We get it from both sides here at the AVMA. When it comes to animal welfare-related issues, there are some who think we don’t do enough, and there are probably just as many who say we shouldn’t be sticking our noses in their business. Lest anyone be confused, no one is more concerned about the [...]
Categories: Animal Welfare, Outreach, Website
Colorado HB 1087 was rejected by lawmakers on Monday. The bill would have created, within the Department of Public Safety, an on-line animal abusers registry. The bill would have required adults convicted of cruelty to animals to register with the department and the list would have been made available to the general public on an [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Animal Welfare, Companion Animals, State Legislative Issues
Over a wonderful New Year’s Eve dinner of Chinese food at one of our favorite local joints, my daughter broke a simmering silence about her wanting to eat less meat, possibly even become a vegetarian. She’s 15 and a freshman in high school, and already a few of her friends have taken the vegetarian route. [...]
Categories: Animal Welfare, Food Animals
Your opinions – and your expertise – matter. Recognizing that few topics inspire as much interest and passion as animal welfare, we are pleased to offer AVMA members the opportunity to provide comments on animal welfare-related policies that are under review or are being developed. The most recent list includes nine animal welfare-related policies or [...]
Categories: Animal Welfare, Councils and Committees, Policies and Governance
I once read that if you want to remain ignorant about anything, just talk to or read things written by people who agree with you. Here at the AVMA, in my position in the Media Relations Department, I hear and read a lot from people with whom I disagree. And you know what? It makes [...]
Categories: Animal Welfare, Food Animals, General
You may have heard about an unusual recent Texas court of appeals opinion in the case of Medlen v. Strickland, http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/LawDecisionTX.jsp?id=1202529741831&slreturn=1, allowing the award of “sentimental” or “intrinsic” damages for loss of a dog. The facts of the case are certainly tragic, involving the unfortunate and mistaken euthanasia of a dog by a city animal shelter. What’s puzzling [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Animal Welfare, Companion Animals, General, State Legislative Issues
The AVMA has aggressively opposed “soring” of horses for more than 40 years. For those of you not familiar with soring, either chemical or physical methods are used to deliberately inflict pain so as to exaggerate the gaits of certain types of horses (e.g., Tennessee Walking Horses). Owners and trainers use soring as an unfair and inhumane [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Animal Welfare, Horses
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