"'Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'''- Frans De Waal, quoted in The New York Times June 26, 2001 Char ...
Dr. Marder discusses the concept that dogs are individuals and the particular relevance of that concept when selecting a companion dog. ...
All of us who love dogs – whether we live with them, raise them, provide professional services for them, or use them for a purpose – recognize the value they hold in our society. Yet the human-canine bond may be weakened by a disparate amount of resources ...
On August 14, 2012, 248,496 of Miami-Dade County’s 1.2 million registered voters (20%, or 202,637 people) went to the polls to decide if a 23-year-old ban on “pit bull” dogs would be repealed through a voter referendum. The outcome showed that 140,879 (63 ...
Bill Bruce, Calgary's Director of Animal and By-Law Services discusses ineffective dog laws such as breed-specific legislation, pet limit laws, and mandatory spay-neuter, and why these broad-based forms of legislation are ineffective. NCRC Interview ...
On Monday, August 6, 2012, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates, meeting at the 2012 ABA convention in Chicago, approved a resolution urging "all state, territorial, and local legislative bodies and governmental agencies [...] to rep ...
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed an historic, comprehensive overhaul of the state's animal control regulation on Thursday, August 2, 2012. [1] Among the important reforms included in the bill are provisions that a dog may not be declared ...
Janis Bradley examines a recent study published in Applied Animal Behavior Science. ...
A paper published last week in the Journal Injury Prevention attempted to make the case that “pit bull” bans in Manitoba may have been effective in reducing dog bite injury hospitalizations (DBIH, in the language of the paper). [1] In attempting to do s ...
The Ontario Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA), representing on behalf of the province's 4,000 veterinarians, has published an open letter to all three of Ontario's political party leaders, including Premier Dalton McGuinty, urging repeal of ...