Companion animal breeding

List of USDA licensed commercial breeders/dealers 

USDA/APHIS inspection reports for commercial breeders/dealers 

Animal Welfare Act for USDA licensed breeders/dealers: An Overview

Animal Welfare Act regulations for USDA licensed breeders/dealers

Pennsylvania kennel inspection reports 

About puppy mills and how you can help stop the cruelty

Using zoning to restrict companion animal mills

Parrots and the pet trade 

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act 

Animal research

Laws relating to use of animals in research 

Animal cruelty

Laws of 4 states where animal cruelty is not a felony no matter the circumstances

Laws concerning recovery of damages for loss of pets including the recent Vermont Supreme Court decision

Laws concerning pet protection orders

Laws concerning cross reporting of animal cruelty and child abuse

Laws concerning treatment of animals at rodeos

Laws banning or restricting abusers' access to animals

Animal fighting

Laws passed in 2008 and 2009 laws found here, here, and here

Tethering/Penning

Bans on unattended chaining and state anti-tethering laws

Why communities should generally ban unattended chaining of dogs

Breed bans

Resources including studies and other information for use in opposing breed bans

Feral cats

Feral cat ordinance (download attached model)

Hoarding

Companion animal hoarding ordinance (download attached model)

Spay/Neuter

Laws mandating spay/neuter of dogs and cats adopted from shelters

Farm Animals

Anti-confinement laws including California's Prop 2

Humane Methods of Slaughter Act

Wild Animals 

List of USDA licensed exhibitors

Inspection reports for USDA licensed exhibitors 

Animal Welfare Act regulations for USDA licensed exhibitors

Laws concerning animals used by circuses

Laws concerning owning exotic or dangerous animals as pets including the new Oregon law

Laws concerning canned hunts

Laws concerning internet hunting

Laws concerning the legal and illegal trade in parrots

Analysis of Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act and BLM regulations 

Pet trusts and the future care of animals

Slaughter and euthanasia

White Paper on Equine Slaughter, by Allen Warren (attached below)

Humane Methods of Slaughter Act

Information provided to Congressional committee in 2008 hearing on horse slaughter

Horse Slaughter Trends from 2006-2009

List of resources by state for euthanasia and disposal of horses and applicable laws, courtesy of the Humane Society of the United States.

State laws concerning use of CO gas chambers in public shelters

Horse racing.fact sheet 

AVMA Policy on Euthanasia 2007 (download attached)

CO gas chambers v. EBI cost analysis 2009 (download attached)

Recommended Reading

Paws4Change

Michael Vick's unpaid dues: Why dog advocates aren't moving on, by Christie Keith, special to the San Francisco Gate

Eating animals is making us sick, by Jonathan Safran Foer

No Country for Horses

PEER White Paper, Horses to Slaughter, Anatomy of a Cover up within the Wild Horse and Burro Program of the Bureau of Land Management, April 1997

Pet News and Views

Animal World USA magazine, June, 2010

"Dog Breed Specific Legislation: The Cost to People, Pets and Veterinarians and the Damage to the Human-Animal Bond", by Jane Berkey, President, Animal Farm Foundation, Inc.

"Shelter Medicine: A Comparison of Visual and DNA Identification of BREEDS of Dogs," by Victoria L Voith DVM, PhD, DACVB, College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences

"This Week's Gut Check Column: The Meat of the Problem", by Ezra Klein, July 29, 2009

"Miami-Dade: Two Decades of breed specific legislation has produced no positive results," by Karen Delise, Founder and Director of Research for the National Canine Research Council

"Mustangs, Spirit of the Shrinking West", by Alexandra Fuller, National Geographic magazine, Feb. 2009

"Denver: Selective Counting and the Cost to Dogs and People," by Karen Delise

Dogs Bite (But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous), by Janis Bradley

The Pitbull Placebo: The Myths, Media and Politics of Canine Aggression, by Karen Delise 

"What Happened to Michael Vick's Dogs?" by Jim Gorant, Sports Illustrated magazine, Dec. 23, 2008

The Animal Activists' Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World, by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich, Lantern Books, Brooklyn, New York (2009)

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully

Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, by Steven M. Wise, foreword by Jane Goodall 

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum

Get Political for Animals and Win the Laws They Need, by Julie E. Lewin