The first time that a person commits certain crimes against animals, it will automatically be considered a felony level offense charge.

I can tell you stories, horrendous stories especially with sex offenders and the things they have done to animals. There's a very clear link and that's why we need a felony provision.

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?

British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to away matches.

If you're a rodeo cowboy, know that rodeos will be a commingling point. Every time you bring animals together--at a rodeo, county fair, state fair, a sale barn--you are commingling animals.

A lot of the time I will go in a room and see that three or four animals right next door to each other are feather pickers, but that doesn't mean that they've learned it from each other. We wondered if unsocial things in the environment might be responsible for this apparent clumping of behavior.