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“Pit Bull Awareness” day & month mark 33 years of exponentially accelerating pit bull mayhem

October 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Miami,  Albuquerque,  and Charleston incidents illustrate the cost of pro-pit mendacity Pit bull advocates will on October 24, 2015 celebrate the ninth annual “Pit Bull Awareness Day,” founded in 2007 by Jody Preis of the Tennessee pit bull rescue Bless the Bullies, and subsequently expanded by many pit bull advocates into an entire “Pit Bull […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Barbara Bruin, Joe Elmore, Merritt Clifton

NASA finding means calcium chloride castration can be done on Mars

October 1, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Calcium chloride appears to exist,  but alcohol would have to be imported to fix Martian dogs & cats             SAN FRANCISCO,  California––Eight scientists who analyzed National Aeronautics & Space Administration data on September 28,  2015 announced in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Geoscience that they had discovered strong evidence of the presence of liquid water […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feral cats, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Population control, Population control, Sheep & goats, Shelters, South America, Street dogs, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Calchlorin, Elaine Lissner, Merritt Clifton, Parsemus Foundation, Ruth Steinberger, SpayFirst!

No one held to account for Asheville Humane Society pit bull adoption fatality

August 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

6-year-old killed three weeks after pit bull was rehomed ASHEVILLE,  North Carolina––Absent a lawsuit from the bereaved family,  no person or agency will be held to account for the July 7, 2015 fatal mauling of six-year-old Joshua Phillip Strother by a pit bull adopted three weeks earlier from the Asheville Humane Society,  after passing the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, Buncombe County, Colleen Lynn, Humane Alliance, J. Thomas Beasley, Joshua Phillip Strother, Merritt Clifton, Quita Mazzena, Sarah Hess, Tracy Elliott

Albuquerque pound broke city’s own dangerous dog law

July 28, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

City withholds details about consequences          ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico––A City of Albuquerque internal investigation has found the city’s Animal Welfare Department to be “only partially in compliance” with the city dangerous dog ordinance, including in rehoming dogs who should have been classified as dangerous. What the cost has been to public safety remains unclear, since […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Albuquerque Animal Welfare, ASPCA, Barbara Bruin, Colleen Heild, Jim Ludwick, SAFER test

Pound dog inventory down, no-kill inventory up, in 2015 shelter survey

July 20, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Big change from 2014 About half of the dogs in U.S. shelters as of June 2015 were housed by tax-funded animal care and control facilities, 25% were housed by open-admission humane societies, and 25% were housed by selective admission no-kill shelters and rescues, according to the annual ANIMALS 24-7 summer survey of shelter dog inventory. The […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Chihuahuas, Merritt Clifton, pit-bulls

Introducing Calcium Chloride Castration

July 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Ruth Steinberger,  founder,  Spay First (www.spayfirst.org) On July 24,  2015 a company called Calcium Chloride Castration, the brainchild of Canadian veterinarian Peter Denooij,  will launch the sale of pharmaceutical grade calcium chloride dihydrate for the non-surgical castration of male dogs and cats at a daylong event in the Dominican Republic.  Each premeasured dose will […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Breeding, Caribbean, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Population control, Shelters, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Peter Denooij, Ruth Steinberger

Why San Antonio Animal Care Services did not promptly impound a gunshot-wounded mastiff found running in a pack

May 26, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Prepared for flooding but not for gunfire SAN ANTONIO, Texas––It was no secret in San Antonio, Texas that Memorial Day 2015 weekend promised to be three days from hell. Predicted Accuweather meteorologist Brian Thompson on Friday, May 22, 2015, “Another round of downpours and thunderstorms will bring a renewed threat for flooding from Kansas to Texas…Cities […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Feature Home Middle Left, Opinions & Letters, Population control, Shelters, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Kathy Davis, Kelly Reid Walls, Merritt Clifton, San Antonio Animal Care Services

Calcium chloride chemosterilant tested successfully in tomcats

April 30, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Parsemus Foundation announces progress          SAN FRANCISCO––An injectable calcium chloride chemosterilant costing only pennies per dose has been tested successfully in male cats, following years of positive results in dogs, the San Francisco-based Parsemus Foundation on April 29, 2015 announced via the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s “Eureka Alerts” media release distribution system. […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Indian subcontinent, Lab animals, Population control, Population control, Science, Shelters, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Elaine Lissner, Merritt Clifton, Parsemus Foundation, Ruth Steinberger

Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department #2 and behaviorist allege neglect of public safety in pushing pit bull adoptions

April 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

“Practices that put the public at risk from dangerous dogs” ALBUQUERQUE––City of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department second-in-command Jim Ludwick and animal welfare program manager and behavior specialist Carolyn Hidalgo have alleged in parallel written complaints to Albuquerque city inspector general Peter Pacheco that Albuquerque animal welfare director Barbara Bruin has boosted the “live release rate” […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Left, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Albuquerque Animal Welfare, Barbara Bruin, Carolyn Hidalgo, Jim Ludwick, Merritt Clifton, pit bull

No-kill pioneer Richard Avanzino to retire after dispensing $153 million in Maddie’s Fund grants

March 28, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Founding president of Maddie’s Fund after long tenure as president of the San Francisco SPCA          PLEASANTON, California––Maddie’s Fund on March 25, 2015 announced that founding president Richard Avanzino is to retire in June, at the end of the current fiscal year. Said David Duffield,   who cofounded Maddie’s Fund with his wife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Right, Feral cats, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Brenda Barnette, David Duffield, Emma Clifford, Maddie's Fund, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Richard Avanzino

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