Archive for March, 2009
Overnight, Ontario has gone from having the weakest animal protection laws in the country to some of the strongest, which makes the area’s lone animal cruelty investigator a very happy woman.[...]
Cats, dogs and other animals in the province are safer today. A law came into effect Sunday that modernizes the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Act.[...]
CARLSBAD — Animal protection laws may be getting a little tougher in New Mexico thanks to several bills that have passed, and others still being considered during the current session of the New Mexico Legislature.
It’s illegal in Nevada to watch or participate in an animal fight, there’s no Nevada law prohibiting owners from owning, selling, or training an animal with the intent to fight. Lawmakers want to change that.
Ontario’s Provincial Animal Welfare Act officially takes effect today, ushering in tougher penalties for animal abuse.Before overhauling the 90-year-old act, Ontario had been criticized for having the most lax animal-protection laws in the country. The province is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals such as police dogs and horses. …
The first clue that Judy Cerney is not your typical poop-scooping dog owner might be her retriever’s stately name: Wingmasters Intense Suspense.
Rep. Elton Gallegly was a kid when he got his first dog, a white mixed breed with a black spot on his eye. The family called him Petey because he resembled the mutt in “The Little Rascals.”
When it comes to raising animals for food, there is a balancing of many compelling interests: food safety, environmental pollution, animal welfare and economics. But for too long in the state Capitol, industrial factory farms have fought to maintain their own special interests above those of Oklahomans.In 2005 when Attorney General Drew Edmondson confronted poultry giants for their …
NASHVILLE – When raiding a dog-fighting operation last year, Wayne County Sheriff Rick Wilson says he and deputies found 26 animals – some in “absolutely sickening” condition – and no one willing to admit owning any of them. “There was no one there that had a dog in the fight,” he said, repeating comments from people caught in the raid. “Not even the owner of the farm. Why, he didn’t even know …