Challenge: How can agencies work together to control animals?
Cosy Balok holds up a photo of a horse stuck in a cattle guard during a meeting Monday morning. Several area agencies met to try to untangle the jurisdictional issues that city, county, state and tribal entities face when dealing with animal control issues. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

By Babette Herrmann
Staff writer

GALLUP — It turns out city, county, tribal and state jurisdictions share a common challenge — how to work together on providing effective animal control services to the community.

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