After being confiscated from a previous owner who was charged with animal abuse, Biscuit spent three years in a Salt Lake County animal shelter on a court hold before she was eventually allowed to be adopted. (Photo Courtesy of Alexis Schulof)
For two years now, animal advocates have urged Utah lawmakers to do something to help cats and dogs saved from abusive situations only to spend months or years stuck in animal shelters as their owners’ criminal cases wind slowly through the courts, with taxpayers footing the bill.
They may go another year without a solution…