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Pet News:

• Minn. bill could protect pets from domestic abuse (Minnesota Public Radio)
  Dog owner Lara Peterson told her story to Minnesota legislators this week to support a bill that would extend domestic violence protections to pets.
• Ohio woman banned from having pets for 5 years (The Daily Jeffersonian)
  BROOKFIELD (AP) - An Ohio woman who had her 97-year-old mother and 200 animals taken from her filthy home has been prohibited from having pets for five years. Fifty-nine-year-old Kathy Witzman of Gustavus Township in northeast Ohio's...
• Firm says it will care for pets post-rapture (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  An entrepreneur is offering to care for pets belonging to people who expect to be saved in the rapture.
• Minn. bill could protect pets from domestic abuse (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  The proposal seeks to make Minnesota the 14th state to include pets in court orders designed to protect a person from harm or harassment. Considerations can include temporary custody of children, no-contact orders and counseling or treatment requirements.
• Sleeping with pets - good or bad? (AsiaOne)
  Sleeping with pets is not unusual in many parts of the world. According to a recent survey of pet owners by the American Pet Products Association, nearly half of dogs there sleep in their owners' beds.
• MN Bill Includes Pets in Restraining Orders (KSFY Sioux Falls)
  State lawmakers are considering a bill that would extend domestic violence protections to pets.