Debate over fate
SUN PHOTO BY SUE ERWIN, serwin@sun-herald.com
Suncoast Humane Society Animal Care Manager Marilu Lippert (left) and Suncoast Humane Society Director of Operations Jennifer Shallow get ready to release Alice and Gigi for an afternoon run in the fenced area behind the facility. The dogs are from the same litter and are 18-months-old and currently available for adoption.
SUN PHOTO BY ED SCOTT, escott@sun-herald.com
Animal care supervisor Tami Treadway tends to cats Taboo, left, and Jackie Friday at the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office Animal Services.
SUN PHOTO BY SUE ERWIN, serwin@sun-herald.com
Suncoast Humane Society animal care manager Marilu Lippert, left, and SHS director of operations Jennifer Shallow get ready to release Alice and Gigi for an afternoon run in the fenced area behind the Englewood facility. The dogs, from the same litter, are 18 months old and currently available for adoption.
Some people would do just about anything to protect dogs and cats. Others feel strongly about overpopulation of household pets and join organizations that support the right to euthanize.
The debate over the fate of stray and dropped-off animals is coming to a head in Florida this year with the introduction of a bill in the Florida Senate. The Florida Animal Rescue Act, proposed by state Sen. Michael Bennett, R-Bradenton, requires animal control agencies and shelters that euthanize pets to maintain a registry of animal rescue groups willing to accept animals that otherwise would be subject to euthanization. Stray animals would be offered to the no-kill organizations rather than euthanized.
