Learn about the ways that animal shelters help homeless pets,
how animal welfare laws have shaped our relationships with animals, and how community actions can help save lives and make the world a better place.
Not exact matches
Learn
how to work with
law enforcement and other
animal welfare agencies to conduct thorough investigations, including evidence collection and documentation, chain of custody, and case packaging.
Perhaps the next story appearing would be
how the business was shut down and license revoked for numerous and repeated violations of health codes and failure to comply with
laws on
animal welfare.
Would you like to meet other
animal advocates and spend a day in the state capitol to show our legislators
how committed you are to promoting better
animal welfare laws?
Whether you want to advocate for political action, influence local
law and government policy, support
animal welfare, women's rights, human rights, or anything in between, we'll show you
how to start a petition, get signatures and amplify your voice.
This course will train and certify personnel in the various euthanasia techniques; instruct personnel in the physiology of euthanasia; promote the concepts of compassion and humaneness in euthanasia for shelter
animals; teach participants
how to recognize and deal with your personal euthanasia related stress increase professionalism within the
animal welfare field; and provide a valid certification program as required by SC State
law for euthanasia technicians.
They will understand the
laws and by -
laws that protect
animal welfare, and will further learn
how to recognize and respond to unkindness, neglect, or abuse of
animals.
Among other bills, Senator Schatz amended onto HB 1355 the language that was in HB 1828 which would regulate
how animal welfare organizations advocate for
animals with
law enforcement agencies.
Over 100 local governments across the United States have passed legislation in recent years that either bans or limits
how long a dog may be chained, recognizing that existing
animal welfare laws are outdated and that dogs are intelligent, social, active
animals that suffer greatly if kept chained or penned for their lives.
Through our own pet retention and community medicine work in New York and Los Angeles, we are learning
how effective collaboration between
animal welfare,
law enforcement and human service agencies can be in helping people keep pets, reducing the numbers of
animals entering shelters, and allowing more effective use of shelter and
law enforcement resources.
On a larger level, this
law demonstrates
how legislative action on
animal welfare in general can advance from the local level to the state level, furthering the hope of creating a culture that values compassion over cruelty.
The class covers responsible
animal care and safety, community
laws and
how to use
animal welfare principals known as The Five Freedoms as a guideline for recognizing when an
animal needs help.
I hear echoes of «Wilson's
Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on
how environmental and
animal -
welfare groups, while often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.