A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS AND COMMENT: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, USA: It is sad to learn that people in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (and elsewhere) sometimes buy cats and dogs with a high interest loan. I can understand why. They want to adopt a cat or dog and they want that animal to be purebred and good-looking. But the …
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, signed a bill on Wednesday (Tuesday?) in response to a fire in January in a West Chicago facility which killed 29 dogs. The law sets high standards at cat and dog boarding kennels in order to protect the residents. These facilities are now required to be staffed at …
A new law in Illinois will go into effect on January 1, 2018, where counties can opt to use a portion of pet registration fees so low-income families can afford to spay or neuter their pets and feral colony caregivers can tap into animal population control programs developed to reduce the feral cat population. The …
Illinois is in the ‘Midwest’ of the USA, just below the Great Lakes. This is quite important because it is a relatively densely populated and intensively cultivated area of the USA. It is a state in the second tier of most densely populated states of the USA. Human population density is relevant to the …
