WXYZ |
Michigan, other states, cracking down on pets passed off as service animals
WXYZ (WXYZ) - Service animals are a matter of life or death for some people. However, for others it's just a matter of having your own pet with you at restaurants, events and even planes. More than a dozen states have taken notice and are starting to crack ... Service animal experts see increase in people posing pets as service animals |
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Michigan, other states, cracking down on pets passed off as service animals - WXYZ
Animal Management and Welfare proposes breeder's ordinance - KFDA
KFDA |
Animal Management and Welfare proposes breeder's ordinance
KFDA Amarillo suffers from severe animal overpopulation per capita in our shelter, especially when compared to larger cities in Texas. Animal Management and Welfare want to develop ordinances to correct what they say is an inhumane problem our community ... |
Fresno County is making it legal to sell live animals at swap meets - KFSN-TV
KFSN-TV |
Fresno County is making it legal to sell live animals at swap meets
KFSN-TV The county could have just gone along with state law and banned all swap meet pet sales, but Fresno County will instead allow them, but require a veterinarian to certify each sale, and hold the swap meet operator responsible for the welfare of the animals. |
Angels of Assisi animals trick-or-treat at local businesses - WSLS
WSLS |
Angels of Assisi animals trick-or-treat at local businesses
WSLS ROANOKE, Va. - Halloween has gone to the dogs for Angels of Assisi's third annual Wag-O-Ween. Tuesday, pets up for adoption at Angels of Assisi dressed up in costume and put a new spin on trick-or-treating, visiting area businesses. "We just have so ... |
Santa Clara County plans modern no-kill animal shelter - The Mercury News
The Mercury News |
Santa Clara County plans modern no-kill animal shelter
The Mercury News SAN MARTIN — The Santa Clara County Animal Shelter — a modest affair in an expanded, repurposed farmhouse — was never built to meet current humane standards, and after years of talking about it, $26 million has been earmarked for a brand new, ... |
Bringing farm animals to the city - Wisconsin State Farmer
Bringing farm animals to the city
Wisconsin State Farmer While the nurse at the clinic was pricking my finger for a blood sample, I noticed that the photo viewing program on her desk computer was showing a series of photos of her husband and their young child. One photo had their year- old baby girl looking ... |
UT using 3-D printers to care for animals - WVLT
UT using 3-D printers to care for animals
WVLT Then, doctors create a 3-D replica of part of the animal. "Just like they would animate a Pixar movie, we can move things, we can cut them, we can physically do our surgery before physically doing anything outside. And then we can actually print the ... |
38 crashes since August 1 caused by drivers avoiding animals - Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph |
38 crashes since August 1 caused by drivers avoiding animals
Daily Telegraph He said that over the past two years paramedics had attended 224 incidents involving wildlife. It is estimated that one in seven crashes on country roads involves animals. Insp Dive said avoiding animals on roads and bush tracks involved a degree of ... |
BarkAID's Mission: Get a new haircut, help some animals in need - wpde.com
wpde.com |
BarkAID's Mission: Get a new haircut, help some animals in need
wpde.com Lomantini is a master stylist and found a way to blend his passion for hair and his love for animal rescues. "I just love hair. I started doing hair nine years ago and, a couple of years into it, I just wanted it to be about something more than just ... |
Humans don't use as much brainpower as we like to think: Animals had energy-hungry brains long before we did - Phys.Org
Phys.Org |
Humans don't use as much brainpower as we like to think: Animals had energy-hungry brains long before we did
Phys.Org Relative to resting metabolic rate—the total amount of calories an animal burns each day just to keep breathing, digesting and staying warm—the human brain demands more than twice as many calories as the chimpanzee brain, and at least three to five ... |
Domestic abuse involves animals, too - The Hill
The Hill |
Domestic abuse involves animals, too
The Hill Domestic abuse can take many forms, and people are not the only victims. It often involves companion animals — each year, nearly one million animals are abused or killed due to domestic violence. Nearly half of abused women stay in harmful ... |
Several states crack down on dog service fraud - USA Today - USA TODAY
USA TODAY |
Several states crack down on dog service fraud - USA Today
USA TODAY Several states are passing laws cracking down on people trying to pass off their pets as service animals. |
Cemetery mystery: Animals trying to dig up fresh bodies? - ABC Action News
ABC Action News |
Cemetery mystery: Animals trying to dig up fresh bodies?
