Some animal supporters are concerned the new state law doesn't go far enough to protect pets. By Becky Orr
The Shelby County Commission voted 7-5 Monday on first reading in favor of an ordinance that sets minimum standards for care and feeding of dogs and other pets in unincorporated areas of the county. The city of Memphis already has similar rules. The measure must pass two more votes before the full commission to become law. Still, the vote was a boost for animal-welfare advocates who had faced setbacks in recent weeks as they tried to advance the new standards.
A state law that regulates what slaughterhouses must do with pigs that cannot walk is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The federal law, passed in 1906, regulates slaughterhouse practices and, in addressing animals that cannot walk, says that slaughterhouse employees may not drag conscious, nonambulatory animals and may move them only with suitable equipment.
Study Points to Lack of Resources, Funding, Training, & Recognizing LINK between Animal Cruelty & Human Violence NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking research study just released by the ASPCA(R) (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(R)) stresses the critical role that animal services and animal cruelty investigations play in communities nationwide while pointing out the obstacles that law enforcement professionals face in responding to animal abuse.
AS a recent article in the Register noted, animal law is a burgeoning field of study and practice. If ever there were a class of living beings in need of legal protection, it is nonhuman animals. But there is an oddity portrayed by the article, insofar as it focuses on pets and the pain and suffering of their owners, who claim negligent care by a veterinarian. The oddity is threefold.
JACKSON - House members sent Gov. Haley Barbour legislation Wednesday that could send the worst dog and cat abusers to prison for up to five years. By a 117-5 vote, House members approved the Mississippi Dog and Cat Protection Law, which would make it a misdemeanor to mistreat dogs or cats by withholding food and water, mutilating or cruelly beating or killing an animal.
JACKSON - Some say Mississippi's new felony animal-cruelty law is not doing the job. As an example they point to a hoarder discovered with about 200 dogs, many starving and reduced to skin and bones.
The Missouri Bar's Animal Law Committee doesn't want to change the definitions of animal care and control; it just wants to make the definitions consistent with their appearance in the state's animal neglect statute. The Board of Governors voted to back the Animal Law Committee's drafted bill during its annual meeting last month.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Fido is getting a new name - several, in fact: "plaintiff," "trustee," "beneficiary" and even "defendant. Dogs, cats and creatures of all sorts are being redefined in an emerging area of legal practice known as animal law. Once considered mere property, animals are being invested with legal standing as they're increasingly being named as partial beneficiaries of estates, subjects of lawsuits and victims of abuse.
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