The only action that the Junction City Commission took on the new animal control code during Tuesday nights meeting was to remove it from the agenda.

Cecil Aska, Mayor of Junction City elected to remove the item from the agenda because he said they needed more time for people to read through the correct edited version of the code.

“I just wanted to make sure everybody has had an opportunity to read the correct version that we would be proposing to adopt and all of the changes were correct as needed to be made,” Aska said.

The Commission tabled the matter during their October 15th meeting, with the request that some changes would be made.

One of the changes included adding a grandfathering clause to the number of pets allowed in a home. The new code limits the number of pets in a home to five dogs, five cats and five ferrets. Those homes that currently exceed that number in any of the categories would be grandfathered in by having the animals registered with the city, under the condition that if one of the animals passes away it can not be replaced if that home is at or still over the five allowed per household.

The subject is expected to be on the agenda for the next city commission meeting.