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    The Animal Welfare Act (Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 89–544) was signed into law by President Lyndon...
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  • Carolina Animal Protection Act aims to protect pets and their owners in North Carolina. This legislation models the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and can...
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  • until there was a National law to protect animals—the "Animal Welfare Act of 1966"—although there were a number of states that passed anti-cruelty laws between...
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    Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare...
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  • Animal Welfare Act of 1966 in the US The Animal Welfare Act 2006 in the UK This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Animal Welfare...
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    Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is the first signing of pet law since the Protection of Animals...
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    encouraging alternatives to animal testing, but aim to improve animal welfare and scientific quality where the use of animals cannot be avoided. In many...
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  • of animal welfare legislation in the US is the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (AWA). The original AWA was aimed at regulating the sale and transport of animals...
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    states. The primary federal law relating to animal care and conditions in the US is the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, amended in 1970, 1976, 1985, 1990, 2002...
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    Ric O'Barry (category American animal rights activists)
    for violating the Animal Welfare Act of 1966. In 1999, he was fined for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act as the result of illegally releasing...
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  • euchre Pepper (dog), a Dalmatian whose death led to the U.S. Animal Welfare Act of 1966 Pepper, West Virginia Perets' or Pepper, a Ukrainian satirical...
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  • Dognapping (category Animal theft)
    introduction of the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 reduced these occurrences. The profit available to dognappers varies based upon the value of the dog or the...
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  • Basheer Ahmad Masri (category Animal welfare scholars)
    and animal welfare writer. He has been described as the "most prominent contemporary voice in articulating Islamic concern for non-human animals". Masri...
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    C. § 8302 (1) (West 2009). Animal Welfare Act of 1966, 7 U.S.C. § 2131 et seq. Originally intended to prevent the theft of pets for sale to research facilities...
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  • inadequate in modern society. The United States Animal Welfare Act of 1966, attempted to tackle the problems of animal research; however, their effects were considered...
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    Dumb Animals was an American animal welfare magazine published from 1868 to 1970 by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; it...
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    Hamster cage (category Buildings and structures used to confine animals)
    Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and described further in the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research's Guide for the care and Use of Laboratory Animals including...
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  • research involving human subjects. The Animal Welfare Act of 1966 sets standards of treatment of animals in research experiments. It requires all research...
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    Kevin Shea (administrator) (category United States Department of Agriculture officials)
    responsibilities. On the animal welfare front, Shea's agency has filed legal complaints against tiger owners violating the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, including one...
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    Puppy mill (category Animal breeders)
    to the passage of the Animal Welfare Act of August 24, 1966. According to the Humane Society of the United States, only about 3,000 of the 10,000 puppy...
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  • history of animal welfare and animal rights. Abolitionism (animal rights) Animal welfare and rights in China Animal welfare and rights in India Animal welfare...
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    that exhibit animals, roadside zoos and many similar programs be licensed or registered to operate under the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, 7 U.S.C. § 2131...
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  • timeline of the major events in the history of animal welfare and rights in the United States. Timeline of animal welfare and rights Timeline of animal welfare...
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    Humane society (category Animal welfare organizations)
    national voice on policy matters and advise the federal government on animal welfare issues. The first SPCA in Canada was the Canadian SPCA founded in Montreal...
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  • Animal welfare in Egypt is a neglected issue. There are only a few organizations that support the rights and wellbeing of animals. There are a lot of...
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    Ernest Hemingway House (category History of Key West, Florida)
    struggle against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) over whether the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, which typically regulates zoos and circuses...
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    negatively affects the health and welfare of animals. "Pain" is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as "an unpleasant sensory...
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  • Blackfish (film) (category Documentary films about animal rights)
    to the Agriculture Appropriations Act, requiring the USDA to update regulations under the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 in regards to cetacean captivity....
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    The welfare of animals in rodeo has been a topic of discussion for the industry, the public, and the law for decades. In response to animal welfare and...
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  • Animal Welfare Act 2006 and in Scotland by the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006. In 1987 the European Convention for the Protection of Pet...
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