An off-duty federal police officer charged Wednesday with misdemeanor animal cruelty and gun charges in the fatal shooting of a Siberian husky earlier this month may continue to carry a handgun pending his trial, according to county prosecutors. While Sgt. Keith Shepherd, 32, of 7700 block of Scatteree Road in Severn, was charged with wrongly firing his gun Aug. 2 inside a fenced-in portion of the privately owned Quail Run community dog park, Kristin Fleckenstein, a spokesman for State's Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee, said "that does not require him to surrender his weapon.
PHILADELPHIA, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Shock soon turned to anger as animal advocates attending last week's Dog Law Advisory Board meeting were told by Governor Rendell's Special Secretary Jessie Smith and Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement's Sue West that important elements of Pennsylvania's hard fought new dog law would not be enforced. Almost two years ago, Governor Rendell, at the urging of the General Assembly and citizens throughout the Commonwealth, signed a law that would require among other things that breeding dogs in commercial kennels have unfettered access to the outside (indoor/outdoor kennel runs), and that all dogs over the age of twelve weeks not be housed on wire flooring (solid or slatted floors only). Historically, dogs in Pennsylvania's puppy mills have been for...
A settlement has been reached in a case in which a dog was fatally electrocuted in a parking lot, attorneys for the dog's owner said. Scott Evans has reached a "monetary settlement" with a contractor and sub-contractor over the death of his dog, Asha, according to a media release from the Animal Law Center of Wheat Ridge.
We admit we were skeptical when the Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups called upon the Indiana General Assembly to beef up the penalties for attending a dogfight. Since suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is charged with organizing dogfighting matches, this legislative proposal sounded like a publicity stunt timed to coincide with Vick's court appearance. After all, the Legislature has some extremely important things to consider in its 2008 session: fixing the property tax mess, for example. Upon closer inspection, however, there is merit to putting more teeth into Indiana's animal cruelty laws.
A Dubuque man was charged with animal neglect Thursday after authorities said he confined his dog indoors for about a year. Law enforcement and health officials executed a search warrant at the home of Michael D. Voss, 47, of 1280 Cleveland Ave., on March 7 looking for a chocolate Doberman pinscher named Rocky. The officials gained entrance through an unlocked window and found the dog in obvious poor health, according to court records.
MIAMISBURG -- To better track the status of dangerous or vicious dogs, Miamisburg is drafting tougher regulations, including one that forces owners to prove they have $100,000 in insurance coverage. Current regulations define a dangerous dog as any that has without provocation approached a person in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack or has attempted to bite someone while off its owner's premises.
PHILADELPHIA, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two years after Oprah Winfrey exposed Pennsylvania's puppy mills on her world-wide television show, animal advocates in Pennsylvania will hold a candlelight vigil in the East Falls section of Philadelphia to shed light on the ongoing plight of puppy mill dogs. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the event in an effort to urge PA Governor Ed Rendell and legislators to stop thousands of breeding dogs from continuing to stand on painful and dangerous wire flooring in commercial kennels throughout Pennsylvania. Rendell and the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate control five of the nine-member panel which will vote to reintroduce wire flooring after Rendell's new dog law banned wire or similar flooring in favor of solid or sl...
As promised in last week's column, here are the updates on the July 13 Taos County Animal Control Advisory Board's workshop with the county commissioners. As noted before, the work-study session focused on changes to the current Taos County Animal Control Ordinance, including a no-chain law and strict conditions for having a dog in the back of your truck. Dogs running loose, lack of animal-control citations due to understaffing, licensing and dangerous dog definition. The current ordinance with the changes was reviewed page by page by the commissioners for three hours before we had to stop for the day.
A New Providence kennel operator charged with animal cruelty and violations of the state's dog law got a split judgment Friday. District Judge Stuart J. Mylin dismissed the misdemeanor cruelty charge against Samuel E. King, who operates Country Lane Kennels at 223 Refton Road.
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