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Cockfights & dog attacks near Slick Lizard Road, Nauvoo, Alabama

May 29, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

The slick lizards have bad neighbors             NAUVOO,  Alabama––The reputed cockfighting capital of Alabama,  on May 27,  2023 hosted a Memorial Day weekend surprise visit from the Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone team. Tipped off to a cockfight droned in progress at 44 Cagle Drive,  Nauvoo,  Alabama, Walker County sheriff’s deputies “went out […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Jerry Adkins, Merritt Clifton, Royce Flores, Ruthie Mae Brown, Sheriff Nick Smith, Steve Hindi

The baffling case of horse trainer Bob Baffert

May 23, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Humane Society of the U.S. president Kitty Block slammed & damned Baffert in 2018 for allegedly drugging Triple Crown winner Justify,  praised him in 2020 for support of the Horseracing Integrity Act,  & has slammed & damned him again since then. BALTIMORE, Maryland––Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s horse National Treasure won the Preakness Stakes […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Bob Baffert, Kitty Block, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Pimlico, Preakness, Triple Crown, Wayne Pacelle

Animal fighters go down in Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, & Ohio

May 19, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Alleged cockfighters,  dogfighters,  &  bedsheet boys exposed             TUPELO,  Mississippi––Attentive viewers of a May 19,  2023 joint Zoom media conference presented by Animal Wellness Action and Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] might have noted the absence of SHARK founder Steve Hindi from the speaker lineup. Hindi,  who checked in with ANIMALS 24-7 soon afterward,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bailey C. Martin, Jim H. Johnson, Merritt Clifton, Michael Valentine, Noble Gene Geathers, Steve Hindi, Waye Pacelle

Will Delaware bust cockpit exposed at SHARK/AWA media conference?

May 18, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Action in the land of the Fighting Blue Hens’ Chickens FELTON,  Delaware––Is a major cockfighting bust imminent in Delaware,  a state which has apparently not had a cockfighting raid since January 25,  2006? ANIMALS 24-7 understands the Delaware State Police on May 16,  2023 executed at least one search warrant at a site discovered and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Andrea Aligo-Keen, Animal Welfare Action, Billy Keen, Fighting Blue Hens, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle

Pigeon racing is animal abandonment! 

May 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

by Elizabeth Young,  founder,  Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions with afterword,  How pigeon flying lost the way,  by ANIMALS 24-7 Every day hundreds of domesticated pigeons are transported miles from their homes and “released” to try and fly back for human entertainment. These domestic birds have no survival skills:  no ability to find food or water or […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Belgium, Central Europe, China, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Pigeon flying, South Africa, USA Tagged With: Elizabeth Young, Merritt Clifton, Palomacy, pigeon flying, pigeon racing, Queen Elizabeth II, roller pigeons

Necropsies dominate the 2023 Kentucky Derby post-mortems

May 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

15-to-1 longshot winner Mage is barely noticed amid seven horse deaths LOUISVILLE,  Kentucky––Kentucky Derby post-mortems began in 2023 ten days before the 20-horse field walked to the starting gate,  but they were called “necropsies.” The more familiar term “autopsy” is used only when the deceased is human. The upset victory by Mage,  a horse with […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, USA Tagged With: Kathy Guillermo, Keith Dane, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Saffie Joseph

All the money in either racing or breeding horses is gambling money

May 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Shocked!  Shocked!  by gambling that sparks electroshocking horses Cheating methods,  regulations,  & some statistics have changed since this article was first posted in June 1999,  but the monetary motivations & horse industry attitudes have not. HOUSTON,  LITTLE ROCK ––All the money in breeding race or show horses is gambling money. Figure that out,  and it […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, USA Tagged With: Alydar, Billy Patin, Calumet Farms, Helen V. Brach, Kenneth Hansen, Merritt Clifton, Michael Earl McKinney, Silas Jayne

Dogfighter Elmer James Givens Jr. is at last convicted after 41-month stall

May 7, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Continues to thumb nose at the court TACOMA,  Washington––Elmer James Givens Jr.,  41,  perhaps the most publicized alleged dogfighter since former football player Michael Vick was busted in April 2007,  and one of the most aggressively self-publicized of the social media era,  became at last a convicted dogfighter on May 5,  2023. Sort of.  Facing […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Buck City Kennels, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, Pierce County, Tacoma, TaeTasha Davis

Cullman County, Alabama: combatting cockfighting in a KKK stronghold

May 3, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness aims to see the sun set on one of the Ku Klux Klan’s biggest fundraising rackets in one of the most notorious of “Sundown” counties CULLMAN,  Alabama––Cockfighting,  the Ku Klux Klan,  and corruption of law enforcement came together from Georgia to Cullman County,  Alabama,  home of the Bug Tussle cockpit,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Bug Tussle, John G. Cullman, Ku Klux Klan, Merritt Clifton, Monroe Evans, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, White Caps

Dog meat farmers’ protest reflects grassroots success in South Korea

April 28, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Home-grown anti-dog meat campaign succeeds where boycotts,  petitions,  & bashing failed for 40 years             SEOUL,  South Korea––About 50 people on April 25,  2023 straggled through the streets of Seoul,  the national capital of South Korea,  in a protest about dog-eating. Animal advocates’ events often attract much bigger crowds these days. These protesters were among […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Humane history, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, South Korea, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Animal Wellness Action, cockfighting, Humane Farming Association, Kim Keon Hee, Kim Min-seok, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Yoon Suk Yeol

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