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MLK assassin ex-wife Anna Ray busted for dog hoarding––again!

June 28, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

1996 Anna Sandhu Ray case history was often cited by hoarding expert Vicky Crosetti JACKSON, Tennessee––Anna Sandhu Ray,  74,  ex-wife of James Earl Ray,  the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.,  was on June 21,  2021 arrested in Jackson,  Tennessee and booked into the Madison County jail on 44 counts of animal cruelty for extreme […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, USA Tagged With: Anna Sandhu Ray, James Earl Ray, James Warren McBee Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, Vicky Crosetti

“Return to Field” from an animal care & control perspective

June 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior & health, Beliefs, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Dawn Danielson, San Diego Animal Services

San Diego showdown: trap-neuter-return advocates sue vs. return-to-field

May 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Betsy Denhart, Claire Tregesser, Gary Weitzman, Merritt Clifton, Pet Assistance Foundation, Pet Protectors, San Diego Humane Society & SPCA, Sharon Logan

Law prof: more jail time for cruelty does not advance animal rights

March 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Institutional offenders remain untouched by felony cruelty penalties DENVER––“More prosecution will never lead to greater animal rights.  Longer sentences have not incrementally advanced the standing of animals in society,”  argues Sturm College of Law professor Justin Marceau in the March 20,  2021 edition of the Harvard Law Review Forum. Marceau is also the Brooks Institute Faculty […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Justin Marceau, Merritt Clifton

We need to open up spay/neuter – now!

April 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Bryan Kortis, National Programs Director, Neighborhood Cats When the shutdowns in our country began due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus,  in early March 2020,  the animal welfare field reacted quickly.  Shelters were closed to the public,  services were curtailed to the bare minimum,  and cages were emptied through adoptions and recruitment […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Bryan Kortis, Jeff Young

Handling hoarders

January 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Vicky Crosetti Editor’s note:  Vicky Crosetti,  1953-2020,  for 19 years executive director of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley in Knoxville,  Tennessee,  and a founding ANIMALS 24-7 board member,  was for more than 25 years a first responder in animal hoarding cases,  becoming a nationally recognized expert and frequent conference speaker on handling […]

Filed Under: Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top Tagged With: Vicky Crosetti

Deborah Sue Culwell gets a year in jail for Coachella puppy dumping

August 14, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Unsympathetic suspect, but shelter policies may have been accessories to the alleged crime             COACHELLA,  California––Riverside County Superior Court Judge Harold Hopp on August 14,  2019 sentenced Deborah Sue Culwell,  59,  to serve 365 days in custody for abandoning seven puppies in a trash bin on a hot day in April. Counting time already served […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Chris Mayer, Deborah Sue Culwell, Jessica Gregory, Merritt Clifton, Valaria Schultz

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

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