Cruel hypocrisy masquerades as concern for exploited dogs, cats, & gamefowl SEOUL; HANOI; CROSS PLAINS, Texas; BENNETT, Colorado––One need not have spent much time personally investigating Southeast Asian dog and cat meat markets, or U.S. cockpits, or even just viewing the wealth of undercover and drone video of such operations gathered in recent years […]
Brigitte Bardot, 91, movie star for 20 years, animal advocate for 52 years
Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
Soi Dog Foundation in 2024 helped Vietnam to cut rabies deaths by 20%
“Bad news” reports of rabies deaths emphasize need to abolish the dog & cat meat trade HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Signs of success for the Soi Dog Foundation’s decade-long campaign to help Vietnam eradicate rabies tend to look like bad news––if one does not know the context. The Ho Chi Minh-based Tuoi Tre News, for […]
“Run Spot Run” from Trump/Vance bogus claims about dog & cat eating
Hours after J.D. Vance eats false allegation about immigrants devouring dogs & cats in Springfield, Ohio, Donald Trump repeats it in debate against Kamala Harris PHILADELPHIA––Former U.S. president Donald Trump gave away his strategy only moments into debating vice president Kamala Harris on the evening of September 10, 2024. “It’s like four sentences like Run […]
Hong Kong: no-kill beacon to the world or hub of grand scale scamming?
The 121-year-old Hong Kong SPCA has a hard-earned great reputation, but about half of the purported no-kill shelters in the New Territories do not even exist HONG KONG––Is Hong Kong a beacon of hope for no-kill animal control campaigns worldwide, including in the U.S., or is Hong Kong actually the hub of scamming in the […]
Hanoi bans dog & cat meat trade; Philippines & India bust dog meat dealers
Stopping rabies & attracting tourists motivate government in Vietnamese capital HANOI, Vietnam––102 human rabies deaths in 29 administrative jurisdictions during 2023 have reportedly moved the city government in Hanoi, the national capital of Vietnam, to ban the dog and cat meat trade––coincidentally, almost on the eve of the annual dog-eating festival held toward the end […]
Rabies deaths drive effort in Vietnam to stop eating dogs & cats
Soi Dog Foundation enlists teachers & practitioners of traditional medicine in campaign HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Sixty-four human deaths from rabies in Vietnam during the first nine months of 2023, an increase of 21 from the first nine months of 2022, have sparked renewed efforts to eradicate the dog and cat meat traffic. Medically recognized […]
Soi Dog Foundation shuts down a Vietnamese cat slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse operated in open defiance of 1998 cat meat ban HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––“In a ground-breaking victory against the dog and cat meat trade in Vietnam, a cat slaughterhouse has been forced to cease operations,” announced Soi Dog Foundation director of international advocacy Rahul Sehgal in a March 23, 2022 appeal to potential donors. […]
International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87
Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt CAPE COD, Massachusetts––Brian Davies, 87, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Network for Animals, the Political Animal Lobby, and Animal Survival International, died after a prolonged illness on December 27, 2022. Born on February 4, 1935 in Tonyrefail, Wales, an impoverished mining village, […]
Trump allies in the animal world squirm after U.S. Capitol storming
From “Joe Exotic” to Wayne Pacelle WASHINGTON D.C.––Soon-to-be-former U.S. President Donald Trump and his die-hard defenders who are now facing criminal charges for storming the U.S. National Capitol building on January 6, 2021 were scarcely the only big losers from the events of the day. Former U.S. Air Force security dog handler Ashli Babbitt, […]