Bad advice from celebrity trainers & humane societies gets people & animals killed by Merritt & Beth Clifton If the expert geniuses passing out advice about avoiding dog attacks as celebrity trainers and on behalf of animal advocacy organizations really knew what they were talking about––and yes, Cesar Millan, Robert Cabral, and Victoria Stilwell, we […]
Canada reviews “humaneness” of strychnine, sodium cyanide, & Compound 1080
Health Canada consultation to include public comments OTTAWA, Canada––Health Canada has extended until April 18, 2019 the public consultation period on a review of the “humaneness,” when used to kill wolves, coyotes, and bears, of the poisons strychnine, sodium cyanide, and sodium fluoroacetate, better known as Compound 1080. The Canadian consultation on what it […]
Nine dolphin deaths in two years? Dolphinaris pulls plug on Arizona
Four surviving Arizona dolphins are flown to new facility in the U.S. Virgin Islands SCOTTSDALE, Arizona––“We’re excited to welcome four Atlantic bottlenose dolphins,” the Coral World Ocean Park in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, posted to Facebook on February 20, 2019. “The dolphins arrived safely,” Coral World said, without saying where the four Atlantic bottlenose […]
Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird
The whole point is to be part of a gang doing the socially unacceptable To non-hunters, little could present a worse advertisement for hunting than the photographs, widely distributed via social media, of the 149 corpses of coyotes hung by their tails from a barbed wire-topped chain link fence outside American Legion Post 76 in […]
A Grim tale of suspected dumb rabies & a dumber response
Who named the pit bull Faust, and why? ST. LOUIS, Missouri––Faust in German legend was an alchemist, sorcerer, and perhaps even a necromancer, meaning one who consorts with the dead, who sold his soul to the devil for the secret of transforming “base” metals into gold. The much more complex Faust of many literary renditions––who […]
Houston dog fancier killed: “Before pit bulls, it was Dobermans”?
Elaine Richman killing resembled the 1955 & 1960 attacks that made Dobermans infamous HOUSTON, Texas––Found dead in her Houston back yard on February 8, 2019, Doberman enthusiast Elaine Richman, 66, most likely succumbed to severe facial wounds and apparent defensive wounds to her hands and arms. “Preliminary autopsy results list a sharp force injury as […]
Study: killing cormorants tripled losses of salmon & steelhead
“This goes down as one of the really significant failures in wildlife management in recent decades.” PORTLAND, Oregon––Cormorant massacres at East Sand Island, near the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, not only did not save any salmon and steelhead from predation in 2015 through 2017, but may have tripled predation losses, […]
Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy
Murder-by-dog convict Marjorie Knoller is denied parole SACRAMENTO––The California Board of Parole Hearings on February 7, 2019 denied parole to Marjorie Knoller, 64, convicted of murder-by-dog for the January 26, 2001 death of St. Mary’s College lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, at the door to her San Francisco apartment. Knoller will be allowed to seek parole […]
Plea bargain in Idaho triple murder linked to dogfighting
Suspect could get eight years, or life MALAD, Idaho––Severo Luera, 39, the only person arrested in connection with a 2013 triple murder linked to pit bull breeding, dogfighting, and growing marijuana, “has struck a deal with state prosecutors that could get him out of prison in less than 10 years,” reported Madeleine Coles of the Idaho […]
U.K.: “Nation of animal lovers” or of wildlife assassins?
Royal SPCA, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, et al disregard & even promote cruelty on a shocking scale LONDON, U.K.––The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Great Britain, the world’s oldest western-style animal advocacy organization, founded in 1824 and granted a royal charter in 1840 by Queen Victoria, wants […]
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