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YesBiscuit! 
Cook County’s Animal Control agency came under harsh criticism during budget hearings Thursday, with one commissioner saying its system for dealing with lost pets “borders on an embarrassment.”
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151022/downtown/cook-county-system-for-stray-pets-embarrassment-commissioner-says
If you agree please sign our petition: https://www.change.org/p/toni-preckwinkle-and-the-cook-county-board-of-comissioners-reform-the-department-of-cook-county-animal-and-rabies-control?recruiter=2246242&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default
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Please sign this petition and turn things around at the Carson Animal Care and Control. Too many dogs are being killed daily and inhumane practices of killing pregnant moms up to labor and aborting puppies up to labor. Also not holding for the mandated time.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/145/714/979/?z00m=26471689&redirectID=1849111163
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OK, this bugs me. A trick driver dies, and they are going to kill his healthy, alive dog so he can be cremated and buried with the guy? Just wrong, IMO.http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/30344181/coroner-truck-driver-dies-after-crash-dog-to-be-cremated-buried-with-him
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The link said the dog has been adopted already by one of the emergency workers.
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Oops, truck driver! Not trick driver! Stupid phone!
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The owner of a dog, killed by police in Salt Lake City, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and five of its officers.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3078402-155/geists-owner-sues-salt-lake-city
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Here is a link to a petition asking the New York state senate to override Gov. Cuomo’s veto of the TNR bill; he wants to have the cats trapped and killed: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/override-governor-cuomos-6?source=c.em.cp&r_by=14461703
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House critter: https://twitter.com/YesBiscuit/status/659460202257883137
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I gave up on trying to master this puzzle.
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Cute little lizard!
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