IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Stacey Gordon (Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship /Director Jameson Law Library, University of Montana, School of Law)

I was recently asked to speak at the Humane Society of Western Montana’s annual fundraising banquet.  When he introduced me, the mayor of Missoula (my mother will be very proud that the mayor introduced me) noted that I enjoy lack of sleep and feeding orphan puppies every two hours. With regard to the lack of sleep part, “enjoy” might be overstating it, but if puppies are involved, I’m happy to do it.  Last summer I raised three puppies (below) from the time they were 1-day old. The five puppies romping in my dining room right now are 7 weeks old—in one more week they will be going to their new forever homes.  As a foster parent for the Humane Society of Western Montana (HSWM), I usually foster litters of puppies and kittens that are too young for adoption. Last year, a litter of kittens was born in my guest room.  I do occasionally provide a temporary home for an older dog or cat and at the Humane Society banquet, I was actually speaking about my role as a failed foster parent, which isn’t a bad thing—it’s a foster parent who ends up adopting an animal she fosters. In my case, it was Peggy Sue, who at the time I adopted her was a 3ish-year old hound cross who had been returned to the shelter at least four times. She joined two other dogs in my home, Murphy and Molly, both adopted shelter dogs, and three cats, Tigger, Gil and Allie Boo, also all rescued. When Tigger died last fall (he was 15), I adopted another shelter cat, Reggie. In my family, there are more dogs than people—once when we got together for Christmas we had 10 dogs (and that’s not even counting the collective cats, horses, guinea pigs, snakes (not at my house!), fish, etc.)—so I come by it honestly.

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The Animal Law Caucus is a legal resource for non-human, animal related humane issues, which arise from and have an effect upon our legal system. Members:

(a) monitor and provide comment on relevant legislation and policy-making decisions at various levels of government;

(b) offer legal education programs on animal law;

(c) compile and provide access via the website to relevant statutes, court decisions, and administrative determinations and reports and

(d) raise the profile of the field of animal law.

WHAT IS ANIMAL LAW? Maureen Moran

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