Countdown to June 21:  That's when the 2011-12 NYS legislative session ends. Without your continued activism, it could also be the end of our hope for an  enforceable  law banning devocalization. This practice is so cruel, it has long been ill ...

Article - lauraallen - 21 May 2012 - 2:45pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Update May 2, 2012 :The Ohio legislature has thus far failed to take action on the Ohio Dog Auctions Act despite the demand from more than 118,115 voters that the state ban dog auctions and raffles. Continue to push your Ohio state leg ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 May 2012 - 4:47pm - 24 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 2, 2012 : The Tennessee legislature's 2012 session ended yesterday. H.B. 3619 was never taken up or put on the calendar after April 9.  The bill is dead, but not before one last effort by Rep. Andy Holt to add to his bill a repeal of the ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 May 2012 - 4:56pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Following a meeting on April 26, 2012 of the Pennsylvania Dog Law Advisory Board - its first since Gov. Tom Corbett took office in January, 2011, Mainline Animal Rescue put it this way:  Director of [the Bureau of] Dog Law [Enforcement] Ly ...

Article - lauraallen - 5 May 2012 - 10:29pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 2, 2012 : The Massachusetts bill to ban slaughter of equines for human consumption, S.B. 655, can still pass! The time to consider this bill has been extended until June 8, 2012 . Please read more about the bill in Animal Law ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 6:47pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 2, 2012 : On April 30, 2012 the Subcommittee on Health in the House of Representatives  held a hearing  on the impact of use of drugs in racing on the health and safey of jockeys and horses.  Read the witness testimony here. ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 4:04pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update March 30, 2012 : The Pennsylvania bill to ban use of carbon monoxide chambers to kill shelter animals, S.B. 1329, has been approved unanimously by the state senate. The bill now moves to the House of Representatives Agriculture and ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 6:47pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update May 2, 2012 : As we approach an election, it is time to call on Congress and the president to support this bill, H.R. 2966/S.B. 1176. If your U.S. representative or senators are not yet co-sponsors, call on them now to co-sponsor this lan ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 6:22pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update January 24, 2012:   U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR) has introduced  H.R. 3798, the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012 , the legislation that the Humane Society of the United States President and CEO Wayne Pacelle announced la ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 5:58pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Update May 2, 2012 : Yesterday, on May 1, 2012, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved a resolution to put the question to voters on August 14, 2012 whether the county's 23 year old pit bull ban should be repealed. Only Commission ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 3:01pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update Feb. 15, 2012: The vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 7 has been moved.  We will let you know the exact day. This gives you more time to call your U.S. representative in support of the ban on use of double decked trailers to h ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 3:32pm - 8 comments - 2 attachments

Update April 18, 2012: Since the death of her beloved Bailey at the hands of his veterinarians, Beth Sheehan has pursued efforts to increase  oversight in Ohio of veterinary clinics and veterinarians . She also has tried to establish a mor ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 3:54pm - 0 comments - 2 attachments

Update April 18, 2012 : New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has asked US Dept. of Agriculture to deny authorization for Valley Meat Co. to proceed with plans to  open the nation's first facility for slaughtering horses for human consumption since 2007. ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 3:53pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update April 15, 2012: For now, Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to repeal portions of Hayden Law have been rejected. The Senate Budget Subcommittee followed the earlier vote of an Assembly budget subcommittee and rejected the repeal. Portions of the law wil ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 3:37pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update March 2, 2012:   Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board appointment draws a storm of protest The Department of the Interior received thousands of calls yesterday in protest to the appointment of Callie Hendrickson, an openly anti-wild ho ...

Article - lauraallen - 2 May 2012 - 3:29pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Meat From Horses Not Raised For Food Presents Public Health Hazard Update April 10, 2012:  Front Range Rescue and The Humane Society of the United States have filed a second petition, this time with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, to preve ...

Article - lauraallen - 11 Apr 2012 - 9:31pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update April 6, 2012 : Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has now signed into law  S.B. 1303  which for the first time in the state's history establishes felony penalties for animal cruelty. Until now any animal cruelty in the state, no matt ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Apr 2012 - 4:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update April 3, 2012: Though the pro-slaughter organization, United Horsemen, cancelled its summit scheduled to take place this week in Oklahoma City, the Summit of the Live Horse proceeded today with an event calculated to raise awareness about ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Apr 2012 - 4:11pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The sport of horseracing showcases the beauty of an iconic American animal. But under the surface, a doping epidemic undermines the safety and integrity of the sport. Often drugged up with painkillers and performance-enhancing substances, race horses ar ...

Article - lauraallen - 7 Apr 2012 - 4:07pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: Kentucky Bill Number: H.B. 233 Under Kentucky House Bill 233 a judge would have the authority to enter orders  " directing the care, custody, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or he ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 4 Apr 2012 - 5:47pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update February 29, 2012 : This bill,  S 5172 , known as the Ag-gag bill, basically carried over but fortunately must pass the same committees again. The bill remains in the Senate Agriculture Committee.  Read Animal Law Coalition's reports belo ...

Article - lauraallen - 4 Apr 2012 - 5:17pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell has denied requests for preliminary injunctions filed (1) by the Safari Club International to enjoin enforcement of endangered species status for non-native captive populations of the scimitar-horned oryx, dama ...

Article - lauraallen - 4 Apr 2012 - 5:05pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: Tennessee Bill Number: H.B. 3620/S.B. 3460 Go here  for information about this bill.  ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 4 Apr 2012 - 3:26pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Tennessess is one of a  handful of states  where the legislature is considering a bill to shut down undercover investigations of farm animal cruelty. Known as "ag-gag bills", the legislation has been enacted in Iowa and Utah this year. Flo ...

Article - lauraallen - 4 Apr 2012 - 3:25pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Dave Duquette is a rabidly pro-horse slaughter cohort of  Wyoming state Rep. Sue Wallis , and together they are roaming the U.S. hoping to open horse slaughter houses. Duquette previously formed a 501c3 non-profit called " ...

Article - lauraallen - 27 Mar 2012 - 7:30pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Commercial horse slaughter for human consumption is once again legal in the U.S. Already, Belgian based  Chevidico  is lurking as its stooges, Wyoming state Rep. Sue Wallis and Dave Duquette make unwelcome forays into communities ...

Article - lauraallen - 23 Mar 2012 - 11:04pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

SAVING AMERICA'S HORSES to launch in the Heart of America: Kansas, MO   Official Selection in AMC Theatres KC Film Festival:   SAVING AMERICA'S HORSES A NATION BETRAYED  has been officially selected to scr ...

Article - lauraallen - 23 Mar 2012 - 10:48pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update March 20, 2012: Utah Governor Gary Herbert has signed the ag-gag bill into law. For more on this, read Animal Law Coalition's reports below.  Update March 9, 2012 : The Utah Ag-gag bill, H.B. 187, is now headed to Gov. Gary Herbert fo ...

Article - lauraallen - 21 Mar 2012 - 3:55pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Part 3 in Animal Law Coalition's series on use of carbon monoxide gas chambers in North Carolina. For a look at Part 1....   and for a look at Part 2....  Update March 20, 2012:  Craven County discontinued use of ...

Article - lauraallen - 20 Mar 2012 - 3:54pm - 0 comments - 2 attachments

Update March 19, 2012 :  A new bill to regulate ownership of dangerous exotic animals has been introduced in the Ohio Senate,  S.B. 310  by state Sen. Troy Balderson; the bill is already set for hearing on The bill would allow Ohioans to continu ...

Article - lauraallen - 19 Mar 2012 - 4:32pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments