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

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

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

© by Laura Allen, Executive Director, Animal Law Coalition Update Nov. 4, 2009:    The unofficial results show 63.65% of Ohio voters (1,958,646 people) voted yes for Issue 2, while 36.35% or 1,118,484 voters, voted no. ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 Aug 2010 - 10:27pm - 0 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 ...

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

By Steven Long, Horseback Magazine (reprinted with permission ) U.S. Senator Eyes Removing Agency's Mustang Oversight HOUSTON, (Horseback) - The hasty labor day "gather" of the iconic equine star of the PBS "Nature&qu ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:15pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

by Steven Long, Horseback Magazine (reprinted with permission)   In the world of equine welfare there may be no person subject to derision than former Montana Sen. Conrad Burns . An ardent supporter of horses as a commodity to be sold for ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:14pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Asheville, North Carolina has joined a number of local governments that have banned unattended chaining of dogs. By a vote of 5-2 the City Council voted to ban unattended tethering or chaining of dogs in the city. ChainFree Ashville was in ...

Article - lauraallen - 23 Sep 2009 - 4:55pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update Sept. 22, 2009: Thanks to your calls and letters and the actions of people all over the world including in China, it appears the dog cull set to begin in Qinhuangdao has been called off. Signs announcing the cull have been taken d ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Oct 2009 - 4:38pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update Dec. 12: Culver City and Burbank are now the 7th and 8th cities in North America to ban declawing of cats except for therapeutic purposes. For more on this new law passed in these and other California cities in the past few mont ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Dec 2009 - 1:45pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Nov. 4, 2009: Yesterday, San Francisco became the first major city to ban declawing of cats! By a vote of 9-2, the city's Board of Supervisors made it a crime for any person, a veterinarian or otherwise, to declaw or cause a cat ...

Article - lauraallen - 3 Dec 2009 - 6:17pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Nov. 10 : On November 3, 2009, the Martin County, Florida Commission approved the plan to allow hunting camps, overnight accommodations, as a permitted use  J&R Outfitters, a notorious canned hunting operation.   A ...

Article - lauraallen - 13 Nov 2009 - 3:19pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

HARRISBURG, Sept. 14 - Pennsylvania State Rep. James E. Casorio Jr . said he was shocked to learn this weekend that the state has awarded a low-cost loan of more than $30,000 to help a commercial puppy mill in Lancaster County expand. " Th ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Sep 2009 - 9:12pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Update Oct. 4:  Federal District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo has denied yet another wave of challenges by breeders to the 2008 changes that regulate puppy mills under Pennsylvania's Dog Law. This time the plaintiffs, Pennsyl ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Oct 2009 - 9:00pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update Sept. 11: By a vote of 57-40 the Senate has confirmed Cass Sunstein as President Barack Obama's Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House Office of Management and Budget. For more ...

Article - lauraallen - 28 Sep 2009 - 5:27pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Under a California law, S.B. 762 , to take effect January 1, no city or county will be allowed to prohibit a licensed healing arts professional which includes veterinarians from " engaging in any act or performing any procedure that ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 Sep 2009 - 5:12pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Stray from the Heart, Inc. brought an action in the nature of mandamus to compel New York City and its Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene, to comply with the city's the Animal Shelters and Sterilization Act, Local Law 26 of 2000, §§17-801- ...

Article - lauraallen - 20 Sep 2009 - 3:54pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A federal judge has struck down Pennsylvania's practice of charging out-of-state dog dealers a $300 license fee in addition to a kennel license fee as required. 3 P.S. § 209(a) This opinion was issued in the same decision by the judge, Sylv ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Sep 2009 - 8:45pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Terre Haute, Indiana City Council has voted 7-1 to approve an ordinance implementing a trap neuter return program for feral cats.  The ordinance, however, has been touted in the media as a ban on feeding or caring for feral cats. There is a ...

Article - lauraallen - 15 Sep 2009 - 5:55pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 3272/S 2305 Go here for information about these bills. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 3960, A 2417 Go here for information about these bills.  ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 3142/S 2597 Go here for information about these bills. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: S 2489/ A 3803. A 902/S 835 Go here for information about these bills. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 2979 Go here for information about this bill. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 2536/S 1959 Go here for information about these bills.   ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: S 1845 Go here for information about this bill. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 3936, A 2513 Go here for information about these bills.  ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 3995 Go here for information about this bill. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: S 2952 Go here for information about this bill. ...

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State: New Jersey Bill Number: A 2980/S 1991 Go here for information about these bills. ...

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