The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that was first identified in the US in December 2014, has spread from wild birds and backyard flocks to chicken and turkey commercial flocks
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Updating Pet Trust Statutes-Part III
As previously discussed, the New Jersey Pet Trust statute should be amended to recognize the validity of an inter vivos trust, and to allow the trust to provide for
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Updating Pet Trust Statutes-Part II
As previously described, New Jersey’s Pet Trust statute should be amended to better define those animals who can be cared for by the provisions created in the trust. Specifically,
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Updating Pet Trust Statutes
The “Pet Trust statute” in New Jersey, first enacted in 2001, should be amended to reflect current concerns and those which are reasonably foreseeable so that pet owners’ intentions can
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Hobby Dog Breeders in New Jersey May Have to Obtain a Kennel License
If township ordinances base their kennel license requirements on the New Jersey State definition of kennel, without exception, hobby dog breeders should obtain a kennel license, even if they breed
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Saying good-bye to your pet
Recently, the Courier-Post published an article titled “to know it’s time to bid an ailing pet goodbye,” a topic all veterinarians are intimately familiar with. As the former owner of
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Pet (Dog) Overpopulation: Truth or Fiction- The impact on purebred dog breeding, animal shelters, and animal health.
With no verifiable objective statistics about the number of dogs euthanized at animal shelters in the United States, proponents of adoption of
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Pet Trusts: Protecting Your Pet When You Can No Longer Care For It
If your household is anything like mine, you treat your cherished pets like members of the family. If you were
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Protecting Your Pets Before, During and After a Storm
Those of us in the emergency response community (I directed theNew JerseyDepartment of Agriculture (NJDA)’s emergency response for disasters involving animals for a decade, as the Assistant and then State
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