Junior Horton Guilty!

lauraallen — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:19:19 -0700

Update May 16, 2008: In a trial this afternoon Junior Horton has been found guilty on 14 counts of animal cruelty and 25 counts of neglect! The judge has said Horton will not face jail time.

Stay tuned for a full report.

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Pennsylvania: Governor Rendell Pushes Changes to the Dog Law

lauraallen — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:32:35 -0700

Update May 14, 2008: Pennsylvanians - and their dogs - came to the Capitol today for a rally to hear more about the overhaul of the state's Dog Law, proposed amendments aimed at improving conditions for dogs trapped in puppy mills.

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Pet Store Faces Trial on Claims of Fraud and False Advertising

lauraallen — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:57:09 -0700

More than 90% of puppies sold by pet stores come from for profit commercial breeders also known as puppy mills. The owners of the pet store, Pets of Bel Air, in Los Angeles made famous not only by their celebrity clientele but also by a widely publicized HSUS undercover investigation, claims they were unaware the dogs came from such places.

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Animal Law Coalition on Pet Rentals

lauraallen — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:22:32 -0700

Need a dog or a cat, may be a ferret to keep you company? But don't want to take care of it for more than a few hours, days or weeks?

A burgeoning new industry advertises that you can now rent a pet.

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Act Now to Protect Dogs and Cats from Pet Rental Companies

lauraallen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:49:18 -0700

There's a new type of business that plans to open in Boston this spring. FlexPetz rents dogs by the hour or day for people to use and return on whim-like cars or DVDs. But rental cars don't have feelings. And they don't bite. Experts caution that this practice poses risks to people as well as animals.

State Rep. Paul Frost has filed "An Act Prohibiting the Renting of Pets" to keep this exploitive trade out of Massachusetts.

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Legal Perspective on the Renting of Pets

lauraallen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:10:26 -0700

by Jonathan Stone Rankin, Esq. reprinted with permission

Pet rental or "flexible ownership" companies may be coming to Massachusetts soon; one in particular has announced an opening in Boston this year. With this new, unregulated industry comes a Pandora's box of legal considerations that could potentially devastate consumers.

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Taking Turns: A New Leaf, A Blind Eye or Deals with the Devil

lauraallen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:44:54 -0700

By: Jenny Stephens, North Penn Puppy Mill Watch, www.nppmwatch.com (reprinted with permission)

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Without Restrictions, Puppy Mills May Find a Home in Vermont After All

lauraallen — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:51:38 -0700

By JOANNE BOURBEAU (reprinted with permission)

(The Vermont puppy mill bill did not make it out of committee this year. Click here for more on that bill and the politics that helped defeat it.)

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You've Seen Oprah's Show: Now What You Can Do to Keep Up the Fight Against the Pet Trade

lauraallen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:35:05 -0700

"I'm a changed woman," says Oprah. The famed talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, says she will never buy another dog, that she will only adopt dogs from shelters. This after Oprah produced a show about puppymills. The show aired on April 4.

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Vermont's Bill to Regulate Commercial Dog Breeders and Other Pet Merchants Dies

lauraallen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:10:29 -0700

Update April 5, 2008: The bill did not make it out of committee before the crossover date and is now dead for this session. Click here to read what Joanne Bourbeau, New England Regional Director HSUS, has to say about this.

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