Legendary for deeds with ASPCA & WSPA, but worked nearly twice as long for the British Columbia SPCA in St. George PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia, Canada––If Kathi Travers, 69, could still shout aloud, she might be shouting yet, more than six months later, about the first sentence of her Prince George Citizen obituary. Belatedly […]
Three Dog Night: homeless pet owners suffer silently
by Jon Geller, DVM National Director & founder, The Street Dog Coalition As panic and anxiety bubble over for many of us dealing with both the medical and non-health-related hardships resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic, those pet owners living on the streets find a hard life made harder. Many community meal services have been […]
COVID-19 hot tip for coffee growers: don’t go bat-@#$% nuts!
COVID-19 shows “Eat @#$% & die!” is a warning, not a metaphor KUNMING, China; LONDON, U.K.; SEATTLE––One might imagine that the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19, a disease apparently originating in bats, would not be the best time for selling bat-processed coffee. At this writing, COVID-19 has infected nearly 175,000 people, worldwide, killing […]
Sex, COVID-19, & the Thai monkey apocalypse
“Monkey menace” emerged first & will likely be around a lot longer BANGKOK, Thailand––Nightmares that a flying monkey army might ransack Thailand leaped across the Indian Ocean during the second week of March 2020, out of Hindu mythology and the daily fears of Buddhist temple keepers, and into the imagination of social media video-watchers […]
COVID-19 & “The Next Big One”: Spillover revisited
Science writer David Quammen saw COVID-19 coming COVID-19, though renamed twice just in the first few months of 2020, “is not as novel as you might think,” explained veteran science writer David Quammen in the January 28, 2020 edition of The New York Times. Quammen, 72, was uniquely positioned to comment, not only because he […]
Why COVID-19 is NOT the zoonotic illness most likely to kill you
Panicked stress may be killing more people than the disease itself SEATTLE, ATLANTA, HONG KONG––Amid escalating global panic over the worldwide rapid spread of the recently identified coronavirus COVID-19, a person not familiar with ProMED–mail might expect the most panic-stricken person of all to be ProMED–mail deputy editor Marjorie P. Pollack, M.D. ProMED-mail is […]
“No injuries” says Michael Foods of fire that killed 400,000 hens
Cage-free complex has been much praised by animal advocates BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska––If anyone imagined that going cage-free would substantively change the egg industry, the headlines alone reporting a February 27, 2020 barn fire at a Michael Foods cage-free complex in Knox County, Nebraska should explode that illusion. The Michael Foods fire killed as many as […]
Poisoning Australia in the name of wildlife recovery after bushfire losses
And kangaroos shot, koala trees bulldozed MELBOURNE, CANBERRA, SYDNEY, BRISBANE––Six months of bushfires ravaging Australian coastal forests and grasslands stretching into parts of the Outback are reportedly almost at an end. The last two dozen fires in New South Wales and a comparable number left in Victoria state are smoldering on at the lowest […]
Helping animals through the Australian firestorm
Reports from 25 of the hundreds of animal aid charities working in the hot zones CANBERRA, Australian Capital Territories––More than 100 wildfires raging in Australian coastal forests and wooded parts of the Australian interior in September 2019 exploded beyond immediate hope of control and burst into global consciousness during the first days of 2020, splitting […]
Krefeld Zoo fire killed 30+ animals due to poor design & preparation
Candle-powered flying paper lanterns allegedly caused the fire. But inadequate attention to fire safety caused the deaths. KREFIELD, Germany––A fire that killed more than 30 apes, monkeys, bats and birds at the Krefeld Zoo in the first minutes of 2020 apparently began when one or more flying cylindrical paper lanterns propelled by small votive candles […]
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