Nova Scotia and Denver ban declawing FREDERICTON, Nova Scotia; DENVER, Colorado––Christmas came early in 2017 for cats in Nova Scotia province, Canada, and in Denver, Colorado. Both jurisdictions recently banned elective and non-therapeutic declawing surgery, but through starkly different legal approaches. Nova Scotia vets make declawing “unethical” The Nova Scotia declawing ban was adopted, […]
Panhandlers & street corner animal exhibitors: who is who?
Animals dancing for pennies are regulated. Panhandlers’ animals are not. NEW YORK, N.Y.––Is Joseph Ramos, 70, also known as Joseph Noal and Joseph Noah, a street corner animal exhibitor, or just one of the longest active and most controversial panhandlers using animals as an adjunct to begging in downtown Manhattan? Joseph Ramos a.k.a. Noal/Noah […]
Why is Hawaii “moving at a hurried pace” to kill cats at boat harbors?
New policy allows waterfront cats to be killed “by any means deemed necessary” MILILANI, Hawaii––Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources chair Suzanne Case “is moving at a hurried pace to kill cats with a lead pellet fired from a high powered pellet rifle to the head or heart,” alleges Carroll Cox––who is not […]
Hurricane Irma: how many dogs were abandoned?
More than 70% of the shelters serving Florida closed Hurricane Irma forced more than 70% of the humane society and animal control shelters serving Florida to either close for at least one day when they normally would have been open, but just over half––55%––were open again within 72 hours, according to two ANIMALS 24-7 surveys […]
The Animal Shelter by Patricia Curtis
Lodestar Books (c/o E.P. Dutton), 1984. 164 pages, hardcover. $13.95 original price. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The Animal Shelter, by Patricia Curtis, introduced a generation of young people to humane work. “I wrote The Animal Shelter 28 years ago, so it is badly out-of-date,” Curtis told me in May 2011, seemingly surprised to be looked […]
TNR achieves 72% drop in kitten birth rate, finds Alley Cat Rescue
25 years of neuter/return has effect comparable to reducing average litter size from four kittens to one MOUNT RANIER, Maryland––The largest return of data yet from a national survey of cat rescue and sterilization programs shows a cumulative reduction of 72% in kitten births at monitored colonies since the introduction of neuter/return feral cat […]
Talking about cats in Holy Week
ANIMALS 24-7 visits with Stacy LeBaron of Community Cats podcast Yes, it is Dog Bite Prevention Week, according to the U.S. Postal Service, and Easter week according to the world’s 2.2 billion Christians, and Friday is Passover, celebrated by about 17.4 million Jewish people. But somewhere in the vicinity of 400 million people worldwide worship […]
“Rescue hoarding” cases horrify Iowa
Iowa cases exemplify national trend DES MOINES, Iowa––Arrested on February 13, 2017, Bully Breed Miracle Networking & Rescue founder Lindsey Morrow, 41, is awaiting trial in Warren County, Iowa, on five counts of animal torture, five counts of animal neglect, second-degree theft, second-degree fraudulent practice and ongoing criminal conduct. Alerted to conditions of severe […]
Cats on the air everywhere!
Half an hour with Stacy LeBaron of the Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts––North American awareness of human impact on natural habitat is sometimes traced back to Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, which preceded his much better known essay Civil Disobedience by a matter of […]
Hot dogs, kids, & summer: a deadly triad
Alleged hot car case perp, facing charges, could be said to have gotten away with it because neither child nor dogs died CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee––Chattanooga State Community College student Shea Amber Anderson, 24, on April 29, 2016 got away with three of the most egregious alleged crimes of neglect that a parent and petkeeper can […]