Veterinarian Jeff Young updates an idea from Menander, Ben Franklin, & Ralph Waldo Emerson DENVER, Colorado––Jeff Young, DVM, star of the reality TV show Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, reaching more than a million viewers per episode since 2015, wants to sell the veterinary and humane communities on the concept he calls Spay-It-Forward. Young, an animal control officer […]
Fauci vs. the White Coat Waste Project: did Hans Ruesch sire the conflict?
And who was auto racer, author, & anti-vivisectionist Hans Ruesch, anyhow? The conservative-leaning anti-vivisection organization White Coat Waste Project has since August 11, 2021 issued frequent flamboyant appeals and media releases associating 37-year National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci, 80, with a variety of cruel and gruesome experiments on beagles and […]
New Aussie cat-killing method may hint retreat from trying to kill all ferals
Scheme targets only specific cats who eat endangered marsupials ADELAIDE, Australia––Australian cat-haters rejoiced and cat advocates threw up their hands in horror after Adelaide Advertiser reporter Michelle Etheridge on November 30, 2021 revealed the latest of generations of government schemes to poison feral cats and foxes who allegedly prey upon endangered small marsupials. Overlooked […]
European zoos consider killing “surplus” gorillas
The algebra of zoo management is Harambe times X-number equals what amount of public outrage cutting into profits? AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands––Is the European Association of Zoos & Aquaria heading full speed toward the 2016 Harambe debacle at the Cincinnati Zoo times a dozen? Or a hundred? Or any number in between? Did someone among the 340 […]
Can Las Vegas really get to no-kill animal control? Don’t bet on it.
Reality in Las Vegas is a lack of realism about the realities of the job LAS VEGAS, Nevada––Each spin of the roulette wheel, each toss of the dice, each turn of the cards, each yank of the lever on the one-armed bandit slot machines, builds breathless anticipation, but ends with exactly the same result, […]
$350 million for animal crossings, but zip for roadkill avoidance education
Win for HSUS is a gain, yet not the most cost-effective way to save animal & human lives on highways WASHINGTON D.C.––The first official U.S. national commitment to preventing roadkills of wildlife appears to have been buried deep within the $1.3 trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act signed into law U.S. President Joe Biden […]
Four court cases lost amid the Rittenhouse/Arbery media blitz
Even coverage of the $15 million Elijah McClain settlement mostly omitted the vegan aspect Court news dominated mass media during the two weeks preceding Thanksgiving 2021, but key developments in three cases long followed by ANIMALS 24-7 barely cracked even local news lineups. Coverage of a fourth case, a $15 million settlement between the City of Aurora, […]
Bestiality & child porn: ex-K9 cop Terry Yetman gets 20 years
Allegedly had sex with police dog BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––Former Bossier City police officer and K9 handler Terry Yetman, 40, was on November 23, 2021 sentenced to serve at least 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in August 2021 to six of the 71 counts he faced in connection with alleged acts of bestiality […]
International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal, 87
Animal advocate, teacher, conservationist, investigative journalist, and beloved friend to primates, both human and nonhuman SUMMERVILLE, South Carolina––“With heavy hearts, we are informing Shirley’s many friends that she died Saturday morning,” the International Primate Protection League posted to founder Shirley McGreal’s Facebook page on November 21, 2021. McGreal, 87, “had been in declining health […]
Where the late Bernie Rollin got his garbled “facts” about pit bulls
“It’s in the book!” ––a 1922 work of fiction The ANIMALS 24-7 obituary for philosopher, teacher, and author Bernard Rollin (1943-2021), posted on November 20, 2021, mentioned that, “His late-career writings about pit bulls, in particular, offered no more than recitations of stock pit bull advocacy rhetoric, little if any of his material originating with […]
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