ABC Action News MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. - Nine freshly dug graves are stirring up some controversy and speculation after, what could be animals, are digging into the soft sand to reach the bodies. One of the graves does have animal prints around it and an area with a ... |
There's nothing cute about it. The animal stars of viral videos are being abused - The Guardian
The Guardian |
There's nothing cute about it. The animal stars of viral videos are being abused
The Guardian But what if you knew that the animal in the video was actually terrified? That it's raising its arms in self-defence because it hates being tickled, and slow lorises have poisonous glands under their armpits – but it won't be able to defend itself ... |
CUTE: Watch Animals Play with Jack-o-Lanterns - WKRG
WKRG |
CUTE: Watch Animals Play with Jack-o-Lanterns
WKRG AUSTRALIA (CBS/Reuters) — Some animals at the Australian Reptile Park received special pumpkin treats in observance of Halloween on Friday. Keepers at the park carved pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns or prepared ceramic jack-o-lanterns to cater for some ... |
15 Animals Playing With Pumpkins For Halloween - Food & Wine
KBTX |
15 Animals Playing With Pumpkins For Halloween
Food & Wine Keeping in spirit with the fall, zoos from San Diego, California to Chicago, Illinois to the Bronx are letting their animal inhabitants have a little fun and a little snack. Several zoos have even photographed or filmed their animals chomping and ... Exotic zoo animals caught on camera celebrating Halloween Animals At Dallas Zoo Join In On Halloween Fun: Videos Dallas Zoo Animals Play With Halloween Pumpkins |
Exotic zoo animals caught on camera celebrating Halloween - KBTX
KBTX |
Exotic zoo animals caught on camera celebrating Halloween
KBTX First up, several of the animals at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago enjoyed Halloween treats over the weekend. Animal care staff carved some of the pumpkins and filled them with additional food items. As part of the Chicago Zoological Society's Center for ... Halloween 2017: It's A Pumpkin Party For Animals At These Zoos |
APD initiates plan to increase animal cruelty education - WXIA-TV
WXIA-TV |
APD initiates plan to increase animal cruelty education
WXIA-TV In an effort to decrease and prevent officer-involved dog shootings, as well as dog attacks on people and animal cruelty cases, the Atlanta Police Department has developed a new initiative on safety when it comes to encountering animals on the job. |
PETA Scientists Show Some Skin to Save Animals From Labs - PETA (blog)
PETA (blog) |
PETA Scientists Show Some Skin to Save Animals From Labs
PETA (blog) To prevent animals from suffering, we animal advocates tend to use every tool at our disposal. PETA scientists, both male and female, have decided that it's time to show some skin. So they've launched an easy online training tool that shows researchers ... |
Sanctuary to adopt out or move 200 animals as it consolidates - The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier |
Sanctuary to adopt out or move 200 animals as it consolidates
The Daily Courier Circle L Ranch and Animal Sanctuary will need to vacate 10 acres and relocate its rescued animals across the road to the other side of the ranch. The owner, Debra Wilson, is putting the 10 acres of the 40-acre property up for sale, said Susann Shields ... |
New Brunswick introduces exotic animal legislation after boys' deaths - CTV News
CTV News |
New Brunswick introduces exotic animal legislation after boys' deaths
CTV News FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government is introducing new legislation to regulate the possession and ownership of exotic animals, four years after two young boys were killed by an African rock python. Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his ... |
Animals feel a 'landscape of fear' – just like humans - Massive
Animals feel a 'landscape of fear' – just like humans
Massive Animals respond the same way to the threat of predation. When predators like hawks, leopards, and lions are around, prey animals, like small birds, squirrels, and gazelles, begin to see their environments as a mosaic of safe and dangerous places ... |
Ancient Winged Terror Was One of the Largest Animals to Fly - National Geographic
National Geographic |
Ancient Winged Terror Was One of the Largest Animals to Fly
National Geographic Part of a mysterious group known as the azhdarchids, the animal was probably one of the largest pterosaurs that ever lived, say the authors of a new report detailing the discovery in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The team compares the ... |
New Ways to Reduce Antibiotics in Food Animals by 2030 - GotScience.org
New Ways to Reduce Antibiotics in Food Animals by 2030
GotScience.org In a new study, researchers in the United States and Europe propose three measures—capping antibiotic use in farm animals, imposing a fee for veterinary use of antibiotics, and limiting meat intake—that, together, can reduce the use of antibiotics in ... |
Animals, skeletons, and creepy home inspection stuff, part 2 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune |
Animals, skeletons, and creepy home inspection stuff, part 2
Minneapolis Star Tribune Unlike most blog posts that you'll find here, this one has no educational value at all. If you follow our Facebook page, you've probably already seen a lot of these photos, but not all of them. Here at Structure Tech, we also have our own "internal ... |
How 1 shelter saved 1200 animals from 3 hurricanes - NJ.com
NJ.com |
How 1 shelter saved 1200 animals from 3 hurricanes
NJ.com It seemed like one after another, there were hurricanes hitting different areas of the country. Knowing the destruction Hurricane Katrina caused in New Orleans a decade ago, St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center recognized that emergency plans now ... |
The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben – review - The Guardian
The Guardian |
The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben – review
The Guardian We don't really know what makes animals behave the way they do, but several writers have had a stab at trying to work it out. These books include Marc Hauser's Wild Minds in 2000, Jonathan Balcombe's Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals in 2010, ... |
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