Sentences with phrase «animal cruelty statutes»

The recommended standards are intended to educate animal control officers when interpreting and applying animal cruelty statutes.

The standards recommended in these publications are intended to educate animal control officers when interpreting and applying animal cruelty statutes.

This type of intensive confinement violates California animal cruelty statutes.

Most states» criminal animal cruelty statutes define a minimum standard of care which requires that an animal caretaker provide water, food, shelter and veterinary care.

Earlier efforts by the Humane Society to get the owner to clean up the store met with only limited success because there were no specific ordinances to enforce, except animal cruelty statutes, Shook said.

In 1995, when The HSUS requested that the Alaska attorney general investigate the Iditarod and enforce the Alaska animal cruelty statute against race organizers and participants, the attorney general declined to prosecute because the state's law «provides a defense for causing suffering to an animal if the person's conduct «conformed to accepted veterinary practice.»»

Rural Caswell County is prosecuting its first suspect under North Carolina's tougher animal cruelty statute, known as Susie's Law, but the case — in which three dogs starved to death while chained — is drawing little media attention.

Birds are often excluded from animal welfare legislation and existing animal cruelty statutes, making it often impossible to define neglect, substandard care and abuse, or to effectively enforce any existing statutes.

Friends of Animals is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a federal animal cruelty statute aimed at ending crushing, a heinous act in which animals are tortured and maimed.

These regulatory «approval» actions may also be in direct conflict to Minnesota animal cruelty statutes.

This publication was written to provide the expert opinions of the authors regarding minimum standards of care for horses with respect to California animal cruelty statutes.

Animal cruelty statutes define and prohibit unnecessary and unjustifiable animal pain and suffering (MN Chapter 343: «Torture or cruelty means every act, omission, or neglect which causes or permits unnecessary or unjustifiable pain, suffering or death»); however, it's been argued that cases are not pursued and animals continue to suffer because the law has been more concerned with human suffering than animal suffering:

«It's not codified in the animal cruelty statute of California, but PETA argues it should be.»

The 2014 «Minimum Standards of Horse Care in the State of California» and the 2011 Cattle Care Standards: Recommendations for Meeting California Legal Requirements» provide the expert opinions of the authors regarding minimum standards of care with respect to California animal cruelty statutes.

Some state statutes also contain provisions separate from the animal cruelty statutes to address care requirements for breeding facilities.

Animal hoarding is covered implicitly under every state's animal cruelty statute, which typically requires caretakers to provide sufficient food, water and veterinary care.

Some authorities have interpreted «health» in terms of physical health only or disease eradication as it relates to physical health and conditions, which has limited how the animal cruelty statute is interpreted.

As Fritz explains to OGP, «We know there are some problem facilities [in Michigan], and the lack of laws or regulations for large - scale breeding operations means that problems may deteriorate to the point where law enforcement must intervene to enforce the state's animal cruelty statute.»