SAVING AND PROTECTING ANIMALS. ONE LAW AT A TIME.

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March 24, 2026
The bill would require those offenders to register for 10 years and would direct the California Department of Justice to create a public website by Jan. 1, 2028, so shelters, rescues and the public can better protect...
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March 20, 2026
I am horrified and saddened to learn that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife authorized the killing of a mother bear in Monrovia...
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2026-03-20/monrovia-mother-bear-killed">Letters to the Editor: The decision to euthanize a Monrovia bear was both cruel and lazy</a>
February 6, 2026
California has officially closed the door on octopus farming. As of January 1, 2025, the state’s Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act is now in effect, banning the farming of octopuses for food and prohibiting ...
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January 16, 2026
Could designer pets be the wave of the future? Not if some lawmakers get their way. The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would outlaw the sale of pets that had been genetically modified to...
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January 9, 2026
Representative Jerrold Nadler (NY-12) introduced a resolution opposing elective cat declawing, reflecting the growing consensus among veterinarians, public health experts, and animal welfare advocates...
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December 28, 2025
California exterminated its wolves once before. Now, after celebrating their hard-won return, the state has killed members of a fragile pack and is retreating from efforts to locate...
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December 18, 2025
For more than a decade, the Physicians Committee has worked to remove outdated animal testing requirements from FDA regulations, create clear pathways for evaluating nonanimal methods...
<a href="https://www.pcrm.org/news/good-science-digest/making-animal-experiments-exception-physicians-committees-road-fda-reform">Making Animal Experiments the Exception: The Physicians Committee’s Road to FDA Reform</a>
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...
<a href="https://www.redlandscommunitynews.com/opinion/opinion-sb-221-protects-stalking-victims/article_d6e947fe-c44d-4084-8d33-36046d4bec67.html">SB 221 protects stalking victims</a>
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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