Current pace of fatal dog attacks in Tamil Nadu state alone would project to more than 3,000/year for the whole of India NEW DELHI, India––Issuing the most emphatic Supreme Court of India ruling yet against “dog menace,” a three-judge panel reviewing Indian dog law since August 2025 on May 19, 2026 held that neither dogs […]
Brigitte Bardot, 91, movie star for 20 years, animal advocate for 52 years
Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
India top court: “No dogs in schools, hospitals, stadiums, & bus/train stations”
India Supreme Court ruling updates & extends ruling against dog-feeding in high-traffic public places NEW DELHI, India––A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 2025 ordered that stray dogs be removed and excluded from educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots, railway stations, and other government buildings. The Supreme […]
Nine of 13 dog attack fatalities since July 2025 rabies death were by pit bulls
The one rabies death alarmed all of India. Eight U.S. pit bull attack deaths plus one in India barely made local news FARGO, North Dakota; CHENNAI, India; UNION CITY, Georgia; CAVE JUNCTION, Oregon––Thirteen fatal dog attacks, twelve of them in the U.S., since the July 25, 2025 rabies death of first grader Chavi Sharma in […]
Street dogs win, reckless feeders lose, in Supreme Court of India reversal
Three-judge panel overturns August 11, 2025 ruling by two-judge panel that all dogs were to be impounded NEW DELHI, India––A three-judge panel from the 32-member Supreme Court of India on August 22, 2025 largely reversed an August 11, 2025 ruling by a two-judge panel that all dogs were to be removed from the streets within […]
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 […]
Fatal dog attack in Florida is not a felony, but in India brings national uproar
Florida officials say they can do little about dog attack death of a child; Supreme Court of India & regional courts say authorities must do the impossible DELHI, India; DELAND, Florida––Six-year-old Chavi Sharma of the Pooth Kalan neighborhood in Delhi, India, and eight-year-old Michael Millett of Deland, Florida, had […]
Dog-feeders kill India’s national neuter/return no-kill dog control policy
Indian Supreme Court panel rules that street dogs must be impounded NEW DELHI, India––Ruling in effect that street dog feeders have caused a catastrophic failure of the neuter/return approach to street dog control to protect the public from dog attacks and rabies, a two-judge panel from the Indian Supreme Court on August 11, 2025 […]
What’s stupider than rehoming rabid pit bull puppies? Denying the risk.
Denying rabies risk is not likely to help win much-needed protection for Colorado pumas & bobcats, either SHERIDAN, Colorado––The August 7, 2024 discovery of rabies in a litter of pit bull mix puppies rehomed as “shepherd mixes” on July 20, 2024 by Moms & Mutts Colorado should have sent a “heads up” warning to […]
Hanoi bans dog & cat meat trade; Philippines & India bust dog meat dealers
Stopping rabies & attracting tourists motivate government in Vietnamese capital HANOI, Vietnam––102 human rabies deaths in 29 administrative jurisdictions during 2023 have reportedly moved the city government in Hanoi, the national capital of Vietnam, to ban the dog and cat meat trade––coincidentally, almost on the eve of the annual dog-eating festival held toward the end […]