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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

Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace

October 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Donors ignored years of warnings about convict turned “rescue” celebrity LOS ANGELES––Marc Ching,  who in November 2018 offered to sell the city of Los Angeles vegan food for impounded dogs at a substantial discount,  is reportedly to be arraigned in December 2020 on one misdemeanor count each of practicing veterinary medicine without a license,  false advertising,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cambodia, China, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Indonesia, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alene Tchekmedyian, George Knowles, Jeffrey Beri, John Dalley, Marc Ching, Martyn Stewart, Merritt Clifton, Paul Pringle, Phyllis Daugherty

Pandas follow the Calgary Stampede out of town––and back to China

May 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 red ink left the Calgary Zoo with a black-and-white choice  CALGARY,  Alberta,  Canada––Giving up hope that a rare giant panda exhibit will continue to pay for itself––and of managing to keep the pandas fed through the COVID-19 pandemic––the Calgary Zoological Society on May 12,  2020 disclosed to media that it has asked the Canadian […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Anugrah Andriansyah, Clement Lanthier, Da Mao, Er Shun, Jia Panpan, Jia Yueyue, Merritt Clifton, Stephen Harper

COVID-19: India feeds stray dogs; ASPCA says “don’t fix them”

April 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

ASPCA advice to shelters could increase puppy & kitten litters by about half a million  While pet keepers in the developed world fret about the apparently infinitesimally small risk of pets and humans infecting and reinfecting each other,  following the discovery of COVID-19 infecting one cat in Liege,  Belgium,  and two dogs and a cat […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, China, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Isles, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: David Semple, Emmanuel Andre, Janice Girardi, John Dalley, Marjorie Pollack, Merritt Clifton, Steven Van Gucht, Varda Mehrotra, William F. Harvey

Are conservationists becoming an endangered species?

February 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three alleged murders among five recent deaths of note The butterfly guys             OCAMPO,  Mexico––Monarch butterfly conservationists Homero Gómez González, 50,  and Raúl Hernández Romero,  44,  were found dead on January 29,  2020 and February 1,  2020,  respectively,  at the El Rosario butterfly preserve that they helped to found and develop […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Indonesia, Latin America, Marine life, Mexico, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Southeast Asia, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: David Bellamy, Golfrid Siregar, Hans Nicholas Jong, Homero Gómez González, Michael Krützen, Norm Rosen, Raúl Hernández Romero

Bali: fighting rabies & dolphin captivity amid mud & ashes of a live volcano

October 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Long uphill struggles pay off             DENPASSAR, Bali,  Indonesia––Fireballs and lava are no longer flying from Mount Agung,  the reputed Balinese home of the gods,  but smoke,  steam,  and noxious gases are still rising from thermal vents,  keeping most humans at a distance,  Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) dog rescuers excepted. Rabies persists in three […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Japan, Marine life, Marine mammals, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Helene O’Barry, Janice Girardi, Lincoln O’Barry, Made Mangku Pastika, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Wayan Koster

Cockfighters vs. coal miners, Taiji vs. Hong Kong: animal suffering gets lost

September 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

What happens when animal issues are overwhelmed by current events?             HARLAN COUNTY, Kentucky;  TAIJI, Japan;  BALI, Indonesia––A trainload of coal worth $1.4 million,  blockaded for six weeks by illegally laid off miners whose last pay checks bounced,  might at a glance appear to have nothing to do with an alleged cockfighting ring run by […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Japan, Marine mammals, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, USA Tagged With: Dan Mosely, Kyle Simpson, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Ronnie Bennett, Steve Hindi, Sydney Boles, Tim Burns

Bali hotel dolphins rescued––but will they be freed?

August 10, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

10-year effort gets animals out of sub-par facility             BALI,  Indonesia––The Jakarta Animal Aid Network and Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project on August 7,  2019 celebrated the transfer of two dolphins and a menagerie of other animals from “deplorable conditions” at the Melka Excelsior Hotel in Lovina,  North Bali, Indonesia to a variety of other Bali animal […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Marine life, Marine mammals, Southeast Asia, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Femke den Haas, Indra Exploitasia, Lincoln O’Barry, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Zulkifli Hasan

Finches found in hair curlers: trafficked to sing, or to fight?

June 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Singing said to be behind smuggling busts,  but the money may be in fights among caged finches NEW YORK, N.Y.––Circumstantial evidence hints that some or perhaps all of a parade of men caught in the act of allegedly bootlegging Guyanese seed finches into the U.S.,  purportedly to sell for use in high-stakes singing contests,  might […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Indonesia, Other animal fighting, South America, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Francis Gurahoo, Gabriel Harper, Jurames Goulart, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Musumeci, Nonato Raimundo, Sebastian Andrade

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