Oregon Animal Law

8February2010

ASPCA v. Feld Entertainment (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus)

Posted by admin under: CaseLaw.

Summary coming soon!

Memorandum Opinion available here.

8February2010

Masters in Behavior Conference 2010

Posted by admin under: News.

The Masters in Behavior conference, hosted by Multnomah County Animal Services is scheduled for March 6-8, 2010.  It is held in Troutdale, Oregon at McMenamin’s Edgefield Hotel.  Information about the conference is posted in the links below. Last years conference was sold out.

http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dbcs/pets/MIB/MIB.shtml

27January2010

Oregon’s Truffle Hunting Dogs

Posted by admin under: News.

Oregon’s truffle hunting dogs steal the work of pigs: Charles Lefevre, who owns a leading truffle tree nursery needed dogs to find his maturing orchards’ underground fruit. Europeans historically hunted truffles with pigs, to which the irresistible musky aroma smells like a boar in love. Today, most foragers of wild truffles and those who cultivate them prefer trained dogs. Lefevre, an OSU-trained mycologist, envisions a broader benefit of hunting with hounds: boosting the culinary reputation of Oregon’s native truffles. Read the rest of this entry »