Please contact your legislators and tell them that you SUPPORT SB 729! This bill would prohibit animal testing in the development of a cosmetic as well as prohibit a manufacturer
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Protect unattended dogs left outside in extreme weather!!
Establishing guidelines about dogs left outdoors enables animal control officers to intervene before a dog shows symptoms of acute distress which could potentially avert some of these life-threatening situations before they occur.
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Let’s Stop the Nontherapeutic Declawing of Cats in Maryland!
The most frequent type of declawing is called an onychectomy, which involves using a scalpel or laser to amputate the last bone of a cat’s toes on its paws. Think of surgically amputating all of a person’s fingers or toes at their top joint.
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Protect foxes, coyotes, and small mammals from cruel killing contests!
This bill would prohibit the random killing of mammals as defined in the HB 863 in organized wildlife killing contests, where the sole purpose of the event is to kill the largest number of animals possible, often for cash or guns.
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Protect our wildlife from being poisoned by chlorpyrifos!
Chlorpyrifos is toxic to many species of birds including robins, grackles, pigeons, and Mallard ducklings. In addition to laying fewer eggs, the eggshells of those eggs laid by Mallards are thinner than normal, so fewer ducklings survive.
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