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Law prof: more jail time for cruelty does not advance animal rights

March 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Institutional offenders remain untouched by felony cruelty penalties DENVER––“More prosecution will never lead to greater animal rights.  Longer sentences have not incrementally advanced the standing of animals in society,”  argues Sturm College of Law professor Justin Marceau in the March 20,  2021 edition of the Harvard Law Review Forum. Marceau is also the Brooks Institute Faculty […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Justin Marceau, Merritt Clifton

Colorado pit bull defense lawyer charged in alleged murder-for-hire plot

February 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Animal Law Center founder Jennifer Edwards now has more in common with “Joe Exotic” than just initials and notoriety              EVERGREEN, Colorado––Animal Law Center founder Jennifer Reba Edwards,  43,  central to efforts to overturn and weaken Colorado dangerous dog laws,  now has more in common with the notorious “Joe Exotic” than just the “JE” initials […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Spay/neuter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Anthony Ortolani, Carole Baskin, Jennifer Emmi, Jennifer Thomadis, Joe Exotic, Kevin O'Connell, Marlene Puzak, Michelle Tippets, Vern Wagner

Pit bull advocate Steffen Baldwin, facing 39 felonies, flunks drug test

December 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Eileen McFall, Jeffrey Luke Westerman, Litza Kargakos, Mac Cordell, Mark O'Connor, Matthew L. Smith, Merritt Clifton, Steffen Baldwin, Steffen Finkelstein

Will Rogers never met the pit bulls & “dog men” now terrorizing Oklahoma

November 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Breeding, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benjamin Ryan Spence, Curtis C.J. Wickham, Danny DeWayne Burton, Don Mayfield, Earl Tudor, Randy Fox, Shannon White, Sivya Cook-White, Will Rogers

Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace

October 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cambodia, China, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Indonesia, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alene Tchekmedyian, George Knowles, Jeffrey Beri, John Dalley, Marc Ching, Martyn Stewart, Merritt Clifton, Paul Pringle, Phyllis Daugherty

NYC pet store fined $3.9 million; probe finds “rescues” are the new “puppy millers”

October 19, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Carl Eskridge, Carol Wheeler, Jonathan Jiminez, Julia Hudson, Kandice Bremer, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Rick Herchenbach, Yardena Derraugh

We need to open up spay/neuter – now!

April 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Bryan Kortis, Jeff Young

Handling hoarders

January 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top Tagged With: Vicky Crosetti

Secret agent for animals: Pete Paxton

October 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Bob Baker, C.C. Baird, Deborah Howard, Gail Eisnitz, Jason Smith, Kathy Bauck, Merritt Clifton, Pete Paxton

Heidi Lueders, alleged rescuer who starved pit bulls, rejects plea bargain

October 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Benedicta “Bennie” McGrath, Frank Ionotti, Heidi Lueders, Ken Bernhard, Marissa Alter, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Anderson Lueders, Rob Serafinowicz

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