Cruel hypocrisy masquerades as concern for exploited dogs, cats, & gamefowl SEOUL; HANOI; CROSS PLAINS, Texas; BENNETT, Colorado––One need not have spent much time personally investigating Southeast Asian dog and cat meat markets, or U.S. cockpits, or even just viewing the wealth of undercover and drone video of such operations gathered in recent years […]
Korean Air responds to cockfighting complaints; rural sheriffs don’t
Korean Air suspends rooster transport to the Philippines SEOUL, South Korea; FANNIN COUNTY, Georgia; DAYTON, Tennessee––Why is Korean Air more responsive to complaints about cockfighters, at considerable monetary cost to itself, than rural Southern sheriffs who are paid in part to stop cockfights? “Korean Air has suspended rooster shipments on flights from the United States […]
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 […]
Drones & robots deployed against rising wolf & bear attacks in India & Japan
Intensive bear hunting has not reduced bear attack deaths in Japan LUCKNOW, India; TOKYO, Japan––“Forest rangers in India have deployed drones to track wolves after nine people, mostly children, were killed by the animals in recent weeks, officials said Sunday,” reported both CBS and Agence France-Presse on December 1, 2025. The CBS and Agence France-Presse […]
“Murder hornets” murder two Americans, five years after panic, in Laos
Ordinary bees, wasps, & hornets meanwhile kill 72 Americans per year on average LUANG PRABANG, Laos––Flagged as a deadly invasive threat to Americans and especially American honey bees by the first Donald Trump administration in May 2020, so-called “murder hornets” have finally murdered two Americans. But in Laos, not the United States. And not in […]
“Super Typhoon Ragasa” animal welfare casualties apparently light
“Super Typhoon Ragasa” hit six nations in four days before blowing out HONG KONG, MANILA––Super Typhoon Ragasa, expected to be one of the deadliest and most damaging typhoons on record, instead seems to have proved chiefly that weather is still often unpredictable, and as regards animals, that animal welfare organizations in Southeast Asia are well […]
Marvin Mackie, 88, all but invented early-age & high-volume, low-cost s/n
Marvin Mackie, DVM, fixed more than 250,000 dogs & cats in 54-year veterinary career SAN PEDRO, California––W. Marvin Mackie, DVM, 88, remembered by United Spay Alliance cofounder Esther Mechler and much of the rest of the humane community as “a pioneer in the affordable spay/neuter movement, died on September 23, 2025. “He brought so much […]
Chickens, rats, & my battle with leptospirosis, by Beth Clifton
Zoonotic disease can hit you anywhere GREENBANK, Washington––Sometimes ANIMALS 24-7 finds article topics right in our own backyard. Like World Zoonoses Day, commemorated annually on July 6. Today is the 140th anniversary of the first administration of the human post-exposure rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur on July 6, 1885. “Zoonoses is the collective term for […]
100 dead cockfighters in the Philippines; 55 await deportation in Alabama
The anti-cockfighting & dogfighting FIGHT Act is reintroduced in both U.S. House & Senate MANILA, Philippines; BIRMINGHAM, Alabama––Thirty-four Philippine cockfighters, missing since January 2022, “are dead and buried in Taal Lake in Batangas province, according to one of the suspects who now wants to testify,” reported Mary Joy Salcedo on June 19, 2025 for the […]
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson freed from Greenland jail & heading home
“We are happy and relieved that Paul Watson is now free.” NUUK, Greenland––Jailed in remote Nuuk, Greenland since July 21, 2024 by Denmark, acting on a 2010 Interpol warrant obtained by Japan, anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is heading home to France for Christmas with his wife and two sons, ages 3 and 8. “We are […]