Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that bans the use of dogs for hunting bears and bobcats. California is now the 15th state to have such a ban, as reported by the Daily Democrat. Brown has also signed a host of other animal-welfare measures, such as a doubling of the [...]
The Pack Topics series continues today with a focus on the odd mentality of those from the other side. Gas Chambers: Despite reports that dogs were surviving a gas chamber in Fairfield County, Ohio, three county commissioners there want more time to consider a ban on the horrible practice. And they requested more time to [...]
Proposed USDA breeder rules: I ran across another opinion piece about the proposed new USDA rules that would close a huge loophole in breeding regulations. Carole Raphaelle Davis of the LA Animal Rights Examiner discusses the fact that since selling over the Internet, the phone and through the mail are not covered properly by the [...]
Pictures are sailing around the Web of Donald Trump’s sons posing with the bodies of dead animals they killed in Africa. The most troubling photo shows one of them with the tail of a dead elephant. Elephants are in real trouble, as poachers are trying to wipe them off the face of the Earth for [...]
Headline – “Bust shows dog fighting can be anywhere.” The Toledo Blade reports seven dogs were rescued March 6 from a dog-fighting operation in Raisinville Township, Mich. Janette Reever, the deputy manager of animal-fighting investigations with the Humane Society of the United States was quoted in the article – “It’s everywhere. People think they don’t [...]
