Student Animal Legal Defense Fund

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I hope you all can make it to our meeting tomorrow, October 29th, in room 5246 from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. We will serve a pizza lunch (please bring your own beverage).

Paul will talk about our Professors and Their Pets Calendar fundraiser and a current animal law issue happening in the Madison area.
Maggie will talk about her experiences at the 2008 Animal Law Conference in Portland, OR.
We hope to spark some debate and good conversation.

Please join us on Halloween at the Brittingham Dog Park located on the corner of John Nolan Dr. and Broom Street. (Take Broom street all the way to Lake Monona and you will see the park on your right next to the tennis courts). The social will start at 5 p.m.

Costumes for you and your dog are encouraged!

a note from our former president about the BIG CAT RESCUE: "the Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue and Educational Center in Rock Springs, is just getting their new facility off the ground. They are housing about 30 lions, tigers, and leapords right now. I have two questions for SALDF-
1) Is anyone interested in being the Big Cat Board's secretary? They need someone to attend the meetings in Rock Springs, take notes, and follow through with inidvidual members to make sure they did the work assigned to them during the board meetings. Anyone interested can contact me, and I will forward them to the Big Cat President for an interview.
2) If you guys have any fundraisers (or possibly on your website), would you like to sell some Big Cat Rescue stuff? Right now they have DVD's they would like to sell for $15. (They need about $20,000 more before they can build public restrooms, which are a requirement before they can open to the public.)"
Email Erica if you are interested in this: etplaza@wisc.edu and she will get you in touch with Andrea.

SALDF is co-sponsoring Peter Young's visit to Madison. Peter Young recently got out of jail for charges filed under AETA (animal enterprise terrorism act). If you are interested in how constitutional law ties into animal law, you won't want to miss this. Peter's story is absolutely fascinating and you can read more about it here. If you are interested in helping me organize this event, please email me at maggie9583@gmail.com . I would really like some help getting the word out! I will keep you updated on the exact dates of his visit..it should be within the next couple of weeks.

Then get involved in the Pet Facilities Law Legislation! This is a really cool way to make a difference in animal law! IF you are interested in helping out with this project or any legislative issues, email Liz at elizabeth.rublein@gmail.com.

FREE! Wednesday, Sept. 26 at the Wisconsin Historical Society (in library mall) at 7pm. This promises to be a heated and interesting debate! Come to learn about a hot topic in animal law and to observe oral arguments in action.
Two highly respected experts on the subject will tackle that issue in a debate sponsored by The Capital Times.
Ray Greek, a retired anesthesiologist, author of three books on the use of animals in human disease and drug research and
president of Americans for Medical Advancement, insists that animal research is useless to predict human results.
He will square off with UW-Madison Prof. Eric Sandgren, an animal researcher and chair of two animal research oversight
committees on campus, who argues that human medical advances have been made as a result of research using animals.

SALDF First Annual DOG SOCIAL. The Dog Social is staking place on October 1st at 4:30pm. It will be held at Brittingham Dog Park. The park is easy to find, just take Broom Street all the way to John Nolen Dr (dog park is on your right). Even if you don't have a dog, PLEASE come and get to know everyone and play with everyone else's dogs!

Check out this article about a proposal in the WI legislature to extend restraining orders to apply to pets in cases of domestic abuse.

Check out ASPCA: The American Socieity for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals!. You can add a widget to your myspace page to help their fundraising efforts!