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No-kill drive leaves TN county with no shelter & as many strays as ever

July 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Not a fraction enough s/n done to be no-kill,  deadly dogs running amok,  & humane society near broke NEWPORT,  Tennessee––Locally recognized as deficient for more than 50 years,  animal control services in Cocke County,  Tennessee are within a week of vanishing entirely. Effective on August 1,  2022,  the nonprofit organization founded in 1993 as Friends […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alison Chiaradio, Amber Miller, Anne Fontaine, Carol Hood, Charles Owensby, Merritt Clifton, Smoky Mountain Humane Society, Tony Ahrens

The Envigo beagle case: loose ends & lessons for animal advocates

July 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Bad as the Envigo kennels are,  many animal shelter facilities are no better CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Much of the attention of the animal advocacy world,  as this is written,  is focused on the impending evacuation of 4,000-odd beagles from the Envigo kennels,  formerly the LabCorp kennels,  formerly the Covance Kennels. (See 4,500+ beagles freed from laboratory use […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Breeding, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Covance, Humane Society of the U.S., Jill Cheshire, Merritt Clifton, PETA, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Has the Humane Society of Utah ever heard of adoption screening?

June 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Repeated rehomings to cruelty suspect Kaiden Orie Graham squanders longtime Humane Society of Utah reputation for cruelty investigation MURRAY,  Utah––For the second time in 30 days a regionally significant humane society has some explaining to do about a serious cruelty case coming to light shortly after an executive director departed for apparently greener pastures. Former […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bob Citrullo, Humane Society of Utah, Kaiden Orie Graham, Merritt Clifton, Stanislaus Animal Services Agency, Vaughn Maurice III

How humility can help animal advocates to change the world, by Ed Duvin

June 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Perspective of an old warrior Spending over a half-century in social justice movements, much of it consulting, I have formed some conclusions that did not come down from the mountaintop,  but merely represent the perspective of an old warrior. Were I to identify the most pernicious characteristics I have encountered among justice-seeking activists,  regardless of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Frances Power Cobbe, Immanuel Kant, Peter Singer, pit bull mommy, Plato, rescue angel, Socrates, Tom Regan

Why would a smart dog on the loose say, “Don’t rescue me!”? by Beth Clifton

June 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fallen “rescue angels” & online enablers erode the whole concept of “rescue” There are no heroes or heroines in animal rescue.  The success stories tend to be people who manage to foster,  rehabilitate to whatever extent is necessary,  and responsibly rehome one or two dogs or cats at a time,  over and over through many […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Corinne DiLorenzo, Dawn Pennington, Heidi Lueders, Merritt Clifton, Rooster Featherton, Steffen Baldwin, Steven Woodington, Tiffany Woodington

Fallen “rescue angels”: Dawn Pennington, Tiffany Woodington, Corinne DiLorenzo

June 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Dawn Pennington just charged,  Tiffany Woodington beat the rap but husband faces trial,  Corinne DiLorenzo due for trial next COLUMBIA, South Carolina;  BENTON COUNTY, Missouri;  THAWVILLE,  Illinois––Charged with mass animal neglect after 28 dogs and two cats were found dead in their cages at her home on May 22,  2022,  fallen “rescue angel” Caroline Dawn […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bob Citrullo, Go For Wand, Heidi Lueders, Jamie Woodington, Kershaw County Humane Society, Mark Anthony Trevino, Merritt Clifton, Steven Clark Woodington

Accused of starving caged dogs & cats to death, Caroline Dawn Pennington had priors

June 5, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Like Heidi Lueders,  but six times worse COLUMBIA, South Carolina––Caroline Dawn Pennington,  47,  charged with mass animal neglect after 28 dogs and two cats were found dead in their cages at her home on May 22,  2022,  held on bond of $75,000,  is not just a rescuer gone very bad. Pennington,  as well as heading […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Caroline Dawn Bolen, Dawndy Mercer Plank, Global Rescue Welfare League, Kershaw County Humane Society, Merritt Clifton, Nicole Chielleni

Erika Brunson, 86, animal advocate, actress, interior decorator, & furniture maker

May 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Rose from rough start in life to philanthropic success Animal advocacy and spay/neuter philanthropist Erika Devore Brunson,  86,  died in Los Angeles,  California on May 17, 2022. Maria Erika Knab,  her original given name,  was born on September 4, 1935,  “in the small fishing town of Konigsberg in East Prussia,”  according to an October 16,  2013 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Russia, USA Tagged With: Erika Devore, Erika Knab, Erika Peters, Jack Webb, Jolene Blalock, Merritt Clifton, Sy Devore

Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

“Rescue” hoarding: the “Nutmeg State” becomes the “Nut Case” state

March 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue” bust is latest of a 20-year series             HEBRON,  Connecticut––The arrest of CT Pregnant Dog & Cat Rescue founder Joann M. Connelly,  59,  announced by the Connecticut State Police on March 26,  2022,  has disquieting echoes of previous alleged “rescue” hoarding cases that legislation passed almost a decade earlier […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Desmond's Army, Fred Acker, Heidi Lueders, Joann Connelly, Krystel Lopez, Merritt Clifton, Robbin D'Urso, Vincent D'Urso

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