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, […]
Why killing cats on remote islands will not help biodiversity
And why killing dogs, rats, pigs, goats, mice & mongooses too would be mainly make-work for exterminators SANTA CRUZ, California––Appealing for funding to kill cats, dogs, rats, pigs, goats, and mongooses on at least 107 islands belonging to 34 nations, in the name of promoting biodiversity, the previously obscure 25-year-old organization Island Conservation scored […]
Kay McElroy, 74; her Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary carries on
With partner Cheryl Craig, planned transition CALEDONIA, Mississippi––Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary founder Kay McElroy, 74, died at the sanctuary after a multi-year illness on January 3, 2019. “In the final weeks of her life, as McElroy’s illness progressed, she was confined to her bedroom. From there, she could look out and watch the animals she had nurtured […]
Ahmed el Sherbiny, 66, brought “humane spring” to Egypt
Headed three leading organizations CAIRO, Egypt––Ahmed el Sherbiny, 66, who with his British-born wife Jackie led the Egyptian Society of Animal Friends, the Egyptian Federation for Animal Welfare, and the Middle East Network for Animal Welfare, on March 7, 2019 died at home in Shabramont, Giza, a Cairo suburb, after several years of fighting multiple […]
How to count feral cats & street dogs in the 21st century
Spay/neuter success makes old projection methods obsolete––& makes doing new surveys essential Counting feral cats and street dogs in the early 21st century is not what it was in your grandparents’ time, or your own time any more, either, if you have lived much longer than the oldest cat or dog of your acquaintance. For […]
The Mesa case: from rescue hot-dogging to rescue hoarding
Rescue addiction & enabling made Teri Finneren and the animals in her care the losers in a quasi-pyramid scheme MESA, Arizona––The January 15, 2019 discovery of multiple skeletal remains of small dogs in the feces-strewn home of of Tiggy Town Senior Dog Rescue operator Theresa Deanne (Teri) Finneren caused dog and cat rescuers, veterinary […]
Alleged pit bull starver Lueders & “rescue” horse thief Blackwood both busted
Bully Breed Rescue president to be arraigned on February 13, 2019 BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut; TUSKEGEE, Alabama––Bully Breed Rescue president and alleged pit bull starver Heidi E. Lueders, 31, can expect to face a howling mob of former donors, volunteers, sympathizers, and miscellaneous other pit bull advocates when she appears for arraignment on February 13, 2019 […]
Did Louisiana cop Terry Yetman do the dog? If so, why?
Bestiality bust just before Christmas went viral BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––The animal story most often read, worldwide, during the five days before Christmas 2018 had nothing to do, so far as is known, with reindeer, and probably nothing to do with donkeys, lambs, or wise men on camels, either, though the full details are yet to […]
Pseudo-science & the Alex Pacheco “Spay & Neuter” Cookie
No product, no scientists, nothing else that makes sense POMPANO BEACH, Florida––The pseudo-science in a “Spay and Neuter Cookie Science Update and Overview” fundraising appeal emailed by “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You” founder Alex Pacheco to potential donors on December 19, 2018 began in the first sentence beneath the headline. Pacheco has […]
Secrets of Marion Island: what NatGeo didn’t tell you
Seabird recovery project haunted by ghosts of cats, in the form of voracious mice CAPE TOWN––National Geographic writer Leslie Nemo omitted two of the most ecologically significant facts about the Marion Island Special Nature Reserve from her December 14, 2018 online feature “Saving a remote island’s birds—by getting rid of its mice.” Lauding […]
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