Animals

Addition of Fort Dodge Animal Health Products Diversifies and Enhances Pfizer’s Already Robust U.S. Portfolio

October 19, 2009 -- NEW YORK -- A new Pfizer Animal Health was unveiled last week as Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth, including its subsidiary Fort Dodge Animal Health, was completed. Pfizer Animal Health is now the world’s leader in the discovery, development, manufacture and sales of veterinary vaccines and medicines for livestock and companion animals.    » read more »

May 12, 2009 -- SANTA FE – New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson issued the following statement today reaffirming his commitment to end the use of gas chambers for animals by June 19, 2009.

“I realize there has been some confusion about the effective date for the new law banning the use of gas chambers for euthanizing animals,” Governor Bill Richardson said. “Let me be clear: that date is June 19, 2009. That is the clear intent of the bills I signed into law, and it is the desire of the people of New Mexico."    » read more »

Group Urges Passage of McDonnell’s Animal Fighting Legislation

January 15, 2008 -- Richmond - Today, Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell joined the leadership of The Humane Society of the United States to call for more effective animal fighting laws in Virginia. The Attorney General and The Humane Society urged passage of McDonnell’s animal fighting legislation, announced last week. The legislation is House Bill 656 and Senate Bill 592. House Majority Leader Delegate H. Morgan Griffith (R-Salem) is carrying the bill in the House.    » read more »

December 20, 2007 -- (ALBUQUERQUE) --- Judge William McBee of Lovington ruled the New Mexico cockfighting ban is constitutional yesterday.

The State of New Mexico ex rel. Gary K. King, New Mexico Attorney General; Faron Segotta, New Mexico State Police Chief; and Bill Richardson, New Mexico Governor had been sued by the New Mexico Gamefowl Association and certain of its members who support cockfighting.    » read more »

WILMINGTON, Ohio (Nov. 7, 2007) — Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, The Humane Society of the United States, Buckeye State Sheriff’s Association, and the Ohio Association of Chief’s of Police have formed an exciting partnership to combat animal fighting. At a joint press conference held today, they announced that The HSUS is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person involved in illegal animal fighting. This doubles The HSUS’s longstanding reward of $2,500.    » read more »

10/06/2007 -- SANTA FE, NM-- Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) tonight will announce that the recipient of the 2007 APNM Executive Director's Award is New Mexico Governor and Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Richardson. Richardson will be honored in recognition of his extensive humanitarian work on behalf of, and dedication to, New Mexico's animals.

"I am honored to receive this award," Richardson said. "As a nation, we have to improve the treatment and protection of all animals. I applaud APNM, and I know that they will keep up the good work."    » read more »

The aye-ayes have it

4-Sep-2007 -- A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led Biodesign Institute researcher Brian Verrelli to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world’s most rare and bizarre-looking primates.    » read more »

August 28, 2007 -- (ALBUQUERQUE) -- New Mexico Attorney General Gary King, who chairs the newly formed Animal Cruelty Taskforce (ACT), says the new ACT Hotline is up and taking calls. The New Mexico toll-free, 24-hour hotline’s purpose is to take information about animal fighting and extreme cruelty to animals. The number is accessible from anywhere in the state at 888-260-2178.    » read more »

August 18, 2007 -- SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that Noah’s Wish, a nonprofit organization founded to help animals harmed by natural disaster, has transferred $4 million in charitable assets to the Department of Justice, to be used for the benefit of the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina. This action follows a state investigation which found that contributions raised by Noah’s Wish for that purpose were improperly classified and some of those contributions were used for purposes other than helping animals harmed by Hurricane Katrina.    » read more »

Supreme Court Grants AG's Request for Review

August 9 , 2007 -- (SANTA FE)---The New Mexico Supreme Court today agreed to review a decision by the state Court of Appeals in a high profile animal cruelty case in southern New Mexico. New Mexico Attorney General Gary King last month asked the Court to examine the lower court’s ruling in the deaths of two chimpanzees and injury to a third chimpanzee at the Alamogordo Primate Facility.    » read more »

August 7, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has told the federal government that the state is extremely concerned about a proposal to list Cook Inlet beluga whales as an endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act, and urged the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) not to list the species.    » read more »

July 31, 2007 -- The Department of Environmental Quality and the Partnership for the Saginaw Bay Watershed will be hosting a presentation on Animal Agriculture in Michigan on August 1, at 7 p.m. at the Bay City State Park Visitors Center.

Dr. Wendy Powers from Michigan State University will address animal agriculture in Michigan with both a historical and current look at animal numbers and how changes compare to national trends. In addition, the presentation will lay out some of the challenges that producers face and what drives demographic changes.    » read more »

July 13, 2007 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has signed legislation that modernizes state law concerning the seizure and custody of neglected or cruelly treated animals. An Act Concerning Seizure and Custody of Neglected or Cruelly Treated Animals takes effect October 1.    » read more »

Scientists using fog machines and a wind tunnel have discovered how bats use a thin membrane stretched across each wing and wing mechanics different than birds to stay in the air, according to research in the 11 May issue of Science.

Using high speed computers to analyze the bats' wake, represented by the movement of fog particles around the wings, the researchers discovered that the thin membranes push air when the wing moves up and down.    » read more »