November 30, 2012
Annette Betancourt, a feral cat caregiver in Liberty, Missouri, was charged with violating the city’s “limit law,” even though she did not “own” the feral cats found living outdoors when she moved into her neighborhood. Betancourt had been volunteering as part of a TNR program for several years, using her own money to neuter and […]
November 21, 2012
We’re happy to announce that yesterday afternoon the Prince George’s County Council adopted a bill introduced by Council Member Mary Lehman to protect eartipped cats. The bill passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 7 to 1. Under this new lifesaving law, if eartipped cats in Trap-Neuter-Return programs are trapped by animal control, most will be […]
November 19, 2012
This Tuesday, the Prince George’s County Council will hold a final vote on Council Member Mary Lehman’s bill to protect cats in Trap-Neuter-Return programs from being impounded and possibly killed in the county shelter. Tuesday’s hearing is the final step on this bill’s path to becoming a lifesaving law. If you can, attend the meeting […]
November 8, 2012
On Monday, November 12, the Fort Worth City Council will again consider a Trap-Neuter-Return ordinance that will affect the right to care for feral cats. Over and over, code enforcement officials have proposed an ordinance that discourages people from doing TNR by imposing fines and penalties and interferes with caregivers’ privacy by requiring them to […]
November 6, 2012
This Election Day, residents of Miami-Dade, Florida have a chance to make a difference for thousands of cats and dogs by voting for the Pets’ Trust Ballot Measure for affordable spay/neuter and veterinary care. This funding would pay for two new, affordable spay/neuter clinics that would neuter 60,000-80,000 animals each year and offer low-cost veterinary […]
October 17, 2012
This just in: The lifesaving bill introduced by Prince George’s County Council Member Mary Lehman to protect cats in Trap-Neuter-Return programs just unanimously passed the Transportation, Health and Environment Committee! Under Council Member Lehman’s proposed law, most eartipped cats trapped by animal control will be immediately returned to their home outdoorsnot impounded in shelters where […]
October 15, 2012
A change in Cecil County’s Animal Care and Control ordinance has mistakenly put cats’ lives at risk. We need you to speak up to correct this error at tomorrow’s public hearing of the Cecil County Board of Commissioners. Until now, animal control left outdoor cats alone to live out their lives. But a new lawa […]
October 11, 2012
Today we’re celebrating with Alabama residents, veterinarians, and legislators who stood up to save their state’s nonprofit spay/neuter clinics. A proposed rule before the Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners would have banned nonprofit groups from owning and operating spay/neuter clinics or veterinary equipment, and also would have prevented veterinarians from working with such […]
August 26, 2010
S.B. 250 is a proposed bill that is really just more of the same in Californiaa bill that would hurt cats by penalizing the volunteer caregivers and low-income pet owners who care for them. S.B. 250 would push government requirements on citizens without providing them with ways to meet those requirements. Because the bill would […]
June 18, 2010
Based on articles in The Wall Street Journal (“Bird Lover on Trial for Feline Felony,” Barry Newman, September 4, 2007) and The Los Angeles Times (“Alleged Cat Slayer Says He’s Martyr for Birds,” Miguel Bustillo, November 25, 2006). On April 18, 2007, a Texas grand jury indicted James Munn Stevenson of felony cruelty for “intentionally” […]
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