“Managing” wildlife to prevent nuisance prevents benefits, as well SACRAMENTO, California––Though many individual California Department of Fish & Wildlife personnel have distinguished themselves on the frontlines of the wildfires razing Paradise, ravaging Malibu, and menacing several other communities around the state, ill-informed policy decisions made decades ago and never changed mean the 2018 fire season […]
Animal rescue amid wildfires at either end of California
Record 2018 fire season isn’t over yet PARADISE, MALIBU, California––Some good news for animals, habitat, and ultimately humans may yet emerge from the firestorms simultaneously razing the Sierra Nevada foothills city of Paradise and parts of the far distant coastal city of Malibu––if the already record-setting 2018 California wildfire season gives an anticipated boost […]
3.4 million “live inventory” – chickens & turkeys – drowned or starved in North Carolina storm
by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns with Afterword by ANIMALS 24-7 A caring person’s reaction to learning that millions of chickens and turkeys and pigs drowned in North Carolina this month is the gut-wrench of sorrow and pity for these helpless souls and outrage at the companies that didn’t see fit to […]
What did the deer know before the deadly Carr Fire?
At least 17 fires in 170 years have swept the same canyons, but none before as big or fast-moving FRENCH GULCH, California––The Carr Fire, called a “wildfire tornado” by Cal Fire officials as it burned with enough intensity to create its own weather system, began about five miles where ANIMALS 24-7 social media editor Beth Clifton […]
These “Blazing Saddles” episodes were no comedy
Padilla Ranch and San Luis Rey Downs disasters may have been only part of the Southern California fire toll on horses LOS ANGELES––Of the estimated 700,000 horses living in California, nearly 60% live in the four-county Southern California region hit by early December wildfires, the largest of which, the Thomas fire raging in the wooded […]
Dog rescue on the slopes of Agung, Bali’s erupting “Mount Doom”
BAWA rushes to save animals beneath clouds of hot ash UBUD, Bali, Indonesia––More than 4.2 million people, 350,000 dogs, and perhaps a million other animals from monkeys and chickens to goats and cattle, plus wildlife, are looking over their shoulders at a 30,000-foot column of steam, smoke, and ash boiling out of Mount Agung. […]
Leptospirosis: when a rescue goes to rat piss
Five of 10 puppies transported from Puerto Rico to Vermont fell ill NORWICH, Vermont––Posted Surfin’ Sato founder Aimee Porcaro Goodwin to Facebook two days before Thanksgiving 2017, “We just got the lepto PCR test results for Ollie. NEGATIVE!!! I’m so thankful!!” The “all clear” for Ollie, a puppy from Puerto Rico whom Surfin’ Sato […]
Bo the dog says “Help us!”
Monkey the cat says “Help us!” too $8,610.47 in bills due yesterday, and just $308.98 total to pay them with. That’s where we are, after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria sent ANIMALS 24-7 readership soaring over half a million for the year, but appeared to send our donations down the drain. Two months ago we […]
Flood & fire: global warming hits animal shelters from Puerto Rico to California
Disaster follows disaster GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico; SANTA ROSA, California––An October 16, 2017 flash flood forcing the Humane Society of Puerto Rico to evacuate all animals and personnel at a moment’s notice had much in common with wildfires impelling the evacuation of northern California animal shelters and sanctuaries a few days earlier. Despite the conflicting characteristics […]
What did we do during hurricanes Harvey, Irma, & Maria?
We were on the job! We knew longtime dolphin rescuer and advocate Rick Trout, of Tavernier in the Florida Keys, would be among our most valuable sources as Hurricane Irma roared in after devastating the Caribbean. Living in a house built as a storm shelter after the Category 5 hurricane of 1935, Trout sheltered neighbors […]
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