DENVER—A judge has ordered the managers of the Colorado Humane Society to give up control of their shelters after the attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging they euthanized animals to make room for more adoptable pets.
Attorney General John Suthers says the order, issued Tuesday, will allow the shelters to operate while the case against the managers proceeds. Suthers says Denver’s Waverton Group will take control of the shelter.
No information on the Waverton Group was available.
Suthers said in a lawsuit last week that nearly a third of the animals at the society’s purported no-kill shelters were euthanized in 2004.
A message left for the shelter managers named in the suit, Robert and Mary Warren and Stephanie Gardner, was not immediately returned.
