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Beagler fined $10,000––for wildlife trafficking, not for torturing hares

March 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly hired Maine trappers to supply Massachusetts field trials             PORTLAND,  Maine––Jon Thomas Rioux,  36,  a landscaper in Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  entertained himself and friends for years by setting beagles on snowshoe hares,  until,  apparently running out of rabbits locally,  he ventured more than 150 miles north into Maine to find more. Jon Thomas Rioux might […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Sports, Training, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: coonhunting, coursing, field trials, foxhounds, hog-dog, Jon Thomas Rioux, St. Jude

Can hounding help Wyoming pumas evade human hunters & wolves?

March 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

If pumas learn from the canine chase,  pursuit without being killed might make them more elusive prey CHEYENNE,  Wyoming––A new Wyoming state law meant to placate frustrated puma hunters who hunt with dogs might actually benefit pumas more. If,  that is,  the hunters and their dog packs obey the law. Wyoming governor Mark Gordon on […]

Filed Under: Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Predators, Training, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Mark Elbroch, Mark Gordon, Merritt Clifton, Mike Koshmrl, Spencer Cox

Dogo Argentinos running at large kill 80-year-old woman out for a walk

October 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Supersized pit bull variant bred to kill BALDY MESA,  California––Soon Han,  80,  picked wind-swept and barren Baldy Mesa as her hill to live on. Having lived through World War II and the Korean War,  Soon Han was out for her morning walk at about 11:00 a.m. on October 7,  2022 when two Dogo Argentinos running […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, South America, The Americas, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Antonio Nores Martinez, Augustin Nores Martinez, Baldy Mesa, Jenna Sutphin, Merritt Clifton, Soon Han

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

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