Calling the practice “alarming, cruel and absurd,” A Rhode Island lawmaker is introducing a bill to ban pet leasing companies. Rep. Charlene Lima said she’ll be introducing legislation that prohibits any business or individual in the state “from renting, leasing, or in any other way offering a live animal for sale as a ‘forever pet’ […]
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Apartment complexes have them. Homeowners associations have them. Motels have them, too — rules that allow dogs to be banned because of their size. Now, a Colorado state representative wants to correct that long-running injustice, the Denver Post reports. He has introduced a bill that would stop HOA’s or landlords from blanket bans on dogs […]
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Lawmakers in Washington are pushing ahead with legislation that would ban the eating of dog and cat meat in the U.S. The Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2017, first introduced in March, has 100 co-sponsors and has been referred to a House Agriculture subcommittee. Introduced by Reps. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) and Vern […]
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The Olympics are long over in South Korea, but the push to get the country to ban farms where dogs are bred for human consumption, continues — and with a few positive developments. A new bill, introduced to the National Assembly earlier this month by Lee Sang-don, a member of the Bareunmirae party, would remove […]
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A South Korean court has ruled that killing dogs to sell their meat is illegal, but that’s not likely to serve as an immediate reprieve for any of the one to two million dogs slaughtered each year. Nevertheless, the first of its kind ruling is a step toward outlawing the dog-meat trade in South Korea […]
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