(Photo: April Corbin Girnus/Nevada Current)
Southern Nevada’s largest government funded animal shelter, the Animal Foundation, acknowledges it routinely releases foster animals that have not been sterilized, a practice that violates local laws and the shelter’s government contracts, which prohibit the placement of unsterilized animals older than four months.
A list obtained by Nevada Voters for Animals indicates the Animal Foundation (TAF) released some 300 to 350 animals a month in May and June as fosters-to-adopt, a designation the shelter uses to transfer animals that are not sterilized, with a promise the foster parent will return the animal for surgery…