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Requiring Dog-Encounter Training for Police Officers (Missouri)
Missouri state legislation would require police officers to take training on how to properly handle canine encounters following a 2024 incident in which Teddy, a 13-pound blind and deaf dog, was shot and killed by an officer after wandering away from home. -
Rodenticide Ban (Washington)
An Act Relating to Rodenticides will place a moratorium on all anticoagulant rodenticides as well as rodenticides that include bromethalin as an ingredient. -
A Bill to Add a Companion Animal Protection Order for Victims of Domestic Violence (New York)
New York state legislation would authorize courts, upon issuance of an order of protection, to order that the exclusive care, custody, and control of certain companion animals be granted to the petitioner. -
The Marine and Aquatic Native Threatened Animal (MANTA) Protection Act (Florida)
If enacted, the MANTA Protection Act would prevent the needless and harmful capture of threatened and endangered wild animals. -
Protecting Animal and Human Victims of Domestic Violence (Florida)
The Domestic Emergency and Batterers Reform and Accountability Act (H.B. 277/S.B. 682) would add animal abuse to the definition of domestic violence under Florida law. -
Oppose: Save Our Bacon Act (Federal)
The Save Our Bacon Act, a repackaged version of the damaging EATS Act, would undermine individual states’ ability to enact their own laws affecting agricultural practices. -
Canyon’s Law (Federal)
This legislation would ban M-44s — spring-loaded devices filled with sodium cyanide used to kill native carnivores and so-called “pest” species — from public lands. -
2024 U.S. Animal Protection Laws Rankings – Demo
Each year, our attorneys compile and review every state and territory’s animal protection laws and rank them according to the relative strength and weakness of their laws.
