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.
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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
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 80.
JAVMA March 2005. Now it's the lawyer's turn
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.
Telegraph UK. June 10, 2006. Drive to give 'human' rights to apes leaves Spanish divided
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