The slick lizards have bad neighbors NAUVOO, Alabama––The reputed cockfighting capital of Alabama, on May 27, 2023 hosted a Memorial Day weekend surprise visit from the Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone team. Tipped off to a cockfight droned in progress at 44 … [Read More...]
Which animals, where, lost habitat to the Sackett vs. EPA verdict?
U.S. Supreme Court decision on Clean Water Act may not jeopardize much actual wetland habitat, but may clarify definitions of what is what WASHINGTON D.C.––With actions on behalf of wetland and shoreline creatures including octopi, salmon, sea turtles, and horseshoe crabs underway elsewhere … [Read More...]
Rodeo rider Fallon “Kelly” Blackwood escapes hanging for horse theft
Who's worse than a killer-buyer? How about a killer-stealer? ONEONTA, Alabama––If horse thieves were still hanged, Fallon Danielle “Kelly” Blackwood on May 23, 2023 might have been condemned to hang as many as 63 times for allegedly stealing at least 63 horses by fraud, even though one hanging … [Read More...]
Pit bull victim wins $5.6 million. Every dog owner may help to pay it.
State bills to stop insurers from charging higher premiums for high-risk breeds leave 90% of U.S. dog owners holding the bag for the reckless 10% GAINESVILLE, Georgia––A $5.6 million Hall County, Georgia jury award issued on May 19, 2023 to pit bull attack victim Stacy Finelli, 54, may become the largest on record in which a pit bull victim actually received one red cent. … [Read More...]
The baffling case of horse trainer Bob Baffert
Humane Society of the U.S. president Kitty Block slammed & damned Baffert in 2018 for allegedly drugging Triple Crown winner Justify, praised him in 2020 for support of the Horseracing Integrity Act, & has slammed & damned him again since then. BALTIMORE, Maryland––Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s horse National Treasure won the Preakness Stakes on May 20, 2023 at the Pimlico … [Read More...]
It isn’t cocaine-addicted rats exhibiting addictive pathology at NIH
Why was University of South Carolina researcher given $824,000 over four years to prove that rats can get hooked? COLUMBIA, South Carolina––“This is the kind of thing that gives people like me nightmares,” Stop Animal Exploitation Now executive director Michael Budkie told media. Budkie was discussing recent rodent experiments at the University of South Carolina, not the doggerel … [Read More...]
Animal fighters go down in Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, & Ohio
Alleged cockfighters, dogfighters, & bedsheet boys exposed TUPELO, Mississippi––Attentive viewers of a May 19, 2023 joint Zoom media conference presented by Animal Wellness Action and Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] might have noted the absence of SHARK founder Steve Hindi from the speaker lineup. Hindi, who checked in with ANIMALS 24-7 soon afterward, … [Read More...]
Cheese & crackers: Miyoko Schinner & Miyoko’s Creamery settle lawsuits
Schinner likely to focus on The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko SONOMA, California––Eleven months after the venture capitalists controlling the Miyoko’s Creamery board of directors in June 2022 greased the skids for founder Miyoko Schinner, three months after the board on February 16, 2023 publicly sacked and sued her, prompting her March 16, 2023 countersuit, the whole stinky, sticky mess … [Read More...]
Will Delaware bust cockpit exposed at SHARK/AWA media conference?
Action in the land of the Fighting Blue Hens' Chickens FELTON, Delaware––Is a major cockfighting bust imminent in Delaware, a state which has apparently not had a cockfighting raid since January 25, 2006? ANIMALS 24-7 understands the Delaware State Police on May 16, 2023 executed at least one search warrant at a site discovered and reported by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, … [Read More...]
Animal disease research returning to science, away from hunt for blame
Has COVID-induced bat-shit craziness run its course? NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––More than three years after COVID-19 hit the U.S., killing nearly 1.2 million Americans and 6.9 million people worldwide, animal disease research appears to be at last returning to a focus on science, away from the highly politicized hunt for someone to blame. The vector through which COVID-19 evolved to … [Read More...]
