Pet stores in Aurora will soon be prohibited from selling cats and dogs in their stores unless they have come directly from animal shelters or nonprofit animal rescues.
Pet stores in Aurora will soon be prohibited from selling cats and dogs in their stores unless they have come directly from animal shelters or nonprofit animal rescues, making Aurora the 13th city in the state to implement such a ban as cities try to crack down on puppy mills.
The rollout of the proposal has been a botch of the first order, spawned in a swamp of bait-and-switch tactics and attempts by Mayor Mike Coffman to obscure his involvement in a plan to greatly boost his office’s powers.