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 […]
Perp to serve no time for first U.S. federal “crush video” conviction
Credited with time served for Texas state charges HOUSTON, Texas––Ashley Nicole Richards, 25, the first federal defendant to be sentenced in a “crush video” case, on February 26, 2016 was ordered to serve 33 months in prison, but U.S. District Judge Sim Lake credited her with having already served the time during 42 months […]
“Crush” video selfie maker gets 40 years in Louisiana penitentiary
Sentenced mainly for child porn possession GONZALES, Louisiana––Technically Wilson Longanecker Jr., 43, formerly mayor of Sorrento, Louisiana, was not sentenced on January 19, 2016 to serve life in prison for making “crush” videos showing himself torturing cats in a variety of ways. Technically 23rd Judicial District Judge Jessie LeBlanc sentenced Longanecker to serve “only” […]
Court finally puts Angel’s Gate out of its misery
Eight-year struggle DELHI, New York––More than eight years of investigation and three years of litigation over the management of the former Angel’s Gate hospice in Delhi, New York, appeared to end with the dissolution of the charity on October 2, 2015 by Otsego County Court Judge John F. Lambert. The verdict may end one […]
New York Police Department eclipses ASPCA humane law enforcement stats in first full year on the beat
Impoundments & arrests triple NEW YORK CITY––Rescues of New York City animals from cruelty and neglect and arrests of alleged offenders all soared in 2014, the first full year since the American SPCA began turning the lead role in humane law enforcement over to the New York Police Department. Impoundments of abused and neglected animals […]
Note to animal abusers: Big Brother is watching you!
WASHINGTON D.C.–– Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey on September 17, 2014 announced that the FBI will add cruelty to animals to the national Uniform Crime Report Program as a unique category of offense. Including crimes against animals in the Uniform Crime Report Program is unlikely to change broad understandings about the […]
Impoundments for alleged neglect fell in 2013
Lowest caseload in at least 15 years Reported impoundments of allegedly neglected animals by U.S. law enforcement agencies fell in 2013 across the spectrum of neglect situations, to caseloads not seen since the 1990s––but the reasons for the drop are unclear. More successful interventions to prevent mass neglect might be one explanation. Alternatively, lawsuits and […]