AVMA News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dog trainers that use aversive training methods, including Augusto DeOliveira, also known as "The Dog Daddy," have caught the attention of concerned animal welfare groups, trainers, veterinary behaviorists, and pet owners.

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AVMA News

JULY 24, 2024

A company that bred Beagles for research will pay more than $35 million after pleading guilty last month to violating the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) by neglecting thousands of dogs at its Cumberland, Virginia, breeding facility. The payment includes the largest ever fine in an animal welfare case.

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AVMA News

MARCH 5, 2024

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as the OIE) celebrated its 100th anniversary on January 25 with an online event that reviewed the organization’s history, evolution, and vision of the future of animal welfare worldwide.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 21, 2023

Patricia J. Latas and Anthony A. Pilny presented sessions on July 15 at AVMA Convention 2023 in Denver about the consequences of wildlife trafficking on wild bird populations and the difficulties with rehoming unwanted birds.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The awards program recognizes contributions by veterinarians and nonveterinarians to the veterinary profession and to animal health and welfare. The nomination period is open for the AVMA Excellence Awards for 2025.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The awards program recognizes contributions by veterinarians and nonveterinarians to the veterinary profession and to animal health and welfare. Summary: The nomination period is open for the 2024 AVMA Excellence Awards.

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AVMA News

JUNE 18, 2024

An updated resource from the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) is intended to further contribute to progress in the teaching of anatomy at veterinary colleges by promoting effective animal alternatives, supporting animal welfare and animal ethics, and the safety of veterinary students and the animals with which they learn. (..)

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Now in its 24th year, the AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest and is one way undergraduates, graduate students, veterinary students, and AVMA members can learn more about the important topic of animal welfare. Former participants credit the contest as being a life-changing experience.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The AVMA House of Delegates adopted a handful of revised animal welfare policies, including one on “Canine Devocalization” that supersedes the previous policy, approved a new policy on “Canine Hybrids,” and referred two other policies back to the AVMA Board of Directors (BOD).

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Critter News

JUNE 12, 2012

This is an interesting opinion piece about the link between animal welfare and human welfare in nations. From the Huffington Post.

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AVMA News

JULY 28, 2023

The award is meant to honor the achievements of an individual who has contributed to the positive visibility of the veterinary profession by raising public awareness of the important and diverse roles that veterinarians play in every facet of the health and welfare of animals, people, and the environment.

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AVMA News

JULY 31, 2023

This year’s AVMA Global Veterinary Service Award went to Dr. Scarlett Magda, who is the co-founder and president of Veterinarians International (VI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to globally enhance the health and welfare of animals and the communities they inhabit.

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AVMA News

JULY 11, 2023

Long-term contraception was witnessed in female cats injected with a single dose of a feline anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) transgene, a development being hailed as a breakthrough in animal welfare.

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Critter News

AUGUST 28, 2009

Interesting article on Senator Edward Kennedy that highlights his little-known contributions to animal welfare. Tags: legislation animal welfare. It's from the Humane Society.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2011

Welfare officers from international animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary have reported an improvement in the welfare of donkeys and other equines at this year’s Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria, which finished earlier this week. This excerpt is from Smallholder.

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AVMA News

APRIL 17, 2024

The AVMA Board of Directors in April made several appointments to AVMA committees, including the Animal Welfare Committee and Committee on Antimicrobials.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Did you see that Change.org now has an Animal Welfare page? As far as I know, Change.org is the only relatively-mainstream site with a broad, global audience, that has made this distinction and doesn't lump welfare and rights together as if they're the same thing. is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

California really is at the forefront of animal welfare and this is an excellent article detailing what's going on in the State and the challenges animal welfare faces. It also does a great job at profiling Jennifer Fearing who led the victory of Proposition 2. She sounds amazing.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness.

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Critter News

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare. Tags: farm animal welfare us agribusiness. It's a small mention in this Ag Week article about issues coming up in 2009 , but worth noting. The recent passing of a proposition in California to strictly manage how laying chickens are kept serves notice, he says.

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Tags: animal rights animal welfare.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The National Animal Interest Alliance is an association of business, agricultural, scientific, and recreational interests dedicated to promoting animal welfare, supporting responsible animal use and strengthening the bond between humans and animals. And here's the answer.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 20, 2008

I bet you didn't realize that Obama had any animal welfare picks, but he did. And, in general, the Humane Society and its Legislative Fund likes them. They are very enthusiastic about Tom Vilsack, the proposed Secretary of Agriculture. In fact, he was their top choice.

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2010

From Current.com She was recently suspended from working with animals, a “rare move prompted by what officials called a ‘clear pattern’ of problems with animal welfare.” Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

From the American Bird Conservancy : The mayor of Albuquerque and the director of the city’s animal welfare department have been named in a lawsuit alleging that the officials have committed animal cruelty by allowing certain illegal and improper animal management practices to occur related to abandonment of stray cats.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As curious as I was to confidently identify the bird, I still held its welfare above all other things and tried to cause it as little trouble as possible. Within a half hour, I had the bird in my hand. I repeat: I had a snipe in the hand. Freshly collected and en route to some R&R.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

It's the first update since 1919. That's right 1919. Bill 50 makes it a provincial offence to abuse any animal, and it establishes the strongest penalties in the country for those charged with animal cruelty -- including the potential to prohibit offenders from owning animals ever again.

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AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Despite publicly claiming to support animal welfare, the company has delayed its goals and failed to report meaningful progress on its existing promises. Ahold Delhaize—the global company behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Hannaford, and Stop & Shop—is under fire for failing animals.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

People interested in animal welfare who are against this idea are completely missing the point here. but for animal rights groups to claim to be dedicated to animal welfare and practically ignore the most serious issues wildlife face is blatantly hypocritical. Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

KAYTEE Wild Bird Products worked with Southeast Arizona Bird Observatory to establish the Arizona Hummingbird Disaster Relief effort supporting the health and welfare of the resident and migrating hummingbirds by shipping $50,000 of product for placement throughout the region.

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Critter News

JANUARY 17, 2012

Here's a way to find out how your state ranks. California is #1 again.yay! Washington State, where I currently live, is #6! At the bottom.(drum drum roll please) South Dakota!!!

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