The ASPCA and the HSUS reported on victories for animals in 2010. Here are some of the bills that became law this past year. The Crush Video Act was signed by the President and became law on December 9th. The Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act was passed in Missouri in November. However the fight is […]
New York State has filed Assembly Bill 3431 and Senate Bill S6167 to prohibit devocalization of dogs and cats. There is opposition to these bills from lobbies that profit from devocalization. They are trying to kill the bills through loopholes. One amendment would allow some people to have their dogs and cats devocalized. Devocalization is […]
The world’s first domestic animal anti-cruelty law may have been part of the legal code of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1641. Britain enacted an animal anti-cruelty law in 1822. In 1824, England established the Society for The Protection of Animals, the first of its kind. The ASPCA was founded in 1866 by Henry Bergh, […]
