Spay/neuter & vaccination success reduce rabies to the vanishing point just a year after emergency quarantine BANGKOK, Thailand––Good news for both dogs and humans in Thailand, and for visitors to Thailand, came between the lines of bad news from the Bangkok-based “sustainability hub” Khaosod English on September 12, 2026. The bad news was that a […]
Martha Lillard, 73 years in an iron lung, warned against vaccine resistance
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 […]
Brigitte Bardot, 91, movie star for 20 years, animal advocate for 52 years
Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
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 […]
Street dogs win, reckless feeders lose, in Supreme Court of India reversal
Three-judge panel overturns August 11, 2025 ruling by two-judge panel that all dogs were to be impounded NEW DELHI, India––A three-judge panel from the 32-member Supreme Court of India on August 22, 2025 largely reversed an August 11, 2025 ruling by a two-judge panel that all dogs were to be removed from the streets within […]
Christine Townend, 81, founded the animal rights movement in Australia
Animal Liberation was only the second explicitly “animal rights” organization in the world Christine Townend, 81, remembered by Animal Justice Party member of the New South Wales legislative council Emma Hurst, 44, as “essentially the founder of the entire animal rights movement in Australia,” died from Parkinson’s disease in Leura, New South Wales, on August […]
Fatal dog attack in Florida is not a felony, but in India brings national uproar
Florida officials say they can do little about dog attack death of a child; Supreme Court of India & regional courts say authorities must do the impossible DELHI, India; DELAND, Florida––Six-year-old Chavi Sharma of the Pooth Kalan neighborhood in Delhi, India, and eight-year-old Michael Millett of Deland, Florida, had […]
Dog-feeders kill India’s national neuter/return no-kill dog control policy
Indian Supreme Court panel rules that street dogs must be impounded NEW DELHI, India––Ruling in effect that street dog feeders have caused a catastrophic failure of the neuter/return approach to street dog control to protect the public from dog attacks and rabies, a two-judge panel from the Indian Supreme Court on August 11, 2025 […]
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 […]