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New study finds: India rabies deaths & therefore world toll far exaggerated

November 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Ghana, India, Indian subcontinent, Niger, Pakistan, Rabies, Shelters, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Hui K. Gan, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William F. Harvey

Hurricane Ian & Pakistan “super flood” compete for aid & sympathy

October 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Animal agriculture made Pakistan crisis worse FORT MYERS, Florida;  ISLAMABAD,  Pakistan––With Hurricane Ian storm water still receding in Florida and South Carolina,  the human body count rising over 100,  and animal casualties only just beginning to be estimated,  Julien Harneis,  United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan,  might be said to have picked an awkward time to appeal to the […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Pakistan Tagged With: Abid Hussain, Antonio Guterres, Farah Naureen, Julien Harneis, Merritt Clifton, Shehbaz Sharif, Thomas Frank

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

What does Islam teach about spay/neuter of dogs & cats?

December 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

All major schools and branches of Islam accept spay/neuter surgery––if it is done correctly              Few ANIMALS 24-7 articles have been more often read,  in more nations,  than What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?  This article,  updated most recently on August 22,  2021,  was among the first […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Libya, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia Tagged With: Dar Al Ifta, Debbie Hirst, Merritt Clifton, Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, Myat Min, Prophet Mohammed, Rahul Sehgal, Rubaiya Ahmed, Sheikh M. S. Al-Munajjid, Sheikh Sayyed Mutawalli Ad-Darsh

What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs,  ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013,  during the U.S. occupation,  when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]

Filed Under: Africa, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Prophet Mohammed

What does the Taliban mean for animals in Afghanistan?

August 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Sharia law may be much better for animals than for western-funded animal advocacy organizations             KABUL,  Afghanistan––Six days after the Taliban retook Kabul,  the national capital of Afghanistan,  the one certainty for the status of animals may be that dogfighting will be prohibited and firmly suppressed,  along with a violent regional sport called buzkashi in […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Central Asia, Cockfighting, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Other animal fighting, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdul Jalil Mohammadzai, Buzkashi, Mayhew International, Nowzad, Pamela Constable, Penny Farthing, Tahera Rezaei

Vultures: canaries in the pharmaceutical waste coal mine?

April 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Diclofenac-related vulture death in Spain may point toward a much bigger problem Should the end times be near,  whether through global warming,  loss of fish from the oceans,  nuclear war,  or any of myriad other calamities,  vanishing vultures might  be among the early harbingers of the apocalypse. Vultures might be expected to descend on the […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Birds, Birds, Disease, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mediterranean, Pakistan, Spain, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals, Working horses Tagged With: Diana Aga, Diclofenac, Ibuprofen, John Mallord, Motrin, Rachel Carson, Rebecca Klaper, Robin McKie

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

Kaavan flies to sanctuary with “elephant singers” Cher and Amir Khalil

November 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World of friends help “world’s loneliest elephant”             ISLAMABAD, Pakistan;  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia––Kaavan,  long billed “the world’s loneliest elephant,”  was a flying elephant this morning,  November 30,  2020,  en route from the defunct Marghuzar Zoo in Islamabad,  Pakistan,  to share a 25,000-acre habitat with three female Asian elephants inside the the one-million acre Kulen-Promtep Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indian subcontinent, Libya, North Africa, Pakistan, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan, Thailand, Ukraine, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Cher, Helmut Dungler, Merritt Clifton, Oliver Whang, Yahya Sinwar

Killed for freeing parrot, young servant set example of compassion to the world

June 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Murder shocks Pakistan, but U.S. & other nations have much to learn as well             KARACHI, Pakistan;  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad;  JENKINTOWN, Pennsylvania–– Zohra Shah,  age seven or eight,  according to contradictory reports,  may have had the chance to make only one moral and ethical decision in her brief lifetime. On May 31,  2020,  Zohra […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Indian subcontinent, Latin America, Laws & politics, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Hasan Siddiqui, Maheen Humayun, Merritt Clifton, Mukhtar Ahmad, Umme Kulsoom, Zohra Bibi, Zohra Shah

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