I hope Volusia County adopts to protect our pets from over-breeding and destruction.

The County Council is now poised to adopt a mandatory spay / neuter ordinance, which would exempt licensed and legitimate breeders, owners of show animals, service dogs and any animal a vet has determined the procedure would be harmful to.

There is no information that would indicate that a mandatory spay / neuter ordinance has improved public safety.

Why should the mandatory spay / neuter ordinance be repealed?

The Santa Maria Valley Humane Society and Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation also supported the spay - neuter ordinance, according to representatives.

We at KCDA keep hearing stories of animals getting confiscated from owners due to inadequate housing (even though Spay / Neuter Kansas City's outreach program has free dog houses available to needy families), animals confiscated from owners because they are not altered under the mandatory spay / neuter ordinance for pit bulls, and others that are confiscated because they can not afford the fine associated with having not licensed their dog.

Santa Cruz County was the first county in California to pass a mandatory spay - and - neuter ordinance for all pets.

A spay / neuter ordinance accomplished what adoption efforts had not.

In response to the firsttime enforcement of the spay / neuter ordinance, the use of the low - income spay / neuter program increased dramatically while Tulsa's shelter intakes declined.

Lawton City Manager, Larry Mitchell said the decision to create a spay / neuter ordinance was, «A team effort to address what we felt was an excessive euthanasia rate.

Conversely, the city of Lawton, with an average income below the state average and a poverty level above the state average, has had in - house spay / neuter for all animals for four years, was the first city in Oklahoma to ban the chaining of dogs and has the most stringent spay / neuter ordinance in our state, an ordinance that is rigorously enforced.

One year ago, the City of Claremore passed a spay / neuter ordinance that compels pet owners to have pets sterilized or purchase an intact permit and collect sales taxes on puppies or kittens sold.

We surveyed municipal shelters regarding general practices and asked for 1) the number of animals received, 2) the number euthanized, 3) method of euthanasia and carcass disposal, 4) what agency typically handles cruelty complaints, 5) are animals adopted out already altered or with a spay / neuter contract, 6) if a contract is used, is it enforced, 7) an estimate on number of calls for help from outside of jurisdiction, 8) is there a tag and / or spay neuter ordinance and, 9) is it enforced?

Although Tulsa had a spay / neuter ordinance for several years, it was not enforced until April 2008.

Why are spay neuter ordinances a positive step for communities trying to reduce the number of unwanted litters and how can we help them succeed?

Claremore, Lawton, Sapulpa and other cities in Oklahoma have passed spay / neuter ordinances in order to place the responsibility for preventing shelter euthanasias back on citizens.

Because other states have done a wonderful job with humanely controlling their homeless pet population through spay / neuter ordinances and community education, they do not have the excessive numbers of homeless pets that we do.

Yes, we need mandatory spay / neuter ordinances, but we need low - cost and free spay / neuter clinics to go along with them.

I blame them... but I blame more the government for not implementing mandatory spay neuter ordinances and laws.

8 News NOW View the 8 News NOW report on the City of Las Vegas spay / neuter ordinances and the resulting decline in number of animals euthanized annually.

Although months have passed and the Houston area continues to work to rebuild, the overwhelming amount of wreckage left in the storm's wake, coupled by less stringent Texas spay & neuter ordinances, have made the homeless - southern - puppy situation, more desperate than ever.

Because some other states have done a wonderful job with humanely controlling their unwanted pet population through spay / neuter ordinances and community education, they do not have the excessive numbers of homeless pets that we do.

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Mandatory spay / neuter ordinances have consistently led to an increase in shelter killing and science is indicating that juvenile spay / neuter may create long - term health problems, especially in large breed dogs.

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Although city ordinance requires that pets be vaccinated for rabies, be registered, and be spayed or neutered, the law is not enforced.

Mandatory spay / neuter and anti-tethering ordinances support humane initiatives while supporting public health and safety.

For more information on the current law and ordinances and a link to the petition, visit Spay / Neuter Tulsa on Facebook.

In 2007 the City of Lawton, Okla., passed an ordinance mandating that pets be spayed or neutered, or that the owner purchase a breeders permit.

Any number of service models from high volume clinics, to mobile spay / neuter units, to regularly scheduled «spay days» in private veterinary clinics, can change the equation if they are accessible to all homes that need them, and pro-active ordinances encourage people to use them.

EPAW was responsible for passing an ordinance allowing for Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) of community cats.

These days, a lot of that has to do with local and state ordinances related to facilitating trap - neuter - return (TNR) and shelter - neuter - return (SNR) programs, both of which are key to keeping community (stray and feral) cats out of shelters.

He has been involved in Pinellas County animal welfare for over 30 years and was successful in advancing the approval of an anti-tethering and trap / neuter / vaccinate / return (TNVR) ordinance in Pinellas County.

«Under the proposed ordinance to be put to a vote Tuesday, vaccinations will cost $ 5 for each spayed or neutered cat and $ 15 for unspayed cats.

I guide grassroots organizations and advocates in passing local ordinances that protect companion animals, specifically in the issue areas of declawing, pit bull terriers, Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR), retail pet sale bans, and tethering.

I'm very proud of passing dozens of positive ordinances protecting community cats in Trap - Neuter - Return programs, as well as their caregivers.

These ordinances often include sections on animal cruelty, ownership, at - large regulations, mandatory spay / neuter, and cat licensing.

Ordinances that claim to support Trap - Neuter - Return sound good — and are sometimes good — but they are actually sometimes harmful for community cats.

Increasingly, communities are passing local ordinances with positive, proactive language related to Trap - Neuter - Return or Shelter - Neuter - Return.

Since our founding in 1990, Alley Cat Allies has helped thousands of communities draft and implement successful Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) ordinances and policies.

Alley Cat Allies encourages communities to reject cruel, punitive, and ineffective ordinances and instead to embrace humane programs that really work to stabilize the population and keep cats out of animal shelters, including Trap - Neuter - Return for feral cats and subsidize and low - cost spay / neuter for allNeuter - Return for feral cats and subsidize and low - cost spay / neuter for allneuter for all cats.

Even well - intentioned ordinances (like those that legislate or require Trap - Neuter - Return) can cause more harm than good because they create regulations and restrictions — and subsequently, penalties and liabilities — where there were none.

More ordinances should encourage or require, rather than simply permit, Shelter - Neuter - Return for impounded cats.

Instead of capitalizing on the compassion and energy of the people who are part of the solution, punitive ordinances are counter-productive and ignore the true problem: the lack of subsidized spay and neuter surgeries and TNR programs.