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George Santos was a small-timer among animal charity scammers

January 23, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Santos’ Friends of Pets United never existed.  Neither do “spay/neuter cookies.” WASHINGTON D.C.––The most infamous of all of New York third district Congressional Representative George Santos’ many scams,  now extensively exposed,  was probably the easiest:  inventing and raising funds in the name of a pet rescue organization that never legally existed and never verifiably helped […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal organizations, Cameroun, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Romania, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Anthony Devolder, Desmond Fodge Bobga, Merritt Clifton, Richard Osthoff, Samantha Miller, Tori Lynn Head, Woofin Palooza

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

How one lion & one bear survived the 2014-2017 ISIS occupation of Mosul

August 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Father of Lions: Saving Starving Animals at the Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan 383 pages,  2020. Forge Book,  c/o Tom Doherty Associates;  available in multiple print & electronic formats c/o Amazon,  Barnes & Noble,  Goodreads,  and Kindle at prices from $12.99 up. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “Good afternoon. I am writing because I want to […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, South Africa, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Abu Laith, Amir Khalil, Louise Callaghan, Merritt Clifton, Vier Pfoten

Victims escaped dangerous nations but could not escape deadly dogs

July 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Marina Gabunia Verriest & Omar Ghawtah had little in common but shared their fate             ALBERTSON, New York;  HOUSTON, Texas––Marina Gabunia and Omar Ghawtah fled to the U.S. to escape threats of violence and persecution in their nations of birth,  but in July 2022 both became victims of canine violence,  eight days and 1,700 miles apart. […]

Filed Under: Africa, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Georgia, North Africa, Russia Tagged With: Giorgi “Gio” Chochia, Marina Gabunia Verriest, Merritt Clifton, Neuman’s Olde Oak Ridge Trailer Park, Omar Ghawtah, Ronald Dale Jones

Erika Brunson, 86, animal advocate, actress, interior decorator, & furniture maker

May 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Rose from rough start in life to philanthropic success Animal advocacy and spay/neuter philanthropist Erika Devore Brunson,  86,  died in Los Angeles,  California on May 17, 2022. Maria Erika Knab,  her original given name,  was born on September 4, 1935,  “in the small fishing town of Konigsberg in East Prussia,”  according to an October 16,  2013 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Russia, USA Tagged With: Erika Devore, Erika Knab, Erika Peters, Jack Webb, Jolene Blalock, Merritt Clifton, Sy Devore

Russian war on Ukraine kills dolphins, but fishing kills more

May 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The Black Sea was hard habitat for dolphins even before the shooting started ISTANBUL,  Turkey––That war kills animals as well as humans is scarcely in doubt,  but whether war is worse than peace for Black Sea dolphins may be disputed. Nearly three months after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24  2022,  evidence is surfacing along […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mediterranean, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife

Israeli vegan honey could leave Russia & Ukraine holding the honey bucket

March 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Lab-produced honey goes into industrial-scale production just as global supply from bees is disrupted by Putin’s War             JERUSALEM, Israel––Regardless of whether Ukraine staves off the Russian invasion or suffers the genocide threatened by Russian use of heavy weapons against civilian targets,  the biggest and perhaps only winner of what is now known worldwide as […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bees, China, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Russia, Ukraine, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bee-io, Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld, Merritt Clifton, Offir Dvash, Petro Prokopovych

H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge

March 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide             AMES,  Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds,  wild or domestic,  to beware of the first outbreak of High […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, Chickens, China, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigeon flying, Poultry, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: cockfighters, foie gras, Ian Brown, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, United Poultry Concerns

Mad Russians overrun Ukraine rabies belt; refugee canines flee west

March 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Invasion stops progress against fox rabies outbreak raging since 2004             KHARKIV, Ukraine;  ATLANTA, Georgia;  SURPRISE, Arizona––The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] web site has quietly announced,  without an accompanying media release,  that it “is working to expedite import permit requests for dogs that originate in Ukraine and surrounding countries for persons wishing […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Rabies, Russia, Ukraine, USA Tagged With: Amir Khalil, CDC, Katherine M. Shenar, Merritt Clifton, Vier Pfoten

Banning U.S. imports of Russian fish could help Ukraine & help the fish too

March 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Why was the U.S. still buying Russian fish while boycotting Russian oil,  gas,  coal,  & even vodka? WASHINGTON D.C.––Fish were the last major category of U.S. imports from Russia not yet embargoed by the U.S. government in protest of the February 24,  2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden on March 8,  2022 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Russia, Scotland, Southeast Asia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife Tagged With: Dan Sullivan, Ed Markey, Lisa Murkowski, Merritt Clifton, Tim Gallaudet, Vladimir Putin

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