The Black Hills woman who led the fight to make animal cruelty a felony in South Dakota has won some national recognition. The Animal Legal Defense Fund has named Shari Crouch Kosel one of America's Top Ten Animal Defenders: Shari…
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Remember last year's animal cruelty bill, the proposal to make malicious mistreatment of companion animals a felony? It's coming back, bigger, better, and with support from all corners of the issue. State veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven announced yesterday that the animal…
Shari Kosel marched against a blizzard of Big Ag baloney last winter when she and fellow South Dakotans fighting animal cruelty brought Senate Bill 171 to the 2013 Legislature. This bill would have upped the penalty for the torture and…
My Lead neighbor Shari Kosel is pushing for South Dakota to toughen its animal cruelty laws. According to a post on her new blog, South and North Dakota are the only two states in the Union that do not make…