Animal Welfare Information Center

ALN Magazine - New article in the March 2010 Issue. The approach to rodent analgesia in laboratory animal medicine has undergone significant changes during the last decade... http://www.alnmag.com/article/fundamentals-pain-assessment-rodents

CNN -- Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches. This isn't a pet store -- it's a meat market in Guangzhou, a city in southern China where eating cats and dogs is common practice. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/china.animals/index.html?hpt=Sbin

USA Today - Bitty birds seem to be the newest chosen victims of high-stakes animal fighting. Animal welfare experts fear that two recent raids of alleged bird-fighting ... http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2010-03-09-pettalk10_N.htm

Dairy Herd Management - Workshops this spring will review critical issues in animal welfare and prepare dairy farmers for an upcoming on-farm evaluation... http://www.dairyherd.com/directories.asp?pgID=675&ed_id=10778

EurekAlert.org - A mathematical model developed at Purdue University can predict complex signaling patterns that could help scientists determine how stem cells in an embryo later become specific tissues, knowledge that could be used to understand and treat developmental disorders and some diseases. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/pu-mmo030910.php

Effective January 31, 2010, equine owners, intending to sell animals directly or indirectly to Canadian meat processors, are being advised to record certain information. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/newcom/2010/20100129e.shtml

JAVMA News - Canada has taken a first step in developing a comprehensive food safety and traceability program for its equine industry, the effects of which will reverberate at home and abroad. http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/mar10/100315j.asp

The Department of Agriculture announced Feb. 5 the agency would take a different direction than was charted through the National Animal Identification System. The new system is expected to leave identification and tracing programs with the states and tribal territories rather than with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/mar10/100315a.asp

Internet sites that sell pet drugs can be reputable pharmacies. However, others are fronts for businesses breaking Federal, State, and sometimes, International laws. Illegal online pharmacies may sell medicines that are counterfeit, outdated, mislabeled, incorrectly formulated, or improperly made or stored. http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/AnimalHealthLiteracy/ucm203000.htm

CPHPost.dk - Medical tests often carried out on rats and mice could be carried out on insects after Danish company explores the field. http://www.cphpost.dk/news/scitech/92-technology/48423-grasshoppers-used-for-animal-testing.html

LATimes.com - Animal welfare advocates won a long sought victory Wednesday when the California Fish and Game Commission approved a ban on imports of non-native turtles and frogs for food markets. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/state-to-ban-importing-of-nonnative-turtles-frogs-for-food.html

USAToday.com - Department of Agriculture officials failed to act on reports of illegal and unsafe slaughterhouse practices, letting suspect operations continue despite public health risks, a USDA veterinarian alleges in testimony to be aired today at a congressional hearing. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-03-03-food-safety_N.htm

Detroit Free Press - Michigan State University announced it will end its use of lethal surgeries on dogs during practice surgeries conducted by students.

YaleDailyNews.com - While the federal regulatory system for animal research has worked well for the past four decades, improvements can still be made, said Goldberg, the former IACUC committee member. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/scitech-news/2010/03/03/federal-regulations-hound-animal-research/

Time.com - Cruelty to animals, it is said, is often a precursor to graver crimes. So would there not be some usefulness to a registry of individuals convicted of felony animal abuse? http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1969346,00.html?hpt=T2

WashingtonPost.com - The U.S. government announced Wednesday that it supports prohibiting international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a move that could lead to the most sweeping trade restrictions ever imposed on the highly prized fish. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030301436.html

DVM360.com - Animal welfare was predicted to be one of the hot spots of veterinary medicine in 2010, and state legislators already are proving the prediction to be true. http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/Veterinary+news/Next-round-of-animal-welfare-reform-hits-Midwest/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/655682?contextCategoryId=44927

DVM360.com - Virginia lawmakers are taking note of the animal-welfare movement and have decided to create a new subcommittee to give greater attention to the state's welfare issues. http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/Veterinary+news/Virginia-law-would-create-new-animal-welfare-commi/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/658803?contextCategoryId=44927

WashingtonPost.com - Stormy began her career in Prince George’s in 1999, Eliadis said, as the first dog to work for the police department’s narcotics interdiction unit, a group specifically assigned to snuff out drugs before they crossed the county’s borders. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/matt-zapotosky/prince-georges-drug-dog-dies.html

@TheHorse - The Maryland Horse Industry Board has commissioned the USDA to conduct a census of the Maryland equine population starting in May. http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=15909