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A greyhound named Brooklyn, 2008-2022, by Carey Theil

June 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Inspired global campaign to close the Macau Canidrome A greyhound named Brooklyn, who inspired the successful international campaign to close down the worst dog track in the world, died on June 22,  2022 in the Boston area. Brooklyn was born on December 10,  2008 at a breeding farm in New South Wales,  Australia.  After failing […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, China, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Canidrome, Christine Dorchak

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

June 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indonesia, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, South Korea, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid al Adha, Indonesian Ulema Council, Merritt Clifton, ProMED

Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

“Live lure training” likely to survive greyhound racing, for the sadism of it

February 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Few tracks left to run on,  but “trainers” continue setting greyhounds on rabbits             GREELEY, Colorado––Greyhound racing began as the bastard offspring of hare coursing,  whitewashed for public consumption by calling it “live lure training.” Because raw sadism appears to die even harder than the gambling habit,  so-called live lure training will likely also outlive […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Chad Achurch, Grey2K USA, John E. Lashmet, Lynette Noble, Merritt Clifton, Robert L. Rhodes, Tom Noble, Ursula O'Donnell

New Aussie cat-killing method may hint retreat from trying to kill all ferals

December 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Scheme targets only specific cats who eat endangered marsupials             ADELAIDE, Australia––Australian cat-haters rejoiced and cat advocates threw up their hands in horror after Adelaide Advertiser reporter Michelle Etheridge on November 30,  2021  revealed the latest of generations of government schemes to poison feral cats and foxes who allegedly prey upon endangered small marsupials. Overlooked […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Politics, Population control, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: bilbies, Greg Hunt, Kyle Brewer, Lisa Roberts Daintree, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Etheridge, Ned Ryan-Scholefield

International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal, 87

November 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Animal advocate,  teacher, conservationist,  investigative journalist,  and beloved friend to primates,  both human and nonhuman              SUMMERVILLE,  South Carolina––“With heavy hearts,  we are informing Shirley’s many friends that she died Saturday morning,”   the International Primate Protection League posted to founder Shirley McGreal’s Facebook page on November 21,  2021. McGreal,  87,  “had been in declining health […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Southeast Asia, Thailand, U.S., United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Koros, Ardith Eudey, Beth Clifton, Colin Groves, Cyril Rosen, Diane Taylor-Snow, Geza Telecki, James Mahoney, Jean Martin, Leonie Vejjajiva, Lynette Shanley, Matthew Block, Merritt Clifton, Milka Knezevic-Ivaskovic

New Zealand ends live sheep & cattle exports by sea––two years from now

April 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Export directly to slaughter banned since 2008             WELLINGTON, NZ––New Zealand agriculture minister Damien O’Connor on April 14,  2021 announced a permanent halt to live animal exports by sea,  effective in 2023. O’Connor,  though his announcement was not a complete surprise,  left New Zealand agribusiness,  the international animal welfare community,  and rival nations in the […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Welfare Tagged With: Andrea Midgen, Damien O’Connor, Hmood Al-Khalaf, James Fyfe, Jed Goodfellow, Lynley Tulloch, Mark Harvey-Sutton, Merritt Clifton, Simone Clarke

Will Australia learn that “When the cat is away, the mice will play?”

April 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Be careful what you wish for” also pertains to mouse plague,  floods,  & infestations of snakes & spiders MELBOURNE,  SYDNEY––What stops a mouse plague? Driving 40,000 Australians from their homes in Victoria and New South Wales states,  while filling many of those homes with spiders and snakes seeking high ground,  the worst flooding in decades […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Invertebrates, Population control, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Leonie Thorne, Lucy Thackray, Matilda Boseley, Merritt Clifton, Sophie Riley, Steve Henry

Australian sheep export to Bahrain meets “bloody & miserable end” in Pakistan

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

22,000 sheep culled in secret KARACHI,  Pakistan––The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20,  2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4,  2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover,  Malir district deputy commissioner Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Food, Hooved stock, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Welfare Tagged With: Cormo Express, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ocean Drover, P.K. Livestock

Cat studies shortchange disabled U.S. veterans & vanishing Aussie wildlife

December 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

White Coat Waste Project challenges Veterans’ Administration studies, while Aussie scientists question value of their own cat-killing experiment          WASHINGTON D.C.,  PERTH, Australia––Cat experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Cleveland,  Louisville,  and Los Angeles,  and by Australian researchers at the Charles Darwin Reserve,  225 miles north of Perth,  might be said […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Population control, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anthony Bellotti, Brian Mast, Charles Darwin, Dina Titus, Eradicat, Felixer, Merritt Clifton, Tim S. Doherty, White Coat Waste Project

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