Southern Nevada’s largest government funded animal shelter, the Animal Foundation, acknowledges it routinely releases foster animals that have not been sterilized, a practice that violates local laws and the shelter’s government contracts, which prohibit the placement of unsterilized animals older than four months.

A list obtained by Nevada Voters for Animals indicates the Animal Foundation (TAF) released some 300 to 350 animals a month in May and June as fosters-to-adopt, a designation the shelter uses to transfer animals that are not sterilized, with a promise the foster parent will return the animal for surgery.

Last month, Las Vegas Councilwoman Victoria Seaman asked the Animal Foundation how many of the animals on the lists were sterilized before they were released from the shelter.

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