San Angelo animal control officer survived, but victims in U.K., Nigeria, California, and Missouri did not SAN ANGELO, Texas; KANSAS CITY, Missouri––Critically injured on November 6, 2024 while responding to a complaint about “at least ten” unlicensed pit bulls roaming at large, an as yet not publicly identified San Angelo, Texas animal control officer […]
Has the Pied Piper come to Lassa fever & rat-plagued Nigeria?
Rat-borne Lassa fever kills more people now than either Ebola or rabies, even if you have never heard of it LAGOS, Nigeria––Amid sectarian violence and the mass kidnappings of as many as 5,000 people, most of them school children since Nigerian president Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu took office on May 29, 2023, it is likely […]
Sadistic witch doctor to be prosecuted––when caught––in rural Nigeria
UPDATE: Barely two hours after ANIMALS 24-7 published the following article and posted it to our many Nigerian sources and contacts, Nwa Ite––now aware that police might in closing in on him––posted to Facebook, “Good morning, good afternoon good evening, depends on your location. My name is Daniel Nnabuikem popularly known as High Chief Enenie […]
For auld lang syne: last ANIMALS 24-7 obituaries of 2022
John Neville Hare, Mark Stanley-Price, Faith Maloney, & Vivienne Westwood The camel man John Neville Hare, 88, died on January 28, 2022, but ANIMALS 24-7 did not learn of his death until almost a year later. Born in Bexhill, Kent, Hare became acquainted with working camels as a British army officer assigned to the Royal […]
Ram fighting charges out of history to butt civilization in the ass
Gambling pastime found in the Bible LAGOS, Nigeria; BANGALORE, India––“Ram fighting during, but not limited to, the Eid period, and involving not just Muslims, seems to have become a gold mine in Nigeria,” a Muslim reader informed ANIMALS 24-7 shortly after the Feast of Eid al Adha on July 9, 2022. A ram fight […]
Mob destroys the Nigeria SPCA amid national crisis
Similar attack trashed & looted renowned drill conservation project LAGOS, Nigeria––Amid the chaos and violence engulfing Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria, the October 14, 2020 mob destruction of the Nigeria SPCA has so far not even won local media coverage. But the attack crippled the oldest institution in Nigeria that offers humane education and […]
Spay/neuter resumes in Italy despite COVID-19, Camorra & Nigerian mobsters
Quarantine keeps crime in check––for now ROME, CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy––The deadly global COVID-19 pandemic, killing nearly 32,500 Italians to date, might if anything have made Castel Volturno, the unlikely spay/neuter hub of the nation, just a little bit safer. Certainly stay-at-home orders seem to have at least temporarily reduced the mob violence for which […]
Who killed ivory trade investigator Esmond Martin, why?
Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]
First conviction of animal sacrifice practitioner in 11 years
But light sentence for perp LEESBURG, Virginia––Loudoun County, Virginia general district Judge Deborah C. Welsh on August 3, 2016 convicted Santeria priestess Mercy Carrion, 43, on three counts of cruelty to animals, but suspended her sentence on condition that she take a course in how to properly sacrifice animals from Gro Mambo Danthoula Novanyon […]
Kenyans rise in protest over lions shot & speared
Incidents recall the Cecil case in Zimbabwe NAIROBI, Kenya; JOS, Nigeria––More than 2,000 Kenyans had signed petitions protesting the violent deaths of two lions on the outskirts of Nairobi, the national capital, within 48 hours of the shooting of the first lion, Mohawk, and 24 hours of the discovery of the remains of the […]