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Exclusion Of Individual Veterinarians From Animal Birth Control Programme Not Arbitrary: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the exclusion of individual veterinarians from the animal birth control programme under Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, is not unjust or arbitrary.A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula said that the Rules do not outrightly prohibit veterinarian participation, instead, they advocate for a “formalized. The Delhi High …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A man who bred dogs for fighting for decades, selling them worldwide and exhibiting “extraordinary cruelty,” was sentenced to seven years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Antonio Casillas Montero owned Stone City Kennels in Puerto Rico and had been accused of conspiring to violate the Animal Welfare Act. “The government has not …

Pennsylvania House votes to criminalize animal sedative while keeping it available to veterinarians

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Legislation to keep an animal tranquilizer accessible for its intended use by veterinarians but criminalize it in combination with other drugs was approved by the Pennsylvania state House on Wednesday. Advocates for the legislation passed by the state House say that it would keep the drug available, while targeting its use on the streets. Under the legislation, …

The Tamil Nadu Forest Department will give a third chance to a crop-raider makhna that was translocated from Dharmapuri to Anamalai Tiger Reserve in February, to live in the wild. The ongoing effort to capture and translocate the elephant for a third time, as it has been entering villages near Pollachi, will give the animal yet another chance to live …

GUWAHATI More than 200 goats died of PPR or goat plague in two villages of central Mizoram’s Serchhip district over a month, the Bhopal-based National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases confirmed a week ago. In 2015, Forest Department officials reported the death of Himalayan serows, small antelope-like herbivores figuring in the Schedule 1 list of protected species and Mizoram’s State …

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Veterinarians, dog trainers and animal aid organizations believe the government's current action plan to tackle dog biting incidents is too weak, RTL Nieuws reports. They believe there should be a mandatory national registration system that tracks every time a dog bites a person. "It is a missed opportunity that the registration of incidents is so non-binding," a spokesperson for the …

BJP MLA in Madhya Pradesh Ajay Vishnoi on Saturday called party MP and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi “contemptible” for her alleged objectionable remarks to a veterinary doctor. The words Maneka Gandhi used against veterinarian Dr Vikas Sharma recently won’t prove Veterinary College Jabalpur to be contemptible. Asked what action would be taken against Vishnoi for his outburst against a …

Veterinarians across the country observed a black day and sported black badges on Wednesday to protest against BJP MP and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi over her alleged use of unparliamentary language while scolding a veterinary doctor, their association said. Veterinarians across the country strongly condemned the kind of language the former Union minister has allegedly used against them and …

With rural areas being hit hard by the second wave of Covid-19 infections, the Haryana government is roping in veterinary surgeons for patients admitted to isolation wards. Civil surgeon, Dr Ratna Bharti, has sought services of veterinary doctors from the animal husbandry and dairying department and 60 veterinary doctors have been assigned duties in small towns, including Hansi, Barwala, and …