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Los Angeles residents now required to have pets fixed

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 2:14 PM PDT
By Nora Fleming / Special to The Malibu Times

Beginning this week, the City of Los Angeles will require residents, with a few exceptions, to have their pets spayed and neutered after the age of four months in an effort to decrease the number of animals in Los Angeles shelters and dramatically lower the use of euthanasia as a tool for animal regulation.

Greater Los Angeles County passed a similar ordinance last year and roughly 10 cities have adopted it. Malibu is not one of them. "I am very hopeful that there will be a dramatic decline of animals in our shelters," said Ed Boks, general manager of Los Angeles Animal Services, who hopes the city will eventually become completely "no kill." Continue reading here.


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