Critics of animal shelter bill win with amendments
A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers has introduced a bill to stop the euthanasia of healthy, well-behaved dogs and cats in pet shelters.
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FREMONT COUNTY â Two months after being introduced, the animal shelter bill HB21-1160 sounds much different than its original draft.
âI consider it a pretty good win for the opposition!â said Doug Rae, the Executive Director of Fremont County s Humane Society and a critic of the bill s original draft.
âThe language was incredibly vague and they only talked about saving healthy and safe animals⦠and that was a problem for me because thereâs another factor of animals called treatable animals, and they just need time to chill out and this bill was not going to save those animals, said Rae.