Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog that Inspired a Movement by Christine A. Dorchak & Carey Theil 224 pages. $8.99 Kindle; $17.96 paperback. Lantern Publishing & Media, P.O. Box 1350, Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don’t judge this book by the cover. The pastel […]
South Korean government pledges dog-eating will be banned by 2027
Governing party and leading opposition party both favor banning dog consumption SEOUL, South Korea––Dog-eating in South Korea appears likely to be banned after January 1, 2027. “In a special consultative meeting at the National Assembly,” reported Lee Jaeeun for the Korea Herald on November 17, 2023, “the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and officials of the […]
Rabies deaths drive effort in Vietnam to stop eating dogs & cats
Soi Dog Foundation enlists teachers & practitioners of traditional medicine in campaign HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Sixty-four human deaths from rabies in Vietnam during the first nine months of 2023, an increase of 21 from the first nine months of 2022, have sparked renewed efforts to eradicate the dog and cat meat traffic. Medically recognized […]
D.C. political dogfight upstages bust of Pentagon flack for dogfighting
Bust may help to push the “Fighting Inhumane Gambling & High-Risk Trafficking Act,” or “FIGHT Act,” to passage WASHINGTON, D.C.––Political dogfighting over the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and who might succeed him quickly pushed from the headlines the dogfighting bust in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, involving the most prominent person since the Michael […]
The biggest dogfighting bust that South Carolina media did not report
Only one journalist saw fit to mention the second largest dogfighting sweep in state history COLUMBIA, South Carolina––Four days after the biggest dogfighting bust in South Carolina in almost a year, and one of the biggest in South Carolina and for that matter the entire U.S. ever, only crime and courts reporter Ted Clifford of […]
First firestorm, then frustration: rescuers wait to aid Lahaina animals
Priority goes to finding human dead rather than to rescuing live animals KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii––Five days into the aftermath of the firestorm that razed Lahaina, shock, sorrow, and anxiety over the fate of nearly 1,000 missing persons from the town that had a human population of just over 13,000 remain the dominant emotions among survivors. […]
Horses, pit bulls, & roosters always lose in games of chance (Campo)
Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission district leader Chance Campo charged with felony SANTA ROSA, California; DAYTONA BEACH, Florida; OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––The August 3, 2023 death of the filly Danehill Song on the first day of racing at the Sonoma County Fair in California, the death of at least one pit bull at an alleged dogfighting pit in […]
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 […]
Alleged dogfighting busts are back in Michael Vick country
But the association of pit bulls with violent crime is stronger than the association of dogfighting with other crimes against humans GASTONIA, North Carolina; HAMPTON, Virginia––Alleged dogfighting busts are back in Michael Vick country, 16 years after the April 25, 2007 police raid that brought the Vick dogfighting case to light. Charges have yet […]
How many doggies are in the window? Dog breed census 2023
Crunching the data from 3,672,000 classified ads offering dogs for sale or adoption We ran all the numbers twice just to be sure. The fourteenth annual ANIMALS 24-7 survey of the U.S. dog population by breed, and seventeenth overall, crunched the data from 3,672,000 classified ads listing dogs for sale or adoption during the three […]