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City's only no-kill dog and cat shelter opens Friday
Dogs will yap with delight and cats croon with joy as the only no-kill dog and cat shelter in Tucson officially opens Friday. The shelter, a merging of HOPE Animal Shelter and Casa de los Gatos, will retain the HOPE name and location at 2011 E. 12th St., according to a news release from the shelter.
Tucson Hikes Loose-Dog Fines; Bans Public Animal Sales
The Tucson City Council voted unanimously to increase fines for off-leash dogs by $50, hoping to curb the number of dogs running loose in city parks and to prevent injuries to dogs and people. Councilwoman Shirley Scott was absent. To reduce animal cruelty and neglect, the council also made it illegal to sell animals in any swap meet within city limits or at any city park, sidewalk, street or public right-of-way.
A New Leash on Life for Dogs Freed from Puppy Mill
Some of the adult dogs arriving at the Montgomery County, Md., animal shelter Thursday acted like newborn pups with splayed legs, wobbly as they tried to walk. They had never been on solid ground. At first, they didn't know how to eat from a bowl, so accustomed were they to the troughs at the puppy mill in southwestern Virginia from which they had just been rescued. Several had matted hair around their eyes and couldn't see. The pads of their feet were sore or cut from being confined to wire cages. When word of the dogs' plight surfaced last week on the Web site of the Humane Society of the United States — that officials in Carroll County, Va., had seized nearly 1,000 dogs from a suspected puppy mill — reaction from animal lovers was immediate and intense.
