The Iranian people have never been hostile toward animals, but the Islamist government & the Revolutionary Guard are another matter TEHRAN, Iran; JERUSALEM, Israel––Animal advocates and rescuers on opposite sides of shooting between Iran and Israel report similar responses among the dogs and cats in their care since U.S. and Israeli forces jointly bombed targets […]
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 […]
India top court: “No dogs in schools, hospitals, stadiums, & bus/train stations”
India Supreme Court ruling updates & extends ruling against dog-feeding in high-traffic public places NEW DELHI, India––A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 2025 ordered that stray dogs be removed and excluded from educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots, railway stations, and other government buildings. The Supreme […]
Marvin Mackie, 88, all but invented early-age & high-volume, low-cost s/n
Marvin Mackie, DVM, fixed more than 250,000 dogs & cats in 54-year veterinary career SAN PEDRO, California––W. Marvin Mackie, DVM, 88, remembered by United Spay Alliance cofounder Esther Mechler and much of the rest of the humane community as “a pioneer in the affordable spay/neuter movement, died on September 23, 2025. “He brought so much […]
Free-roaming packs of up to 40 pit bulls terrorize Johnson County, Texas
Law enforcement sexual harassment scandal makes local headlines, but pit bull packs go national CLEBURNE, Texas––Embattled Johnson County, Texas sheriff Adam Riley King, 57, has so far had only one dog attack fatality during his eight years in office. Residents of Johnson County, however, a southern suburb of Fort Worth long notorious among horse rescuers […]
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 […]
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 […]