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Smelling rats after alleged major mink release in Van Wert, Ohio

November 18, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The numbers & time frame don’t add up,  & neither does the money VAN WERT, Ohio––Something happened at a mink farm here.  What it is ain’t exactly clear,   despite saturation coverage by both local and national media. Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach announced on November 15,  2022 that his office “is investigating a […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Allison Aye, Beatriz Gandara, Challis Hobbs, Leeyen Group, Lion Farms USA, Merritt Clifton, Pierre Leeijen, Rien Leeijen, TaTiana Cash

European zoos consider killing “surplus” gorillas

November 29, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The algebra of zoo management is Harambe times X-number equals what amount of public outrage cutting into profits?             AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands––Is the European Association of Zoos & Aquaria heading full speed toward the 2016 Harambe debacle at the Cincinnati Zoo times a dozen? Or a hundred?  Or any number in between? Did someone among the 340 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Central Europe, Conservation, Culture & Animals, DRC, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Habitat, Isles, Laws, Netherlands, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Ben Garrod, Damian Aspinall, EAZA, Harambe, Helena Horton, Ian Redmond, Kai Parret, Marius giraffe, Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal

Hotter climate makes “no-see-ums” a global threat to horned, hoofed animals

October 30, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Bighorn sheep,  deer,  goats & cattle are among vulnerable species             OKANAGAN, B.C.;  BISMARCK, N.D.;  ALBANY, N.Y.;  MADRID, Spain;  LISBON,  Portugal––Hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming as one of the most ubiquitous and insidious effects on animals due to global warming. Indeed,  hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming even before global warming began visibly disrupting climate and […]

Filed Under: Africa, Belgium, Cattle & dairy, Central Europe, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, Italy, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Portugal, Sheep & goats, Spain, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: bluetongue, EHD, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, Merritt Clifton, no-see-ums, Pablo Beldomenico

Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?

August 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Some in the U.S. mink industry see COVID-19 as a growth opportunity  WASHINGTON D.C.––Will the COVID-19 delta variant finally kill mink farming in the U.S.,  after COVID-19 in all forms has killed more than 633,000 Americans? Or will HR 4310,  dubbed the MINKS Act as acronym for “Minks in Narrowly Kept Spaces Are Superspreaders Act,”  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Spain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Joan Schaffner, Karen Manci, Kate Golden, Kitty Block, Meg Kinnard, Merritt Clifton, Nancy Mace, Rosa DeLauro, Sara Amundson

Pit bull victim Elisa Pilarski’s mother & a Dutch witness speak

July 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull owner Christophe Ellul “has to recognize that it was his dog,”  says Nathalie Pilarski.             PARIS, France––The Amiens Court of Appeal is to rule on July 23,  2021 on a petition from attorney Alexandre Novion,  representing pit bull owner Christophe Ellul,  seeking to suppress DNA evidence that Ellul’s pit bull Curtis,  and Curtis […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Training, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Benoit Blanc, Christophe Ellul, Elisa Pilarski, Merritt Clifton, Nathalie Pilarski, Sharon de Wit

Did North Carolina seven-year-old die trying to stop a dogfight?

April 30, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

New British study confirms frequency of injuries to intervenors in pit bull attacks on other dogs             GARNER, North Carolina;  GLOUCESTER, U.K.––Did Jayden Belle Henderson,  age seven,  die trying to stop a dogfight? Two pit bulls on April 27,  2021 killed Henderson and severely mauled her mother,  WRAL television master controller Heather Travaskis,  39. Trevaskis,  […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Laws & politics, Netherlands, Shelters, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Jayden Belle Henderson, Journal of Veterinary Behavior, Merritt Clifton Heather Travaskis, Tamara Montrose

How ancient bison survived in the land & times of Good King Wenceslaus

December 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Wenceslaus,  911-935,  left bison alone.  Successors alternately hunted & protected them. BIALOWIEZA FOREST, Poland––European wood bison,  also called wisent,  at risk of extinction for far longer than their North American cousins,  are no longer “vulnerable,”  and have accordingly been removed from the “Red List” maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Austria, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Zoos Tagged With: Białowieża Forest, Kaukasas, Madison Grant, Merritt Clifton, Tsar Alexander II, Wenceslaus, William Temple Hornday, Wladyslaw II Jagietto

Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Award founded in Deckers’ name––see Comments,  below. Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As […]

Filed Under: Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Judaism, Lab animals, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Switzerland, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Geoffrey Deckers, Marion Bienes, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Shirley McGreal

The incredible, recent, global rise in the stranding of marine mammals

December 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Bill McGraw,  Ph.D. Boquete, Panama During late September, 2020,  Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later,  during early October 2020,  the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Central Europe, Disasters, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Gabon, Marine life, Namibia, Netherlands, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Other animals & science topics, Science, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Michalska., Bill McGraw, David Krabbenhoft, Paul Schuster, Tomas Antoszczyszyn

Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

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