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The first Humane Societies and Societies for the Protection of Animals (SPCAs) were formed starting in the late 1860s to run animal shelters and promote the enforcement of animal cruelty laws. [5] The American anti-vivisection movement began in response to the opening of the first animal laboratories in the 1860s and 70s.
The facility in southern Pennsylvania said it adopted out 598 animals this year and reunited 125 strays with their owners. Nationwide, an estimated 6.3 million companion animals enter shelters ...
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
The Georgia Department of Agriculture was tasked with licensing animal shelters and enforcing the new law through the Department's newly created Animal Protection Division. An additional provision, added in 1990, was the Humane Euthanasia Act , the first state law to mandate intravenous injection of sodium pentothal in place of gas chambers and ...
A bill recently signed by the governor puts new requirements on municipal animal shelters — the first substantive update to Connecticut’s animal control facility standards in fifty years ...
The Pennsylvania Wildlife Center was opened at the Rosedale campus allowing the League to provide services to injured wild animals [1] in addition to the domestic animals it already served. More recently, the ARL expanded its shelter and clinic building in 2000 and opened its Cat Adoption Center on a parcel next to the main shelter in 2010. [9]
Both organizations teamed up to donate more than $20,000 in treats, toys and food to 231 dogs and 209 shelter cats in Hamilton County, making it "the single largest Valentine’s Day donation to a ...
PA 2008 185 acres (0.75 km 2) [449] Erie National Wildlife Refuge: Crawford County: PA 1959 8,800 acres (36 km 2) [450] John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum: Delaware County Philadelphia County: PA 1972 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) [451] Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (Managed by the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife complex) Cabo ...