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Texas Humane Legislation Network published Our Fight is Not Over: The Texas Legislature is Moving to Abolish Measures that Prevent Puppy Mills in Latest News 2020-07-14 17:22:11 -0500
Our Fight is Not Over: The Texas Legislature is Moving to Abolish Measures that Prevent Puppy Mills
Jul 14, 2020
Before 2011, it was all too common for the animal rescue community across Texas to have to step in and save large numbers of animals that had been seized by law enforcement because of cruel treatment they suffered while being used as non-stop puppy producers for unregulated puppy mills. Those seizures were just the tip of the iceberg – for every facility shut down, there were many more that continued to operate out of the public eye because there was no structure for oversight or inspections. And even after their animals were seized, Texas breeders profiting from puppy mills faced few repercussions.
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Texas Humane Legislation Network published Texas legislature is preparing to gut the state program that prohibits puppy mills in Latest News 2020-06-06 19:41:16 -0500
Texas legislature is preparing to gut the state program that prohibits puppy mills
Jun 6, 2020
We wanted to immediately alert you to a disturbing development: the Texas legislature is preparing to gut the state program that prohibits puppy mills. If you are one of the animal lovers who helped us pass the 2011 Texas Dog & Cat Breeder Act to regulate the conditions in large-scale animal breeding facilities, or one of the many Texans who understand that if unregulated, large scale breeding facilities become inhumane puppy mills producing dogs for profit in the cruelest condition, we know you will share our alarm.
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Texas Humane Legislation Network published How we keep our dogs outside is a community safety issue in Texas in Latest News 2020-06-01 14:00:28 -0500
How we keep our dogs outside is a community safety issue in Texas
May 19, 2020
We all know someone who has been bitten by a dog at some point in our lives. These incidents affect hundreds, if not thousands of Texans each year, but it is a largely untold story in our communities that dogs restrained outside by their owners are actually more dangerous than roaming packs of dogs.
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Texas Humane Legislation Network published Curious Texas: Netflix series ‘Tiger King’ showcased the drama and entertainment of the big cat world in Latest News 2020-05-28 18:30:40 -0500
Curious Texas: Netflix series ‘Tiger King’ showcased the drama and entertainment of the big cat world
May 27, 2020
Article By: Anna Clare PayneBut animal advocates say it doesn’t fully reveal the real dangers and cruel conditions of the exotic animal industry in Texas.
Anakin (top), a tiger at In-Sync Exotics in Wylie, Texas, yawns as he naps in the sun, Friday, May 15, 2020. Kenobi is pictured below. The big cat sanctuary is set to open Saturday with COVID-19 practices of keeping safe will be in place. hey will be open on weekends. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer).
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Texas Humane Legislation Network published How to Build a Community Link Taskforce in Latest News 2019-06-13 11:32:23 -0500
How to Build a Community Link Taskforce: Tips From the Experts
Jun 13, 2019
“Just because we’re the big city of Houston doesn’t mean you can’t do this as well in your smaller town,” Assistant District Attorney Jessica Milligan, chief of the DA’s animal cruelty section, told participants at the recent Texas Unites for Animals conference. “All you need are the communications and the connections. Reaching out to other agencies, learning what resources they have, and telling them what you have makes things happen,” she said. “A task force is like a ‘field of dreams.’ If you build it, they will come.”
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