Animals 24-7

News & perspective for the humane community

Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

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Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies.  It explores how archaic beliefs about animals,  wildlife,  and nature,  has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature.  It […]

Albuquerque sued again for allegedly rehoming dangerous dogs

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Earlier cases allege rehoming dangerous cats, too             ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––Already sued half a dozen times in under four years over issues pertaining to rehoming dangerous animals,  the city of Albuquerque was in the fourth week of October 2018 sued yet again,  this time by former Albuquerque Animal Welfare employee Victoria Murphy. Murphy in her filing […]

TNR protects African wildcats from “genetic pollution” & ferals from cruelty

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Alley Cat Rescue begins project at Kruger National Park             KRUGER NATIONAL PARK,  South Africa––Alley Cat Rescue,  of Mount Ranier,  Maryland,   is now “working to implement trap-neuter-return programs for stray/feral cats around Kruger National Park,”  according to founder Louise Holton,  to keep African wildcats from hybridizing with their domestic descendants. Having “advocated for the humane […]

Mystery marine toxo host kills sea mammals; cats wrongly blamed

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Toxoplasma gondii finding in beluga whales points same way as sea otter and monk seal studies––& not toward cats             MONTREAL––A new study widely publicized for allegedly linking domestic cats to losses of endangered beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River estuary actually shows almost the opposite,  read in context––and contributes to a growing stack of […]

Witch hunts & wildlife

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$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 […]

Feline Fix by Five: the F-word campaign

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One simple change can have profound results by Philip A. Bushby, DVM, MS, DACVS The Veterinary Task Force on Feline Sterilization for Age of Spay and Neuter Surgery was convened in January 2016 to review issues surrounding the overpopulation of cats and the standard recommendation that ovariohysterectomy and castration of cats be delayed until cats are […]

Jan Salter, 82, mastered the arts of animal & human aid in Kathmandu

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Founded leading Nepal humane organization past age when most people retire             KATHMANDU,  Nepal––Jan Salter,  82, artist,  humanitarian, and founder of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre in Nepal in 2004,  died in Lyme Regis,  United Kingdom,  on April 29,  2018. Word of her death did not reach ANIMALS 24-7 until nearly 90 days later. Born Janette […]

$1.5 million DC Cat Count: useful, make-work, or compiling a hit list?

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Counting cats in Washington D.C. & how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall             WASHINGTON D.C.––For $1.5 million,  one could catch,  sterilize,  and microchip all of the approximately 7,000 free-roaming,  not-yet-fixed cats who may be at large in the 68.34 square miles of Washington D.C.,  at an average cost per cat of […]

South Korean court rules that killing dogs for meat is illegal

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Verdict for the first time upholds 1991 law              BUCHEON,  South Korea––Upholding parts of the Korean Animal Protection Act which have been on the books since 1991,  but were never before successfully prosecuted,  a Bucheon city court judge has fined a dog meat farmer the equivalent of $2,050 in U.S. dollars for “killing animals without […]

How a shelter “Blackjacked” adopters with the “nanny dog” myth

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Four-year-old nearly lost eye to pit bull rehomed by the Humane Society of Catawba County             LENOIR,  North Carolina––Responding to a week of intensive pit bull adoption promotion by the Humane Society of Catawba County,  mother of two toddlers Justina Danielle Turner on April 28,  2018 visited the Catawba County Animal Services shelter in Newton,  […]