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Arizona Clinic Won't Take Credit Cards Over The Phone, Euthanizes Cat Instead
An Arizona man didn't have the $400 for his injured cat's vet care, and the Humane Society clinic he visited wouldn't take his mother's credit card information over the phone or wait for . So he did what he thought was the best thing for 9-month-old Scruffy: surrender ownership to the organization so she would receive treatment. He was told that he could adopt her back later on. A lack of resources meant that Scruffy, whose injuries were not life-threatening, was euthanized instead. More »

NYC Pet Stores Linked To Midwest Puppy Mills
An undercover video investigation shows that many New York area pet stores are getting their pets stocked by so-called "puppy mills" with a history of USDA violations. More »

Lord & Taylor Bans Items Containing Canine Fur
Poor raccoon dogs. For a long time, they've suffered a severe identity crisis at the hands of the fashion industry. Their fur has been mislabeled as "raccoon" fur on clothing labels, and even more insulting, as faux fur by some labels. That's an insult not just to the canines, but to conscientious shoppers who think they're buying items with fake fur trim. Another retailer, Lord & Taylor, has joined J.C. Penney in promising to stop selling products that contain the critters, but mislabeling runs rampant. More »

Certified Pre-Owned Cats: Inspected, Detailed, Better Than New!

—>The problem: thousands of sweet, cuddly, adoptable adult cats languishing in shelters. People gravitate toward tiny kittens, which are plentiful in the summer months, leaving adult shelter cats without humans to own. A possible clever solution: Clever marketing ploys. Which is the origin of the Michigan Humane Society's Certified Pre-Owned Cats campaign.  More »

Petland Puppy Mill Lawsuit Smacked On Nose By Judge, Told To Refile

—>A class action lawsuit against alleged puppy-mill-patronizing petstore chain Petland was thrown out by a federal judge in Arizona last week, but the suit isn't over yet. Lawyers representing the humans of six puppies from Petland have until the end of August to refile their suit, and they plan to do so.  More »

Petland Uses Puppy Mills

After an eight-month investigation, the Humane Society of the United States accused Petland, the national pet store chain, of selling dogs bred under appalling conditions at puppy mills around the country.  More »

Dog Fur Coats Sold By Dillards, Caché, ELUXURY, And DrJays

—> The Humane Society has just released the results from another round of tests on fur-trimmed products from national U.S. retailers, and in four cases they found that the advertised "raccoon" fur was actually "raccoon dog," a canine indigenous to Asia. This is one case where the FTC is squarely to blame for creating the problem in the first place, because in 1951 they decided that trade trumps scientific classification and declared "that this animal should be referred to as 'Asiatic raccoon' in advertising and labeling."  More »

The Humane Society of America has sued the USDA in an attempt to close a loophole that allows downer cows who aren't otherwise ill into the food supply. They claim the loophole increases the risk of introducing mad cow disease to humans, and leads to abuse against the cattle—like with, oh, say, a forklift. [Wall Street Journal]  More »

Humane Society Crows At Amazon Over Cockfighting

—>There's at least one cock fighting in this legal battle: the U.S. Humane Society is threatening to sue Amazon for selling magazines for aficionados of the chicken, the razor and the plume.  More »