The Gaza dogs are hungry, but are they hungry enough yet to eat people? NUSEIRAT, Gaza; RAMAT GAN, Israel––Claims that starving Gaza street dogs are eating unburied victims of the Israel/Gaza war are helping to fuel controversy over the Israeli Defense Force response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks. The claims may be […]
Rabid kitten & dog jeopardize eradication success stories in U.S. & India
Apparently isolated cases, but both rabies outbreaks came where they should not have OMAHA, Nebraska; CHENNAI, India––Recent discoveries of a rabid kitten in east-central Omaha, Nebraska, and a rabid dog in Royapuram, a northern suburb of Chennai, India, indicate threats to two of the most influential rabies eradication success stories anywhere, ever. The rabid kitten, […]
Mystery diseases hit dogs, cats, sea lions––are birds the missing link?
H5N1 avian flu, a virus, has hit all of the outbreak areas, but many of the mystery infections appear to be bacterial SPOKANE, Washington; SAN DIEGO, California; LONDON, U.K.; LIMA, Peru––Fall is the flu season, for humans and animals. Therefore, just because mysterious new flu-like diseases in dogs, cats, and marine mammals are appearing coincidental […]
Squishy shelter numbers conceal dropping the ball on spay/neuter
How much real progress toward eradicating cat & dog overpopulation has been lost through a focus on the wrong bottom line? (Gerry Childs, now retired from a long career in sales in many different parts of the U.S., recently celebrated 50 years of volunteering at every stop for animal shelters, spay/neuter projects, and feral cat […]
Rabies deaths drive effort in Vietnam to stop eating dogs & cats
Soi Dog Foundation enlists teachers & practitioners of traditional medicine in campaign HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Sixty-four human deaths from rabies in Vietnam during the first nine months of 2023, an increase of 21 from the first nine months of 2022, have sparked renewed efforts to eradicate the dog and cat meat traffic. Medically recognized […]
Gaza cats hide, dogs run, & donkeys go on working amid Israeli bombing
Animal rescue activity is nearly completed in evacuated parts of Israel attacked by Hamas AL ZAHRA, Gaza; TEL AVIV, Israel––Amid the explosions and chaos of the Israeli Defense Force incursion to destroy Hamas tunnels, dogs run, cats hide, and the Gaza donkeys go on working. Indeed, the surviving Gaza donkeys are working perhaps harder than […]
Let The Animals Live reminds what the Israel/Hamas war is all about
Sulala Animal Rescue is out of contact as war intensifies; Israeli Bat Sanctuary stands down from active rescue, but continues to care for animals from massacred kibbutz farms & evacuated Israeli territory RAMAT GAN, Israel; NUSEIRAT, Gaza––With expanded Israel Defense Force ground operations in Gaza underway, concurrent with intensified negotiations seeking the release of 229 […]
Heroes & heroines for animals on either side of the Israel/Gaza war zone
Nora Lifschitz, Ilan Ben Avraham, Saeed Al Err & family, et al TEL AVIV, Israel; GAZA, Palestine––Israeli Bat Sanctuary founder Nora Lifschitz is emerging as an Israeli national heroine for her now nearly 200 all-species animal rescues from the massacred kibbutz collective farms just outside Gaza. Let the Animals Live, the largest Israel animal rescue […]
“Today seemed calmer,” Gaza animal shelter said, as war intensified
Israeli rescuers bring out animals left behind by Hamas massacres GAZA CITY, TEL AVIV––Hezbollah snipers shot Israeli surveillance cameras to pieces along the Lebanese border. Two thousand U.S. Marines aboard American warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea were put on full alert preparatory to a scheduled October 18, 2023 visit to Tel Aviv, Israel, by […]
Israel & Gaza: “More & more animals with burns, open wounds”
Dairy cattle, sheep, & goats occupy the no-man’s-land as Israeli tanks roll toward Gaza City GAZA CITY, TEL AVIV–– “Our team are out there non-stop. We’re getting more and more cats and dogs with burns, open wounds, broken limbs, and the list goes on and on,” posted the Israeli organization Let The Animals Live […]