Update May 24, 2008 : H.B. 568, the proposal to ban pit bulls from Ohio, has been assigned to the State Government and Elections Committee. Click here to find committee members. Please write or call and urge them to vote NO on H.B. 568. Conta ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Jun 2008 - 5:45pm - 270 comments - 0 attachments

Click here to play Justice for Tammy by singer/songwriter Maria Daines.   http://www.maria-daines.com/music-65.html  and Click here to watch the video put together by Kathy Sm ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 May 2008 - 5:39pm - 121 comments - 0 attachments

After weeks of investigation and planning, humane groups including  Humane Society of Parkersburg and the Humane Society of the United States, along with West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection and Woods County, West Virginia ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Aug 2008 - 4:02pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Update September 15, 2008:    Jack McCall was finally arrested. On August 26, 2008 MCall pled guilty to 3 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty and received a sentence of 90 days in jail.  This despite the abject cruelty and his prior record. ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Sep 2008 - 7:01pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

 "I'm a changed woman," says Oprah. The famed talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, says she will never buy another dog, that she will only adopt dogs from shelters.  This after Oprah produced a show about puppymills. The show aired on April ...

Article - lauraallen - 17 Sep 2008 - 4:04pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

Update October 6, 2008:  H.B. 2525 is now in the Senate Appropriations Committee but is expected to be released shortly.  The Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association ("PVMA") is trying desperately to add an amend ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Oct 2008 - 5:25pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

                                           by Laura Allen for the Animal Law Coalition This is not really my story to tell. I came late to the effort to save Lucy's life. An effort that ultimatel ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Sep 2008 - 6:44pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

In a 7-0 decision written by Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed the finding of the Ohio Court of Appeals that Ohio state law R.C. 955.22 and 955.11(A)(4)(a)(iii) and Toledo Municipal Code 505.14(a) are unconstitutional becaus ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Oct 2007 - 5:11am - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Take Animal Law Coalition's BSL poll on this page!  By a 6-1 vote, the Omaha City Council has passed an ordinance barring the tethering and chaining of dogs in the city outside for more than 15 minutes without supervision. That is th ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 Oct 2008 - 3:25pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

There is still time to pass a bill that would ban use of CO gas chambers in Pennsylvania animal shelters.  The bill, H.B. 2417 , would  amend the Animal Destruction Method Authorization Law also by outlawing shooting as a means of killing shelter ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 Aug 2008 - 6:02pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

There are news reports almost daily about raids on people called animal hoarders who have large numbers of animals suffering in deplorable, filthy conditions. The news reports typically show a home or some building or property overcrowded with starving, ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Oct 2007 - 5:15am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

                                           Update March 10, 2008:   Los Angeles County and the other defendants filed a motion to dismiss, claiming private citizens such as the plaintiffs don't have sta ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Sep 2008 - 6:45pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Update April 16, 2008 : The Kentucky legislature has passed Romeo's Law, KY S.B. 58 which makes it a Class D felony to torture a dog or cat unless it is a first offense and there is only physical injury that is not serious. The bill is on Go ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 May 2008 - 5:38pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Joyce Jacobson, researcher; John Holland, senior analyst AAHS; and Darrell R. Charlton Jr., researcher, © All rights reserved Introduction Horse slaughter has become a hotly contested issue in the United States in the past year. A ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Aug 2008 - 4:32pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

                           Update: This case has been continued. We will keep you posted on a new hearing date. Original report:  Mark March 11, 2008 on your calendars. That is when Jennifer Smith, resident of ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Sep 2008 - 6:25pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Take Animal Law Coalition's poll on pet cloning.  Five pit bull puppies cloned from a dead dog, Booger, have been "born". Booger's owner, Bernann McKinney, paid $50,000 for the cloning of her beloved pet, a bargain in view ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Sep 2008 - 6:02pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

" 37% of those horses are going to be slaughtered because they couldn't run fast enough....So, it's run for your life ." Actor Paul Sorvino Those involved in the business of horse racing are always looking for pedigrees that produce sm ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 May 2008 - 4:44pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

You can help end the slaughter of American horses for human consumption. Get political to stop horse slaughter!  Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Senate the sponsor of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, S.B. 311, has created a w ...

Article - lauraallen - 29 Aug 2008 - 11:52pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Update Sept. 30, 2008: The Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue , has issued this statement: "[I] believe... (and ... [my] dogs Dosie and Zipper agree!) that we should work towards a community where all pets ar ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Oct 2008 - 5:37pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update Sept. 30, 2008: Yesterday, we reported that Congress would not consider further this session H.R. 6598, the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008.  The reason given to us was the focus on the bail out for Wa ...

Article - lauraallen - 1 Oct 2008 - 12:44am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

by Cori Menkin and Sarah Speed (reprinted with permission) The raid of a Chester County, Pennsylvania kennel and the transfer of more than 30 dogs brings to light another appalling example of animal abuse. Let's hope that these even ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Aug 2008 - 4:03pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update : This bill died upon adjournment of the legislature.  Original report : By a vote of 66-1 Minnesota's Senate passed amendments today to the state's dangerous dog laws. These amendments are pending in the state's House of Representati ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Sep 2008 - 5:21pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

A national movement to end gas chambers is gaining momentum.  Click here to read about the explosion in a NC chamber .     Update July 19, 2008: Your calls and letters to North Carolina officials in support of a ban on animal ga ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Aug 2008 - 9:35pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Sumner County, Tennessee's Assistant District Attorney General, Thomas Dean, has stepped up to charge veterinarian William Baber with 12 misdemeanors arising out of his use of the heartstick method to kill animals in the county shelter. Tenne ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Feb 2008 - 1:30am - 15 comments - 0 attachments

  Update June 25, 2008 :  After sometimes emotional and at other times contentious testimony Wednesday, the Dallas City Council passed a mandatory spay/neuter ordinance.  Animal welfare advocates decorated the council chamber with 5 ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Jun 2008 - 1:39am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

                                           On November 27, 2007 Baltimore's Mayor Sheila Dixon signed into law changes to the city's animal control ordinances. In passing these changes, a copy of w ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Dec 2007 - 4:39pm - 2 comments - 1 attachment

Eleven groups, a mix of dog owners and animal welfare organizations, have filed an amicus brief in the criminal case pending against Michael Vick and his cohorts in federal court in Virginia. The amici curiae or friends of the court, are urging Judge ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Dec 2007 - 7:56pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

A bill chock full of controversy has been reported out of the Joint  Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government of the Massachusetts General Court or legislature. H.B. 5092 would: (1) allow local governments to regulate or ban particular ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Oct 2008 - 4:57pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update July 30, 2008: Following a bench trial, a Carroll County, Virgnia judge has found Lanzie "Junior" Horton guilty of animal cruelty and neglect and failing to have a license for the nearly 1,000 dogs held in his commercia ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Aug 2008 - 7:21pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update August 10, 2008 : For weeks Dallas city officials insisted it was up to zoo officials whether or not Jenny, the elephant, would be sent to Africam Safari Park in Puebla, Mexico, about 80 miles southeast of Mexico City.  Zoo officials insist ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 Aug 2008 - 8:52pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments