Animal-Friendly Legislation Stories

Maryland's ruling on pitbulls is reminiscent of unjust medieval English dog laws.

West Valley City, Utah, makes plans to go no-kill with support from Best Friends Animal Society.

Act now to save the Hayden Law and ensure standards of care for California shelter animals are not set back a century.

There is a monumental shift in thinking taking place in our country around puppy mills and the retail pet stores that sell them.

Supporters of California shelter animals were victorious in the first battle over the Hayden Law repeal, but the war has not yet been won.

Oppose Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to repeal parts of Hayden Law. Voice your support of California animals today!

Melissa Moreira, dog attack survivor, is opposed to HB 997, which would repeal Miami-Dade County's pit bull ban.

Help end discrimination against pitbulls in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Competing shelter bills — one that has the best interests of animals in mind and the other that doesn't — go head to head in New York.

Ohio governor John Kasich signs House Bill 14 into law, ending the only statewide dog breed discrimination in the United States.

Ag-gag bills challenged as unconstitutional violation of free speech could make it illegal to video animal cruelty in factory farms and puppy mills.

There are two bills currently in the New York State Assembly that call themselves progressive shelter reform bills. One is, but the other, no so much.

Proposed repeal of Hayden Law provisions would be detrimental for dogs and cats in California animal shelters.

Best Friends has introduced Ohio House Bill 14 that would put an end to the state's breed-discriminatory pit bull legislation.

Because of an archaic exemption in state law, Miami-Dade County, FL, is the only county in the entire state permitted to engage in canine profiling.