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Chicago TribuneAssociated Press
8:30 PM CST, November 16, 2008
CHICAGO - Three men face felony charges after police interrupted a dog fight on Chicago’s South Side.
Cook County Sheriff’s Police arrested more than 50 people in the incident, which involved two pit bulls. Police say one of the dogs was so badly injured, it could barely stand.
Read more here…
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of animal control laws in Spokane, including provisions allowing for the immediate euthanasia of cats.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by Adam Karp, a Bellingham animal law attorney, who represents Spokane pet owner Patty Schoendorf.
Way to go, Adam! Read more about the suit in this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article.
Maybe some people don’t think it’s worth as much as a person’s life. Other people do.
As I’m on my daily search for newsy items to blog about, there’s generally at least one - if not multiple - stories about local towns and counties all across the U.S. enacting some new “dangerous dog” law. For example, just within the past week, stories ran about such ordinances in small towns in coastal Maryland and Massachusetts.
But here’s a twist. One small city near Columbus, Ohio has a new law requiring owners to appear before an appeals board if they want to fight a determination of viciousness - but apparently the mayor can’t find anyone to serve on the board. Read more in Elizabeth Gibson’s article in today’s Columbus Dispatch.
The proposal, announced this past week, would “ban laboratory tests on mankind’s closest relatives — chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans — in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other researchers.”
Sounds like a terrific step forward, yes. Although as advocacy groups noted, great apes haven’t been used in EU research in six years so perhaps this is more of a token gesture than any real progress. Moreover, monkeys and other animals would not be covered by the ban. The plan also calls for tighter welfare standards, although it was not entirely clear (at least to me), whether any improvements applied only to primates or to all animals used in research. Overwhelmingly, most animal testing is done on rats and mice.
As you can imagine, the announcement generated media attention all over the world, especially in Europe. Here’s a sampling of the stories from Reuters (via STV.tv), Financial Times, [...]
