Martha Lillard worked on behalf of beagle rescue, & to encourage vaccination of both dogs and humans SHAWNEE, Oklahoma––Martha Lillard, 78, a longtime Pottawatomie County Humane Society online volunteer, a strong advocate for vaccination of both people and dogs, and the last known U.S. polio victim to spend most of her life in an iron […]
Screwworms: can Best Friends Animal Society “save them all”?
Screwworm quarantines threaten adoption transport approach to achieving Best Friends’ “90% live release rate” threshold for “no kill” status AUSTIN, Texas––From agribusiness pundits to zoonotic disease researchers, online commentators were mystified on June 18, 2026 to see Best Friends Animal Society senior director of national programs Brent Toellner lined up to testify to the Texas […]
Madness in Chicago after rehoming of rabid Georgia “rescue” puppy
Mistakes are pardonable. Concealing information & distributing questionable advice are another matter CHICAGO, Illinois––Why has PAWS Chicago not identified who sent a rabid puppy north for adoption, more than three weeks after the case made headlines? Distinguishing canine rabies from bat rabies, raccoon rabies, fox rabies, and skunk rabies, all of which are transmissible to […]
Two arrested after baby boy is third U.K. “XL Bully” pit bull death of 2025
Normal dogs hide from firecrackers. The XL Bully killed nine-monthold Jonte William Bluck. LONDON, United Kingdom––Nine-month-old baby boy Jonte William Bluck was fatally mauled on November 2, 2025 by an XL Bully pit bull variant in Crossway, Rogiet, Monmouthshire, South Wales. Baby boy Bluck became only the third human death due to dog attack in […]
Holly Cheever, DVM, 75: “In lieu of sending flowers, don’t eat meat”
Spay/neuter vet, veterinary reformer, expert witness, & Mother-of-the-Year besides NEW SCOTLAND, New York—Holly Cheever, DVM, a leading light in animal care and advocacy for more than half a century, and a longtime friend, source, and donor to ANIMALS 24-7, “died on February 9, 2025,” the Altamont Enterprise reported ten days later from Albany County, New […]
Which kill more, rabid dogs in Thailand or pit bulls in the United Kingdom?
Pit bull-inflicted deaths in the U.K. in each of the last three years have exceeded the human rabies death toll in Thailand in any of the last 10 years. LONDON, U.K.; BANGKOK, Thailand––Does the British charity Dogs Trust care more about preventing fatal dog attacks in Thailand than in the United Kingdom? A July 10, […]
Spay/neuter of street dogs advances in Sri Lanka & Vietnam, halts in Turkey
Three very different parts of Asia, but only one effective solution to ubiquitous street dogs TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka; HATAY, Turkey; HANOI, Vietnam––Landlocked Hatay province in arid southeastern Turkey, humid Vietnam, more than four thousand air miles farther east, and Trincomalee, an ancient port city on the east coast of Sri Lanka, about equidistant from either […]
Stop importing & rehoming rabid pit bull puppies, Colorado tells rescues
Two-time offender Moms & Mutts: Colorado rescue hit with license suspension ENGLEWOOD, Colorado––Moms & Mutts: Colorado Rescue for Pregnant & Nursing Dogs Inc., a nonprofit organization noted by ANIMALS 24-7 on August 17, 2024 for exemplifying an inherently dangerous modus operandi, “has had their license suspended by the state,” reported Steve Staeger and Amanda […]
Veterinary greed vs. animal health on the Colorado ballot
The Denver Dumb Friends League & Dr. Jeff, Rocky Mountain vet, are on the same side this time DENVER, Colorado––Veterinary protectionism vs. animal health is on a state ballot for perhaps the first time in direct, naked, unmasked, undisguised greedy form in Colorado on November 5, 2024. Colorado Proposition 129 “creates a career pathway for […]
What’s stupider than rehoming rabid pit bull puppies? Denying the risk.
Denying rabies risk is not likely to help win much-needed protection for Colorado pumas & bobcats, either SHERIDAN, Colorado––The August 7, 2024 discovery of rabies in a litter of pit bull mix puppies rehomed as “shepherd mixes” on July 20, 2024 by Moms & Mutts Colorado should have sent a “heads up” warning to […]