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Pet Overpopulation and the 70% Rule

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by W. Marvin Mackie, D.V.M. March 2003 In an October 2002 article about the national Animal Birth Control program in India,  entitled “Get 70% or flunk”, ANIMALS 24-7 editor Merritt Clifton mentioned the Fibonacci 70% rule.  His writing piqued my interest to the point that I asked him for further clarification,  and then conducted some research of […]

Animals in bondage: the hoarding mind

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by Merritt Clifton LYLES,  Tenn.;  ANAMOSA,  Iowa;  SALT LAKE CITY,  Utah–Near Lyles, Tennessee,  the shelterless Hickman County Humane Society just before Christmas 1998 seized 299 dogs,  38 horses, and various cats from an alleged puppy mill reportedly owned by one Patricia Adkisson. The site was littered,  rescuers said,  with the remains of dead dogs. On January 1,  1999, […]