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Aurora becomes 13th city in Colorado to outlaw selling cats and dogs in pet stores

Council members fear retail sales encourages puppy mills

AURORA CO - DECEMBER 5: Members of the Aurora City Council Curtis Gardner, Danielle Jurinsky and Steve Sundberg, right, listen to a member of the public during their weekly city council meeting in the City Council Chambers at Aurora Municipal Center on December 5, 2022 in Aurora, Colorado. Part of this weekÕs session was the swearing-in of Interim Police Chief Art Acevedo. Wearing the Aurora Police Department uniform,ÊArt AcevedoÊofficially took the helm of APD at a Monday evening swearing in ceremony. He succeeds the previous interim chief, Dan Oates, who played a hand in recruiting Acevedo to the position. Acevedo has led a tumultuous and widely-followed career Ñ from gaining national attention for walking alongside racial justice protesters and a reputation as a reform-friendly chief to being fired from his last post as MiamiÕs chief of police, prompting him to file a wrongful termination lawsuit. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
AURORA CO – DECEMBER 5: Members of the Aurora City Council Curtis Gardner, Danielle Jurinsky and Steve Sundberg, right, listen to a member of the public during their weekly city council meeting in the City Council Chambers at Aurora Municipal Center on December 5, 2022 in Aurora, Colorado. Part of this weekÕs session was the swearing-in of Interim Police Chief Art Acevedo. Wearing the Aurora Police Department uniform,ÊArt AcevedoÊofficially took the helm of APD at a Monday evening swearing in ceremony. He succeeds the previous interim chief, Dan Oates, who played a hand in recruiting Acevedo to the position. Acevedo has led a tumultuous and widely-followed career Ñ from gaining national attention for walking alongside racial justice protesters and a reputation as a reform-friendly chief to being fired from his last post as MiamiÕs chief of police, prompting him to file a wrongful termination lawsuit. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Saja Hindi - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 5, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Pet stores in Aurora will soon be prohibited from selling cats and dogs in their stores unless they have come directly from animal shelters or nonprofit animal rescues, making Aurora the 13th city in the state to implement such a ban as cities try to crack down on puppy mills.
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