Slaughterhouse operated in open defiance of 1998 cat meat ban HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––“In a ground-breaking victory against the dog and cat meat trade in Vietnam, a cat slaughterhouse has been forced to cease operations,” announced Soi Dog Foundation director of international advocacy Rahul Sehgal in a March 23, 2022 appeal to potential donors. […]
Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?
1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and potential sanctuary caretakers to decide what will become of them. […]
Bamboo, 56, last Seattle zoo elephant, euthanized in Oklahoma City
Her life story was the story of most U.S. zoo elephants OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––“Where will Woodland Park Zoo elephants be sent to die?”, ANIMALS 24-7 asked on December 7, 2014, as the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle finalized plans to transfer Chai and Bamboo, the last two elephants to reside there, to the Oklahoma City Zoo. That […]
Big group bullies––like PETA––are stealing the animals’ lunch
by Steve Hindi, founder, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] As we head into 2022, I’d like to raise an issue––bullying––that has been a persistent problem in the animal advocacy cause. You might not think that bullying would be an issue in the realm of animal protection, but it is, and has been for a […]
Wildlife Friends to evacuate Phuket Zoo; PETA did zip but claims credit
Notorious as one of the world’s worst zoos for 25 years PHUKET, Thailand––The first good-news animal story of 2022, if all goes according to plan, may be the impending evacuation of 11 tigers and two bears from the defunct Phuket Zoo, a target of animal advocacy protest almost from the day it opened in 1996. […]
International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal, 87
Animal advocate, teacher, conservationist, investigative journalist, and beloved friend to primates, both human and nonhuman SUMMERVILLE, South Carolina––“With heavy hearts, we are informing Shirley’s many friends that she died Saturday morning,” the International Primate Protection League posted to founder Shirley McGreal’s Facebook page on November 21, 2021. McGreal, 87, “had been in declining health […]
Seaspiracy: seas, piracy, & Cowspiracy meet fishy business
Fishing industry screams bloody murder Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Seaspiracy, whose title is a fusion of “seas” and “piracy,” and a play on Cowspiracy, the 2014 independent blockbluster documentary also produced by Kip Anderson, on March 24, 2021 premiered worldwide on Netflix. Within 10 days Seaspiracy had become a runaway hit, seen by […]
Kaavan flies to sanctuary with “elephant singers” Cher and Amir Khalil
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 […]
Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace
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, […]
COVID-19: India feeds stray dogs; ASPCA says “don’t fix them”
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 […]