(Beth Clifton collage) Charlie Russell, Mary T. Hoffman, Aubrey Manning, & Dorothy Cheney Charlie Russell (Beth Clifton collage) Russell made "Spirit Bears" famous Canadian bear researcher and author … [Read More...]
Car raffle helps animals? We won’t bet on it!
(Beth Clifton collage) "National Humane Society" behind the raffle uses the original name of the Humane Society of the U.S. BOCA RATON, Florida––On December 14, 2018, within days of this writing, the web site for a shadowy entity incorporated in Delaware as the National Humane … [Read More...]
Time for a national conversation about pit bulls
Pit bull & Ed Boks.(Beth Clifton collage) by guest columnist Ed Boks Is it time for national animal welfare organizations to rethink their positions on pit bulls? Beth Clifton in 2013 as animal control officer, with grandchildren Jack & Noah. This is the recommendation of … [Read More...]
Ontario allows hunters to kill 50 cormorants a day
(Barry Kent MacKay painting) "The worst wild game management decision in Canadian history" by Barry Kent MacKay Artist & naturalist: www.barrykentmackay.ca Director of Canadian & Special ProgramsBorn Free Doug Ford, the recently elected prime minister of Ontario, who at one time claimed to … [Read More...]
Rather than kill pit bulls, Ontario SPCA quits busting dogfights
Ontario SPCA also quits investigating cockfighting, farmed animal, & horse-related cases TORONTO, Ontario––Paid $5.75 million per year by the Ontario government to enforce animal-related legislation, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has unilaterally––and without public announcement … [Read More...]
Can plant-based “meat” be made to satisfy the Yellow Vests?
Demand for more & cheaper meat underlies strikes over high fuel cost PARIS, SAN FRANCISCO–– The “yellow vest” riots ripping apart France, bringing at least 412 arrests on December 1, 2018 alone, more than 260 injuries, half of them in Paris, and two reported deaths, are behind the … [Read More...]
The view from Phuket, Thailand: Jeff Young, DVM is right!
by John Dalley, co-founder, The Soi Dog Foundation Unfortunately, owing to health issues, I was unable to attend the International Companion Animal Welfare conference last year to hear Jeff Young, DVM speak, so have never met him. But Young’s ANIMALS 24-7 guest column We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation! is excellent. From the perspective of … [Read More...]
Did Koko sign “mauler”? Gorilla Foundation pit bulls ran amok
Former senior staff member & plaintiff in 2005 lawsuit detail similar incidents, involving different pit bulls, years apart WOODSIDE, California––We never expected to find alleged pit bull attacks involved in the long, often sordid saga of the Gorilla Foundation, home of Koko the signing gorilla from her … [Read More...]
Alleged pit bull starver Lueders charged, but not her enablers
Arrest warrant affidavit issued more than two weeks after remains of caged pit bulls were found at Bully Breed Rescue president's home FAIRFIELD, Connecticut––An arrest warrant affidavit has been at last been issued for Bully Breed Rescue president Heidi E. Lueders, 31, of Fairfield, Connecticut, police lieutenant Robert Kalamaras told media on November 29, 2018. The warrant … [Read More...]
How long would you freeze to get a good raccoon photo?
Dear friends of ANIMALS 24-7: Beth just spent the past hour freezing on our back porch in her nightgown, photographing a raccoon who came looking for cat food. I thought Beth was taking clothing out of the dryer. When I realized where Beth was, about half an hour after she vanished, I took her a coat with a hood, but even that wasn’t much protection for another half hour out in weather that … [Read More...]
Drone video moves Russia to halt orca & beluga captures
Drone found 90 belugas & 13 orcas allegedly held pending sale to China VLADIVOSTOK, Russia––Responding to international outrage over drone video showing 90 belugas and 13 orcas in small holding pens in Srednaya Bay near Nakhodka, just north of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, the Russian government in 2019 will prohibit whale captures, reports the news web site … [Read More...]
Mountain gorillas downlisted from “critically endangered”?!!
World Health Organization Ebola virus emergency response team bugged out two days later BENI, DRC––The World Health Organization on November 17, 2018 temporarily evacuated 16 Ebola virus emergency response vaccination staff from the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a dud mortar shell hit the WHO staff residence near one of the main access points for … [Read More...]
Ex-HSUS vp David Wills child sex trial reset again, to Feb. 2019
Trial delayed since 2015 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Already postponed many times, the long awaited trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes has again been rescheduled. Previous delays have been attributed to the Wills defense team allegedly stalling for time. The current postponement, however, was … [Read More...]
Landlord to appeal $2.5 million award to pit bull attack survivors
Case over 2010 fatality already in court for seven years MEMPHIS, Tennessee––The rental property management firm Epstein Enterprises and apartment house owner Longview Heights Partners, both of Memphis, Tennessee, reportedly intend to fight a court award of $2.5 million to the surviving family of 2010 pit bull attack fatality William Parker, 71. The award, if actually paid, … [Read More...]
Bully Breed Rescue president allegedly starved five dogs to death
Suspect not officially named pending charges, but rescue networks finger "Heidi Pibble." FAIRFIELD, Connecticut––No arrests had been made and no charges brought, as of November 18, 2018, four days after Fairfield, Connecticut police found the skeletonized remains of five caged dogs in a home rented by one of the most prominent pit bull advocates in the state. Police told … [Read More...]
The Thanksgiving Turkey as Ritual Scapegoat
in the Carnivalesque Tradition by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Human radical abuse of “food” animals cannot be explained by economic efficiency alone. It is also an outgrowth of attitudes humans have had toward nonhuman animals through the ages, rooted in our resentment at being animals, which we project onto them. In his book An Unnatural Order, Jim Mason … [Read More...]