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Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Pet law comes of age Seattle, WA. Increasingly, animal laws are being rewritten to reflect that pets are more than just property and animal laws should reflect that animals have rights too. Washington State has opened the door to attorneys interested in careers in animal law...

Animal Assisted therapy = incredible results Animal assisted therapy is no longer a disputed treatment. 

"It is generally accepted in many aspects of life — especially among the sick, disabled, lonely and troubled. Many hospitals involve animals as part of recreational, physical and speech therapy. One state, Montana, is so sold on the benefits of service dogs for the physically and mentally disabled that Medicaid is paying the $10,000 to $25,000 cost per dog for training"...

Alligators run amok, eat pet dogs Florida Experts think the alligator overpopulation and increased incidence of 'alligator at large' syndrome in neighborhoods is due to cast off pets and a booming trade in selling alligators as pets. ' ''When they weigh 600 pounds and eat your dog for lunch, they're not so cute anymore,'' says Lt. Del Teagan, an alligator specialist with Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.'...
Dog mauls toddler to death Nebraska "The 4-year-old son of a veterinarian and a dog trainer was fatally mauled by a dog on the family's property, where the couple own a commercial kennel" ...
Dog days of crime Pit bulls are a hot item in dog napping cases, so much so that dog nappers will pull up fences, cut chains and remove barricades to get to the dogs: thieves steal them to fight in underground dog fighting rings...

When a pet dog dies San Francisco. In the past owners who suffered the death of  their pet often suffer their bereavement in silence. Today, pet bereavement is taken seriously and the pet bereavement industry has come into its own...