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Clearing out the San Jose encampment

Pet cats missing after homeless encampment bulldozed in San Jose, California

NEWS AND VIEWS – SAN JOSE, UNITED STATES: Nathan Winograd has told me about a news item which is concerning to animal advocates. The NBC video covers it nicely. And the video mentions the problem with disappearing cats. Nathan Winograd summarises it nicely too: The recent sweep of a homeless encampment in San Jose [CA] …

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Bowie's law - this is Bowie who was unnecessarily killed at a pound

Bowie’s law AB 595 California is an animal life saver

Bowie’s law is a significant advance in the humane treatment of animals in California according to Nathan Winograd. And it is a model for the rest of America. What is it? According to the instigator and promoter of this new California law, assemblyman Bill Essayli, it requires animal shelters to post on their website 72 …

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California law bans buying cats, dogs and rabbits online with a load which must include credit cards

California bans the purchase of dogs, cats and rabbits online with credit cards

NEWS AND COMMENT-CALIFORNIA, USA: California with New York State are, it is my belief, the two most progressive US states in respect of animal welfare and California have progressed animal welfare in their state a little further in enacting (bringing into law) an act which bans the purchase of dogs, cats and rabbits purchased online …

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Shelter Hope Pet Shop

California animal shelter bans customers who support the pro-gun lobby

“California animal shelter won’t adopt dogs to Second Amendment supporters, vows to sue people if they lie about their beliefs”. This is one online headline today. NEWS AND COMMENT: Shelter Hope Pet Shop, Thousand Oaks, California, USA was “created to aid shelter and pet adoptions, promote education and bring awareness to the communities we serve”. …

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California Legislature

California is going to ban the declawing of cats for non-therapeutic purposes (God willing)

NEWS AND COMMENT-CALIFORNIA, USA: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the legislature of California is debating a ban on declawing cats for non-therapeutic purposes. In other words, if this bill passes into law the citizens of California will no longer be able to take their cat to a veterinarian for the removal of their cat’s …

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Animal rights

What does a legally enforceable Bill of Rights for dogs and cats mean in California?

A California lawmaker has introduced a proposed law which would be a Bill of Rights for dogs and cats. The terminology is confusing because when you introduce a statute into legislation it’s called a ‘bill’ but the word is used differently and in a specific way in the phrase “Bill of Rights”. That point needs …

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Dale, a gray and white short-haired male cat, with green eyes, was killed Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, by two roaming dogs

Dog that kills one cat and inflicts minor injury on a person considered “potentially dangerous” in Santa Rosa

NEWS AND COMMENT-CENTRE ROSA, CALIFORNIA: A man owns two aggressive dogs; one is a pit-bull and the other is a shepherd mix. They were allowed to roam freely in Santa Rosa and they attacked and killed two domestic cats who were also allowed to roam freely. It is unclear if this occurred in one incident …

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Woodside residents use puma conservation as an excuse not to allow residential development in their area

NIMBY rich of California refuse residential developments citing the protection of mountain lion habitat

NEWS AND COMMENT-BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA: This is a story about human population growth which requires more housing and the inevitable human-animal conflict which is ever-increasing on the planet. But it is a story with a twist because in this instance the rich are using conservation in their favour. Normally it is the opposite: the rich …

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Mountain lion travelling

Conservation of the puma a.k.a. mountain lion – full discussion 2022

Introduction: This page has been refreshed, added-to and republished on February 1, 2022. It needed to be because assessments on conservation of wild species needs to be constantly updated. That said, and regrettably, it seems that the experts are not doing this. The experts charged with reporting on conservation and threats against the puma (Puma …

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Skip Campbell rescues kitten from bloated stream turned into a river in Sacremento, California

Man plucks kitten from bloated, fast flowing river after highest rainfall since 1880

There is a bit of global warming in this kitten rescue story, if you believe in climate change as I do. The story is timely with COP26 rumbling on at Glasgow at the moment. The scientists are at one on global warming: it is happening. We should trust in them and get on with stopping …

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Feral cats of Compton, California

Feral cats found dead or dying stuck to glue traps in Compton

COMPTON, CALIFORNIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: The usual feud has been sparked off by the presence of feral cats in Compton. Feral cats have the ubiquitous ability to divide society. On the one hand you have animal rights advocates who are sensitive to the welfare of feral cats even if they agree that they are a problem …

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Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California looking like a holiday camp!

Googleplex should be compartmentalized into cat and dog areas

Officially, Google is a dog company. This is speciesism. And it is very high-profile speciesism but the reason that the Google bosses will give is that because Google is a dog company, and dogs are welcome to work with the owners in their massive Googleplex headquarters, there is no place for cats because of the …

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