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AWI Quarterly Articles | Companion Animals

Please see the below articles about Companion Animals from past editions of the AWI Quarterly.

 

Pennsylvania, Texas Take Aim at Animal Cruelty

Pennsylvania, long notorious for its weak repercussions for even the worst cases of abuse, took a giant leap forward when Governor Tom Wolf signed Libre’s Law. The state finally acted as a result of public...

A Coordinated Community Response to Animal Abuse

Meredith is a new animal control officer. She has been directed to visit a particular home on multiple occasions because of complaints from neighbors of dogs barking or running loose. During each visit she has...

AWI Urges USDA to Stop Relicensing Animal Abusers

AWI has battled with the US Department of Agriculture for years over its practice of automatically renewing the licenses of puppy mills, roadside zoos, and others who are habitually out of compliance with the standards...

Ohio Court Says Pets Are More than Property

There is another addition to the growing body of case law acknowledging that companion animals are not mere property. As reported by the Toledo Blade late last year, Ohio’s 6th District Court of Appeals “has...

Animal Abuse Prompts Pet Shop Shut Down

In 2013, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman established an Animal Cruelty Initiative to focus on prosecuting animal cruelty crimes and protecting consumers from unscrupulous companion animal dealers. Earlier this year, his office struck a...

USDA's Cyanide Bombs Claim More Unintended Victims

Fourteen-year-old Canyon Mansfield was walking with Kasey, his Labrador retriever, near his house when he noticed what looked like a sprinkler head. Unwittingly, he touched it, causing an explosion that knocked Canyon to the ground...