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Numbers up in dogs going down More than 3,300 dogs impounded in
Auckland were destroyed in 2010/11 after being unclaimed by their owners and deemed too dangerous to be adopted.
Only 670 dogs were given to new homes,
according to Auckland Council figures for the year to July, and one in three seized animals was put down.
Owners have one week to claim an impounded dog from the Council before it is tested for aggressive behaviour and ill health, and whether it should be classified as a menacing breed.
Source: APN
Brit chick
Farmers have freed more than 80 million hens from especially cruel and cramped lives after one of the most significant changes to animal welfare legislation in decades: the end of battery cages.
But while almost all British egg producers will be compliant with the new European Union-wide law, which has banned the keeping of egg-laying hens in barren battery cages, many European countries will continue to keep battery hens.
Spain, France, Poland and others admit they will
not be ready to drop battery cages (or refuse to say when they will be ready) despite having had 13 years to prepare for the change in the treatment of farm animals.
Source: INDEPENDENT 118 | February/March 2012 | HER MAGAZINE
