Charges originating out of allegedly killing dogs & defrauding donors could bring Baldwin a maximum of 81 years in prison MARYSVILLE, Ohio––Pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin, already facing 42 criminal charges that could potentially bring him 81 years in prison, including 39 felonies and three misdemeanors, was on December 15, 2020 further charged with violating […]
Will Rogers never met the pit bulls & “dog men” now terrorizing Oklahoma
Three-year-old suffered 15 skull fractures & broken nose and jaw in Rogers’ tiny home town OOLOGAH, Oklahoma––“No man can be condemned for owning a dog,” alleged humorist Will Rogers, who also famously professed to have never met a man he didn’t like. “As long as he has a dog, he has a friend,” Rogers claimed, “and […]
Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace
Donors ignored years of warnings about convict turned “rescue” celebrity LOS ANGELES––Marc Ching, who in November 2018 offered to sell the city of Los Angeles vegan food for impounded dogs at a substantial discount, is reportedly to be arraigned in December 2020 on one misdemeanor count each of practicing veterinary medicine without a license, false advertising, […]
NYC pet store fined $3.9 million; probe finds “rescues” are the new “puppy millers”
Nebraska deputy ombudsman reports extensive non-enforcement of anti-“puppy mill” law NEW YORK, N.Y.; LINCOLN, Nebraska––A $3.9 million fine levied against the owners of the long closed Chelsea Kennel Club pet store in New York City grabbed the headlines on October 16, 2020, but a more meaningful action against abusive dog suppliers came quietly on […]
We need to open up spay/neuter – now!
by Bryan Kortis, National Programs Director, Neighborhood Cats When the shutdowns in our country began due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in early March 2020, the animal welfare field reacted quickly. Shelters were closed to the public, services were curtailed to the bare minimum, and cages were emptied through adoptions and recruitment […]
Handling hoarders
by Vicky Crosetti Editor’s note: Vicky Crosetti, 1953-2020, for 19 years executive director of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a founding ANIMALS 24-7 board member, was for more than 25 years a first responder in animal hoarding cases, becoming a nationally recognized expert and frequent conference speaker on handling […]
Secret agent for animals: Pete Paxton
Rescue Dogs by Pete Paxton with Gene Stone $26.00 hardcover, 246 pages. TarcherPerigree, c/o Penguin Random House Penguinrandomhouse.com “Pete Paxton (a pseudonym to protect his identity) is nationally recognized as the leading undercover investigator and rescuer of dogs in peril,” the Rescue Dogs jacket tells us. ANIMALS 24-7 hopes not, because if Paxton is […]
Heidi Lueders, alleged rescuer who starved pit bulls, rejects plea bargain
Lueders to be tried on five felony counts in early 2020 BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut––Former Bully Breed Rescue president Heidi Lueders, 31, on October 11, 2019 rejected a plea bargain to lesser charges, and instead is to go to trial at an unspecified date in early 2020 on five felony counts of cruelty to animals for allegedly […]
Deborah Sue Culwell gets a year in jail for Coachella puppy dumping
Unsympathetic suspect, but shelter policies may have been accessories to the alleged crime COACHELLA, California––Riverside County Superior Court Judge Harold Hopp on August 14, 2019 sentenced Deborah Sue Culwell, 59, to serve 365 days in custody for abandoning seven puppies in a trash bin on a hot day in April. Counting time already served […]
Why Nathan Winograd disciple Doug Rae won’t be Canonized
Humane Society of Fremont County director Rae was would-be savior of Pueblo no-kill experiment while his own shelter allegedly went to hell CANON CITY, Colorado––Five weeks after Humane Society of Fremont County executive director Doug Rae told Pueblo Chieftan reporter Tracy Harmon that he knew how to “turn around” the Pueblo Animal Services shelter, following […]
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