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Article: 100-YEAR-OLD PRACTICE ENDS DEC. 31 Officials consider how to collect strays Council has option to extend Humane Society contract
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 13, 1996
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Officials met Monday to discuss how 19 municipalities will control
lost and stray animals when the Wisconsin Humane Society drops the
service at the end of the year.
"The public should know the Humane Society is changing part of its
mission to take care of stray and injured animals," said Kay Mannes
of the Wisconsin Animal Protection Society after a meeting of the
Pound Budget Committee of the Intergovernmental Cooperation
Council.
In November, the Humane Society announced it will no longer
continue the more than 100-year-old practice of collecting and
providing shelter to lost and stray animals when its contract with
the municipalities ends Dec. 31, 1996.
The council, which ...