Guest blog: For healthy waterways, people and pets we must all scoop the poop

Tuesday, April 06, 2021

April Fools’ Day has passed so this is no joke: Happy National Pooper Scooper Week! To celebrate poop scooping—a chore….

National Puppy Day: Pandemic pushed puppy sales and scams to new heights in 2020

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Today is National Puppy Day, an observation that coming so soon after the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic reminds….

Confronting false claims about TNR and SB1390

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Yesterday the House Agriculture Subcommittee (of the Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee) heard SB1390, the Trap Neuter Return bill….

Virginia Senate passes Trap Neuter Return bill in spite of irrational opposition from Senator Stuart

Friday, February 05, 2021

During Tuesday’s Senate floor session, Senator Lynwood Lewis eloquently presented his bill, SB1390, to clarify Virginia code surrounding Trap Neuter….

Floor amendment threatens SB1390’s goals of expanding and improving Trap Neuter Return in Virginia

Friday, January 29, 2021

UPDATE: February 1, 2021 The anticipated floor amendment we told you about on Friday has failed. Senator Lewis’s bill, SB1390,….

December is Virginia’s inaugural Puppy Mill Awareness Month

Sunday, December 06, 2020

Earlier this year, state lawmakers unanimously voted to designate December as Puppy Mill Awareness Month across the Commonwealth, thereby encouraging….