Animal Wellness Action Vermont

04/16/2025

Thanks Pingala Cafe for making delicious vegan food! If you haven't visited Pingala Cafe, check it out at one of their two Burlington locations. We recommend the crunch wraps. https://www.pingalacafe.com/menu

04/11/2025

🐦🫎🐢 Animal Wellness Action Vermont provided public comment at this week's Fish & Wildlife Board meeting about the need to diversify the Board. Thanks to Green Mountain Animal Defenders for joining us in publicly calling for the Board to better reflect all Vermonters, not just those who hunt or fish.

04/08/2025

🦋Here's your opportunity to be a butterfly scientist (lepidopterist)! Vermont Center for Ecostudies is looking for volunteers to help with their survey to document the abundance and distribution of butterflies in Vermont. You can learn more here: https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vermont-butterfly-atlas/

Join us as we search fields and fens, mountains and meadows, even your own backyard, to document the status of Vermont butterflies. Butterflies were largely a mystery in Vermont before hundreds of volunteer community scientists joined us for the first Vermont Butterfly Atlas (2002-2007), heralding a...

04/04/2025

🐴😍Love horses? Please send a letter to legislators in support of AWA's federal campaign to bar U.S.-based horse slaughter and export of horses for slaughter for human consumption. Learn more and sign the letter here: https://animalwellnessaction.org/end-horse-slaughter

04/02/2025

Thanks to the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry for continuing to hear from witnesses about H.326 and reducing the harm caused by deadly rodenticides! The committee still needs to hear from a variety of wildlife and pet experts. You can email Chair David Durfee to thank him for scheduling the committee's time to hear about this issue at [email protected]

03/31/2025

March = Pet Poison Awareness Month! 😵🤢😿
Check out Kingdom Animal Hospital's advice for how to protect your furry friend from common hazards here:
https://vermontvets.com/pet-poison-prevention-month/

One common hazard is rodenticides, which are extremely toxic to pets, even in trace amounts.

March is Pet Poison Prevention Awareness Month. Learn about common toxins for pets and how to respond in an emergency

03/28/2025

🦇Check out Vermont Edition's coverage of all things bat-related in Vermont! 🦇AWA Vermont is included in the segment, sharing information about how glue traps are harming Vermont bats and how we can control whether these products are available and allowed in our state.

They hang upside down, fly by night, and some of them drink blood?! Bats get a bad rap – but are they really as scary as they seem?On today's Vermont Edition: Bats! It’s the latest installment of our March series, Animal Hour. Bats play a vital role in our ecosystems. But some species are endang...

03/27/2025

🚨🦅Action Needed to Protect Birds 🦉🚨Click the link below to send a letter to Congress in support of the federal effort to ban lead ammunition that harms wildlife. Birds, such as bald eagles, ingest lead fragments when they scavenge animals shot by hunters.
https://secure.everyaction.com/ddjGcp0x3UuWTXaP2NS5pw2

03/24/2025

Check out this Letter to the Editor explaining that legislative action is needed to support H.132 and stop hunting of furbearers over bait piles. Vermont Fish & Wildlife knows that furbearers provide valuable ecosystem services but supports a culture of killing predator species.

Supporting Bill H.132

03/21/2025

🥛🐄 Today, I'm highlighting our national work to end the milk mandate in schools and allow students to opt for a healthy, non-dairy beverage like soy milk instead. You can read more about the campaign and take action here: https://animalwellnessaction.org/dunking-milk-mandate-in-schools

03/19/2025

Thank you Lamoille County Sheriff's Department for your work to enforce laws against animal cruelty. Your work responding to these crimes is appreciated!

On 03/05/2025 the Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department was notified of an alleged animal abuse complaint on Thompson Hill RD in Hyde Park. Upon verifying evidence substantiating neglect and animal abuse, Deputies opened a criminal investigation. Investigators quickly determined the animals belonged to Johnathan Moger, age 23, of Hyde Park, VT.

Investigators located a substantial number of deceased and many uncared for animals to include five goats, one pig and fourteen rabbits on the property. Deputies and Animal Control took appropriate action and documented all relevant findings. Digital evidence was secured and numerous interviews were conducted with witnesses and animal care professionals.

After meeting with Deputies, Johnathan Moger was charged with twenty counts of Animal Cruelty and will appear in Lamoille County Court on 04/02/2025 to answer to the charges.

Anyone having information about these crimes is encouraged to contact the Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department at 802-888-3502.

03/18/2025

This week, we're celebrating Coyote Awareness Week! Check out our commentary in VTDigger 🐾

I’m hopeful that with more education, more people can enjoy sharing the landscape with coyotes instead of viewing them as enemies.