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Street dog howled warning before quake killed thousands in Turkey & Syria

February 8, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

At least 65 search-and-rescue dogs are now on site GAZANTIEP, Turkey––A lone street dog,  perhaps a Kangal mix,  howling in an intersection like an air raid siren shortly after four o’clock in the morning on February 6,  2023,  appears to be already the most enduring image from an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude on the Richter […]

Filed Under: Cats, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Mediterranean, Street dogs, Turkey Tagged With: Gazantiep, HAYTAP, Lea Goodett, Linda Taal, Merritt Clifton, Turkey Animal Save

International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87

December 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt             CAPE COD,  Massachusetts––Brian Davies,  87,  founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare,  Network for Animals,  the Political Animal Lobby,  and Animal Survival International,  died after a prolonged illness on December 27,  2022. Born on February 4,  1935 in Tonyrefail,  Wales,  an impoverished mining village,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Marine life, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Pacific rim, Philippines, Religion & philosophy, Seals, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife Tagged With: Anne Doncaster, Anne Streeter, Brigitte Bardot, Gloria Davies, Harry Rowsell, IFAW, International Wildlife Coaliton, Jill Robinson, Merritt Clifton, Paul Seigel, Stephen Best, Tom Hughes

Hurricane Ian & Pakistan “super flood” compete for aid & sympathy

October 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Animal agriculture made Pakistan crisis worse FORT MYERS, Florida;  ISLAMABAD,  Pakistan––With Hurricane Ian storm water still receding in Florida and South Carolina,  the human body count rising over 100,  and animal casualties only just beginning to be estimated,  Julien Harneis,  United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan,  might be said to have picked an awkward time to appeal to the […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Pakistan Tagged With: Abid Hussain, Antonio Guterres, Farah Naureen, Julien Harneis, Merritt Clifton, Shehbaz Sharif, Thomas Frank

Latest animal care updates from Hurricane Ian disaster area

October 2, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Finding some light amongst the darkness”             FORT MYERS,  Florida––Four days after Hurricane Ian roared across Florida from southwest to northeast,  and two days after Ian turned at sea to hook into South Carolina,  reports of human and animal casualties are still trickling in from animal care agencies. (See also How 60+ Florida animal care […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Animal Welfare League of Charlotte County, CROW Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wlldlife, Florida Rottweiler Rescue Ranch, Grand Strand Humane Society, Horry County Animal Care, International Primate Protection League, Madison County Sheriff's Office Animal Services, Merritt Clifton

How 60+ Florida animal care facilities survived Hurricane Ian

October 1, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

And how IFAW founder Brian Davies’ $1.4 million winter home didn’t             FORT MYERS, Florida––Forty-eight hours after Hurricane Ian first hit the southwest Florida coast on September 28,  2022,  and minutes after it slammed into South Carolina two days later,  after crossing the width of Florida and regaining momentum over the sea,  animal rescuers were […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Crocodilians, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Reptiles, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Turtles, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Brian Davies, Gullf Coast Humane Society, Hurricane Ian, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Adams, Sanibel

Floods: Yellowstone animals don’t need Noah, but animals might in Assam, India

June 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

High water raises hell in both the Rocky Mountains & below the Himalayas             YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,  U.S.A.;  GUWAHATI, Assam, India––While unprecedentedly catastrophic flooding closed Yellowstone National Park for a week in mid-June 2022,  also unprecedentedly severe monsoon flooding closed Manas National Park in Assam state,  India,  earlier and for longer. Both Yellowstone National Park,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Disasters, Elephants, Endangered species, Feature Home Middle Left, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Brahmaputra, Just Be Friendly, Manas National Park, Merritt Clifton, Smriti R. Dutta, Yellowstone National Park

Hours after Uvalde school killings, Iowa lawmakers authorize AR-15 deer hunt

May 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

New doe-and-fawn season DES MOINES,  Iowa––Hours after Salvador Ramos used an AR-15 automatic rifle he gave himself as an 18th birthday present to massacre 19 fourth graders and two teachers in Uvalde,  Texas,  the Iowa state house of representatives ratified a bill to create a special January antlerless deer hunting season for AR-15 users. The […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Deer & other horned species, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Joe Biden, Ken Rozenboom, Kim Reynolds, Merritt Clifton, Newtown, Parkland, Salvador Ramos, Todd Prichard, Uvalde

Russians kill Ukrainian animal rescue volunteers, bomb & starve shelters

March 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Anastasiia Yalanskaya & two others shot after delivering food to dog shelter near battle front             KYIV,  Ukraine––Anastasiia Yalanskaya,  26,  on March 4,  2022 became the second animal advocate known to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yalanskaya,  26,  “was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha,”  18 miles northwest of Kyiv,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Russia, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Ukraine, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Aleksandra Polischuk, Anastasiia Yalanskaya, Kostiantyn Khudov, Merritt Clifton, Natasha Derkach, Siobhán O'Grady, Tamara Tarnawska, Victor Fingal

Wildlife Waystation founder Martine Colette, 79, goes to “walk with tigers”

January 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Rescued,  sheltered,  & rehabilitated wildlife for 43 years LAKE HAVASU,  Arizona––Wildlife Waystation founder Martine Colette,  79,  died on January 23,  2022. Reported CBS-Los Angeles,  “Colette, who had been suffering from lung cancer,  died at her Lake Havasu home, according to her publicist.” Wrote Mike Barnes for Hollywood Reporter,  “She died surrounded by friends,  and one […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Kenya, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Bob Lorsch, Daphne Sheldrick, Gini Barrett, James Mahoney, Merritt Clifton, Robert Wenners

Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé

January 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Horse farm fire is horrific;  fire toll on poultry & pigs is thousands of times worse             MARTINSVILLE, Indiana––A pre-dawn fire ripped through the Springcliff Farm foaling operation in Martinsville, Indiana on January 6,  2022,  killing an as yet unknown number of horses. “The call came in around 4:50 a.m. from a neighbor,”  White River Township […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Brandon Shireman, Christine Cagle, Dena Jones, Marjorie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Vince Cagle

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