DANIEL’S LAW (SB 1329) unanimously passed the Pennsylvania Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee today and now it is now on to the full Senate! Daniel’s law would stop the gassing of dogs and cats as a form of euthanasia in Pennsylvania. It is still legal in over 30 states. State Senator Andy Dinniman is [...]
Authorities in Oklahoma are mourning the loss of a beloved police K-9 that was found dead under suspicious circumstances Saturday. “We sent him off to a vet,” where they will perform a necropsy on the dog, said Moore Police Officer Jeremy Lewis. According to police, Bak, a 5-year-old German shepherd, was last seen Friday night [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Country singer Willie Nelson called Ohio’s 24-year-old law declaring the “pit bull” to be a “vicious” dog by virtue of its existence an “archaic breed discriminatory law.” In an email to a Senate committee, Mr. Nelson, an ambassador for the Best Friends Animal Society, urged passage of House Bill 14. The bill [...]
A 25-year-old man who pleaded guilty to beating and killing his girlfriend’s dogs last year was sentenced to five years and four months in state prison, District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis announced Friday. Patrick Caleb Land pleaded guilty to three counts of animal cruelty in September after being arrested and extricated to San Diego from North [...]
NEWARK — The woman who allegedly abandoned Patrick the pit bull which led to his starvation and near-death has been indicted by a grand jury on one count of fourth-degree cruelty to an animal. Kisha Curtis, 27, could face up to 18 months in jail if found guilty, acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray [...]
A couple were caught on camera repeatedly throwing their pet dog into the sea, a court heard. John Nesbitt, 62, and Linda Jones, 51, hurled their four year old terrier dog called Jess into the sea from a slipway at Exmouth, Devon. Jess narrowly avoided injury as she plunged head first towards the concrete just [...]
