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By Canadian Press

PET CHARGES STAYED

Charges against former Edmonton pet shop owner stayed

May 15, 2019 | 9:21 AM

EDMONTON – A former Edmonton pet store owner who allegedly abandoned hundreds of animals in the business early last year will not face trial.

The Crown says it has stayed an abandonment charge against Minchaw Menan Tom of Sherwood Park because the case no longer meets the prosecution standard of a reasonable likelihood of conviction.

The charge under the Animal Protection Act was laid after the business in West Edmonton Mall called My Pet shut its doors.

The Edmonton Humane Society seized more than 500 small mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians soon after.

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An investigation was also launched to determine whether the animals suffered any distress.

Most of them were adopted a month later.

(The Canadian Press-CTV Edmonton)