{"id":622543,"date":"2010-01-06T14:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=138285"},"modified":"2010-01-06T14:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:56:39","slug":"las-vegas%e2%80%99s-new-spay-neuter-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/622543","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas\u2019s New Spay &amp; Neuter Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one news story we caught on TV last night that we&#8217;re actually happy to hear! In an effort to reduce the number of cats and dogs that are euthanized in shelters, our county commission here in <strong>Clark County<\/strong>, Nevada have passed a new law outlining that it&#8217;s now illegal for pets to not be <strong>spayed or neutered<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/kittens.jpg?resize=500%2C334\" alt=\"kittens\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The law applies to cats over three months of age and dogs over four months of age, and those who don&#8217;t comply can face up to $1,000 in fees and fines, which makes the $60 (give or take) surgery look like pocket change. An estimated <strong>30,000 animals<\/strong> are euthanized each Las Vegas year, and a staggering 200,000 to 500,000 feral cats roam the valley.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance, which was adopted by the county <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/commissioners-adopt-pet-sterilization-rule-80777132.html\">yesterday<\/a> but has been in effect in Las Vegas city since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/18\/city-passes-ordinance-requiring-pets-be-spayed-neu\/\">late last year<\/a>, does include certain exemptions for some breeders and for animals used by disabled people and law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>Does your county have a similar law?<\/p>\n<p>[image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/endbradley\/306280399\/\">flickr<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/las-vegass-new-spay-neuter-law\/\">Las Vegas&#8217;s New Spay &amp; Neuter Law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one news story we caught on TV last night that we&#8217;re actually happy to hear! In an effort to reduce the number of cats and dogs that are euthanized in shelters, our county commission here in Clark County, Nevada have passed a new law outlining that it&#8217;s now illegal for pets to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BX1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}