Update (2/22/23): The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has made a final ruling to create standards of care and regulations for birds not used in research. Read more about the standards here. Paws Up! To the USDA for considering establishing standards of...
January 30, 2020 Maryland Senator Edward Reilly has introduced legislation in the Maryland General Assembly that would help animals in distress and protect the citizens who step up to save them. Senate Bill 127 would give citizens in Maryland the right to use...
August 28, 2019 Last Friday, several pet stores collectively filed a lawsuit against the state of Maryland, claiming a recent animal welfare law will violate their Constitutional rights. Beginning January 1, 2020, all pet stores in Maryland must source their animals...
Paws Up! Governor Healey signs House Bill 4915 to decrease the suffering of wild animals used in traveling shows. Wild animals transported for exhibition for human entertainment is banned in Massachusetts. Thankfully, dancing bears, tigers jumping through rings of...
Paws Up! to conservationists and others across the country in their efforts to bolster the monarch butterfly population. Update: The Numbers Are In! January 27, 2022 California conservationists counted a total of 247,237 monarch butterflies overwintering between...
Paws Down! The migratory monarch butterfly is now on the ICUN Red List and considered endangered. Monarch butterfly drinking nectar from a flower. August 13, 2022 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) has a Red List of Threatened Species, and on...
