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Omak “Suicide Race” 2018: more dead horses & “kill the messenger”

September 14, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Tribal baseball tradition much better documented than “suicide racing”             OMAK,  Washington––Add at least two more dead horses to the mounting toll from the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo “Suicide Race,”  bringing the known toll since 1983 to 25,  with many more suspected but undocumented,  and no record existing of injuries and deaths from the first […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Dave Skeels, Merritt Clifton, Paul Maley, Roger Harnack, Shamy Johnson, Tina Stratemeyer

Humans snort coke 170 times more often than racing greyhounds

March 16, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Studies exonerate more than 99.9% of racing greyhounds,  but not necessarily their trainers             GAINESVILLE,  Florida––If dogs could do drugs unassisted,  the hard-working,  short,  highly stressed life of a racing greyhound might drive many times more to substance abuse than just the 1,150 greyhounds among more than 700,000 known to have flunked race day urine […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Sports, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Carey M. Theil, Casey Jones, Charles F. McClellan, Greg Cima, Jennifer Y. Rosenblum, Malcolm McAllister, Merritt Clifton, Natasha L. Nemeth

Greyhound Friends founder acquitted of felony neglect

December 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Rescue legend allegedly no longer kept up with the pack          FRAMINGHAM,  Massachusetts–– Greyhound Friends founder Louise Coleman,  73,  for nearly 35 years a pioneer of racing greyhound rescue,  rehabilitation,  and adoption,  was on December 1,  2017 acquitted of felony neglect by Framingham District Court Judge David Cunis,  after a four-day bench trial. Concluded […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Ireland, Isles, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Kevin Schneider, Louise Coleman, Merritt Clifton, Stoddard Melhado

Hurricane Harvey: how horses, cattle, lab & zoo animals fared

September 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Many still need help HOUSTON, Texas––How have horses,  cattle,  and animals kept in laboratories and zoos fared through Hurricane Harvey and aftermath? Soggy doggies and cats took the media spotlight during the first week of the Harvey crisis,  but animals of every species shared the impact of the record deluge. (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Science, Show, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Amber Aldaco, Carrie Arnold, Cash Clark, Chance Ward, Clint Seay, Emma Harris, Jerry Finch, Jesse Salinas, Jimmy Zaplac, Lee Ehmke, Mary Robinson DVM, Merritt Clifton, Michael Magaw, Pat Raia, Ray Paulick, Teresa Magaw, Thomas Swafford

Greyhound racing goes to the dogs in Miami, Macau, & Australia

July 31, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Magic City is allowed to replace greyhound racing with jai alai––a precedent for “decoupling” animal racing from gambling permits          MIAMI,  Florida––The Magic City casino in West Flagler,  Florida,  after more than 13 years of legal struggle,  is soon to become the first Florida betting venue to be allowed to abandon animal racing while continuing […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, China, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Horse racing, Indian subcontinent, Other animal racing, Pakistan, Uses of dogs, Zoos Tagged With: Charlie McClellan, Dara Kam, Izzy Havenick, Jim Rosica, John Lockwood, Merritt Clifton

The Wolf in Dog’s Clothing

April 15, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Margaret A. Cleek, Ph.D In the early 1990s the Alaskan Malamute Club of America was petrified that Malamutes would be included in bans of the then very popular wolf hybrid.   To protect our breed,  I developed an educational brochure for the Alaskan Malamute Club of America,  which with only minor updates seems applicable as an addendum and commentary […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Breeding, Canada, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dog racing, Dog sledding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Sled dog racing, The Americas, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: John Youril, Margaret Anne Cleek

2016 Del Mar thoroughbred deaths may set new track record

August 24, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Second year back on dirt,  after eight years on synthetic surface cut deaths in half          DEL MAR,  California––Sixteen horses dead in the first five weeks of racing this year at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club near San Diego has just about everyone associated with horse racing wondering why and what’s next. One more death […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Racing, USA Tagged With: Alan Zarembo, California Chrome, Chris Ello, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Merritt Clifton, Santa Anita

Stampede & Frontier Days ride furiously in opposite directions

July 30, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

No animal deaths in 2016 in Calgary;  8 injuries in 8 days in Cheyenne  One day we rode the mountain crest and I went east & he went west. I took to law & wore a star while he spread terror near and far. ––Lorne Green, “Ringo” (1964) With two days left to run, at least 10 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Canada, Cattle & dairy, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Other animal racing, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Calgary Stampede, Cheyenne Frontier Days, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Greyhound racing in Macau, China runs toward oblivion

June 10, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Greyhound Racing New South Wales charges 179 “industry participants” with illegally supplying the only track in China          RHODES,  New South Wales,  Australia;  MACAU,  China––Charges brought against 179 Australian “industry participants” for allegedly illegally exporting greyhounds to Macau appear likely to hasten the anticipated imminent end of greyhound racing at the Macau Canidrome,  the oldest […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, China, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Greyhound racing, Ireland, Isles, Meat issues, Organizations, Organizations, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Albano Martins, Anima Macau, Animals Australia, Canidrome, Grey 2K, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton

Pimlico death again raises question: why do bettors favor beaten horses?

May 21, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Did “a right-handed rousing” contribute to winning horse’s apparent cardiovascular collapse? BALTIMORE, Maryland––“Rallied under a right-handed rousing”  by jockey Horacio Karamanos,  according to the Pimlico Race Course chart-writer,  the official record-keeper for the race,  Homeboykris charged from behind to win the first race of the May 21,  2016 card culminating in the Preakness Stakes,  the second […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Behavior, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Racing, United Kingdom Tagged With: Dan Barry, David Evans, Homeboykris, horsewhipping, Merritt Clifton, Paul McGreevy, Pramedya, Smarty Jones, Triple Crown

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