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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Banning Sale of Dogs and Cats by Pet Stores

A way to target the impulse shopper.  Update June 23, 2008: A web site has been set up with information about this bill and how you can help pass it. Click here for more information . Original report : New South Wales in Australia may ...

Article - lauraallen - 23 Jun 2008 - 2:35pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Indianapolis Dog Fighting Task Force Will Continue Without Mayor Bart Peterson

Update:   The Indianpolis Dog Fighting Task Force will continue with its work, but without the belated support promised by Mayor Bart Peterson. Peterson  lost his bid for re-election. For more on the mayor's call for a pit bull ban that may ...

Article - lauraallen - 13 Dec 2007 - 1:59am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Please Help Shut Down PA Dog Breeder!

Update November 21, 2007: The West Hempstead Township Zoning Board has continued High's hearing again. It appears he has withdrawn  his request for a special exception to operate his stud service  with up to 25 dogs at his residence and may be chal ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Dec 2007 - 4:47pm - 2 comments - 2 attachments

Courts Side With Pit Bulls

It's a better week than most for the pit bull type dogs . In Virginia Judge Herman A. Whisenant, Jr. issued a preliminary injunction barring the county shelter from euthanizing dogs based solely on breed. The ruling is consistent with an Oct ...

Article - lauraallen - 22 Dec 2007 - 4:51pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Criminal Charges as Well as a Lawsuit Filed Following the Tragedy in Puerto Rico

 Sign the petition below and add your voice in a call for justice for the beloved pets that were so brutally killed. Update December 5, 2007 :  The owner of Puerto Rican-based Animal Control Solutions, Julio Diaz, has continued to in ...

Article - lauraallen - 19 Dec 2007 - 7:22pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Animals' Lives Matter: A Call to Philadelphia Animal Control to Stop the Carnage

Dear Friends of Animals, Below are the links to more news reports which ran today about the historic website http://www.dogsindanger.com/ . USA Today, AOL, MSNBC also ran stories. I will provide videos of the Today Show and GMA segments fr ...

Article - lauraallen - 6 Dec 2007 - 7:55pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Canadian Government Silencing Critics of the Seal Hunt?

 Though the Canadian government seems oblivious to the cruelty of the continuing seal hunt, it has decided to put on trial five critics.  Beginning this week 2 Canadians, 2 Americans and 1 Briton will face charged in Isles de la Madeleine in Q ...

Article - lauraallen - 22 Oct 2007 - 5:16pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

It's Time to Stop the Canadian Seal Hunt!

 It is legal in Canada to hunt harp seal pups when they begin to molt their white coats, usually at about 12 days of age. The Humane Society of the United States reports, "Ninety-five percent of the seals culled over the past five years were ...

Article - lauraallen - 22 Oct 2007 - 5:04pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments