Update Oct. 13, 2009: Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has now signed this bill into law.  Update Oct. 5, 2009: The Michigan legislature has now passed a Senate substitute version of H.B. 5127. The Senate version is vi ...

Article - lauraallen - 29 Jan 2012 - 8:18pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

The first law ever to ban use of domestic animals in circuses went into effect in July, 2009 in Bolivia . President Evo Morales signed into law a bill that defines use of domestic as well as wild animals in circuses and the conditions in which ...

Article - lauraallen - 13 Nov 2011 - 8:19pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update Nov. 24, 2009: The Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has reported favorably or passed  S.B. 250 , a bill to strengthen the ban on cruel shark finning and provide other protections for sharks. The bill, S.B. 250/H.R. 81 ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 Oct 2011 - 5:50pm - 1 comment - 1 attachment

Information provided courtesy of Valerie James-Patton and Equine Welfare Alliance   Internal documents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) shed light on the agency's motives and plans for the wild horses and burros. Two report ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 Aug 2011 - 2:06pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Update Dec. 2: Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has now signed AB 250 into law. This bill will regulate commercial dog breeders in the state.  Read Animal Law Coalition's earlier reports for more on what this new law will mean for the ...

Article - lauraallen - 20 Aug 2011 - 8:54pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update Sept. 28, 2009 : Cloud and members of his herd are still injured following the brutal helicopter roundup. The good news is that all of the older horses the BLM auctioned off were saved from slaughter. Go to www.cloud ...

Article - lauraallen - 20 Aug 2011 - 6:51pm - 11 comments - 2 attachments

An undercover video has been released courtesy of Mercy for Animals that shows baby male chicks routinely ground up alive or left to die as they fall to the floor. The video also shows female chicks slated to become egg laying hens trapped in over ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Aug 2011 - 4:17pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

During the 2007-2008 Congressional session, an anti-horse slaughter bill, the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act was passed by the House Judiciary Committee. A hearing was held, and the following are excerpts of information presented ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Jul 2011 - 7:39pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

by Elizabeth Forel (reprinted with permission) It seems like a lifetime ago that I first became aware of the carriage horses in Central Park. I recall being struck by how dispirited and bedraggled they looked - so unlike the horses I had known a ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Jul 2011 - 4:00pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Obama and Vilsack asked to push for ban on horse slaughter Ithaca, New York (June 10, 2009)  The Animal Law Coalition and Animals Angels have asked the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) to investigate gross violations o ...

Article - lauraallen - 23 Jun 2011 - 4:55am - 2 comments - 4 attachments

"Both government records and our report show that being on U.S. soil was not then and is not now the slightest guarantee of humane treatment." Sonja Meadows, Executive Director, Animals Angels  Westminster, MD (August 6, 2009) A th ...

Article - lauraallen - 23 Jun 2011 - 4:52am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

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 horses and burros in the care of th ...

Article - lauraallen - 31 May 2011 - 4:14pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

An undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals has revealed horrific animal cruelty at a factory farm owned and operated in Pennsylvania by Country View Family Farms (CVFF). A misnomer for sure. Despite the happy, friendly name, an employee ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 May 2011 - 4:56pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Maine Governor   John Baldacci has signed into law 7 MRSA §4020 and 17 MRSA §1039 which make it illegal to confine pregnant sows in gestation crates and tie veal calves into small enclosures for a majority of the day. The new law pr ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 May 2011 - 7:09pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 10, 2010: Fired Memphis Animal Shelter Director Ernest Alexander has been indicted on charges of animal cruelty . Both the veterinarian, Angela Middleton , and former shelter supervisor, Tina Quattlebaum , have also be ...

Article - lauraallen - 19 May 2011 - 9:34pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

He was wild and free, roaming the vast expanses of the rugged Calico Mountains with his mother and father and the other members of his family. This would be his first winter, a time when life slowed down for all the wild ones-the elegant pronghorn ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 Apr 2011 - 11:18pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

A California Superior Court has ordered the City of Los Angeles to halt what was described as an effort to " secretly and unofficially " promote TNR or trap neuter return, the practice of trapping feral cats, spaying/neutering as well as vac ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 Feb 2011 - 2:10pm - 2 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 Arnold Schwar ...

Article - lauraallen - 28 Feb 2011 - 4:33pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

This sign pictured here is reflective of a growing sentiment as Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's role in sending wild horses and burros to slaughter comes to light... In 1971 the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act (WFRHBA) was passed to provi ...

Article - lauraallen - 27 Feb 2011 - 9:42pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Update July, 2010: This bill, A.B. 1437 , is now law.  In the wake of Prop 2, this new law will level the playing field for California egg producers now required to give egg laying hens enough room to flap their wings and turn aroun ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Feb 2011 - 9:22pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Hawaii's anti-tethering measure, S.B. 1222 , passed and is now law. S.B. 1222 , does not get dogs off chains. But it does try to make the chaining or tethering better. The bill would ban the use of choke, prong, chain or pinch coll ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 Feb 2011 - 9:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Aug. 14 : The Philadelphia Eagles have signed Michael Vick  to a one year contract for $1.6 million with an option for a 2nd year for $5.2 million. The deal really belies the claim by Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, that Vick must ...

Article - lauraallen - 1 Feb 2011 - 8:34pm - 24 comments - 0 attachments

While Michael Vick has returned to playing professional football and even starred in his own reality show, state governments have continued to build during sessions in 2009 and 2010 on 2008 gains in giving law enforcement the tools need ...

Article - lauraallen - 1 Feb 2011 - 8:25pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed HB 562  into law today. This bill requires animal control and  humane officers and Department of Agriculture investigators to make a police report when they have a reasonable belief child abuse is occur ...

Article - lauraallen - 25 Jan 2011 - 6:21pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by Victoria L Voith DVM, PhD, DACVB, College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences (reprinted with permission) We are all aware of the newspaper articles, magazine stories, and TV segments that show pictures of dog ...

Article - lauraallen - 17 Jan 2011 - 7:06pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Miami-Dade County, Florida (March 19, 2009) Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation (MCABSL) and Animal Law Coalition applaud a hearing officer's ruling that the Miami Dade County Pit Bull ban is too vague, and the county cannot enfo ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 Jan 2011 - 9:03pm - 20 comments - 1 attachment

Salina, Kansas bans pit bulls. The issue, as always with breed bans, is what is a pit bull? The ordinance defines "pit bull" to include 3 breeds: American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier. ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 Jan 2011 - 9:00pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Victory for Dogs as Pet Stores go "Humane"  by Carole Raphaelle Davis, as printed in American Dog Magazine (reprinted with permission) SADLY, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF DOGS SUFFERING in shelters and puppy mills. This y ...

Article - lauraallen - 16 Jan 2011 - 7:52pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Former Mayor Paula Bacon City of Kaufman Kaufman, TX  75142 Dear State Legislator: You will soon be asked to vote on ... legislation regarding the commercial slaughter of American horses of which you probably have very little firsthand kn ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Jan 2011 - 7:55pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments

There were several bills and resolutions introduced and some passed in 2009 in state legislatures. The resolutions call for the defeat of the federal anti-horse slaughter bill, H.R. 503 (Senate version is S 727), and some bills proposed to support hor ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Jan 2011 - 8:16pm - 0 comments - 2 attachments