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Dumb Friends League | WHAT’S YOUR AGENDA?

By 02/24/2025 | updated 7 months ago
Welcome to What’s Your Agenda?, Colorado Politics’ weekly publication of trade association priorities for the state’s 2025 legislative session. 
 
Established in 1910 by Jean Milne Gower, Dumb Friends League is a nonprofit animal shelter that provides adoption services, pet admissions, lost and found services and community education.
 

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“The Dumb Friends League recognizes that one way that we can achieve our mission of ending pet homelessness and animal suffering is to shape the laws and policies that protect animals and enhance their welfare,” said President and CEO Dr. Apryl Steele. “Our 2025 legislative priorities include expanding access to veterinary care and supporting new ways to protect pets and the people that love them. We are committed to thoughtful policy that specifically impact companion animals and horses.”
  1. Thoughtful implementation/rulemaking around the voter-approved ballot measure to create a veterinary professional associate (veterinary PA). 
    • In November, Colorado voters approved Prop. 129, creating a career pathway for a veterinary professional associate.  The ballot measure asks the State Board of Veterinary Medicine to create rules around the new statute.   
    • Ensuring that the will of the voters is not overturned through a legislative process is critical to increasing access to veterinary care for thousands of Colorado pets.   
    • We are committed to ensuring the safe and successful implementation of the veterinary PA ballot measure by the State Board.  
  1. The League is also supporting two bills as members of the Animal Welfare Association of Colorado (AWAC). 
    • HB 25-1034 – Updating Colorado’s dangerous dog laws to protect animal care workers (Reps McCormick and Garcia Sander, Sen. Daugherty). 
      • Colorado currently has a law that holds owners accountable if their dog severely attacks and injures another pet or person.  This bill will remove a loophole in this law that exempts owners whose dog causes serious bodily injury to an animal care worker (veterinarian, animal control, shelter worker, etc..) and require that owners be held accountable for these attacks and take steps to protect others from harm.  
    • HB25-1180 – Prohibiting the sales of pets in public places (Reps Duran and Armagost, Sens. Scott Bright and Dylan Roberts)
      • This bill will prohibit the sales of companion animals in public places, such as parking lots and road medians. These animals are often not well cared for and bred in unlicensed, unmonitored facilities. Several Colorado counties already have this prohibition, this would expand it statewide. 
      • The bill exempts the sales of animals by PACFA-licensed organizations and does not include the sale of livestock. 
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