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PET GUARDIANSHIP
Council of State Governments Resolution on Animal Guardianship and Liability Legislation AVMA Policy: Owner vs Guardian JAVMA July 2003. AVMA Opposes Pet Guardianship. No evidence 'guardianship' enhances relationship between owner and pet Ten point list in opposition to Guardianship Let's Look at Using the Legal Term "Guardian" Rather Than "Owner". Is This a Necessary, or Even a Good, Idea? Genny Wall, AFA Avian Welfare Chair Pet Owner to Pet Guardian: A bad idea! by Bob Vella JAVMA. December 2004. State legislators oppose animal guardianship, noneconomic damages laws AVMA. November 2005. Pet owner or guardian? Animal Health Institute Ownership of Animals vs Guardianship of Animals. American Veterinary Law Association White Paper High Noon for Animal Rights Law: The Coming Showdown Between Pet Owners and Guardians Guarding the Guard Dogs. Are you a dog owner or a dog guardian? Jon Katz. Slate Magazine. Missouri Veterinary Medical Association - The Truth About Pet Guardianship. |
CHANGING LEGAL STATUS FOR ANIMALS
Animal law can be divided into Animal Welfare Law and Animal Rights Law. Animal Welfare Law confers benefits upon nonhuman animals indirectly, based on their relationship to a human being. In short, the law views them only through their ward or as being “owned” by a human. Without the tether to you or me, animals have the functional status of waste. However, animal cruelty laws protect most animals, in certain contexts, regardless of their designation as owned. Animal Rights Law recognizes protection, entitlements, and standing for the animal based on the animal’s inherent dignitary interests as a sentient being that may suffer, reason or find “completeness” or “satisfaction” in “freely” pursuing its instinctual and filial imperatives. Animal rights law, thus, attempts to vindicate the interests of the animal based on principles that may be said to “inhere” within, rather than manifest from without (through human agency). Animals Voice. Adam P. Karp, Esq., Animal Law Higher Ed Going Ape Over Animal Rights Courses There is a thick, high legal wall that has been put up over hundreds of years with non-human animals on one side of it... The goal of animal law courses is to knock down that wall. Once that wall is breached, the question becomes, what non-human animals should be entitled to what rights? AAMC Reporter: Personhood Redefined: Animal Rights Strategy Gets at the Essence of Being Human Monkey Trial: Redefining a Jury of Their Peers Note: this article was written in 1999 and states there are about a dozen law schools teaching animal law. Today that number exceeds 100. JAVMA March 2005. Now it's the lawyer's turn Guest speaker Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, put it succinctly. "We are in the midst of a struggle over the ideas of the place of animals in society," Pacelle said. JAVMA September 2003. Activists seek personhood for animals "Peaceable Kingdom" PBS Uncommon Knowledge, Filmed on April 28, 2003 - Although many of the specific goals of the Animal Rights movement have to do with promoting the humane treatment of animals, the underlying argument is that certain basic legal rights should be extended to animals as well. Christian Science Monitor June 27, 2008. Spain to grant some human rights to apes Wesley J. Smith. Granting apes rights will only devalue human life Duke Law. Law and Contemporary Problems. FOREWORD ANIMAL LAW: THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE by Jeff Welty Over the past decade, animal law has seen remarkable growth. Major animal advocacy groups like the Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Farm Sanctuary, and others have ramped up their litigation efforts. |
