It’s that festive time of year againÑtrees and lights and presents and carols and turkey . . . and the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s annual

Public opinion Polls are only as good as the pollsters and the questions they ask. It’s easy to skew the results, either intentionally or not,

The sound you heard echoing through the corridors of power in Washington a couple of weeks ago was the back door slamming shut, ending a

When lawyers talk about a “slippery slope,” they mean this: a small change in policy that sounds good but that leads inexorably to something bad.

This is how the American Veterinary Medical Association describes the human-animal bond: “a mutually beneficial and dynamic relationship between people and animals that is influenced

The horrific child sexual abuse scandal that has been festering at Penn State gets worse by the day. Among the legal issues are the state

Introducing a foal to a halter can be a tricky proposition, and a potentially dangerous one for the handler. Also dangerous, apparently, is standing around

Attorneys for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit in federal district court last week claiming that

The right to petition the government to complain about something or to demand action on an issue is as old as our country itself–it’s enshrined

A loose horse on the highway is an obvious threat to vehicular traffic, but how do you deal with it? Catch the horse? Open a

Is it reasonable to expect some minimum level of competence for animal control officers who investigate allegations of abuse and neglect? Is it fair to

The emotional bond humans have with their animals should be obvious to anyone who has run a hand along a horse’s neck, or who has

A reader wanted more information about the line I drew between animal welfare and animal rights. It’s a somewhat arbitrary distinction that turns on my

Like the Puzzler on National Public Radio’s popular Car Talk or Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator movies, Horses and the Law has returned from vacation. 

Equine law and criminal law seldom cross paths. When they do, it’s almost always because something terrible has happened. Two weeks ago, driving on a