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Donald Trump Jr., client of alleged bear poacher, is no Teddy Roosevelt

May 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

But Trump Jr.,  though not charged with poaching,  may be an idol of other bear poachers “No one in this world, so far as I know,”  observed journalist H. L. Mencken (1880-1956),  “has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” For that reason,  it is not assured […]

Filed Under: Bears, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Top, Hunted species, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, U.S., USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Eric Peterson, H. L. Mencken, Jared Baum, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fowlks, Rex Baum, Theodore Roosevelt, Wade Lemon

Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs,  ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013,  during the U.S. occupation,  when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]

Filed Under: Africa, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Prophet Mohammed

Bad Hare Days,  by John Fitzgerald

May 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Olympia Publishers (60 Cannon St.,  London, U.K.  EC4N 6NP),  2008. 397 pages,  paperback.  $14.45 U.S.,  £9.99,  12.99 euros. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Northern Ireland banned hare coursing on June 23,  2010,  six years after the rest of the United Kingdom.  Ireland banned hounding deer on June 29,  2010. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission banned […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Ireland, Isles, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Helen Jones, Irish Council Against Blood Sports, Merritt Clifton, Vito Torelli

Triple murder in Frostproof: pig hunting, cockfighting, Publix & pizza

July 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Doesn’t everyone order 10 double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s after killing three catfishers?             FROSTPROOF,  Florida––Brandon Rollins,  27,  Keven Springfield, 30,  and Damion Tillman,  23,  were shot to death at Lake Streety,  Florida,  on the night of July 17,  2020,  much as the three of them had cornered and killed countless feral pigs. But Rollins,  Springfield,  […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting Tagged With: Brandon Rollins, Damion Tillman, Grady Judd, Keven Springfield, Mary Whittemore, Merritt Clifton, Patrick Robinson, Robert Wiggins, Steve Hindi, Stuart Chaifetz, T.J. Wiggins

Noted in passing: Bryant, Paulsen, Carothers, Domingues, & Weingartner

February 27, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Activist legends in U.K., New Mexico,  Texas,  Louisiana,  & California Recently deceased longtime animal advocates John Bryant of Dorset,  U.K.,  Judy Paulsen of Corrales,  New Mexico,  Randy Carothers of Rockwell,  Texas,  Rae Nell Domingues of Lafayette,  Louisiana,  and Susan Weingartner of southern California most likely never crossed paths in person,  and may never even have […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Animal racing, Animal rights & welfare, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Greyhound racing, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Killing contests, Predators, Religion & philosophy, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: John Bryant, Judy Paulsen, Merritt Clifton, Rae Nell Domingues, Randy Carothers, Susan Weingartner

Fox hunters run amok despite unenforced British hunting ban

February 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds kills even more foxes              LONDON––On February 18,  2020,  the 15th anniversary of the Hunting Act coming into effect in England and Wales,  supposedly banning fox hunting by riders on horseback galloping after hounds,  “The Wynnstay Hunt deliberately killed a fox in the private garden of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Dog use, Dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Religion & philosophy, Training, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Andy Knott, Eduardo Goncalves, Jason Endfield, Jordi Casamitjana, Lee Moon, Merritt Clifton, Peter Egan

Michael Garcia’s sadism did not begin with video of pit bull mix killing fawn

July 31, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Allowed pit bull mix to chase wildlife “every day”             LAS CRUCES, New Mexico––“Gus provided the best action at the end of the day.  Got his first big game kill!!” boasted Michael Garcia,  36,  of his pit bull mix on July 19,  2019. Gus attacked,  violently shook,  and eventually killed a spotted fawn.  The fawn […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Culture & Animals, Deer & other horned species, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Clint Lockhart, Merritt Clifton, Michael Garcia, Rick Basagoitia, Steve Hindi

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

England Goes to the Dogs, by Gavin Ehringer

February 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

The following is an excerpt from Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses by Gavin Ehringer, which explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. Preamble,  by Jessica Case,  deputy publisher,  Pegasus Books: The little-examined, yet omnipresent act of breeding lies at the core of Gavin Ehringer’s book.  You’ll meet cows cloned from […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Greyhounds, Hunting, Isles, United Kingdom, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Charles Lane, Gavin Ehringer, Mary Elizabeth Thurston, Queen Victoria, W.R. Pape

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