Anti-animal abuse panel hears from public
About 75 people showed up for the first public meeting of Baltimore’s newly appointed Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force tonight, with many calling for improved education, harsher penalties for animal...
View ArticleBrothers accused of setting fire to pit bull will be tried as adults, judge...
Two brothers accused of burning to death the pit bull who became known as Phoenix will face felony charges as adults. Travers Johnson and Tremayne Johnson, both 17, appeared Tuesday in juvenile court...
View ArticleTask force on animal abuse calls for changes
Baltimore could be doing a far better job of protecting its pets and animals, a task force appointed by Mayor Sheila Dixon concludes in an interim report released this week. Its recommendations include...
View ArticleTask force chair calls Vick’s award a disgrace
The chairperson of the Mayor’s Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force says bestowing an Ed Block Courage Award on Michael Vick is “premature at best and disgraceful at its worst.” In a letter to Sam Lamantia,...
View ArticleFuture looks bleak for Baltimore’s animals
What is the city of Baltimore doing in light of an animal abuse task force study that showed animal welfare and animal control agencies were underequipped, understaffed and underfunded? Underfunding...
View ArticleA cat named Mittens, a dog named Phoenix
As the case against two brothers accused of setting a pit bull named Phoenix on fire unfolds in a Baltimore courtroom, a cat named Mittens is nursing both her kittens and the wounds she received after...
View Article100 slain sled dogs to be exhumed this week
With spring’s thaw, forensic experts will begin exhumation this week of a mass grave in British Coumbia as part of an investigation into the slaughter of 100 sled dogs last year. Details of the...
View ArticleBurned cat was 6th pet torture of summer
Gabrielle, the 8-month-old cat a witness says was set on fire twice by two boys in northwest Baltimore, was the sixth animal torture case to surface in Baltimore this summer, according to Caroline...
View ArticleAnimal abuse task force invites comments
The Mayor’s Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force will hold its first public meeting next Wednesday (Sept. 16). The task force invites members of the public to attend and voice their concerns about animal abuse...
View ArticleReminder: Abuse task force meets tonight
Baltimore’s Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force holds its third meeting tonight – the first to which the public is invited. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute,...
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