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Rabid kitten & dog jeopardize eradication success stories in U.S. & India

November 27, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Apparently isolated cases,  but both rabies outbreaks came where they should not have  OMAHA,  Nebraska;  CHENNAI, India––Recent discoveries of a rabid kitten in east-central Omaha,  Nebraska,  and a rabid dog in Royapuram,  a northern suburb of Chennai,  India,  indicate threats to two of the most influential rabies eradication success stories anywhere,  ever. The rabid kitten, […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Cats, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Population control, Rabies, Street dogs Tagged With: Charles Rupprecht, Chennai, Chinny Krishna, Merritt Clifton, Omaha, Royapuram, St. Cecilia Cathedral

Mystery diseases hit dogs, cats, sea lions––are birds the missing link?

November 26, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 2 Comments

H5N1 avian flu,  a virus,  has hit all of the outbreak areas,  but many of the mystery infections appear to be bacterial SPOKANE,  Washington;  SAN DIEGO,  California;  LONDON,  U.K.;  LIMA, Peru––Fall is the flu season,  for humans and animals. Therefore,  just because mysterious new flu-like diseases in dogs,  cats,  and marine mammals are appearing coincidental […]

Filed Under: Behavior & health, Cats, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Marine life, Mediterranean, Seals, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: H5N1, Merritt Clifton, Pablo I. Plaza, Roberto Gutiérrez, San Diego Humane Society, SpokAnimal, Victor Gamarra-Toledo, Zarah Hedge

BLM bans cyanide-shooting “coyote-getters,” but keeps it very quiet

November 25, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Bureau of Land Management hid the announcement––why? WASHINGTON, D.C.––Has Bureau of Land Management director Tracy Stone-Manning really banned the use of M-44 “coyote getter” cyanide-shooting traps on BLM lands? “Yes,  it’s real,”  Predator Defense Fund president Brooks Fahey assured ANIMALS 24-7 late on November 24,  2023,  providing an unpublicized link to confirmation at https://www.blm.gov/programs/fish-and-wildlife. Ducking […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: ALDF, Brooks Fahey, Canyon Mansfield, Donald Molloy, Jared Huffman, Merritt Clifton, Tracy Stone-Manning

What Wayne Hsiung, Mercy for Animals, & others did for Thanksgiving

November 24, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

“Open rescues,”  closed jail cells,  undercover video,  & two challenges to “ag gags” in Canada             SANTA ROSA & LOS ANGELES,  California––Mass media food sections,  as always,  fixated during the run-up to Thanksgiving 2023 on how best to roast turkeys. Vegan and vegetarian media comparably focused on promoting plant-based alternatives to turkey dinners Direct Action […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amy Soranno, Ellen Kessler, Jared Polis, Marlon Reis, Merritt Clifton, Nick Schafer, Ronnika A. McFall

More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis

November 22, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

First condemned,  then pardoned,  without a statement of rights  (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) WASHINGTON D.C.­­––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 20,  2023 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Joe Biden, John Kullberg, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

The “Thanksgiving” turkey:  object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice

November 22, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D.,  president, United Poultry Concerns (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) “Nothing so unites us as gathering with one mind to murder someone we hate, unless it is coming together to share in a meal.” […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Turkeys Tagged With: Eli Sagan, Karen Davis, Margaret Visser, Matt Novak

How global campaign against greyhound racing got to the home stretch

November 22, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog that Inspired a Movement by Christine A. Dorchak & Carey Theil 224 pages.  $8.99 Kindle;  $17.96 paperback. Lantern Publishing & Media,  P.O. Box 1350,  Woodstock,  NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don’t judge this book by the cover.  The pastel […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Brooklyn, Canidrome, Carey Theil, Christine Dorchak, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Animal rescuers try to stay alive in Gaza & in Hamas terrorists’ hands

November 21, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Searching for the missing & trying to feed the found NUSEIRAT, Gaza;  RAMAT GAN,  Israel––Forty-five days since Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis,  foreign visitors,  and foreign farm workers in a October 7,  2023 dawn sneak attack on kibbutz collective farms and an outdoor concert venue,  abducting about 250 more,  Let The Animals Live […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Let The Animals Live, Merritt Clifton, Saeed Al Err, Sulala Animal Rescue, Yotam Haim

Squishy shelter numbers conceal dropping the ball on spay/neuter

November 20, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

How much real progress toward eradicating cat & dog overpopulation has been lost through a focus on the wrong bottom line? (Gerry Childs,  now retired from a long career in sales in many different parts of the U.S.,  recently celebrated 50 years of volunteering at every stop for animal shelters,  spay/neuter projects,  and feral cat […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Bryan Kortis, Gary Michelson, Jeff Young, Petco, Ruth Steinberger

Feds give Makah tribe the go-ahead to kill gray whales again

November 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

NOAA issues Final Environmental Impact Statement,  the last legal obstacle between gray whales & Makah harpoons & bullets SEATTLE,  Washington––An early 2024 resumption of gray whale killing by the Makah tribe of Neah Bay,  Washington,  seems all but assured after the November 17,  2023 publication of a 2,364-page Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Makah […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting & trapping, Japan, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Native American beliefs, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Chukotka, Merritt Clifton, Neah Bay, NOAA, Paul Watson

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