Neighbors reportedly complained of corpse-like odor for seven years NORTH YORK, Ontario––Even before nearly 300 cats were found on May 3, 2019, huddled in Apartment 1811 at 30 Falstaff Avenue, North York, Ontario, the suburban Toronto building was well-known to police. Built in 1970, Falstaff Towers, a cluster of buildings including three 19-story public […]
Pit hags, rescue angels, crazy cat ladies, dog men & chicken fighters: what’s in a name?
The late linguist, lexicographer, and “crazy cat man” Reinhold Aman would have relished the question SONOMA, California––Researching the etymology of the terms “pit hag,” “rescue angel,” “crazy cat lady,” “dog man” and “chicken fighter,” absent from most dictionaries yet almost universally understood within the animal advocacy world, would have fascinated Reinhold Aman, 82, who died […]
WA undoes pit bull bans that protected humans & animals in 27 cities
But if a pit bull kills you in Washington state, you can now have your remains composted OLYMPIA, Washington––Between issuing campaign statements as one of 21 contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination to run for U.S. president, and signing a bill allowing Washingtonians to have their remains composted, Washington governor Jay Inslee on May […]
Should giving shelter dogs & cats to university labs count as “live release”?
USDA says pound animal giveaways to vet schools are not covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act BATON ROUGE, Louisiana; TUSKEGEE, Alabama––Recent transfers of shelter animals to the Louisiana State University and Tuskegee University veterinary schools have allegedly been reported by shelter personnel as “adoptions” or transfers to “rescue.” The disputed transactions appear to […]
Coming Events
Please send us the date, place, logo, and contact information for your upcoming public event! April 27-May 5: Eighth Annual Food Revolution Summit, free online event hosted by John & Ocean Robbins. Info: https://www.foodrevolutionsummit.org/plant/?orid=401&opid=299 May 4: International Respect for Chickens Day. Info: http://upc-online.org/respect/190419_please_do_an_action_for_chickens_in_may.html May 7: Ape Action Africa presentation at International Primate Protection League sanctuary, […]
Noted in passing: Tresz, Muliro, Ndou, Hanson, Broecker, Lagerfeld
Six people with little in common except influencing how humans see animals Hilda Tresz, Freddy Mahamba Muliro, and Joel Celestine Mambou Ndou, none of them ever famous, in various ways devoted their lives to great apes. Wade Hanson spent the last 24 years of his life as a humane officer. Wallace Broecker for more than 50 […]
Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse
What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, riding a white horse, red horse, black horse, and pale horse to sow Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death, are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil, […]
Culwell case: did high surrender fees lead to Coachella puppy-dumping?
Unsympathetic suspect, but shelter policies may have been accessories to the alleged crime COACHELLA, California––Deborah Sue Culwell, 54, now facing 14 criminal charges for animal abandonment in Riverside County, California, did not cull well. A Napa Auto Parts store surveillance camera on April 18, 2019 caught Culwell in the act of allegedly trying to […]
Earth Day dilemma: enviro agencies addicted to deadly chemicals
Catherine de Medici might have considered wildlife poisoning schemes medieval Let me tell you about the birds and bees, and the cats and the rats, and the possums and the pigs, and the chemical-addicted descendants of Catherine de Medici at USDA Wildlife Services, Threatened Species Strategy of Australia, and Zero Invasive Predators of New Zealand, […]
Taking water from puppies?
New California law is amended version of bill vetoed in 2006 SACRAMENTO–California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 14, 2007 endorsed into law a new set of regulations for pet stores. As with other legislation adopted in the most populous U.S. state, the new regulations may become the default standard for the pet industry throughout the […]