Oregon Legal Research BlogThe Law Librarian Blog (with a hat tip to beSpacific) links to the report:
Humane Society Ranks 50 States on Laws to Protect Animals
The press release.
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Animal Protection: State by State
Articles Tagged with animal law
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Dog and Bicycle Show: Dog Law, Dog Bites, and Loose Dogs
From Oregon Laws, I saw this: Who Let the Dogs Out, by Ray Thomas, which shows you why it may behoove you to talk to a lawyer or do some extremely thorough legal research when bicycles and dogs intertwine.
“… There are a number of widely held but mistaken beliefs about loose dogs. One is that only the owner of the loose dog is responsible for damages….” (read full Ray Thomas Who Let the Dogs Out article)
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The Crocodile (or bobcat) Next Door: New (2010) Oregon Exotic Pets Law
The Oregonian ran a story about the new law, 2009 SB 391 (HTML version), which will go into effect January 1, 2010: “Exotic Pets: bad idea, soon to be illegal.” (Online version: New Oregon law will clamp down on exotic pet ownership), by Jacques Von Lunen, Tuesday July 21, 2009):
Excerpt: “The four cats hiss fiercely as we approach their enclosure. When we go inside, two of them circle around to the opposite corner. It’s unnerving, because these cats are no tabbies.
They’re servals, African wildcats. The largest weighs close to 40 pounds. Their long legs make them excellent runners and jumpers; some call them the most efficient predators of all cats….
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Many humans seduced by servals’ looks find they’re dealing with wild animals after all.
“We get about one call per month on servals,” says Cheryl Tuller, co-founder of WildCat Haven. “These owners realized quickly it was a big mistake.”
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More Pigs (and Cows) and the Law
An Oregon county law library colleague found the “pig” case we were looking for (previous pig post), except it turns out to be cows, not pigs – yoinks!
(In everyone’s defense, the students thought they were looking for a case about foreseeability or proximate cause, not res ipsa loquitur – and a pig and a gate and The Law – or so their instructors told them.)
From my colleague: “Perhaps we are seeking the wrong barnyard animal? There is a similar Tillamook County case involving a cow and an open gate: Watzig v Tobin, 292 Or 645 (1982) 50 Or App 539 (1981).”
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Pigs in Law and Literature
During a recent search for an old Oregon case* (at least we think it is an Oregon case – and even that it is old may be debatable), a colleague sent me a link to this news story about some feral pig legislation working its way through the Oregon Legislature: HB 2221 (PDF or HTML):
Man vs. pig like Ahab vs. Moby Dick, by MARK FREEMAN, Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 2009:
Excerpt: “POWERS, Ore. — There’s a big pig rooting its way around Jody Cyr’s 400 acres of southern Coos County rangeland, and Cyr has spent the better part of the past three years doing his best to kill him.
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Service Animals and the Law: Update
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
I posted recently about Service Dogs (and other animals) and in a recent Saturday’s Oregonian (11/8/08) there was a letter to the editor with a link to another resource on Service Animals:
1) U.S. Department of Justice: type in service animal (singular) or service animals (plural) for different results. See e.g. their COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT
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Oregon Dogs: Therapy, Assistance, and Companion Dogs
Today’s print Oregonian story, The definition of service animals grows to include animals that provide companionship to their owners, by Andy Dworkin (The Oregonian, Tuesday October 28, 2008) reminded me that I hadn’t yet posted this blog-post I’ve been working on.
(Most blog-posts don’t appear out of the blue on a whim; most are the result of, sometimes, a lengthy thinking and writing deliberative process – how dull that sounds. But it’s not!)
In any event, we’ve had a rash (a litter?) of dog-law questions lately (except not too many shaggy dog ones), not just in my county but from around the state. So, let’s try a little educational blogging for those of you who want to research the law:
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LegalLinks from OSB: Small Claims, Animal Law, Legal Myths, and MORE
If you haven’t tried out the streaming video at the Oregon State Bar’s (OSB) website, now’s the time to make yourself comfortable and settle in for 30 minutes of some good old fashioned law-learnin’. Think how much smarter you will be afterward!
Topics include animal law, small claims, landlord-tenant law, police stops, charitable giving, legal assistance for military personnel, consumer bankruptcy, immigration law, bicycle law, and MORE.
There are no bells and whistles with these videos, and you might need some coffee or tea to give yourself a boost, but you will be so much wiser after listening to these. And they are only 30-minutes, which I know is a lifetime in this world of 25 second u-tube moving pictures. But lower your heart rate, live longer, impress your friends, your dates, your parents even!
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A Peacock (Named Bismarck) and the Law
A peacock moved into my and my neighbors’ adjoining yards (in Mt. Tabor) a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a legal research or law library angle on the situation.
(The fact that neighbor kids have named it Bismarck doesn’t help, except for the laugh factor. You know, that crested helmet thing, though how they got to Bismarck I’m not entirely sure, except for the perils of high school history textbooks nowadays. It also doesn’t help that peacocks are incredibly beautiful and fascinating to watch – especially the way they watch US from their high perches, fences, trees, etc. Do we really want him to go away?)
But, I have said I can find a legal research / law library angle to just about anything in life, so here goes:
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The Language (and the Law) of Chickens: “If they crow, they gotta go,”
Apparently most of us city people don’t know that a cockerel is a rooster (i.e. a male chicken).
In the 4/14/08 Oregonian story, “It’s a hard life for boy chicks,” by Kate Taylor, we learn almost more than we want to know about chickens and the people who love (and hate) them:
(And even more people don’t know that “boychick” is a Yiddish term of endearment for a young boy 🙂