But six months after notification, Will County, Illinois has yet to impound pigs––if still alive––and chickens DiLorenzo is not permitted to keep CRETE, Illinois––“Corinne DiLorenzo is still in possession of animals,” reader Brian Duda emailed to ANIMALS 24-7 on the morning of August 7, 2023. Duda referenced the convicted perpetrator of the animal hoarding case […]
Police dogs killed by driving into 100º heat index at rush hour with bad AC
Lake Station Police Department helps driver/trainer to evade humane investigation CHICAGO, Illinois––“Parts of the Chicago area are under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories,” warned Eunice Alpasan and Paul Caine of WTTW-Chicago in the early evening of July 27, 2023, “with temperatures expected to top out at 96 degrees, along with a heat index […]
Cars can heat to 158 Fahrenheit in minutes: campaign against hot dogs
Warnings often understate the risk, points out expert John Van Zante ENCINITAS, California––Rancho Coastal Humane Society executive director John Van Zante, who has led the world in campaigning against leaving animals and children in hot cars throughout his 24 years in humane work, on July 19, 2023 erupted on social media against what he called, […]
Mississippi rescue “saves” 54 dogs; 60 starve & thirst to death in cages
Best Friends Network member Second Paw Rescue catastrophically fails within a year of founding PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi––If the road to hell for animals is paved with the good intentions of misguided humans, Natalie Nicole Fancher Patten, 33, might be said to have raced past every possible exit at breathtaking speed. Founding Second Paw Dog Rescue […]
Happy ending for chimp, horror for hoarding victims, & a trove of bones
Institutions hoard from much the same motives as individuals Mephistopheles, the devil himself of innumerable literary renditions of the Dr. Faust legend, might have devised the psychological plot weaving together the animal-related feel-good story of the month in June 2023, the animal-related feel-bad story of the month, and possibly the biggest skeletons-in-the-closet story to rattle […]
Animal fighters go down in Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, & Ohio
Alleged cockfighters, dogfighters, & bedsheet boys exposed TUPELO, Mississippi––Attentive viewers of a May 19, 2023 joint Zoom media conference presented by Animal Wellness Action and Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] might have noted the absence of SHARK founder Steve Hindi from the speaker lineup. Hindi, who checked in with ANIMALS 24-7 soon afterward, […]
No jail at Christmas 2022 for hoarder busted at Christmas 2019
But Corinne DiLorenzo is at last sentenced WATSEKA, Illinois––Corinne N. DiLorenzo, 40, suspected in the deaths of as many as 700 animals at her former Earth Animal Sanctuary in Thawville, Illinois, about 100 miles south of Chicago, on December 21, 2022 received a sentence amounting to an early Christmas present from Iroquois County Circuit Court […]
Pit bull attacks inflame pit bull lynchings in South African shantytowns
Four pit bulls burned by two mobs, 800 miles apart, after the pits killed one child and nearly killed another CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Inter-racial friction, a legacy of the continuing use of fierce dogs to defend white privilege, decades after apartheid ended, smoldered just beneath the remains of four pit bulls lynched and burned by […]
Record 58 dead from dog attacks in 2022 with two months to go
Amazon delivery driver is 58th death, Rottweiler owner convicted of double mauling, Pahrump breeder/hoarder loses possession of 300 Ovarchkas, & pit bull attack survivor Kyleen Waltman found in possession of meth, all in just four days EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Missouri; ALPHARETTA, Georgia; PAHRUMP, Nevada; ABBEVILLE, South Carolina––An Amazon delivery driver whose name has yet to be […]
“Tiger King” associate Karl Mitchell was Nye County animal control chief
From Animal Welfare Act violations to Las Vegas shoot-out, cases tend to link to Karl Mitchell’s tenure PAHRUMP, NEVADA––Nye County, Nevada, in 2000 hired as animal control director exotic animal trainer Karl Mitchell, 48, a man who might not have been elected dogcatcher anywhere else. The previous Nye County record on animal care and control issues […]