LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
ANIMAL WELFARE IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY
As a caring member of an animal loving
year attempt to amend current protections
a lot of leeway, and it actually provides a
investigating would be required to allow 10
days for the owners to make corrections
and would have to make an appeal to the
is that if the commissioner of Agriculture
determines the complaint to be unfounded,
the complainant could be criminally charged
would remove local government authority
to enact laws pertaining to animals,
We need people to get involved and
contact their legislators for bills that
the current debate, a bill was defeated
type of shelter that animals should have
defeated both years by the lobbyists with
the Montgomery-based Alabama Farmer’s
to a term in the existing law that pertains
solely to a dog or cat, and cannot be applied
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