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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The SB 1322 just passed the first committee unanimously! We are making history!
Feb 01, 2012

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Dear MCABSL Board Members, Members, Regional Directors, Affiliates and friends:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The SB 1322 just passed the first committee unanimously! We are making history!

Our efforts to end breed specific legislation or breed discrimination legislation, is presently rocking the house... Tomorrow HB977 will be heard…again it is crucial that it passes. We still have a ways to go….but looking good!

The two identical bills that have been filed in the Florida legislature are in committees “presently being heard”. We must keep the pressure on with e mails, phone calls, faxes and even carrier pigeons if need be!In Florida law: Section 767.14 prohibits breed discrimination in Florida except in cities or counties where a breed discriminatory...

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Lab Beagles Released In Spain, 40 Dogs See Sunlight For First Time
Dec 05, 2011

Forty male beagles raised inside a lab in Spain arrived in Los Angeles last week where they will be put up for adoption after being freed from captivity by the Beagle Freedom Project. The rescue mission is the largest yet for the group Animal Rescue Media Education (ARME). A total of 72 dogs were rescued in the effort, 32 of them having already been adopted in Europe, according to NBC Los Angeles.

ARME's Beagle Freedom Project spokesman Gary Smith said the beagles, all between ages 4 and 7, had lived in cages their entire lives.

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News, November 2011
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When a Mercedes-Benz driving businessman tied up his puppy outside a Hollywood warehouse last November, he assured neighbors the dog would stay there only briefly...but hours turn into 10 agonizing days.
Nov 21, 2011

Baking in the South Florida sun, the puppy grew famished and dehydrated. Nearby road work splashed hot tar on the pooch. Blood seeped from his backside. His gums turned pale white. Angry neighbors called police, but the 7-month-old puppy nevertheless died at an animal hospital. Hollywood police immediately issued a summons charging Sascha Gamel, 44, with a misdemeanor charge of confining a dog without proper food or water. But an embarrassing gaffe soon emerged: Gamel, a Seattle real estate developer, hadn’t lived in Florida for years — and he had records to prove it.

Broward prosecutors this week plan to drop charges against Gamel, while investigators look for the real culprit. His defense team believes the real culprit may be a completely bald Miami Beach man with a similar sounding name...

News, November 2011
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The Dog Maxed Out My Credit Card
Nov 09, 2011

For one New York family, it has been a pricey few years at the doctor's office: Jake was treated for a malignant tumor on his eyelid—for $7,000—and Daisy recently swallowed a rock that cost $3,100 to remove.

Bernese mountain dog Daisy, owned by the Onichimiuk family in Staten Island, N.Y., has recovered after eating a rock.

"It's hard, the money, but they are part of the family," says Agnieszka Onichimiuk, whose family lives in Staten Island with their two Bernese mountain dogs.

Pet owners are feeling sticker shock at the vet. The average household in the U.S. spent $655 on routine doctor and surgical visits for dogs last year, up 47% from a decade ago, according to the American Pet Products...

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Kentucky Woman Charged in Puppy Mill Case; Neglected Dogs Receiving Care
Nov 08, 2011

Earlier this month, News Alert reported that the ASPCA Field Investigations and Response Team was on the ground in Rowan County, Kentucky, caring for more than 100 dogs rescued from a puppy mill. Soon after, the owner of those dogs, Patricia Blevins, was arrested. She now faces a whopping 46 counts of animal cruelty. Blevins, 58, was arrested on October 19 and spent a night in jail before being released on bail. She is charged with 46 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty and one count of kennel mismanagement related to keeping more than 100 dogs in overcrowded conditions outside her mobile home in Morehead.

"The ASPCA commends the Rowan County Attorney's Office for taking swift...

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Sick horse Charlie suffered neglect
Nov 08, 2011

Animal rights activists say a carriage horse that dropped dead on a Midtown street suffered from neglect, dying in pain on the concrete.Charlie, a 15-year-old draft horse, collapsed on his way to work in Central Park Oct. 23. A necropsy performed at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine showed the horse had stomach ulcers and a fractured tooth, ASPCA officials revealed yesterday. Charlie was not a healthy horse, said Dr. Pamela Corey, director of the equine veterinary services for the ASPCA’s Humane Law Enforcement department.

“We are very concerned that Charlie was forced to work in spite of painful maladies,” Corey said.
He had only been working as a carriage horse for a few weeks, according to the ASPCA.

“It sounds like a case of...

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