U.S. Animal Protection Laws Rankings - See Where Your State Ranks

"The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) announces the publication of the 2012 U.S. Animal Protection Laws Rankings Report, ALDF’s seventh annual report that comprehensively surveys animal protection laws of all U.S. states and territories. The longest-running and most authoritative report of its kind, the Rankings Report assesses the strength of each jurisdiction’s animal protection laws by examining over 4,000 pages of statutes. Each jurisdiction receives a raw score based on fifteen different categories of animal protection; the Report then ranks all 56 jurisdictions by comparing their raw scores. The Report also highlights the top, middle and bottom tiers of jurisdictions and notes the "Best Five" and "Worst Five" states overall." View the report