Animals 24-7

Investigative reporting about animals, environment, & zoonotic disease.

Ahmed el Sherbiny, 66, brought “humane spring” to Egypt

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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

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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 […]

Pseudo-science & the Alex Pacheco “Spay & Neuter” Cookie

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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

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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 […]

Car raffle helps animals? We won’t bet on it!

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 “National Humane Society” behind the raffle uses the original name of the Humane Society of the U.S.           BOCA RATON, Florida––The web site for a shadowy entity incorporated in Delaware as the National Humane Society advertised for months that on December 14,  2018 the organization would raffle off a Porsche,  a Corvette,  a classic 1965 […]

The view from Phuket, Thailand: Jeff Young, DVM is right!

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by John Dalley,  co-founder,  The Soi Dog Foundation Unfortunately,  owing to health issues,  I was unable to attend the International Companion Animal Welfare conference last year to hear Jeff Young,  DVM speak,  so have never met him.  But Young’s ANIMALS 24-7 guest column We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & […]

Marking territory: photographers vs. Alley Cat Allies

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Pissing match hits the Chronicle of Philanthropy             ARLINGTON,  Virginia––Founded almost literally in a Washington D.C. alley to advocate on behalf for one of the most contentious of species,  Alley Cat Allies has for 28 years been embroiled in controversy on a daily basis,  but without––until mid-November 2018––itself becoming controversial over management issues. That was […]

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 […]

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 […]