A Framework for Behavior Modification and Training Plans to Help Build and Maintain Resilience: The Resilience Rainbow
What is resilience and why does it matter? Resilience is an individual’s ability to recover from and resist the negative effects of stress. In other words, it is a positive adaptation or “bounce back ability”.1 Since the early 2000s, there has...
Under new Texas law, man arrested for leaving dog tied outside: How the law works
After a man was arrested in McAllen for leaving his dog tied up overnight, local authorities are urging the public to provide shelter for their pets. Further, the case illustrates how police can use a new Texas law, which took...
Anti-tethering law passes unanimously in Walton County
Walton County’s K-9 population got a break this week…. finally. After almost a decade of petitioning the Walton County, Ga. government to implement an anti-tethering law, animal advocates were finally able to celebrate a win Tuesday when the Walton County...
Grieved by sufferings of chained dogs, this activist engages owners to free their pets
Vulgarities have been hurled at her over the years. That is a response Li Bing sometimes gets when she approaches people who chain or confine their dogs in tight spaces.