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New York bans declawing cats; Massachusetts next?

July 25, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

2015 “Favorite Vet” contest outcome tipped balance toward declaw bans across North America             ALBANY,  New York––Governor Andrew Cuomo on July 22, 2019 signed into law Assembly Bill A-1303,  making New York the first U.S. state to ban declawing cats. There are about 4.2 million cats in New York state,  about half of them in […]

Filed Under: Behavior & health, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Christy Layton, Gary Richter, Jennifer Conrad, Linda Rosenthal, Lori Shepler, Marcy Hammerle, Merritt Clifton, Mitsie Vargas, Tina Roggenbeck

300 cats found in apartment near the scene of multiple murders

May 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Neighbors reportedly complained of corpse-like odor for seven years             NORTH YORK, Ontario––Even before nearly 300 cats were found on May 3,  2019,  huddled in Apartment 1811 at 30 Falstaff Avenue,  North York,  Ontario,  the suburban Toronto building was well-known to police. Built in 1970,  Falstaff Towers,  a cluster of buildings including three 19-story public […]

Filed Under: Canada, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, The Americas Tagged With: Belinda Vandersluis, Karley Lux, Mary Lou Leiher, Merritt Clifton

“No-kill” debacle: will Pueblo bring “responsible sheltering” into vogue?

April 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

90% “live release” mandate failed catastrophically in less than 90 days             PUEBLO,  Colorado––“You can’t manage an animal shelter to a number,”  Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region president Jan McHugh-Smith told Pueblo Chieftan reporter Anthony A. Mestas,  hours after her organization returned to running the Pueblo Animal Services shelter on April 9,  2019,  […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Humane history, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Doug Rae, Elisabeth Lewyt, Jan McHugh-Smith, Jeff Young, Lynda Foro, Marvin Mackie, Nathan Winograd, Richard Avanzino

The Mesa case: from rescue hot-dogging to rescue hoarding

January 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Rescue addiction & enabling made Teri Finneren and the animals in her care the losers in a quasi-pyramid scheme              MESA, Arizona––The January 15,  2019 discovery of multiple skeletal remains of small dogs in the feces-strewn home of of Tiggy Town Senior Dog Rescue operator Theresa Deanne (Teri) Finneren caused dog and cat rescuers,  veterinary […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Karen Nelson, Lisa Maturo Carrick, Merritt Clifton, Ro Perez, Theresa Deanne Finneren, Theresa Dobbie, Tiggy Town, Tootsie's Vision

Alleged pit bull starver Lueders & “rescue” horse thief Blackwood both busted

January 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Bully Breed Rescue president to be arraigned on February 13, 2019             BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut;  TUSKEGEE,  Alabama––Bully Breed Rescue president and alleged pit bull starver Heidi E. Lueders,  31,  can expect to face a howling mob of former donors,  volunteers,  sympathizers,  and miscellaneous other pit bull advocates when she appears for arraignment on February 13,  2019 […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Rodeo, Slaughter, Spectacles, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Benedicta "Bannie" McGrath, Fallon Danielle Blackwood, Heidi Lueders, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Anderson Lueders

Did Louisiana cop Terry Yetman do the dog?  If so,  why?

December 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Bestiality bust just before Christmas went viral (See also Bestiality & child porn: ex-K9 cop Terry Yetman gets 20 years.) BOSSIER CITY,  Louisiana––The animal story most often read,  worldwide,  during the five days before Christmas 2018 had nothing to do,  so far as is known,  with reindeer,  and probably nothing to do with donkeys,  lambs,  […]

Filed Under: Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Police & military, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Crystal Bonvillian, Douglas Spink, Jenny Edwards, Kenneth Pinyan, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Trey Huchison

Witch hunts & wildlife

October 13, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

$53,000 reward offered in panic A $53,000 reward,  believed to be the biggest ever in a case of this sort,  is currently posted in Thurston County,  Washington,  for information leading to the apprehension of an alleged serial cat killer who has supposedly tortured and dismembered at least 13 cats since July 2018. We could certainly […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Elizabeth Smart, Merritt Clifton, sadists, Satanists, Temma Martin

All cats want for Christmas are their two front paws (and hind paws too, intact)

December 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Canada, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs & Cats, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Laws & politics, Shelters, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Aubrey Lavizzo, Hugh Chisholm, Jennifer Conrad, Jon Murray, Kevin Bissett, Kirsten Butler, Merritt Clifton, Troy Singleton

Panhandlers & street corner animal exhibitors: who is who?

October 7, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Claire Toohy, Emperor Norton, Irene Meuschel, Joseph Noah, Joseph Noal, Joseph Ramos, Kagte Briquelet, Merritt Clifton

Why is Hawaii “moving at a hurried pace” to kill cats at boat harbors?

September 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Pacific islands & other, Population control, Population control, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Brigitte Nameta, Bryan Kortis, Carroll Cox, Edward Howe Forbush, Merritt Clifton, Richard Pough, Suzanne Case

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