Saving the Animals

I'm loving this post from the WSJ's Law Blog on how animal rights groups are getting creative with existing laws to help our furry little friends.

More here, as well.

Some highlights include:
- A university sheep died of the bends and an attorney for the animal groups asked a Wisconsin judge to order a special prosecutor to file civil charges against the university employees for killing animals using decompression. The judge said she would issue a ruling later this month.
- In other states, lawyers have used foreclosure laws to secure liens on horses, dogs and other pets of people charged with abuse to seize the animals.

This isn't all new. In the 1990s animal activists in Virginia used local codes regulating boxing matches—that required participants to have no facial hair and to wear regulation boots—to halt a Kangaroo boxing event.