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Bestiality & child porn bust in Bossier City, Louisiana: Terry Yetman deja vu

March 27, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Suspect Nathan Mann held on 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal             BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––Nathan T. Mann,  35,  of Bossier,  Louisiana,  was on March 23,  2023 charged with 106 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles and 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal,  the Bossier County Sheriff’s Office announced. Mann was […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Humane Society of Louisiana, Jeff Dorson, Merritt Clifton, Noah Tomlin, Terry Yetman

California bill would halt use of unleashed K-9 dogs in arrests & crowd control

February 15, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Use of dogs in search & rescue, explosives detection,  narcotics detection & use of leashed dogs would be unaffected             SACRAMENTO, California––A first-in-the-U.S. California state assembly bill to “prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person,  and any use of a police canine for crowd control” was introduced […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: AB 742, Ash Kalra, Chris Catren, Corey A. Jackson, Merritt Clifton, Rick L. Callender, Ronald Davis

Pahrump dog breeders Platunov & Higgins allegedly starved 300 Ovarchkas

September 12, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Having one of the worst-ever neglect cases in Nye County,  Nevada,  is not easy PAHRUMP,  Nevada––Caucasian Ovcharka breeders Vasili Platunov and Oksana Higgins strung the authorities of Nye County,  Nevada along for years with one excuse after another for failing to comply with some of the lightest and least enforced animal care and control ordinances in the […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Russia, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Darcy Spears, Frank Carbone, Merritt Clifton, Oksana Higgins, Vasili Platunov

Animal & human heroes & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11

September 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering national trauma September 11,  2022 marks the twenty-first anniversary of the national trauma the U.S. experienced as result of the terrorist attacks of September 11,  2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The aftermath of those attacks brought global traumas including ongoing warfare in much of the Middle East,  Central Asia,  and […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: David Charlebois, Flight 77, Flight 93, Garo Alexanian, Merritt Clifton, North Shore Animal League, Osama bi Laden, Perry Fina, Suffolk County SPCA

“Personal protection dogs” kill two in Knoxville suburbs in under 100 days

June 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Two Rottweilers & a “highly trained” Dutch shepherd maul septuagenarians             KNOXVILLE, Tennessee––Dogs apparently acquired for personal protection have twice in under 100 days killed older female family members in the rural outer suburbs of Knoxville,  Tennessee.             The fatal attacks underscore that dogs are a poor choice of weapon,  partly because dogs can “pull […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Deborah Reeser Boyd, Janet Means, Merritt Clifton, Roger L. Means, Roveldeco, Tellico Village

Malcolm X on pit bulls, other dangerous dogs, & betrayal

May 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Malcolm X said little about dogs,  yet his whole message was directly relevant             NEW YORK,  N.Y.–– February 21,  2022 will mark the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Afro-American leader Malcolm X at the former Audubon Ballroom in New York City,  now preserved as the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Islam, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Police & military, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Audubon, Betty Shabazz, Fred Shuttleworth, Malikah Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr., Merritt Clifton, U-Haul

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

Pit bull hoarder Heidi Lueders jailed;  bad day at Black Rock Canines

May 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Ex-Bully Breed Rescue president sentenced;  cop charged who ran police & military dog training center  BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut––One high-profile Connecticut mass cruelty case involving high-risk “status dogs” ended on May 4,  2022––pending appeals––just as another began,  20 miles north. The permanent status of five former Bully Breed Rescue pit bulls is dead. Likewise for at least […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Celly Roberts, Daniel Luna, David Rivera, Fairfield Five, Merritt Clifton, Peter McShane

Police dog bites soar in Richmond, California; city tries to hide the data

December 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Richmond has long history of controversial police use of violence RICHMOND, California––Praised in 2018 by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for significantly decreasing use of force without increasing officer fatalities,  the Richmond,  California police department is now under fire from critics for a marked rise in bites by police dogs,  many of them severe,  most of them […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Black Panthers, Harriet Blair Brown, James Fuller, Julia Prodis Sulek, Marshall Project, Merritt Clifton

Bestiality & child porn: ex-K9 cop Terry Yetman gets 20 years

November 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly had sex with police dog             BOSSIER CITY,  Louisiana––Former Bossier City police officer and K9 handler Terry Yetman,  40,  was on November 23,  2021 sentenced to serve at least 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in August 2021 to six of the 71 counts he faced in connection with alleged acts of bestiality […]

Filed Under: Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bossier City, Judge Michael Craig, Merritt Clifton, Trey Hutchison, Vickie Wellborn

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