Which Cities Are Most Humane?

[Prairie Purrs]

Denver deserves to be much lower on the list because the city's ordinances make it impossible for anyone to legally be a caretaker of a feral cat colony. If you feed and/or shelter more than five cats, regardless of whether any of the cats are ferals, you're committing a crime!

Also, if you feed feral cats and those cats happen to poop on anyone else's property--bingo, you've committed another crime!

Denver's approach to dealing with ferals is to loan out traps to people--Animal Control won't do the trapping themselves. Once the cats are trapped, Animal Control puts them to death. Real humane, eh?

[mugsy]

I was thinking Denver should be lower because of their horrific pit bull ban...

I'm not surprised, however, that 4 of the top 5 were on the west coast and that San Francisco was #1. I wasn't surprised to see Boston either. I was surprised to see D.C. though.

[Prairie Purrs]

I was thinking Denver should be lower because of their horrific pit bull ban...

That certainly should have been factored in as well. City government here is downright hostile to animals!