Fox Pens up for vote at Sept. 21st Natural Resources Commission Meeting September 19, 2010
Posted by Indiana Alliance of Animal Control and Welfare Organizations in : Animal Cruelty, Wildlife
Indiana must ban fox pens. In these pens, dogs compete in chasing down fenced-in foxes and coyotes, often killing the captive animals.
Please ask the Natural Resources Commission to consider a ban at their next meeting.
Thank the NRC for examination of the issue. Florida recently banned these pens. The NRC should move forward with prohibiting them in Indiana at the Sept. 21 meeting. Unethical pursuing of fenced captive foxes that are often sick and weak from being held captive is cruel and serves no conservation purpose.
Al Capone Tax Enforcement Applied To Puppy Mills in Indiana August 31, 2010
Posted by Indiana Alliance of Animal Control and Welfare Organizations in : Puppy Mills
When the Feds couldn’t pin murder or bootlegging charges on Al Capone, they put him in jail for tax evasion. Should states follow that example and use tax enforcement to shut down inhumane puppy mills?
That’s what Andrew W. Swain, chief of the Indiana State Attorney General ‘s Revenue Division is urging his counterparts in other states to do…Read the full story on Forbes.com.
23 Arrested In Dog Fighting Ring in Indianapolis August 7, 2010
Posted by Indiana Alliance of Animal Control and Welfare Organizations in : Dogfighting
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police arrested 23 people and seized several pit bulls, some of them injured, in a suspected dogfighting raid, the largest ring veteran police officers can remember.The arrests were made late Friday night and early Saturday morning after a search warrant was obtained for a home in the 3000 block of West 60th Street, on Indianapolis’ northwest side, 6News’ Rick Hightower reported.
Read the full story and watch the video as reported by Channel 6, Indianapolis.
Indiana Gaming Commission Raids Fairland Farm in Cockfighting Case August 4, 2010
Posted by Indiana Alliance of Animal Control and Welfare Organizations in : Cockfighting
Rooster Seized from Shelby County, IN Cockfighting Raid
FAIRLAND, Ind. (AP/WISH) – A Shelby County man may be facing numerous charges after state gaming officials Wednesday raided what they’re calling a breeding ground for cockfighting.
Cockfighting is a huge sport in some countries including the Philippines. And it’s because of a magazine story in a Filipino magazine that state agents found out about one Shelby County man’s illegal secret.
State gaming authorities remove dozens of live chickens from the barn at the home of 62-year-old Edward “Wally” Clemons.
Read full story as reported by Channel 8.
Monroe County Humane Association Rescues over 70 dogs from Hoarders in Greene County, IN July 28, 2010
Posted by Indiana Alliance of Animal Control and Welfare Organizations in : Animal Hoarding
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — More than 70 dogs that lived at a mobile home in Greene County are now in the care of the Monroe County Humane Association after they were rescued earlier this week.Authorities said that since there are few laws protecting animals in that county, they had to make a deal with the homeowner so she would turn them over, 6News’ Julie Pursley reported.
