Ideally, shelters that take in animals impounded as abandoned or lost, seized for neglect or cruelty, or surrendered, work with private animal welfare organizations to find them new homes or caregivers. Yet, millions of animals are still euthanize ...

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Courtesy of The Cloud Foundation The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages wild burro herds at disastrously low numbers throughout the West. One of the few viable burro herds lives in the immense Cibola-Trigo He ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Feb 2012 - 9:43pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update February 1, 2012:  After more than six years of wrangling over the best way to regulate Ohio's growing number of puppy mills, the Senate Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee approved  a version of S.B. 130   ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Feb 2012 - 9:41pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Florida state Sen. Jim Norman has introduced once again his  "Ag-gag" bill , legislation that would shut down undercover investigations of animal cruelty.  S.B. 1184  and the House of Representatives version, H.B. 1021, introduced ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Feb 2012 - 6:02pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A White Paper from  Americans Against Horse Slaughter U.S. horses have never been raised for human consumption. However, due to the foreign demand for horse flesh for wealthy diners in Europe and Asia, America's horses have been bought, sto ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Feb 2012 - 6:01pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Following the victories in Massachusetts in 2010 and recently  Warwick, Rhode Island , legislators in both New York and Rhode Island hope to pass bills to ban devocalization of dogs and cats. Rhode Island's bill, S.B. 266 , introduced ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Feb 2012 - 6:01pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 9, 2012 : Yesterday, the Ohio House of Representatives voted to concur in or approve the Senate amendments to H.B. 14. This means the Ohio legislature has voted to repeal the breed discriminatory law that over the years has caused th ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Feb 2012 - 4:19pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 9, 2012: A federal judge has granted the defendants' motion to dismiss, saying there is no standing for Orcas to bring a complaint under the 13th Amendment. In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller explained that th ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Feb 2012 - 4:28pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

BLM on road to slaughtering wild horses in holding? COLO. SPRINGS, CO (Feb. 8, 2012) - There have been strong protests to the appointment of another pro-slaughter member to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Adviso ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Feb 2012 - 4:42pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update February 8, 2012 : Just months ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed the breeder regulation bill into law. The new statute required that the  Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)  issue the standards of care applicable t ...

Article - lauraallen - 8 Feb 2012 - 7:42pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 7, 2012: The Florida House of Representatives Community and Military Affairs Subcommittee today approved the bill that would repeal the Miami-Dade County pit bull ban. H.B. 997. The bill almost immediately was taken up by the State ...

Article - lauraallen - 8 Feb 2012 - 4:11am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: Bill Number: H.R. 306 Update Feb. 6, 2012: The Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act, H.R. 306, passed the House of Representatives today on a voice vote! For more on this bill, read Animal Law Coalition's report b ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 7 Feb 2012 - 6:30pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

There is a growing movement to stop the devocalization of dogs and cats. Devocalization is nothing less than the cutting of a dog or cat's vocal cords. It is also known as "debarking", "silencing", or "bark softening". ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Feb 2012 - 11:54pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

State: New York Bill Number: A.B. 3431/S.B. 6167 Go here  for information about this bill. Also,  find information here  about this bill. ...

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Update Feb. 3, 2012 : In a mark up session yesterday, the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved the  American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7 Sec. 6606)  which bans use of double decked trai ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Feb 2012 - 8:39pm - 8 comments - 2 attachments

State: Oklahoma Bill Number: HB 2758 Oklahoma Rep. Jerry McPeak has introduced this bill, H.B. 2758, that would allow a tax credit up to 50% for construction, refurbishment or conversion of a qualified horse slaughter facilit ...

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State: Bill Number: H.R. 7 Go here  for information about this bill.  ...

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California Governor Jerry Brown intends to seek the repeal of those provisions of Hayden Law found to be "reimbursable state mandates." This from Jeff Carosone, an analyst in the state Department of Finance assigned to  the Governor's propose ...

Article - lauraallen - 4 Feb 2012 - 8:50pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update January 31, 2012 : Following a hearing last week, the Judiciary Committee has now voted to approve the substitute version of H.B. 1755. For more on the hearing and the bill as amended since last year, read Animal Law Coalition's reports ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 Feb 2012 - 7:57pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

The Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has released  a new poll  showing 80% of Americans are opposed to the slaughter of horses for human consumption. The  nationwide survey  reveals that Americans oppose horse slaugh ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 Feb 2012 - 9:32pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update January 24, 2012:   U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR) has introduced  H.R. 3798, the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012 , the legislation that the Humane Society of the United States President and CEO Wayne Pacelle announced la ...

Article - lauraallen - 31 Jan 2012 - 11:33pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update January 27, 2012 : Once again Pennsylvania legislators have failed to pass a bill that would ban archaic animal gas chambers still used to kill shelter animals in the state. S.B. 1329, the latest effort to stop the use of gas chambe ...

Article - lauraallen - 31 Jan 2012 - 12:42am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: Virginia Bill Number: H.B. 888 Under current Virginia law, persons caring for dogs must provide "adequate space" and when it comes to tethered companion animals, "adequate space""means suffici ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 7:36pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by Elizabeth Forel (This article first appeared at onegreenplanet.org ) Charlie Horse died on Sunday, October 23rd on the mean streets of New York. He was a NYC carriage horse on his way to work in the park. He lay there on the street, uni ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 7:13pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update November 18, 2011:  Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have now approved the Conference Committee report on H.R. 2112, the bill that, in part, determines agriculture appropriations for FY 2012. President Barack Obama imm ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 7:12pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A new groundbreaking study published in last month's  Journal of Applied Animal Behavior Science (attached below for downloading) confirms that dogs held in puppy mills suffer psychological damage that leaves emotional scars after they are remov ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 7:12pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement under Gov. Tom Corbett reminds me of the Abbott & Costello routine " Who's on First ?" that famously illustrates the confusion and frustration in communicati ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 7:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Chicago (EWA) - Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA) launched a major campaign on December 30 to expose the underhanded move by Rep. Jack Kingston (GA) and Sens. Kohl (WI) and Blunt (MO) that reinstated horse inspections and opened the way for horse slaug ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 7:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Jan. 27, 2012 : Virginia state Sen. Dick Black has announced that he has pulled the bill, S.B. 610. Animal welfare advocates and Virginia residents mounted strong opposition to the bill. BUT, Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare notes the bill a ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Jan 2012 - 5:26pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Plaintiffs Decry BLM's Plan to Turn Wild Horses into "Ranch Animals" Update Dec. 23, 2011 : Following the filing of the lawsuit, BLM announced it would postpone plans to zero out the wild horses on Jakes Wash ...

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