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

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 fo ...

Article - lauraallen - 24 May 2010 - 7:10pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

© by Laura Allen, Executive Director, Animal Law Coalition   The wild horses and burros can be saved. There has to be a better way to manage these animals other than by hiring criminals to run them down with helicopters and penning some ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:13pm - 14 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, r ...

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

by Shelley Sawhook, President, American Horse Defense Fund , and Cindy MacDonald, author of http://www.americanherds.blogspot.com/  (reprinted with permission)  Download the Pros and Cons of Interior Secret ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 May 2010 - 2:12pm - 1 comment - 1 attachment

Nebraska lawmakers are holding hearings to address what is described as the "problem" of disposing of horses now that slaughter in the U.S. is illegal. The legislature claims there is a "problem" of unwanted horses but now no way ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Dec 2009 - 5:26pm - 5 comments - 3 attachments

Kevin O'Connell has successfully challenged the determination by Denver's Animal Control that his dog, Dexter , is a pit bull mix and thus banned from the city. Denver's ordinance actually bans "any dog that is an APBT, AST, and SBT&qu ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 Nov 2009 - 7:51pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

by Carole Raphaelle Davis, reprinted with permission   Anti-puppy mill protesters were shot at with an air rifle at Aquarium & Pet Center in Santa Monica on Saturday, October 10th. The Santa Monica Police are treating this case as an assa ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Oct 2009 - 1:34pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Simpson, III , has struck down as unconstitutional only two provisions of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Code. These provisions relate to unaltered dogs and bonding and forfeiture of seized pet ...

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

Puppy mill advocates say, "Send a message to Pennsylvania's commercial dog breeders: We will not help you prosper! From North Penn Puppy Mill Watch : Pennsylvania animal advocates recently learned of an upcoming dog auction ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Oct 2009 - 8:59pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: California 32-31.1 Retail sale of dogs and cats in pet stores prohibited. A. Findings and Intent. The city council, after several public meetings, finds as follows: 1. State and federal laws that regulate dog and ca ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Oct 2009 - 12:44pm - 0 comments

State: Bill Number: H.R. 503/S.B. 727 Go here for information about this bill. ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 1 Oct 2009 - 8:59pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments