KLAS-TV Channel 8 News Las VegasAnimal Shelter, Activists Still Hashing Out Differences
The Animal Foundation's new executive director, Christine Robinson, met with animal activists Tuesday to develop protocol on how and the shelter could better handle adoptions and vaccinations.
Rescue groups want to be notified when a breed-specific animal enters the shelter so they have first dibs on the animal. They claim, by giving them the animals, they are helping ease the overcrowding problem and they can also meet the specific needs to a certain breed that the shelter may not be able to provide. They also claim they can place it in a proper home.
The shelter says it has a holding period to allow the general public a chance to adopt these dogs. The U.S. Humane society says this is the shelter's chance to attract the public to the facility.
The shelter and the rescue groups are trying to figure out what that holding period should be.
The U.S. Humane Society, which is overseeing changes at Lied, says both sides needs to compromise.
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People are outraged at what happened this month at Lied Animal Shelter, and several of them sounded off before Clark County commissioners Tuesday. Reporter Aaron Drawhorn has the details from the meeting. More>>
