Handle a Dog Fight With Care
June 24th, 2007
By Denise Flaim
Maybe you read the story last week about the Dix Hills man who nearly had his ear severed after three rottweilers charged his leashed pitt bull mix, Emry, and he got in the middle to save her.
Maybe you wondered: If that was my dog, what could I have done?
MTA canine teams now patrol for terrorism
June 17th, 2007
BY JENNIFER MALONEY
June 14, 2007
Hudson leaned forward from the back seat, peering through the windshield at a man in an orange vest.
“It’s OK,” Doug Joseph, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officer, told the German shepherd. “He’s good.”
Joseph waved to the orange-vested track worker and drove away from the train station, scanning the tracks while Hudson looked out the window.
Animal activists want Vick to pay
June 10th, 2007
BY BOB GLAUBER
June 10, 2007
John Goodwin wants to see Falcons quarterback Michael Vick go to jail if he is convicted in connection with an illegal dog-fighting operation at a home Vick owns in Virginia.
No fine. No probation. No legal slap on the wrist.
Jail.
“When people are involved in this type of crime, they should go to prison,” Goodwin, the deputy manager for animal fighting issues for the Humane Society of the United States, said in an interview this week with Newsday. “This is severely cruel, and there should be punishment for inflicting pain and misery on these animals. The maximum fine is $2,500, which is about the time it takes Michael Vick to call a play in the huddle.”
Tougher animal cruelty laws sought
June 3rd, 2007
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI
May 24, 2007
TRENTON, N.J. — A pit bull terrier puppy named Angel who was starved and fatally beaten by her owners has focused attention on the need to revise New Jersey’s outdated animal cruelty laws.
Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew, D-Cape May, is leading the charge to update and expand the section of law that deals with the abuse and mistreatment of animals, and stiffen penalties for violators.