O.C. grand jury urges mandatory spay, neuter laws
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The Orange County grand jury says cities need to adopt mandatory spay and neuter laws to cut the number of abandoned animals put to death at shelters, the Associated Press reports:
The burden of taking care of abandoned, lost or neglected animals often falls on Orange County Animal Care, the only open-access shelter in the county.It cost the county $322,478 in 2006-2007 to kill more than 13,000 animals.The report wants cities and unincorporated areas of Orange County to enact laws similar to the Los Angeles spay and neuter ordinance. Los Angeles requires dog owners to have their pets sterilized or obtain an unaltered dog license that costs three times more than one for a spayed or neutered animal.
--Francisco Vara-Orta