Texas law currently prohibits shelters from providing nonemergency care to animals they know or should know have an owner.
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“Texas is actually the only state in the entire country that has something written into state statute stating that shelters and releasing agencies may not treat or provide medical treatment to an animal that they reasonably believed to have an owner,” said Katie Jarl, director of government affairs and policy forJarl said the state’s exceptions for pet owners who are indigent only covers people who are essentially homeless.
“When you look at [City Council] districts [2, 3, 4 and 6], there’s a tremendous desert of veterinary care,” said Sims, whose department mapped the city’s veterinary clinics.
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