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(5) As above, we support dedicating fees to a spay and neuter fund. 10. Section 4-21 Seizure of stray dogs by persons other than officers. This section is the most troubling in the current and revised law. We receive calls from people all the time who have found a dog and do not want to turn it into the Humane Society because they know it has no chance of adoption and will be euthanized. We encourage them to file a found dog report with the Humane Society and to place a free classified ad in the newspaper under Lost and Found. We also encourage them to ask in the neighborhood where the animal was found, to put up posters, and to otherwise try to find the animal's family. Right now, we have a dog in residence named Champ. A person familiar with the Sanctuary called to say she had found a badly injured dog that had climbed into her car. She could not take the dog in herself and asked that we help him. We asked her to deliver the dog to a veterinarian who cleaned out the extensively infected wound and otherwise treated him. Champ has a wound, probably from a pig, that opened up his leg from the top to the ankle. He cannot be sutured because the wound is too wide and the risk of infection too great. We change his bandages every day in a process that will probably take months for his leg to heal. He is a wonderful dog and would not have had a moment's chance at life had we turned him in to the Humane Society because they do not have the resources to provide such intensive treatment. At the Sanctuary, we will stick with him until he is healed and then try to find him a good home. Should we be fined $75 to $1,000 for not simply turning Champ over to the Humane Society? There simply has to be a better way to address found dogs than to require they be turned over to the Humane Society when we all know that they are overloaded with animals every day and have to euthanize thousands a yeaz. If there aze people (or sanctuaries) willing to take in a lost dog, they should be allowed to do so with a requirement that they perform certain functions to find the family of the lost animal, e.g. the report filed at the Humane Society, the classified advertisement, notification to veterinary offices, or some similar requirements. Perhaps Research and Development could make a small grant to develop aLost/Found Animal Response that would instruct people on how to respond to a found dog and to help reunite people with their animals or to find alternative homes. 11. Section 4-24/4-25 It appears that the subsections of 4-25 should be incorporated into 4-24 starting with (e). 12. Section 4-26 Harboring, holding for rewazd, or licensing of strayed or stolen dogs. Our concerns about this section are the same concerns expressed in Comment 10 above. We fully intend to "harbor" Champ and to procure a license for him while doing whatever we can to locate his family. If we do find his family, we will ask for a donation to cover our expenses without requiring them to pay anything, if they choose not to, in order to get