COLAA    P.O. Box 3636    Pineville, LA 71361-3636

Legislative Achievements

In achieving the passage of humane legislation in Louisiana, COLAA has an impressive track record.  Some of our most important legislative achievements (usually on concert with other LA animal advocacy groups) include:

• felony penality for participation in dog fighting
• the toughest law against aggravated cruelty to animals in the USA
• a visionary law against pet theft (now being copied by legislatures in other states) valuing stolen pets based on the emotional value to the owner rather than his/her market value
• increasing the penality for dog fighting to be comparable to those for aggrevated cruelty to animals
• law banning hog-dog rodeo where dogs attack penned hogs
• a federal ban on interstate transportation of birds for fighting purposes
• statewide cockfighting ban

Much of this important legislative work was coordinated by renowned Louisiana animal advocate and COLAA past president, Pinckney A. Wood, often in concert with COLAA founder, Holly Reynolds, and Director of East Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control and past president of the Louisiana Animal Control Association, Hilton Cole.

COURT BATTLES

In 2000, during the presidency of Pinckney Wood, COLAA filed a lawsuit to stop a plan supported by high-ranking officials within the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry to round up and permanently remove hundreds of wild horses from the lands of the Kisatchie National Forest.