Animal laws finally changed

Placing a cap on a year-long debate, Havre City Council approved a revised animal ordinance that will, hopefully, make everyone happy.

The new ordinance consolidates two chapters, with 30 sections divided into separate chapters for dogs and animals, into on 23-section chapter titled "Dogs, Cats and Other Animals. "

Many of the changes are simply moving paragraphs around and updating language, according to the main person affected by the ordinance, Animal Control Officer Gordon Inabnit.

"A lot of the ordinance had terminology that went 100 years back, " Inabnit said. "So a lot of the termino...