Animal cruelty and heat focus of Las Vegas City Council meeting

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – Extremely hot temperatures in Las Vegas prompted a city council hearing today to update the cruelty-free laws.

Case in point: the sad story of a North Las Vegas dog named Lily.

Lily died outside on a 115-degree day in late August last year. There was no protection from the sun and their buckets of water kept being knocked over with the chain to which it was attached.

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This resulted in two offenses but no criminal offenses.

“I think these owners still have no regrets for what they did and don’t believe they did anything wrong,” said Gina Greisen, president of Nevada Voters for Animals.

Several people wrote to the Las Vegas City Council last month asking for a change.

“In recent years, casinos and hotels have gone to great lengths to become ‘pet friendly’ and entice visitors who want to bring their pets on vacation,” one commenter wrote. “So much so that some travel publications have ranked Las Vegas as the best place to bring your pet. It is shameful to introduce tourists to a city that loves pets while dogs on chains in backyards across the valley actually bake to death.”

Everyone who has lived in the valley in summer knows the extreme heat we experience.

“We actually measured the temperature in the dirt when it was around 105 degrees. The temperature of the dirt was around 160 degrees. That’s a low setting on your oven. So some of these animals literally bake to death in the dirt.” said old men

The proposed city ordinance will update the provisions on cruelty to animals and penalties. The bill also enables the authorization to prohibit an incriminated person from owning an animal for a certain period of time.

The three main points of the regulation discussed today were:

  1. If it is illegal to detain or restrain a dog while on a national weather service, there is a risk of heat.
  2. It is illegal to keep a dog outside for more than 10 hours in a 24 hour period.
  3. Lily’s Law: Temperature restrictions are introduced on 105-degree days. Temperatures in excess of or above require cooling devices for outdoor animals.

“Most people like me and other pet owners consider pets as part of the family. They are inside with us. They have cooled off with us. Unfortunately, not everyone does that,” says Greisen