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All mandatory spay-neuter provisions of AB 1634 were edited out by Senator Gloria Negrete McLeod this week. The bill will go forward with minor increases to fines owners pay for retrieving their animals after an animal control impound. The bill (see attached) does require spay and neuter of repeat impounded animals — on the third impound for dogs and second for cats. But that will do little if nothing to reduce animal overpopulation that exists in Kern County. 18,669 of the 28,000 animals taken into county shelters in 2007 were not retrieved by owners — they were killed by animal care workers with lethal injections. Animal Control chief Denise Haynes said the county gets very few repeat impounds.
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