SAVING AND PROTECTING ANIMALS. ONE LAW AT A TIME.

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November 2, 2026
California once lost its wolves to extinction. Now, after decades of work to bring them back, our state wildlife officials have euthanized four gray wolves in the Sierra Valley following cattle attacks. This is not ...
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October 24, 2025
coalition of leading health, science, and animal protection organizations is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to modernize its nutrition research program by...
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October 21, 2025
Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-Yucaipa) announced on Oct. 13, that Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Senate Bill 221 into law. The legislation closes a dangerous loophole in California’s stalking statutes by clarifying that...
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October 12, 2025
Fame, for Diane Keaton, was never an excuse to look away. In a profession built on performance, she turned her gaze outward—to the voiceless and the overlooked...
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August 29, 2025
After fostering hundreds of homeless German shepherds for more than nine years, there’s one success case a Yorba Linda couple doesn’t forget. It was 4-month-old Kuzco who Jennifer Coakley and her husband, Steve, took...
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June 9, 2025
U.S. senators have reintroduced legislation to preemptively ban commercial octopus farming, claiming the species’ intelligence makes such practices cruel and inhumane...
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June 5, 2025
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), founders and co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus, reintroduced the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus...
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May 30, 2025
The Los Angeles Zoo recently announced that its last two elephants, Billy and Tina, have arrived at the Tulsa Zoo. In Defense of Animals is calling this clandestine move a shameless betrayal ...
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Bill to protect stalking victims and their pets advances through first committee

April 5, 2025
| Imperial Valley Press
The bill will better protect victims of stalking by amending state penal code to conform to the federal stalking statute by including threats to a victim’s pet...
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FOUND Act: New law aims to help pets during natural disasters

April 1, 2025
| Fox News 11 Los Angeles
The proposed Assembly Bill 478 aims to establish a clear evacuation plan, create a centralized database for lost and found pets.
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We’re running out of time to rescue the pets that survived the Palisades fire

January 24, 2025
| Los Angeles Times
In Pacific Palisades, few residents have been allowed into the area to search for pets. Nonprofit animal welfare groups have also, generally, not been allowed to search.
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We’re running out of time to rescue the pets that survived the Palisades fire

January 24, 2025
| Los Angeles Times
Social Compassion, a nonprofit animal protection group headed by Judie Mancuso, tried unsuccessfully to get an agreement with the city to let their experienced rescue partners go into the burn areas.
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Conservative humor site sues California over laws banning election-related deception

October 1, 2024
| The Sacramento Bee
Judie Mancuso, said in a statement that “by signing this bill, California is taking a stand that will not allow an immeasurable amount of suffering to these magnificent animals and the environmental damage ..."
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What’s California on the verge of banning now? Octopus farming

August 16, 2024
| Cal Matters
A bill that would make California the first state to ban the sale of farmed octopus is still alive in the Legislature. Animal rights activists say the practice is inhumane.
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A canine rescue group became a favorite of Hollywood celebrities. But were the dogs really ‘rescues’?

June 22, 2024
| Los Angeles Times
Ellen DeGeneres skipped onstage for her talk show that day, beaming, proclaiming: “I can’t even tell you how excited I am.” The comedian and her wife had adopted a puppy, a chocolate-brown poodle named Mrs. Wallis
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Adopting a dog? It helps to do some homework first

June 22, 2024
| Los Angeles Times
Local animal shelters have plenty of dogs waiting for new homes, but if you choose to adopt from a private rescue group, it helps to do some homework first. “Pets are big business and very lucrative,” said Madeline Bern
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Mailbag: Bill promoting trap, neuter and return would harm cats

May 17, 2024
| Daily Pilot
After working for 17 years to reduce pet overpopulation and shelter overcrowding through legislation, two things are crystal clear to me. First, good laws will compel most people to do the right thing when it comes
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Laguna Beach opts for drone show for Fourth of July celebration

May 5, 2024
| Daily Pilot
Laguna Beach will trade in its pyrotechnics for a high-tech option on Independence Day, as the City Council has decided to have a drone light show for the city’s Fourth of July celebration.
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Calif. regulators oppose bill that would expand RVT duties

May 1, 2024
| VIN News Service
California veterinary regulators are opposing a bill that would allow registered veterinary technicians to neuter male cats, a sign of expanding resistance to the controversial proposal as it moves toward its first big t
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A drone show will replace July 4 fireworks in Laguna Beach

April 30, 2024
| OC Register
For the first time in more than 30 years, fireworks shells will not blast, streak or explode over Laguna Beach’s Heisler Park in the customary July 4 extravaganza.
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