Animals 24-7

ANIMALS 24-7 is a nonprofit independent online investigative newspaper and information service reporting about humane work worldwide, with emphasis on the intersection of animal issues with public health & safety.

All factual content is multi-sourced and verified to the best of our ability,  including factual statements in editorials,  guest columns,  comments,  and other opinionated material.  Opinionated content from non-staff contributors does not necessarily reflect the views of ANIMALS 24-7.

Corrections and clarifications are posted as rapidly as we are able to identify errors and/or confusing statements.

ANIMALS 24-7 personnel clearly identify ourselves in all communications with news subjects and sources.

ANIMALS 24-7 prefers to receive information in writing,  via email or other means of messaging in a verifiable format,  so that there is no question that news subjects and sources have said what they meant.  When it is necessary to receive information in a non-verifiable format,  for instance direct oral communication,  ANIMALS 24-7 will confirm the information by verifiable means.

ANIMALS 24-7 reports about zoonotic diseases (zoonoses) shared among animals and humans. For example, see our extensive news coverage of issues associated with COVID-19,  SARS,  and other diseases found to have jumped from wildlife to humans;  our investigations of rabies outbreaks both among domestic animals and wildlife; African swine fever;  and poultry diseases,  such as H5N1 avian flu,  and Newcastle disease,  commonly spread by both factory farming practices and by cockfighting. (Use our search engine to find coverage by disease name.)

ANIMALS 24-7 is especially noted for our in-depth news coverage of pit bull attacks, attacks by other dangerous dogs, and attacks by exotic pets such as big cats and snakes. Our dangerous dog data library includes sub-menus on pit bull statistics, pit bulls & public safety, pit bulls & the humane community (including animal shelters and rescues), voices of pit bull experience, pit bull liability, pit bull legislation, pit bull history & sociology, pit bull behavior, dogfighting, pit bull advocates, pit bulls abroad, bad dogs & minority communities, wolf hybrids, with additional sub-menus on Rottweilers, Dobermans, Presa Canarios, and Boerboels.

ANIMALS 24-7 is a leading voice for compassionate conservation,  a gentler approach to wildlife conservation,  which emphasizes working with nature,  including understanding that humans are a part of nature,  that human activity creates wildlife habitat as well as harming it,  that zoonoses have become a problem largely through human conflict with nature;  and that adaptive species such as cats,  horses,  cattle,  and poultry often contribute to the survival of wildlife,  if management approaches emphasize coexistence.  (We have sub-menus of cat-related coverage and on the compassionate conservation concept itself,  including a great deal about feral cats, rotating on our home page.)

ANIMALS 24-7 also reports extensively about progress toward adoption of vegan, vegetarian, and other plant-based diets; the development of plant-based alternatives to meat, dairy, and leather products; and the many global issues associated with raising cattle, pigs, poultry, farmed fish, and other livestock for human consumption, including effects on hunger, climate change, pollution, water scarcity and human wellness.

ANIMALS 24-7 covers how natural disasters affect animals,  including dogs,  cats,  cattle,  horses,  poultry,  and wildlife,  with emphasis on the responses of shelters and rescuers.

ANIMALS 24-7 is further noted for our attention to the many contributions to humane work and animal well-being made by Africans, Asians, and Americans of color.  Our unique Black history & animals archive includes sub-menus on topics including Leadership, Institutional racism, the Ku Klux Klan, Pit bulls & the black community, Slavery & resistance, Environmental justice, African animal advocates, the Africa Network for Animal Welfare, and the Integration era.

ANIMALS 24-7, in addition, does extensive ongoing statistical research of humane issues and crimes against animals, such as abuse and neglect,  dogfighting and cockfighting,  even theft of horses and cattle rustling. We have been doing this for longer, in greater depth and on a wider range of relevant topics, than anyone else in the animal rights, animal welfare, and compassionate conservation fields. Our staff experience with animal rescue, management of animal shelters,  gathering related data,  and reporting our findings dates back into the early 1960s.

ANIMALS 24-7 has no alignment or affiliation with any other entity. Our role is to report the news and provide informed perspective for people who care about animals and nature, from dogs, cats, horses, marine mammals, and endangered species, to feral animals, hunted species, and so-called nuisance wildlife, with breaking news, in-depth background,  and the experienced perspective of our staff and our many guest commentators.

ANIMALS 24-7 readers include people who operate animal shelters and participate in animal rescue;  wildlife conservationists;  vegans;  vegetarians;  zoonoses researchers;  and investigators of both crimes against animals,  such as cockfighting,  and crimes against nature and habitat.  Also among our most avid readers are quite a few colleagues in reporting the news,  who look to us for unique informed perspectives on animals and nature.

ANIMALS 24-7 is incorporated to conduct activities which are exclusively charitable, literary and/or educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, for the purpose of exposing the existence of cruelty to animals and educating the public of the need to prevent and eliminate such cruelty; and studying animal-related issues via research, surveys, and investigative reports.