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Four paws to the City of Los Angeles! It was announced yesterday that the Los Angeles City Council voted to require sterilization of cats and dogs 4 months of age and older.
The ordinance, passed 14-1, is meant to help reduce the number of stray animals the city’s shelters have to kill each year. It’s also hoped it will discourage illegal breeding, dogfighting and hoarders.
Los Angeles is the largest municipality in the entire country to adopt such a measure.
Bob Barker, the former “Price is Right” host and vehement animal welfare advocate (remember at the end of every show how he would ask the viewers to please spay and neuter their pets?), is one of the measure’s staunchest supporters.
According the Orange County Register, Barker has spent $35 million of his own personal fortune on U.S. programs that subsidize the spay/neuter surgeries. Imagine how many pets that has taken care of…
For more details, read the Orange County Register’s full story.
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THAT IS SOOOOO AWESOME! Let’s pray that other towns, cities, counties, states follow. Oh could you imagine how wonderful that would be!!! Hey I can dream!