The Ohio House just made cruelty to a companion animal a felony, increasing the crime’s degree from its former misdemeanor status. The Senate has yet to act. Ohioans, please consider contacting state senators on this issue.
Story: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/02/animals_in_the_news_10.html
House Bill 70: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_70
State Senator: http://www.ohiosenate.gov/shirley-a-smith.html
Wild-horse advocates are criticizing federal land managers’ plans to begin a major mustang roundup in Nevada on private land, saying it’s a deliberate attempt to prevent them from monitoring it…
“If the BLM keeps going on the way it is, the last wild horses already may have been born,” Farley said, adding the agency was removing 80 to 90 percent of the mustangs from the Calico complex.
Read the entire article, and why a federal judge found a request to block the roundup legally inadequate: Feds face new criticism over NV wild-horse roundup – San Jose Mercury News.
Visit the Front Range Equine Rescue to sign a petition to Obama to cease wild horse roundups.
A national toll-free hotline to report suspected puppy-mill illegalities was launched Friday 877-MILLTIP by the Humane Society of the United States, which hopes callers will supply tips that increase the number of raids and prosecutions.
HSUS is also partnering with several groups to launch a ballot initiative that would put to a public vote in November legislation that would improve the care of dogs at large commercial breeders in Missouri – long regarded as the nation’s biggest puppy producer. The proposed regulations would require, among other things, veterinary care and time out of cages for the dogs and cap at 50 the number of breeding females an operation could have.
Groups also are trying to get Congress to upgrade the decades-old Animal Welfare Act next year to require daily exercise for dogs in federally licensed commercial breeding facilities. The law doesn’t currently cover breeders who sell directly to the public via the Internet or newspaper ads.
via Animal welfare groups employ hotline, law to fight puppy mills – USATODAY.com.
Contact your state legislators today to put an end to illegal dogfighting by petitioning for easier prosecution of offenders and harsher penalties upon conviction.
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