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registered voters (20%, or 202,637 people) went to the polls to decide if a 23-year-old ban on “pit bull” dogs would be repealed through a voter referendum.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 (Dogs Bite, but Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous and Dog Bites: Problems & Solutions) 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 ...
In the wake of a Court of Appeals decision that has alarmed Marylanders from all walks of life, the Senate President and House Speaker have convened an unprecedented Task Force to consider what must be done. People immediately understood that the Court’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 ...
On May 16, the City Council in Cincinnati voted to repeal the city’s breed ban. Cincinnati’s repeal follows the historic repeal of a statewide breed discriminatory statute in Ohio, which occurred earlier this year in February. Two months after Ohio Govern ...
Assisted in part by a grant from the National Canine Research Council, the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida’s School of Veterinary Medicine is conducting a national survey of dog experts (breeders, trainers, groomers, veterin ...