Senate Bill 46, the animal cruelty bill that would finally end South Dakota's embarrassing status as the only state in the Union not to issue felony penalties for such sadistic behavior toward our four-legged friends, gets its first hearing Tuesday…
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Senate Bill 46 would make animal cruelty a felony in South Dakota. We are the only state that has not done so. Decent South Dakotans recognize there's no reason to protect sadistic animal abusers from stiffer legal punishment. The ag…
If evil greenies from elsewhere really were driving South Dakota to make animal cruelty a felony, they'd have a heyday with this headline. In a briefing on Senate Bill 46 with state veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven, State Senator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union…
In the Hidebound Worldview Department, Queen of Crotchety Commentary Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) now dismisses the ag-industrial lobby, as well as the state veterinarian and a bunch of other South Dakotans, as dastards and dupes. Rep. Olson is vowing…
Senate Bill 46, a bill to end South Dakota's status as the only state in the Union not to punish cruelty to animals as a felony, is in the hopper! When South Dakotans Fighting Animal Cruelty Together brought forward a…
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…
SDFACT is the South Dakota group working to end South Dakota's embarrassing status as the last state in the Union not to treat cruelty to animals as felony. (North Dakota left our cheese standing alone last week.) SDFACT is all…
South Dakota's ag-industrial lobby freaked out over Senate Bill 171, a measure to make cruelty to dogs, cats, and horses a felony. Lobbyists and legislators quickly snuffed out that bill on baseless fears that out-state animal activists would use this…