Response to pack attacks: new rules also restrict where & when feeders may feed street dogs CHENNAI, India––Cats, as of March 10, 2023, are at last included in the Indian national Animal Birth Control program, operating since 2003. The inclusion of cats in effect officially recognizes neuter/return as the preferred method of cat population control […]
Dog pack killing of 4-year-old, caught on video, shows need for ABC
20 years of India’s national Animal Birth Control program helps to quell rabies, but not to reduce dog attacks, because feeders continue to concentrate dogs in problematic places HYDERABAD, India––Video security cameras set up above a car repair garage in Amberpet, a 250-year-old suburb of 425-year-old Hyderabad, India, on February 19, 2023 shocked the nation […]
Joe Biden signs the Big Cat Public Safety Act
Fifteen-year campaign nears climax for Howard & Carole Baskin WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Joe Biden on December 20, 2022 endorsed the Big Cat Public Safety Act into law. The Big Cat Public Safety Act on December 6, 2022 was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate on a voice vote, after clearing the House of Representatives […]
Los Angeles rodeo clowns hide behind girls riding sidesaddle
And behind anyone else who ever once rode a horse or trained a dog LOS ANGELES––Why are macho cowpokes and bull-riders, many with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks, abruptly playing up what they term in campaign literature “the rich cultural history of California rodeo”? To translate, rodeo promoters and participants are suddenly hiding behind […]
What happened to the Shalom Zoo baby tigers, why?
Why did the Shalom Zoo strive for a year to obtain baby tigers at apparently any cost? WEST BEND, Wisconsin––Two tiger cubs born on August 6, 2022 at the Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bend, Wisconsin, formerly known as the Shalom Wildlife Zoo, in the early morning of November 19, 2022 drowned in an […]
New study finds: India rabies deaths & therefore world toll far exaggerated
International Journal of Infectious Diseases affirms what ANIMALS 24-7 has reported since 2012 GUANGZHOU, Guangdong, China––ANIMALS 24-7 was right all along that “official” estimates of human deaths from rabies are inflated by magnitudes of order. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about how and why the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, […]
India Supreme Court moves against “dog menace”
Rejects notion that local governments & High Courts have no jurisdiction over dog control, rejects claim of unconditional right to feed street dogs, & orders Animal Welfare Board to produce data showing programs are working to reduce dog bites NEW DELHI––Advocates for no-kill animal control, feeding street dogs wherever and whenever, and defenders of dangerous […]
Elephant release marks 75th anniversary of Indian independence
(Adapted, with some explanatory text added and legal details deleted specific only to India, from a much longer version by Norma Alvares, president, People for Animals, Goa, and Alok Hiswarwala Gupta, Centre for Research on Animal Rights, published by Herald Goa on August 14, 2022.) While the people of India prepared to celebrate 75 […]
Big Cat Public Safety Act clears House again, heads toward passage
Odds for Senate approval look good this time WASHINGTON D.C.––Clearing the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 278-138, the Big Cat Public Safety Act pushed since 2007 by Carole and Howard Baskin of Big Cat Rescue appears likely to win U.S. Senate approval as well, and be signed into law by President Joe […]
Amit Deol saved camels, Anton Mzimba saved rhinos, & both died young
Deol & Mzimba became legendary in India & South Africa, respectively SIROHI, Rajasthan, India; ACORNHOEK, Mpumalanga, South Africa––Amit Deol, 46, spent most of his short life helping camels in the Thar desert of Rajasthan state, India. Anton Mzimba, either 42 or 49 according to various sources, spent his life protecting rhinos from poachers on the […]
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