Prepared for flooding but not for gunfire SAN ANTONIO, Texas––It was no secret in San Antonio, Texas that Memorial Day 2015 weekend promised to be three days from hell. Predicted Accuweather meteorologist Brian Thompson on Friday, May 22, 2015, “Another round of downpours and thunderstorms will bring a renewed threat for flooding from Kansas to Texas…Cities […]
Tell Mitt Romney: no dogs allowed on car roofs in Ohio
Four toddlers & wife in mini-van, four pups on roof AKRON, Ohio––Perhaps Wendell Steiner, a Mennonite from Nova, Ashland County, Ohio, imagined he could safely emulate 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on April 17, 2015, when Steiner set out for Chambersburg, Pennsylvania with his four toddlers and his wife inside the family mini-van, […]
New York Police Department eclipses ASPCA humane law enforcement stats in first full year on the beat
Impoundments & arrests triple NEW YORK CITY––Rescues of New York City animals from cruelty and neglect and arrests of alleged offenders all soared in 2014, the first full year since the American SPCA began turning the lead role in humane law enforcement over to the New York Police Department. Impoundments of abused and neglected animals […]
How to help dogs left chained alone in the cold
“In most parts of the U.S., it is still perfectly legal to force a dog to live on a chain 24 hours a day” by Tamira Thayne Founder and CEO, Dogs Deserve Better “Bringing dogs into the family since 2002” We are again deep into winter, the time when Dogs Deserve Better’s phones ring off the hook with people desperate […]
Note to animal abusers: Big Brother is watching you!
WASHINGTON D.C.–– Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey on September 17, 2014 announced that the FBI will add cruelty to animals to the national Uniform Crime Report Program as a unique category of offense. Including crimes against animals in the Uniform Crime Report Program is unlikely to change broad understandings about the […]
Miguel Ángel Palacios Montoya, 19, was killed defending a dog
Miguel Ángel Palacios Montoya, 19, also known as Michelangelo Palace, was allegedly killed by a machete-wielding drunken neighbor at about six in the morning on May 4, 2014 in Envigado, Colombia, after Palacios and his brother Juan Pablo went to the defense of a dog named Jerry. Juan Pablo Palacios was also injured in the […]
Impoundments for alleged neglect fell in 2013
Lowest caseload in at least 15 years Reported impoundments of allegedly neglected animals by U.S. law enforcement agencies fell in 2013 across the spectrum of neglect situations, to caseloads not seen since the 1990s––but the reasons for the drop are unclear. More successful interventions to prevent mass neglect might be one explanation. Alternatively, lawsuits and […]
U.S. Supreme Court recognized right to seize hoarded animals
WASHINGTON D.C., PHILADELPHIA–The U.S. Supreme Court in early December 2005 recognized the right of humane societies and animal control agencies to seize animals from alleged hoarders and charge convicted hoarders for their care, by refusing to hear the last appeal of Janet Jones, 55, of Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Jones founded a local animal rescue organization, Animal Orphans, in 1998, […]
Animals in bondage: the hoarding mind
by Merritt Clifton LYLES, Tenn.; ANAMOSA, Iowa; SALT LAKE CITY, Utah–Near Lyles, Tennessee, the shelterless Hickman County Humane Society just before Christmas 1998 seized 299 dogs, 38 horses, and various cats from an alleged puppy mill reportedly owned by one Patricia Adkisson. The site was littered, rescuers said, with the remains of dead dogs. On January 1, 1999, […]
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