by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns with Afterword by ANIMALS 24-7 A caring person’s reaction to learning that millions of chickens and turkeys and pigs drowned in North Carolina this month is the gut-wrench of sorrow and pity for these helpless souls and outrage at the companies that didn’t see fit to […]
Pit mix fatality spotlights failure of so-called “Calgary model”
Victim killed by her own dog while defending grandchild CALGARY, Alberta––Lisa Lloyd, 50, of Langdon, Alberta, killed by her own pit bull/boxer mix on September 16, 2018 while defending her two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter from attack, lived about 21 miles, 28 minutes of travel time, from Calgary Animal Services. “The child was taken to hospital with serious but […]
Coming Events
Please send us the date, place, logo, and contact information for your upcoming public event! 2018 September 30: Mountain Lions: A Closer Look at California’s Biggest Cat, with Lynn Cullens, executive director of The Mountain Lion Foundation, Cambria, California. Info: www.greenspacecambria.org, 805-927-2866. October 2: World Day for Farmed Animals “Fast Against Slaughter.” Info: https://www.dayforanimals.com/pledge/. October 6: Global March […]
28 ways to avoid hitting animals that may save your life too!
Reader testifies: these tips work! “Your 28 ways to avoid hitting animals that may save your life too! article saved the life of a squirrel yesterday!” testified California reader Jim Jensvold on September 20, 2018. “What I learned from that article has saved multiple lives,” Jensvold added. “Mostly squirrels, but also coyotes, bobcats and deer, […]
Timothy J. Walker, 73, exposed slaughterhouse cruelty
by Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator, Humane Farming Association Timothy J. Walker, 73, died on September 10, 2018 in Naples, Florida, a little known hero for animals sent to slaughter. After graduating from St. Mary’s High School in St. Louis, Walker at age 17 joined his two first cousins in the U.S. Navy. Disaster relief Initially […]
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen Simon & Schuster 461 pages, $30.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton At a glance, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, by veteran science writer and historian David Quammen, might seem to most ANIMALS 24-7 readers far removed from our usual topics of animal use, abuse, and consumption; dog attacks; […]
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts
by Emily Anthes Scientific American / Farrar, Straus & Giroux 241 pages, 2013 Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Among the advantages of reviewing Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts five years after initial publication is the opportunity to see how accurately author and biotech enthusiast Emily Anthes used what she termed her “crystal […]
Watchable wildlife species often seen at Hidden Beach
Hidden Beach habitat use overview (See also Exploiting starving orcas to push a boondoggle.) Photographed at Hidden Beach by Beth Clifton Grey whales photographed from Hidden Beach, frequented by as many as three whale at a time for more than a month in spring 2018. Sydney the harbor seal, born just north of Hidden Beach […]
Ex-HSUS vp David Wills child sex trial reset to November 2018
Defense has delayed trial since 2015 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The often postponed trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes is now scheduled for November 2018, three and a half years after Wills was first arrested in connection with the case. Wills, […]
Omak “Suicide Race” 2018: more dead horses & “kill the messenger”
Tribal baseball tradition much better documented than “suicide racing” OMAK, Washington––Add at least two more dead horses to the mounting toll from the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo “Suicide Race,” bringing the known toll since 1983 to 25, with many more suspected but undocumented, and no record existing of injuries and deaths from the first […]
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