Melvyn Driver, Stephen Paysse, Michelle Rose, Marge Wright, & Eleonora Worth mostly helped animals behind the scenes Driver “designed & built humane animal handling equipment for over 50 years” Melvyn Driver, 80, of Luton, United Kingdom, whose “innovation, knowledge of cats, and passion for problem-solving helped to shape the success of trap/neuter/return feral cat control […]
Shooting war: cats win, feeders lose in East Bay Regional Park District
East Bay Regional Park District agrees to ceasefire if cat rescuers remove cats from sensitive wildlife areas OAKLAND, California––Histrionic headlines and activist alerts aside, what the East Bay Regional Park District board of directors really did at a heated June 15, 2021 meeting over cat policy was to: Permanently reassign staff biologist David “Doctor […]
Spay/neuter popcorn? It’s as real as Alex Pacheco’s s/n cookies!
600 million stray dogs would eat it, & it would not need FDA approval POMPANO BEACH, Florida––Asked a former major financial backer of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, upon receiving founder Alex Pacheco 2021 “summer fundraising drive” appeal for more money with which to develop a spay-and-neuter cookie, “I wonder if he’s tested popcorn? […]
CDC: fixated on rabies, ignoring 100 times more deaths from pit bulls
As many U.S. children were killed by pit bulls within 5 days in June 2021 as have been killed by canine rabies since 1968 ATLANTA, Georgia––Which is more likely to kill an American, a rabid dog or a pit bull? The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, on June […]
“Return to Field” from an animal care & control perspective
by Dawn D. Danielson, RVT, former director, County of San Diego Animal Services The subject of intake, holding and release of cats into the community from which they were brought to a shelter is becoming an emotionally charged debate over, among other things, the lawfulness of programs operating under such names as “community cats,” “return […]
“Stand your ground” fails in both iguana case & pit bull attacks
Florida attorney general’s office says “Stand your ground” law does not apply to animals WEST PALM BEACH, Florida––Rejecting a “stand-your-ground” defense, Palm Beach County judge Jeffrey Gillen on May 28, 2021 ordered P.J. Nilaja Patterson, 43, to stand trial on June 30, 2021, for alleged cruelty to an iguana whom Patterson beat, dragged, and kicked […]
Citrus County, Florida, tries to put Out of the Box Rescue back in the box
Efforts to transfer dangerous dogs out of the shelter system fill Citrus County Animal Shelter with more dangerous dogs than before, now held as evidence INVERNESS, Florida––Two pit bulls and an apparent Rottweiler mix impounded in January 2021 from Out of the Box Rescue attacked two Citrus County Animal Shelter volunteers and a staff […]
Rottweilers: two fatal attacks & three near-fatalities disclosed in one day
May 2021 dog attack death toll––eight––ties December 2017 record ANGIER, North Carolina; WHITEHALL, Montana; ALPHARETTA, Georgia––Two Rottweiler-inflicted fatalities and three Rottweiler-inflicted near fatalities, all disclosed to media on May 26, 2021, left Rottweilers trailing pit bulls in fatal attacks for the month by a margin of 3-2, and in disfiguring attacks by a margin of […]
San Diego showdown: trap-neuter-return advocates sue vs. return-to-field
Court case hinges on the difference between a truly feral cat and a tame, friendly cat found at large SAN DIEGO, California—A lawsuit brought against the San Diego Humane Society & SPCA by the Southern California animal rescue charities Pet Assistance Foundation and Paw Protectors seeks to establish, for the first time, a clear legal […]
Navajo Nation: “They hid the dogs who killed my daughter!”
Pit bull proliferation––and dog attack fatality rate 100 times that of the U.S. as a whole FORT DEFIANCE, Navajo Nation–– “They hid the dogs that attacked and killed my daughter from animal control” Marissa “Ris” Rose Jones posted to Facebook. “What is wrong with these people?” Jones helplessly asked. Jones’ daughter, Lyssa Rose Upshaw, […]
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