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Calif. Senate snips spay/neuter bill

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Mandatory sterilization law gets cut back, providing only an increase in fines

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - Impotent might be the best word to describe a law that would have required almost every cat and dog older than 4 months to be spayed or neutered before the measure was dramatically altered on the California Senate floor.

Though the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) still supports the former California Healthy Pet Act of 2007, saying it is at least a step in the right direction, some other former supporters think an amended version of the law doesn't address the big problem.

"It had changed so dramatically," says Susan Dawson, president of the Humane Society of San ...

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