Birds are Still Singing in Our Suburbs and Bella & Charlie Are Not the Problem, argue team from the University of Queensland KENMORE, Queensland, Australia––Two new studies from scientists associated with the Australian Pet Welfare Foundation and the University of Queensland challenge the notion that cat predation has much of anything to do with bird […]
Feds bust Louisiana cop for allegedly retaliating against cockfighting witness
Cop apparently tried to forge documents to get witness deported as alleged illegal alien GULFPORT, Mississippi––Confirmation of probable collusion between cockfighters and elements of law enforcement surfaced in Gulfport, Mississippi on June 1, 2026, days after major cockfighting busts in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. U.S. Federal Court magistrate judge Bradley Rath denied bond for Hammond, […]
Verdict in long-delayed Elisa Pilarski pit bull death trial not due before June
Charged with manslaughter in the 2019 case, fiancé Christophe Ellul is expected to receive light sentence SOISSONS, France––The legal outcome of the most publicized pit bull attack ever, the November 16, 2019 dismemberment death of 29-year-old Elisa Pilarski, six months pregnant at the time, will for her fiancé and manslaughter defendant Christophe Ellul, 51, remain […]
Dingo vs. dog: Piper James death reignites Australian animal control debate
Victim Piper James apparently drowned under dingo attack. Six dingoes culled, more likely to follow K’GARI (Fraser Island), Queensland, Australia–––Debate raging across Australia since the January 19, 2026 drowning of Canadian visitor Piper James while under dingo attack may never produce agreement about what should be––and should have been––the appropriate official response. The debate centers […]
Christine Townend, 81, founded the animal rights movement in Australia
Animal Liberation was only the second explicitly “animal rights” organization in the world Christine Townend, 81, remembered by Animal Justice Party member of the New South Wales legislative council Emma Hurst, 44, as “essentially the founder of the entire animal rights movement in Australia,” died from Parkinson’s disease in Leura, New South Wales, on August […]
Should convicted perv Adam Britton be thrown to the dogs, or the crocs?
Convicted of cruelty, bestiality, & child porn DARWIN, Australia––Adam Britton, 53, arguably the world’s most famous crocodile expert, is now also arguably the most notorious convicted perpetrator of bestiality, sadism toward dogs, and possessor and transmitter of what Northern Territory Supreme Court chief justice Michael Grant called “the worst category” of child sexual abuse materials. […]
Rottweilers kill two owners, ages 59 & 66, in just eight days
Rottweiler involvement disclosed by quick responses of Rottweiler defenders HOUSTON, Texas; HOBART, Australia––Two fatal Rottweiler attacks in eight days, following the most recent reported fatal pit bull attack in the U.S., come as reminders that Rottweilers both in the U.S. and abroad have killed and disfigured more people over the past 41 years than any […]
Cat-haters Down Under set up rare birds for an attack of H5N1 avian flu
Attempted cat purges overlook value of predation to maintaining the health of species WELLINGTON, New Zealand; PERTH, Australia––The cat news from Down Under on June 28, 2023 provoked a global explosion of hissing and spitting, focusing––as cat news from Down Under usually does––on ever more cruel, bizarre, and inevitably futile attempts to exterminate cats, rationalized […]
Aussies try to put aboriginal happy face on failed cat-killing schemes
Not many aboriginal hunters seem interested ALICE SPRINGS, Australia––The Northern Territory government, Victoria Ellis of ABC Rural breathlessly revealed on June 9, 2023, hopes to expedite ridding the 60,344-square-mile Gibson Desert of feral cats by giving an all-female aboriginal ranger team called the Tjuwanpa Women Rangers target practice with firearms. Of course the feral cats […]
“Flesh & blood scattered everywhere”: Dog Bite Prevention Week 2023
Five fatalities, the most in a week this year LANSING, Michigan––Dog Bite Prevention Week 2023 ended with the most fatal dog attacks of any week this year, capped by one in Lansing, Michigan, described by Sheyenne Tinges, 22, in an appeal to the Lansing State Journal page on Facebook for “any recommendations for biohazard remediation/crime […]