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Latest Fact-Checks In Animals

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Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2015 in a telephone interview with CNN:
A Texas law says “that you can’t shoot bears out of the second floor of a window.”
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Mother Jones
stated on November 24, 2014 in a Facebook post:
“Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the ‘30s, they weighed 13.2 pounds.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • November 25, 2014
Joni Ernst
stated on September 28, 2014 in a debate:
Says Bruce Braley “threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto (his) property.”
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 2, 2014
Chain email
stated on June 18, 2014 in a chain email:
President Barack Obama “is the first president to keep a dog-trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.”
Pants on Fire!
By Molly O'Connor • June 18, 2014
Matt Bevin
stated on April 3, 2014 in a radio interview:
“Many” of the founding fathers were “very actively involved” in cockfighting.
False
By Tim Ryan • May 1, 2014
Hugh Fitzsimons
stated on January 19, 2014 in a blog post on campaign website:
Female buffalo lead the herd.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 11, 2014
Richard August
stated on January 12, 2014 in a Providence Journal commentary:
Deer baiting, planned for Block Island by DEM, is illegal in Rhode Island.
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 26, 2014
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
stated on October 8, 2013 in a robo-call and video:
“Live cats have holes drilled into their skulls,” posts put into their heads and coils put into their eyes, and some have had their ears cut off or are intentionally deafened or starved at UW-Madison labs that do research to improve hearing in humans.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 18, 2013
Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
“Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock.”
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • October 15, 2013
Cynthia Lummis
stated on August 23, 2013 in a radio interview:
Under the Endangered Species Act, “only 1 percent of the species that have been listed have actually been delisted.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2013
Al Gore
stated on June 11, 2013 in a keynote address:
The ocean is now “much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years.”
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
The oceans “have become 30 percent more acidic.”
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on May 9, 2013 in an interview:
An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine “because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 28, 2013
Alberta Darling
stated on May 15, 2013 in a legislative meeting:
“18 percent of our land in our state right now is either federally, state or county owned for conservation purposes.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • May 26, 2013
Ted Poe
stated on April 25, 2013 in an interview on Fox Business Network:
Says new Medicare billing guidelines “have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys.”
True
By Becky Bowers • April 30, 2013
American Bird Conservancy
stated on March 29, 2013 in a press release:
A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature “would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2013
Joe Negron
stated on April 10, 2013 in a gaggle of reporters:
Says PETA “is using this really fancy drone to follow hunters around in some places in other countries.”
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • April 12, 2013
Marion Hammer
stated on April 2, 2013 in a committee hearing:
Says rabid animals from other states carry “different strains of rabies” that Florida “vaccines and serums don’t affect.”
False
By Katie Sanders • April 4, 2013
Kirk Watson
stated on March 19, 2013 in a news article.:
Says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 3, 2013
X posts
stated on March 20, 2013 in tweets:
While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • March 22, 2013
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