Ugandan conservationist wins $50K Indianapolis Prize conservationist award
Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa will receive $50,000 to spend on his work to protect rarely seen African golden cats.
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Mayor to find another candidate to lead Indianapolis Animal Care Services
The interim leader at Indianapolis Animal Care Services—who has faced weeks of criticism over conditions at the city’s animal shelter—won’t become the permanent director.
Indianapolis Animal Care Services closer to becoming independent agency
A City-County Council committee on Monday voted in favor of removing Indianapolis Animal Care Services from the oversight the larger Department of Business and Neighborhood Services.
Proposed Indy ordinance aims to rein in unwanted dog population
Under the proposal, Indianapolis residents with one or more dogs that can be bred would be required to sign up for the registry and abide by a set of animal care guidelines.
New animal shelter finally on the way
It’s been a long time coming, but Indianapolis city leaders hope to have a new animal shelter up and running by 2026.
Indianapolis company that bred beagles for research pleads guilty to neglect, ordered to pay record $35M fine
Prosecutors said the penalties against Indianapolis-based Envigo RMS, as well as West Lafayette-based parent company Inotiv, amount to the largest ever levied in an animal-welfare case.
Activist investor group seeks Elanco CEO ouster, shakeup of board
Ancora Holdings Group LLC said the animal health company has underperformed its peers and destroyed billions of dollars of shareholder value.
Elanco, analysts gird for potential blockbusters in coming months
In an hourlong conference call with analysts on Monday, CEO Jeff Simmons said the word “blockbuster” at least six times as he talked about the Greenfield-based company’s pipeline products that could launch this year.
Bill affecting dog breeders, pet stores clears Indiana Senate
Legislation establishing care standards for dog breeders and pet stores that would simultaneously void more than 20 local ordinances that ban retail dog sales moves back to the Indiana House after passing through the Senate on a 31-18 vote on Monday.
Indiana pet-breeder standards bill moves forward with funding still undetermined
The bill would void ordinances in 21 communities across the state, including Indianapolis and Carmel, that ban stores from selling pets from breeders.
State lawmakers advance bill to overturn local pet store regulations
The bill would void ordinances that affect retail dog sales in 21 Indiana municipalities, including Indianapolis, Carmel and Bloomington.
As pandemic adoption boom cools, pet shelters overflow
U.S. animal shelters will start 2024 in the most overcrowded condition they have been in years, according to a broad survey of animal rescue facilities, a symptom of persistent economic concern as the country’s pandemic pet-adoption boom finally cools.
Indy animal shelter volunteers sue city, alleging officials tried to stifle critical speech
The federal lawsuit alleges Indianapolis Animal Care Services violated the volunteers’ First Amendment rights when they received threats of termination for wanting to speak publicly about issues plaguing the shelter.
Friends of Indy Animals raises $6.7M for new shelter; mayor announces new location
The not-for-profit has already reached 95% of its fundraising campaign’s $7 million goal for the $37 million project, which is now set to be built at 5001 E. Raymond St.
Colts owner Jim Irsay praised by PETA for embracing vegan lifestyle
The animal-rights organization this week promoted a video of a discussion with Irsay, who lives a vegan lifestyle, about his expanded involvement in animal activism.
Shreve pledges to donate salary to animal care if elected mayor
Jefferson Shreve rolled out a detailed plan Tuesday to improve Indianapolis Animal Care Services, one day after Mayor Joe Hogsett revealed his own agenda for helping the city’s crowded, understaffed animal shelter.
Fishers-based biotech startup aims to grow from the gut
BiomEdit LLC was set up last year by Greenfield-based Elanco Animal Health and Boston-based Ginkgo Bioworks to make everything from food to therapeutics for animals. It’s already raised $36.5 million in venture capital for its work.
House lawmakers hear testimony on bill protecting retail dog sales
A heated debate over whether the state should restrict municipalities from banning the retail sale of dogs continued Monday at the Indiana Statehouse without resolution.
IU med school shuts down research project that used expired supplies on pigs
Fred Cate, IU’s vice president for research, informed federal officials that the research group had “a pattern of non-compliance” and had been warned several times against using expired materials.
Investors wary as Elanco pins hopes on new products
Shares in the animal health care company have lost more than two-thirds of their value in the past 18 months, but Elanco says a bevy of new products in its pipeline will prove an era of strong growth is yet to come.