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What does Islam teach about spay/neuter of dogs & cats?

December 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

All major schools and branches of Islam accept spay/neuter surgery––if it is done correctly              Few ANIMALS 24-7 articles have been more often read,  in more nations,  than What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?  This article,  updated most recently on August 22,  2021,  was among the first […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Libya, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Dar Al Ifta, Debbie Hirst, Merritt Clifton, Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, Myat Min, Prophet Mohammed, Rahul Sehgal, Rubaiya Ahmed, Sheikh M. S. Al-Munajjid, Sheikh Sayyed Mutawalli Ad-Darsh

What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs,  ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013,  during the U.S. occupation,  when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]

Filed Under: Africa, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Prophet Mohammed

Kaavan flies to sanctuary with “elephant singers” Cher and Amir Khalil

November 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World of friends help “world’s loneliest elephant”             ISLAMABAD, Pakistan;  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia––Kaavan,  long billed “the world’s loneliest elephant,”  was a flying elephant this morning,  November 30,  2020,  en route from the defunct Marghuzar Zoo in Islamabad,  Pakistan,  to share a 25,000-acre habitat with three female Asian elephants inside the the one-million acre Kulen-Promtep Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indian subcontinent, Libya, North Africa, Pakistan, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan, Thailand, Ukraine, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Cher, Helmut Dungler, Merritt Clifton, Oliver Whang, Yahya Sinwar

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

July 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Edited with Introduction,  Afterword,  & Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin University of California Press https://www.ucpress.edu/ 325 pages,  hardcover.  $27.50. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Wrote Ed Duvin,  whose 1989 Animalines newsletter essay “In The Name of Mercy” prophesying  “no kill” animal sheltering is widely considered a classic of humane literature,  to ANIMALS 24-7 a few days […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Morocco, North Africa, Religion & philosophy, Street dogs Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Chuck Jones, Ed Duvin, Henry Bergh, Mark Twain, Merritt Clifton, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Walt Disney

Ravaging Asia & Africa: a much deadlier plague than COVID-19

February 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World fiddles while grasshoppers munch             NINGBO,  China;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––A much deadlier plague than the COVID-19 coronavirus is sweeping westward from China through Pakistan,  across Central Asia,  and throughout the Horn of Africa,  flying 100 miles a day,  devouring crops enough to feed as many as 34 million people,  according to the United Nations Food […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Chickens, China, Ducks & geese, Egypt, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Kenya, North Africa, Pakistan, Poultry, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Wildlife Tagged With: Cara Anna, Dominique Bourgeon, Donald Trump, Imran Khan, Kate Ng, Mark Lowcock, Merritt Clifton, Michael D’Estries, Rory Sullivan, Zhang Long

Ahmed el Sherbiny, 66, brought “humane spring” to Egypt

March 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Headed three leading organizations CAIRO,  Egypt––Ahmed el Sherbiny,  66,  who with his British-born wife Jackie led the Egyptian Society of Animal Friends,  the Egyptian Federation for Animal Welfare,  and the Middle East Network for Animal Welfare,  on March 7,  2019 died at home in Shabramont,  Giza,  a Cairo suburb,  after several years of fighting multiple […]

Filed Under: Africa, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Isles, North Africa, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Slaughter, Street dogs, United Kingdom, Working horses Tagged With: Amina Abaza, Dina Zulfikar, Dorothy Brooke, Fatima Naoot, Jackie Sherbiny, Merritt Clifton, Mona Khalil, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Robert Blumberg, Salim Mohammed Salim

The poop on live transport, whaling, & Ramadan 2018

May 2, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Old ships,  ancient customs             FREMANTLE,  Australia––Seventy thousand Australian sheep aboard the 38-year-old livestock carrier Al Messilah,  or anyhow those who survive the journey,  are due to reach Kuwait on May 14,  2018,  according to VesselFinder.com. The voyage continues a trade that Animals Australia likens to whaling in terms of cruelty and obsolescence,  but which […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, North Africa, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Welfare Tagged With: David Littleproud, Glenys Oogjes, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Kotsios, Victoira Laurie

Egyptian writer gets three years in prison for criticizing Eid slaughter

February 29, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly insulted Islam          CAIRO,  Egypt––Found guilty of insulting Islam for criticizing mass public slaughter of animals at the 2015 Eid al Adha,  or Feast of Sacrifice,  Egyptian writer Fatima Naoot,  52,  was on January 26,  2016 sentenced to serve three years in prison and to pay a fine of 2,000 Egyptian pounds,  amounting to […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Food, Hooved stock, Islam, Meat issues, North Africa, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Ahmed al Sherbiny, Fatima Naoot, Lewis Gompertz, Merritt Clifton, Mohammed, PEN American Center

Fallen crane & stampede take spotlight from haj animal victims

September 29, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

At least 900,000 animals killed among 24 nations          RIYADH,  Saudi Arabia––After decades of global controversy over animal transport and slaughter in connection with Eid al Adha sacrificial rites,  the animal victims of the 2015 Islamic pilgrimage season went almost unnoticed amid furor over human victims. The start of the pilgrimage season,   called the haj […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bangladesh, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Ethiopia, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Judaism, Kenya, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Malaysia, Meat issues, Mediterranean, North Africa, Organizations, Other, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Akif Kichloo, Eid al Adha, haj, Lyn White, Mecca, Merritt Clifton, Mohammed, Qurbani, Riyadh

Rat & Rats, by Jonathan Burt and Robert Sullivan

April 14, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Rat by Jonathan Burt Reaktion Books Ltd. (33 Great Sutton St., London EC1M 3JU, U.K.), 2006. 189 pages, paperback. $19.95. Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan Bloomsbury (175 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2004. 242 pages, hardcover. $23.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Immersing myself in […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feral animals, North Africa, Street dogs, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Jonathan Burt, Merritt Clifton, Robert Sullivan

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