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Will Rogers never met the pit bulls & “dog men” now terrorizing Oklahoma

November 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three-year-old suffered 15 skull fractures & broken nose and jaw in Rogers’ tiny home town OOLOGAH, Oklahoma––“No man can be condemned for owning a dog,”  alleged humorist Will Rogers,  who also famously professed to have never met a man he didn’t like. “As long as he has a dog, he has a friend,”  Rogers claimed,  “and […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Breeding, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benjamin Ryan Spence, Curtis C.J. Wickham, Danny DeWayne Burton, Don Mayfield, Earl Tudor, Randy Fox, Shannon White, Sivya Cook-White, Will Rogers

A Traitor To His Species:  Henry Bergh & The Birth Of The Animal Rights Movement

November 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Ernest Freeberg 322 pages,  hardcover.  $30.00. Basic Books Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 www.basicbooks.com Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Perhaps the first question to ask about a new biography of Henry Bergh,  of whom more than 50 have reputedly been written already,  with at least four close to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Population control, Religion & philosophy, USA, Working horses, Zoos Tagged With: Carolyn Earle White, Diana Belais, Ernest Freeberg, George Angell, Henry Spira, Kit Burns, Merritt Clifton, P.T. Barnum, Thomas Edison

District Attorney will not prosecute alleged bull-baiting at Salinas rodeo

September 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Monterey County SPCA does not speak up,  either             SALINAS,  California––The 2019 California Rodeo Salinas ended on July 19,  2019,  but the stench of manure––bovine,  equine,  and canine––lingers on above the Salinas Sports Complex. The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office,  headed since January 2019 by longtime California Rodeo Salinas volunteer Jeannine Pacioni,  reportedly recently rendered […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benjamin Bonneville, Jeannine Pacioni, Martin Opseth, Merritt Clifton, Richard Henry Dana, Steve Hindi

Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy

September 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Looking at normal dogs’ brains shows how “fighting breed” brains differ             BOSTON,  POMONA––There may already be weeping and gnashing of teeth among pit bull advocates,  and perhaps significant fundraising underway to trump up rebuttals,  too,  following the September 2,  2019 Journal of Neuroscience publication of “Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds,”  by Harvard […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Science, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Beth Clifton, Erin Hecht, John D. Johnson, John P. Colby, Kristopher Irizarry, Laura Sanders, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Voith

SHARK video shows dogs baiting bulls at Calif. Salinas Rodeo 2019

August 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Fans watched dogs torment bulls in the main arena after official events             SALINAS, California––The 109th California Rodeo Salinas had nearly ended on Sunday,  July 19,  2019.  The loudspeaker was still announcing the last “bullfighting” events,  in which “rodeo clowns” tease young bulls who are already agitated by bucking straps cinched tightly around their waists.  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & standards, Other animal fighting, Other spectacles, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Uses of dogs, Welfare Tagged With: Benjamin Bonneville, Merritt Clifton, Richard Henry Dana, Richard of Wyche, Steve Hindi, Tim Eastman

2 pit bulls, 29 dead cats, but Dothan changes topic to fundraising

July 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Overnight shelter massacre             DOTHAN, Alabama––Changing the subject from how two pit bulls killed 29 cats to appealing for multi-millions of dollars to build a new animal shelter took Dothan,  Alabama city officials barely seconds on July 25,  2019. Dothan Animal Shelter staff found the 29 cats mauled to death when they arrived for work […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adrianne Woodroff, Jere Alexander, Jerome Wesley Hughes, Joey Stenn, Johnny Ray Lewis, Merritt Clifton, Robert Earl Lawrence, William Henry Roberson

How to tell a “bait dog” from “click bait”

May 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“Bait dogs” are docile victims to some pit bull  advocates, but “urban legend” to others What is a “bait dog”? First of all,  learn to distinguish a bona fide “bait dog” from a “click bait” dog, known to rescue insiders as a “donor bait” dog. Fill in the blanks This is the generic description of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Philippines, USA Tagged With: Animal Farm Foundation, bait dog, Merritt Clifton, pit bull

Pit hags, rescue angels, crazy cat ladies,  dog men & chicken fighters:  what’s in a name?

May 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

The late linguist,  lexicographer,  and “crazy cat man” Reinhold Aman would have relished the question SONOMA,  California––Researching the etymology of the terms “pit hag,”  “rescue angel,” “crazy cat lady,”  “dog man” and “chicken fighter,”  absent from most dictionaries yet almost universally understood within the animal advocacy world,  would have fascinated Reinhold Aman,  82,   who died […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adlai Stevenson, Ed Lowe, Gavin Ehringer, Jeff Borchardt, Jesse Sheidlower, Merritt Clifton, Reinhold Aman

“Dog Fighting Awareness”: what the ASPCA ignored

April 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Busts plummet as pit bull advocacy has all but legalized dogfighting             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Designated National Dog Fighting Awareness Day by the American SPCA,  April 8,  2019 and the next several days appear to have passed without a single dogfighting bust or other noteworthy event pertaining to dogfighting occurring anywhere in the United States. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bill Cummings, Henry Bergh, Jessica Rubin, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, Victoria Stilwell

Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy

February 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Murder-by-dog convict Marjorie Knoller is denied parole SACRAMENTO––The California Board of Parole Hearings on February 7,  2019 denied parole to Marjorie Knoller,  64,  convicted of murder-by-dog for the January 26,  2001 death of St. Mary’s College lacrosse coach Diane Whipple,  33,  at the door to her San Francisco apartment. Knoller will be allowed to seek parole […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Dale Bretches, Diane Whipple, Jean Donaldson, Marjorie Knoller, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, Richard Avanzino, Robert Noel, Sharon Smith

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