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About 75 people showed up for the first public meeting of Baltimore’s newly appointed Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force tonight, with many calling for improved education, harsher penalties for animal cruelty and creative measures to instill empathy for animals among young people.
Others ideas included bringing pets into schools; recruiting local celebrities, such as Ravens players, to [...]
Baltimore’s Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force holds its third meeting tonight – the first to which the public is invited. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1400 W. Coldspring Lane. That task force — made up of representatives from city offices, the police, the states attorney’s office, animal welfare organizations and city residents [...]
Animal “crush” videos — recorded depictions of extreme, and generally fatal, animal cruelty — have undergone a resurgence, ten years after they led to the passage of federal anti-animal cruelty laws, the Humane Society of the United States says.
With the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of a federal anti-animal cruelty law [...]
The Pennsylvania SPCA, while it’s not among those animal welfare organizations offering a bounty for taking down Michael Vick, is still sending out a strong anti-dogfighting message — most recently, this one.
The PSCPA, which says it is investigating an increasing number of dogfighting cases in Philadelphia, takes in thousands of pit bulls every year – many of them victims of [...]
The National Greyhound Adoption Program has added to the bounty placed on Michael Vick: For each sacking of the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, it will donate ten cases of snacks to a Pennsylvania shelter — and a case to the tackler, as well.
Last week, Main Line Animal Rescue, outside Philadelphia, published an ad in the Washington Post, offering [...]
