Courtesy of Equine Welfare Alliance   CHICAGO (EWA) - The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) recently released hidden camera footage from an investigation that took place at the two largest horse slaughter plants in Canada, Bouvry ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 May 2010 - 4:56pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Assembly Member Jim Tedisco has introduced a bill, AB 9912 , that would bar those convicted of aggravated cruelty to companion animals from having future contact with a companion animal " unless and until authorized by a court order ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 May 2010 - 5:01pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Mar. 29: Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert has now signed H.B. 107 into law! H.B. 107 means pound seizure discretionary instead of mandatory for Utah public shelters. That means only two states, Minnesota and Oklahoma, still require ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 May 2010 - 4:59pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 25, 2010 : The Ohio House of Representatives has passed Nitro's Law by a vote of 59-38!   Watch the video of the vote below! H.B. 70  will amend Ohio's law protecting companion animals, ORC Sections 959.131 and 95 ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 May 2010 - 4:58pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by Steven Long, Horseback Magazine (reprinted with permission)    MO Legislator Curt Dougherty Gives Anti Business Response to Animal Law Article (Horseback Magazine) - If stealth legislation attached to a catch-all senat ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 May 2010 - 4:55pm - 0 comments - 2 attachments

  Update April 18, 2008 : After 6 1/2 hours of testimony on April 17, Judge David Motes in the forfeiture hearing "ordered that Jackson County may dispose of 270 dogs from that puppy mill as it desires, according to the law," said C ...

Article - lauraallen - 19 Apr 2008 - 3:52pm - 19 comments - 0 attachments

More and more states are giving judges the authority to stop convicted animal abusers from owning or possessing other animals. Really, why should anyone be given a second chance to hurt animals?    Update October 12, 2009: Governor Ar ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Oct 2009 - 1:52pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

by Michele C. Hollow, Editor, petnewsandviews.com    (Below are excerpts from a 3 part series by Pet News and Views on insuring pit bulls. Read the full series at petnewsandviews.com!)   Pet News and Views  has turned into a forum ...

Article - lauraallen - 25 May 2010 - 3:37pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Indianapolis and Rhode Island are examples of local governments which have turned away from bans on feeding feral or stray cats. Instead, they have embraced laws regulating and supporting managed colonies of feral and stray cats. But in the fight f ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 May 2010 - 7:10pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Update Oct. 20: The Petaluma, California city council declined to make any of the suggested changes to its new trap neuter return program. For more on the city's new ordinance that some say will unnecessarily and unduly burden cat caregivers, ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 May 2010 - 6:57pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 11, 2010: The case was dismissed today.  Judge Kent Jasperson dismissed the case at the outset, stating FLOCK itself could not be named as a defendant and pointing out the individual directors and officers had only been named and s ...

Article - lauraallen - 25 Feb 2010 - 2:03pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

The National Meat Association and the American Meat Institute lost in their bid to stop the enforcement of California laws prohibiting the slaughter of downer or non-ambulatory animals. The California law also states that while " in transit ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 May 2010 - 3:21pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 17, 2010 : Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has now signed H.B. 765 into law.  Update April 30, 2010: The Florida legislature has passed H.B. 765 ! Florida lawmakers hope to put an end to the theft and illegal slaughter of ho ...

Article - lauraallen - 17 May 2010 - 5:17pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update Jan. 28, 2010: Arizona U.S. District Court Judge David G. Campbell has issued an opinion agreeing 2 of the plaintiffs suing Petland can proceed with their cases. The RICO statute makes it unlawful for any person associated wi ...

Article - lauraallen - 4 Mar 2010 - 1:37pm - 3 comments - 2 attachments

Update May 12, 2010: The Senate Appropriations Committee has placed S.B. 1277 in a suspense file, meaning it could cost the state more than $150,000 and the committee will consider it later. It also means the bill will die unless it is affirm ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 May 2010 - 7:05pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

While the California legislature considers a bill to create a registry for animal abusers, similar bills have been introduced in other states: In fact, a bill to track animal abusers has been introduced in Tennessee the past two sessions. ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 May 2010 - 6:48pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Tennessee House of Representatives has by a vote of 88-4 concurred in a Senate amendment to H.B. 238. Under the amended version, it is a Class A misdemeanor for a person  convicted of a violent felony to own, possess, or have custody or control ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 May 2010 - 5:35pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 15, 2010 : Missouri's legislative session ended Friday, May 14. For more on the pro-horse slaughter provisions added in the Missouri House to S.B. 795 in the last weeks of the session and removed just hours before the end of th ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 May 2010 - 3:20pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update October 30, 2009: H.R. 2996 is now law , Public Law 111-88, Interior Dept. and Continuing Appropriations, FY 2010. Under this law, BLM is prohibited from using any funds " for the destruction of healthy, unadopted, wild ho ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 May 2010 - 3:26pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Dear President Obama, What would President Lincoln do? No matter the politics of Horse Slaughter in America , there's one thing that both sides cannot deny, our horses are suffering daily.  Mr. President, if you admired President Lincoln ...

Article - lauraallen - 14 May 2010 - 7:45pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

by Michele Hollow (reprinted with permission)   Wednesday morning my inbox was flooded with e-mails from animal welfare agencies and friends decrying the Supreme Court decision to legalize the sale of videos depicting animal cruelty. The ...

Article - lauraallen - 14 May 2010 - 7:44pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

I did vote for you. I was intrigued by your call for " change ". You signaled a dramatic new course, one of openness and inclusion.  Certainly I applauded your choice of Joe Biden as vice president, a staunch animal welfare advocate. ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:04pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

"Don't Even Think About Killing America's Wild Horses and Burros" Washington, D.C. (December 4, 2008) -  Joining with a growing public chorus of outrage at a recent proposal by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:30pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Laura Leigh , a publisher and artist , is suing the Dept. of Interior and Bureau of Land Management (BLM).   Her complaint, filed this past week in federal court in Nevada, challenges not only the removal of wild horses from the Sheldon Na ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:16pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 5: Both S.B. 1276 and H.B. 543 have died in committee.  Update Mar. 4: The Florida Senate Community Affairs Committee has voted 9-2 today to repeal the state's prohibition on breed discriminatory laws outside of Mia ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:39pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

The resolutions to honor cock fighting did not progress further this legislative session.   Update March 31, 2010: The Hawaii House of Representatives Tourism, Culture and International Committee has passed this resolution! ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 4:24pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Federal District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer has found the BLM exceeded its authority in its plan to remove all wild horses from the West Douglas Herd Area in Colorado.  The judge struck down the plan and stopped the BLM from implementing it, ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:17pm - 3 comments - 1 attachment

Update:  August 26, 2008  The BLM has delayed until later this year or perhaps next a decision about whether to begin euthanizing wild horses.  After announcing euthanasia as a solution to increasing costs of caring for wild horses, th ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:32pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update Dec. 29: Go here for the latest and what you can do following the judge's decision to deny the preliminary injunction but with a warning about the legality of BLM's long term holding policies.    Update Dec. 3 : BLM an ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:11pm - 2 comments - 2 attachments

Update: The Indiana assembly has now adjourned, and H.B. 1258, failed to progress further this session. For more on this bill, read Animal Law Coalition's report below. Indiana House Bill 1258 would do several good things for animals - ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 3:50pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments