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Pit bulls, “outliers” & Humane Society of the U.S. prez Wayne Pacelle

July 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Pits kill four people in five years within 15 minutes of Pacelle’s family home,  but he calls us insanely aggressive A 10-year-old girl in Bridgeport,  Connecticut will require multiple surgeries over the next several years to repair damage inflicted on July 18,  2017 by a family member’s pit bull.  The pit bull first attacked a […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food & agriculture, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Ann Landers, Becky Robinson, Brody Mullins, David Wills, Henry Bergh, Jocelyn Winfrey, Louise Holton, Marritt Clifton, Mary Lou Sappone, Rebecca Carey, Wayne Pacelle

China: Stopping dog trucks is the easy part. Saving dogs is harder.

June 30, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Some dogs die from their ordeal,  but more than 80% are saved          GUANGZHOU,  China––The hardest part of rescuing a truckload of suspected stolen dogs en route to slaughter in Guangzhou,  China on June 19,  2017 had only just began when the cages of dogs were unloaded. The cargo,  initially believed to be about 800 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Meat issues, Organizations, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Peter Li, Soi Dog Foundation

Why Guangzhou dog rescue reveals more about China than Yulin dog-eating festival

June 25, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Rescue in hub of dog meat trade won more notice than festival held to boost dog-eating          YULIN,  China––The largest-ever rescue of dogs from a truck hauling them to slaughter,  accomplished on June 19,  2017 in Guangzhau,  the longtime hub of dog-eating in China,  very nearly upstaged the 2017 Yulin Lychee & Dog-Eating Festival,  which […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Buddhism, Cats, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Humane history, Legislation, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Irene Feng, Merritt Clifton, Peter J. Li, Yulin

SHARK circles Alex Pacheco & “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You”

April 25, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

“600 Million Stray Dogs Need You” exposed on YouTube          POMPANO BEACH,  Florida––Most folks in Florida know enough not to attract a SHARK’s notice.  Alex Pacheco,  founder of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You,  apparently is not one of them. Indeed,  a person claiming to be “extremely close to Mr. Pacheco”  went out of her […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, China, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Street dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Linda Ducato, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz, Will Potter

Street dogs in the U.S.?  Nathan Winograd has gone barking mad.

February 6, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton Among the most vociferous critics of ANIMALS 24-7 guest columnist Jeff Young’s essay We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation! was No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan Winograd. Winograd’s own recommendations in response to the homeless dog and cat problem have long been a hodgepodge of wishful […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Beliefs, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Editorials, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Opinions & Letters, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Blue Cross of India, F.X. Meslin, Friends of Fethye Animals, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd

What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals

July 6, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part IV of a five-part series.   (See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?,  Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan,”  Farmed animals & money talks,  and Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.) LONDON,  U.K.––Among the signal achievements for animal welfare during the 43 years that the United Kingdom has been […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Behavior & health, Cats, Chimps & other primates, China, Culture & Animals, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Rabies, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Scotland, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Adrian Burder, Clarissa Baldwin, Helmut Dungler, Julia Lewis, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Thew, National Canine Defence League

Greyhound racing in Macau, China runs toward oblivion

June 10, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Greyhound Racing New South Wales charges 179 “industry participants” with illegally supplying the only track in China          RHODES,  New South Wales,  Australia;  MACAU,  China––Charges brought against 179 Australian “industry participants” for allegedly illegally exporting greyhounds to Macau appear likely to hasten the anticipated imminent end of greyhound racing at the Macau Canidrome,  the oldest […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, China, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Greyhound racing, Ireland, Isles, Meat issues, Organizations, Organizations, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Albano Martins, Anima Macau, Animals Australia, Canidrome, Grey 2K, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton

Fur farm releases in China reflect falling fur demand worldwide

April 26, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Raccoon dogs freed twice in eight months          BEIJING,  China––For the second time in eight months a Chinese fur farmer appears to have released his animals in response to three years of steeply falling pelt prices and fur garment demand worldwide,  with no upturn in sight. Reported the Beijing Daily News on April 13, […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cats, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Legislation, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Uses of dogs, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Dalai Lama, Joseph Buddenberg, Merritt Clifton, Nicole Kissane, Shenzen, Tyler Lang

Viet shelter sold dogs for meat; U.S. shelters sold dogs to fighters

April 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Horrific case,  but no cause for cultural finger-pointing          DA NANG,  CHAMBERSBURG,  TAMPA––Vu Van Chinh,  founder of the Da Nang Dogs & Cats Information & Rescue Station in Da Nang,  Vietnam,  “has admitted that he killed dogs and sold them to local restaurants,”  reported Philip Sherwell,  Bangkok correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph,  on April […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hunting, Lab animals, Laos, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vietnam Tagged With: Animals Asia Foundation, Better Days Animal League, Da Nang Dogs & Cats Information & Rescue Station, Hillsborough County, John Seales, Pamela Kramer, Philip Sherwell, Tuan Bendixsen, Vu Van Chinh

WHO to recommend against global restrictions on ketamine

March 1, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Regulators consider request from China (See also Loss of access to ketamine threatens progress in humane euthanasia,  by Ruth Steinberger.)          GENEVA,  Switzerland––The World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence is to recommend at the March 2016 meeting of the United Nations Single Commission on Narcotic Drugs that the drug ketamine not be internationally regulated. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Cats, China, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Middle Left, Food & agriculture, Laws & politics, Legislation, Population control, Population control, Russia, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Food & Drug Administration, Jennifer Cashman, Merritt Clifton, Patrick Ryan, World Health Organization

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