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ESCANABA No changes have been made to Escanaba’s animal ordinance despite concerns raised by an Escanaba woman that limits on the number of dogs that can be kept in a home could prevent foster homes from taking in animals from the Delta Animal Shelter.
The issue was first raised last month, when resident Kathy Woodbury approached the council saying she had been visited by an Escanaba Public Safety officer for violating the city’s animal ordinance while fostering dogs that were seized from an alleged puppy mill in Maple Ridge Township. Woodbury, who said she and her husband had been long-time fosterers of animals from the shelter, had dogs of their own, which pushed them above the legal limit of four dogs over the age of four months in a single residence.