This happened pretty close to where I live so it's been on the local news a lot. I'm surprised it made national news. Considering it is Boulder (it's a great city, but there are quite a few nuts there), I wouldn't be surprised it the lady did it repeatedly just FOR the publicity.

I think the law is a sound one- they probably enacted it to protect animals, so I think she should have just obeyed the law and did something else to "raise awareness."