AVMA News
MARCH 22, 2023
The Arkansas state legislature recently adopted a law that will expand veterinary technician specialists’ (VTS) scope of practice. Another bill still under consideration would dilute the educational background required for veterinary technicians to qualify for licensure.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Mike Beebe has signed into law new animal-cruelty restrictions that make aggravated cruelty to cats, dogs and horses a felony on the first offense. Arkansas becomes the 46th state to make cruelty to animals a felony, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Tags: animal cruelty legislation Arkansas us.
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Critter News
JANUARY 8, 2009
They are one of only 5 states that doesn't have a felony animal cruelty law. A task force is now looking into changing that.
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2008
The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up. Tags: animal law. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2013
At Varner Unit, home of Arkansas’s death row for men, we see a typical sight – a stark shot of a chain link fence. It’s the third shot that intrigues me most, though. But in one of the gaps of the fence, a House Sparrow perches, stretching briefly.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2018
But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
As the Newsweek story indicates, 38 states have passed laws giving women the right to breastfeed in any public or private place she’d otherwise be allowed to be. How sick and twisted have we become?
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