The bill would also add protections for pets involved in divorce proceedings and formally criminalize bestiality.

The law takes effect October 1, 2022. Similar legislation has been introduced in D.C. but not yet passed.

A National Park Service plan to shoot some 157 deer in Rock Creek Park has been put on holding pending the resolution of a lawsuit filed by five residents hoping to stop the plan altogether.

PETA has jumped on a Baltimore proposal to sells ads on fire trucks by offering to brand them with steamy ads promoting vegan lifestyles.

Potomac Phil may have been a stuffed groundhog, but PETA doesn’t think that the annual Groundhog Day celebration is anything to take lightly.

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big — really freaking big — so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city’s San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA…

The Humane Society of the United States has just released a new Humane Index of U.S. Cities. The site includes rankings for the top 25 most populous cities in the country, broken down by categories like number of retail shops that sell fur, or ratio of wildlife watchers to hunters, all presented in a pretty nifty interactive format that allows you to sort by category and compare one city to another. So how does D.C….

FRIDAY: >> RJD2 is not to be confused with the new R2D2 mailboxes unvelied this month. His turntable skills, however, have us wondering if he’s part robot. At the 9:30 Club, $20. >> Native sons The Walkmen, who we talked to last spring, bring their boozey, jangley rock, to the Rock & Roll Hotel tonight. Fans can look forward to hearing lots of new material that the band’s been road-testing this spring. If you liked…

>> The President has granted his annual Thanksgiving Pardon today to two lucky birds from Missouri named Flyer and Fryer. Though some animal rights groups are reportedly upset that Bush plans to send them both to Disneyland, which is apparently not the happiest place on Earth for turkeys — last year’s turkey only lived for a few months after arriving in the Magic Kingdom. The rest of you Turkeys still hoping for a reprieve, try…

Yesterday we broached the idea of getting rid of the zoo’s elephants, freeing them of their tight digs in Woodley Park and sending them someplace where they could romp around as nature intended. Today, we have two updates. It seems that things might not be as bad as we thought. Not too long after our initial post, a spokesperson for the National Zoo sent us an email detailing the steps the zoo was taking to…