Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison1 said Friday that he is opposed to putting the city government in the dog catching business.
The mayor said that he agreed with a majority of city councilmen that the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should comply with a city ordinance directing it to make impounded dogs available for medical re-; search.
However, Morrison asserted
that "before we change our
present arrangement we cer-
| tainly should confer with and
! negotiate with the SPCA,'*
The mayor said that he -in-' | tended to talk the matter | over with John E. Morrill, | SPCA president. He is not yet convinced that the SPCA will not comply with the council's directive, he added. Council President James E. Fitzmorris Jr. and Councilmen Glenn P, Clasen, Fred J. Cassi-bry and Theodore M. Hickey said earlier in the day that if the SPCA continues to fail to comply with the council's directive they would favor having tne city take over the function of catching and impounding stray dogs and of making them available to the medical schools of Tulane university and I,ou-isiana State university.
