Animal cruelty | Intentional cruelty, or abuse, is knowingly depriving an animal of food, water, shelter, socialization, or veterinary care or maliciously torturing, maiming, mutilating, or killing an animal even when it is unintentional in some cases. |
Section 508 | ADA (Americans with Disability Act) defining requirements for accommodating impaired individuals. One portion of it details a web site’s responsibilities for the visually impaired. This site attempts to accommodate several of those items. Some web sites are required by law to adhere to these. |
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Article 26 | the Agriculture & Markets Law Relating to CRUELTY TO ANIMALS |
Culling | Culling occurs when a mill gets rid of its old or “damaged” stock.
Puppy mills often use the cheapest and most effective method of getting rid of their used-up breeding stock and sick dogs—the dogs are shot. As for the puppies who can’t be sold to brokers due to illness or abnormality — often called “broker rejects” — the mill will sell them directly to the public via the Internet or newspaper ads, promoting them as purebreds. |
Dangerous dog | (a) means any dog which (i) without justification attacks a person, companion animal as defined in subdivision five of section three hundred fifty of this chapter, farm animal as defined in subdivision four of section
three hundred fifty of this chapter or domestic animal as defined in subdivision seven of this section and causes physical injury or death, or (ii) behaves in a manner which a reasonable person would believe poses a serious and unjustified imminent threat of serious physical injury or death to one or more persons, companion animals, farm animals or domestic animals or (iii) without justification attacks a service dog, guide dog or hearing dog and causes physical injury or death. (b) "Dangerous dog" does not include a police work dog, as defined in subdivision eighteen, which acts in the manner described in this paragraph while such police work dog is being used to assist one or more law enforcement officers in the performance of their official duties. |
Dog control officer | means any individual appointed by a municipality to assist in the enforcement of this article or any authorized officer, agent or employee of an incorporated humane society or similar incorporated dog protective association under contract with a municipality to assist in the enforcement |
Dog | "Dog" means any member of the species canis familiaris. |
Estrus |
the period of breeding, also known as being "in heat" |
Euthanize | means to bring about death by a humane method. |
Exotic Pet | An exotic pet is a rare or unusual animal kept as a pet, or an animal kept as a pet which is not commonly thought of as a pet. |
Feral Cat
| Feral is NOT stray: A stray cat may be the neighbor's cat left out to wander or one that has been separated from it's family by accident, these cats will generally be friendly and are more apt to come to you willingly. A feral cat is born outside, lives outside, and is undomesticated or wild. It will run from you, hiss at all
who approach, as well as keep its distance. This cat or its father/mother or grandfather/grandmother may have started out as a pet but has been left to live outside, forge its own way and has reverted back to their wild roots. They are neither neutered nor spayed and multiply rapidly, having kittens 3 or 4 times a year! It is very unusual to re-acclimate a feral cat to ever be a domesticated cat
again, and the same goes for their offspring. Nature and instincts become a very powerful force in these animals lives. |
Guide dog | means any dog that is trained to aid a person who is blind and is actually used for such purpose, or any dog owned
by a recognized guide dog training center located within the state during the period such dog is being trained or bred for such purpose. |
Harbor | means to provide food or shelter to any dog. |
Puppy Mill Health Issues | Breeding dogs typically receive little to no veterinary care and often suffer from multiple illness and injuries, including: - · Severe respiratory disorders
- · Frequent injuries—missing limbs, broken bones, infected bite wounds, etc.
- · Fleas and ticks
- · Internal parasites, including heartworm
- · Severe dental disease that leads to rotting teeth and jaws
- · Reproductive disorders
- · Severe matting from lack of grooming, which can lead to skin lesions
- · Mange
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Neuter | to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; - in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay. |
Owner | means any person who harbors or keeps any dog. |
Perfect Pet | What you can find at the St. Lawrence Valley SPCA Shelter |
Proestrus | the period that precedes estrus when males are attracted to nonreceptive females |
Spay | To remove surgically the ovaries of an animal resulting in inability to produce offspring. |
Physical injury | means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.
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Shelter | In the contexts used here, it usually means a building used to house animals without owners to protect them from the elements, insure proper food, water and care and to insure human contact and a socialization attempt to make them acceptable as adoptable animals. |
SPCA | Society for the Prevention of Cruely to Animals. The main organization is the ASPCA, or American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. |
Stray |
An untended pet which may have been separated from its family by accident, strays will generally be friendly and are more apt to come to you willingly. |
War dog | means any dog which has
been honorably discharged from the United States armed services. |
