Coming Soon: Certification Required To Work With Animals In New Jersey
Legislators plan to re-introduce Moose’s Law in New Jersey’s new legislative session, despite Governor Christie’s pocket veto of the bill. The law would prohibit anyone from working with animals in...
View ArticleDOG ADOPTION CONTRACTS-Tips for Animal Adoption and Rescue Organizations and...
Animal rescue and adoption are an increasingly popular method of obtaining a new pet, particularly dogs. Adopting a dog in need of a home is a benefit to the dog and adoptors who are not interested in...
View ArticleThe Phenomenon called “Retail Rescue”
Movement and sales of dogs through “rescue channels” continues to explode. While more and more cities and states are restricting sales of dogs in pet stores to those obtained from animal shelters and...
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Keeping Dogs Healthy-Wait to Spay
Additional research continues to fuel the flames over the controversy of the customary practice of early spay/neuter of dogs and cats in the United States. Focusing solely on dogs, the medical...
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Protecting the Health of Puppies, Kittens, and Their Owners
Concerns about the health of puppies and kittens are real. Copyright: photodeti / 123RF Stock Photo Rabies, and other serious infections in these animals, pose serious health risks to humans and other...
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Adoption Denied
A family was denied the ability to adopt a dog because the neighborhood they lived in was not considered “suitable” by the rescue organization according to Randy Mac and Amy Corral reporting from East...
View ArticleResponse to dog rescue articles overwhelming – Guest Blog
The following was originally posted on Sunday, June 28, 2015 12:00 am at http://www.registerstar.com. This is reposted with permission: By Charlene Marchand For Columbia-Greene Media registerstar.com...
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NAIA study confirms fewer dogs, scarce purebreds in US animal shelters
Guest post-republished with permission. PORTLAND, Ore., July 14, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The number of dogs entering US shelters has reached an all-time low, and the number of purebred dogs...
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Big Business: More Dog Trafficking in the News
Guest Blog-NAIA Official Blog Initially published 12 Oct 2015 10:54 AM PDT; Republished with permission Humane relocation, dog trafficking, the “Puppy Pipeline” — whatever you call it, the practice is...
View ArticleRetail Rescue Regulated
A few states have recently taken significant steps to regulate retail rescue and shelter operations, recognizing the health risks resulting from the importation of large numbers of pets from unknown...
View ArticleIncreased Regulations for Animal Shelters and Rescues
As reported in the Sentinel, NJ state Senator Linda Greenstein recently convened a meeting of “[a]nimal shelter directors, members of rescue organizations and public officials . . . to discuss...
View ArticleHealth Certificates Should be required before Sale or Adoption of all Pets in...
A proposed bill in Maryland would exempt shelter and non-profit entities that offer pets to the public for adoption from providing a customer with a health certificate signed by a licensed veterinarian...
View ArticleMore Legal Challenges to Pet Store Bans
Pet stores in Chicago will reportedly challenge a law in Chicago, set to “take full force and effect on March 5, 2015” as announced by the city clerk last year. The law will restrict the retail sale...
View ArticleHSUS Investigation Requested
Indiana state legislators asked their state Attorney General to investigate the Humane Society of the United States, “accus[ing] the group of deceptive fundraising practices, saying its advertisements...
View ArticlePet stores in Camden County, NJ may soon be a distant memory
According to the Courier-Post, Camden County, New Jersey, appears to be on the brink of adopting a resolution to ban pet store sales of purebred and specially bred dogs and cats bred, raised and sold...
View ArticleKansas proposes law to regulate animal rescue organizations
A new bill in Kansas would amend the Kansas pet animal ac, adding licensing and other requirements for animal rescue networks and pet animal foster homes. House Bill No 2514, introduced during the...
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Global Animal Disease Threats
Infectious disease outbreaks often make headlines when they affect humans-think Zika virus-but it is not often that animal disease outbreaks make it above the fold assuming they make news at all. The...
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My Turn: Why we should stop cities’‘puppy mill’ laws Guest Blog by Patti Strand
First published on April 3, 2016, 10:27 p.m. MST, at http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2016/04/04/puppy-mill-sb1248/82532418/ Republished with permission. My Turn: No one wants inhumane...
View ArticleNew Jersey Proposed Bill Changes Scope of Animal Cruelty Statute Affecting...
In New Jersey another bill was introduced that would amend the state animal cruelty laws and the pet protection act. This bill would have dramatic effects on kennels, pet shops, shelters, and pounds....
View ArticleUnintended consequences for Md. research
Guest blog by Shannon Stutler [1]originally published on March 29, 2016, 12:10 PM in the Baltimore Sun. Republished with permission. As the loving owner of a wonderful former shelter dog and as a...
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