Worst horse movie ever made? Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
It ain’t a horse opera because the fat lady doesn’t sing Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West Directed by Ashley Avis. Premiered on May 12, 2023. 101 minutes https://wildbeautyfoundation.org/films/wild-beauty-documentary/ Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Never before, in almost a century of combined experience with equines and in environmental journalism, have the ANIMALS 24-7 … [Read More...]
Tamieka White: 3rd Indianapolis-area mom sacrificed to pit bulls in 3 years
Mother's Day recalls two previous fatal pit bull attacks since 2021 & a shooting over a pit bull INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––Whose pit bull killed 17-year Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy Tamieka C. White, 46, at her Indianapolis home on the evening of May 9, 2023 as she struggled to keep the pit bull away from her already injured eight-year-old son Tristan? Almost a week later, law … [Read More...]
Supreme Court split verdict on California pig law sets up another round
California "wins" right to enforce ban on sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation stalls, but Justice Kavanaugh tells agribusiness how they might reverse the decision WASHINGTON D.C.––Rendering a decision split more ways than a pork belly by a supermarket butcher, with little consideration of pig suffering but a great deal of attention to precedents pertaining to states’ rights, the U.S. … [Read More...]
“Stop torturing baby monkeys!” Harvard Animal Law Clinic tells Harvard Med
Maternal deprivation experiments by neurobiologist Margaret S. Livingstone evoke nightmares of Harry Harlow CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––Multi-millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health funding allocated to Harvard Medical School maternal deprivation researcher Margaret S. Livingstone were on February 8, 2023 challenged by more than 380 scientists, medical doctors, and … [Read More...]
Pigeon racing is animal abandonment!
by Elizabeth Young, founder, Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions with afterword, How pigeon flying lost the way, by ANIMALS 24-7 Every day hundreds of domesticated pigeons are transported miles from their homes and "released" to try and fly back for human entertainment. These domestic birds have no survival skills: no ability to find food or water or protect themselves from predators. … [Read More...]
Necropsies dominate the 2023 Kentucky Derby post-mortems
15-to-1 longshot winner Mage is barely noticed amid seven horse deaths LOUISVILLE, Kentucky––Kentucky Derby post-mortems began in 2023 ten days before the 20-horse field walked to the starting gate, but they were called “necropsies.” The more familiar term “autopsy” is used only when the deceased is human. The upset victory by Mage, a horse with 15-to-one odds against him, was upstaged … [Read More...]
All the money in either racing or breeding horses is gambling money
Shocked! Shocked! by gambling that sparks electroshocking horses Cheating methods, regulations, & some statistics have changed since this article was first posted in June 1999, but the monetary motivations & horse industry attitudes have not. HOUSTON, LITTLE ROCK ––All the money in breeding race or show horses is gambling money. Figure that out, and it is no surprise that … [Read More...]
Dogfighter Elmer James Givens Jr. is at last convicted after 41-month stall
Continues to thumb nose at the court TACOMA, Washington––Elmer James Givens Jr., 41, perhaps the most publicized alleged dogfighter since former football player Michael Vick was busted in April 2007, and one of the most aggressively self-publicized of the social media era, became at last a convicted dogfighter on May 5, 2023. Sort of. Facing one count of animal fighting, 58 counts of … [Read More...]
Waiting for Godot & a good, cheap non-surgical alternative to s/n surgery
Joyce Briggs of ACC&D to leave the cast of "Waiting for Godot" after 18 years PORTLAND, Oregon––Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs president Joyce Briggs might be accused of burying the lead in the May 2, 2023 edition of the ACC&D electronic newsletter. “First, we want to let you know that our 2021-22 Biennial Report is available,” Briggs said, putting the … [Read More...]
Waterloo denies pit bull killed baby; Tulsa ignores 2 more pit bull deaths
Tulsa Animal Services, police, & media say nothing of three fatal pit bull attacks in 10 days WATERLOO, Iowa; TULSA, Oklahoma––“Authorities are trying to determine how a beloved family pet turned into a killer, attacking a baby in a tragedy that shook the Waterloo community,” wrote Waterloo Courier reporter Jeff Reinitz on May 4, 2023. Yet the answer would have been obvious if … [Read More...]