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“The poor fish were the real victims,” tank owner says after fire

February 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

Beginnings of concern for fish suffering emerge even in the desert ST. GEORGE, Utah;  BERLIN, Germany––Josh Wilson of Scenic,  Arizona,  owner of Polaris Can-Am & Honda World in Mesquite,  Nevada,  a longtime sponsor of off-road races,  likely will never be mistaken for a bleeding heart animal rights activist. Yet it can be said that Wilson […]

Filed Under: Belgium, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Top, Fish, France, Germany, Italy, Marine life, Mediterranean, Switzerland, Wildlife Tagged With: AgroBiothers, AquaDom, Josh Wilson, Matthieu Lambeaux, Merritt Clifton

Cane Corso:  A pit bull by any other name

February 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Cane Corso history is not what the “dog literature” says OAKLAND PARK, Florida––Was Gladys,  the star rescue dog who killed volunteer Pam Robb on February 17,  2022,  really a Cane Corso and not,  as ANIMALS 24-7 reported,  a “supersized pit bull”? Or is “Cane Corso” really just a sanitized and gentrified name for a common […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cart dogs, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Italy, Mediterranean, Shelters, United Kingdom, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Amber Miller, Amy Roman Daniello, John P. Colby, Klonda Richey, Merritt Clifton, Pam Robb, Tony Ahrens, Will Judy

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

Ethiopian woman who saved rare Italian goat breed is raped, killed

December 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Happy Goat” farmer/sanctuarian Agitu Ideo Gudeta,  42,  was reportedly killed by Ghanian she gave a job VALLE dei MOCHENI,  Trentino,  Italy––Goat herder Adams Suleimani,  32,  an immigrant to Italy from Ghana,  has reportedly confessed to raping Happy Goat [La Capra Felice] farmer/sanctuarian and cheesemaker Agitu Ideo Gudeta,  42,  and bludgeoning her to death with a hammer,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Ethiopia, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Ghana, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sheep & goats, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: Adams Suleimani, Agitu Ideo Gudeta, Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, Frassilongo, Merritt Clifton, Mòcheni, Plankerhof

Spay/neuter resumes in Italy despite COVID-19, Camorra & Nigerian mobsters

May 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Quarantine keeps crime in check––for now             ROME,  CASTEL VOLTURNO,  Italy––The deadly global COVID-19 pandemic,  killing nearly 32,500 Italians to date,  might if anything have made Castel Volturno,  the unlikely spay/neuter hub of the nation,  just a little bit safer. Certainly stay-at-home orders seem to have at least temporarily reduced the mob violence for which […]

Filed Under: Africa, Bats, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Ethiopia, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Italy, Mediterranean, Nigeria, Population control, Population control, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Winter, Benito Mussolini, Carla Rocchi, Dorothea Fritz, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Merritt Clifton

COVID-19:  What can wildlife management teach us?

March 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No,  it is not “shoot the victims”!             SEATTLE––Perhaps the most startling statistic pertaining to the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is the statistic almost nobody mentions:  the ratio of compensatory versus additive mortality. What’s that? It is not that as of March 10,  2020 there are still only about 140,000 COVID-19 cases of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Disease, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Mediterranean, Population control, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: COVID-19, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail

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

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