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Save the Date! 📆The 19th Annual IVFSA Conference is heading to Banff, Alberta May 12–15, 2026! 🇨🇦✨Mark your calendars, d...
08/05/2025

Save the Date! 📆

The 19th Annual IVFSA Conference is heading to Banff, Alberta May 12–15, 2026! 🇨🇦✨

Mark your calendars, dust off your passports, and get ready for four days of cutting-edge veterinary forensic science against the stunning backdrop of the Rockies. You won’t want to miss it!

FREE training in Dallas, TX - Sept 30-Oct 1, 2025The ASPCA is offering a 2-day, comprehensive animal cruelty response ha...
08/04/2025

FREE training in Dallas, TX - Sept 30-Oct 1, 2025

The ASPCA is offering a 2-day, comprehensive animal cruelty response hands-on workshop that is open to law enforcement, prosecutors, veterinarians, and sheltering professionals.

Additional information and registration can be found here: aspcapro.org/texascares

🔬 What can insects tell us about animal welfare?Join Dr. David B. Rivers on Thursday, August 21 at 1 PM PT for an introd...
08/01/2025

🔬 What can insects tell us about animal welfare?

Join Dr. David B. Rivers on Thursday, August 21 at 1 PM PT for an introduction to wildlife forensic entomology, the study of insect evidence in veterinary and wildlife investigations. From time of death to signs of neglect or abuse, insects are powerful forensic tools.

🪰 Perfect for those in veterinary forensics or animal law.
🔐 IVFSA members, log in to unlock discounted registration options.
📲 Register here: https://www.ivfsa.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=167153&item_id=2549484

Never given much thought to evidence bags beyond whether they're paper or plastic, and how well they're constructed. Bu...
08/01/2025

Never given much thought to evidence bags beyond whether they're paper or plastic, and how well they're constructed. Bust according to this article "the Evidence Bags Market is witnessing transformative shifts driven by increasing demand across various sectors including law enforcement, healthcare, and forensics".

Evidence Bags Market Is Booming Worldwide 2025-2032

https://www.openpr.com/news/4122927/evidence-bags-market-is-booming-worldwide-2025-2032-thermo

The work Forensic Scientists perform often impacts the outcome of legal proceedings and the determination of guilt or in...
07/31/2025

The work Forensic Scientists perform often impacts the outcome of legal proceedings and the determination of guilt or innocence. As a result, the topic of bias has recently gained significant attention in the field of Forensic Science. Here is a good article on the fallacies and sources of bias.

Cognitive and Human Factors in Expert Decision Making: Six Fallacies and the Eight Sources of Bias.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00704?ref=article_openPDF

07/29/2025

New Legislation Alert: Strengthening Laws Against Animal Sexual Abuse

A continuing legal trend in 2024 was the expansion of laws prohibiting the sexual assault of animals. Over the past seven years, 18 states, plus D.C. and Guam, have strengthened or enacted new laws to address this issue.

📢 Major Updates in 2024:
✔️ Arizona now criminalizes the possession, distribution, and sale of recordings depicting sexual assault of an animal.
✔️ Iowa significantly expanded its laws, adding clear definitions of prohibited conduct, including:
🔹 Criminalizing the advertising, offering, or selling of an animal for the purpose of sexual abuse.
🔹 Prohibiting animal sexual abuse on a person’s property.
🔹 Banning the production and distribution of recordings of such acts.

🔍 Remaining Gaps in the Law:
🔸 West Virginia, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands still need laws to fully protect animals.
🔸 10 states, plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, rely on outdated or vague statutes, making enforcement difficult.

Stronger, clearly defined laws are critical for ensuring justice and preventing harm to animals. Continued advocacy is needed to close these remaining legal loopholes.

📖 Learn more about animal protection laws: aldf.org

When animal cruelty is suspected, having a plan makes all the difference. 💡The AVMA now offers free, customizable tools ...
07/28/2025

When animal cruelty is suspected, having a plan makes all the difference. 💡

The AVMA now offers free, customizable tools to help veterinary teams respond with clarity, confidence, and care.

📋 Protocol templates for your hospital
📞 Contact & resource lists
📘 Step-by-step veterinarian’s framework

Access these tools and stay ready to support both your patients and your team: https://www.avma.org/blog/new-tools-help-you-respond-suspected-animal-maltreatment

The Animal Welfare Institute's Center has awarded a doctoral student with the first NIBRS* Animal Cruelty Data Research ...
07/22/2025

The Animal Welfare Institute's Center has awarded a doctoral student with the first NIBRS* Animal Cruelty Data Research grant. The grant will be used to fund a project entitled "Profiles of Animal Abusers in the United States: New Evidence from the NIBRS". The goal of the project is to advance the understanding of animal cruelty offenses by identifying distinct profiles based on sociodemographic and offense-related variables.

*National Incident-Based Reporting System maintained by the FBI

https://awionline.org/awi-quarterly/summer-2025/awi-awards-nibrs-research-grant-st-louis-student

07/21/2025

Ever wonder if your cat could pick you out of a line up? New research suggests they could … but maybe not in the way you would expect.

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